Join a residential non-fiction writing course at Arvon with Jude Rogers and I as tutors, and Simon Garfield as guest.

You know what nerdy subject gets your creativity firing. It might involve film, music, art, architecture, sport, ancient history, nature, collecting strange things – or even stranger things. You’re trying to turn your enthusiasms into a book, but aren’t sure how to shape them into a narrative or effectively build in memoir. In this lively week of workshops, readings and 1:1 tutorials, you’ll learn just how – as well as finding ways to broaden out your experiences to interest as many people as possible, while staying true to your spirit of giddy excitement.

Jude Rogers, Guardian/Observer arts and culture journalist and author of the Penderyn Prize/Wales Book of the Year-shortlisted music memoir The Sound Of Being Human, and John Grindrod, nominated for the Wainwright Prize and Architectural Book Awards for his books about architecture, nature and suburbia, are here to embolden your ideas, as well your passions, and give you strategies and guidance to help your project thrive.

Find out more about the course here.