Arvon at Home 1-1 Online Tutorials with Elise—booking now
June 2024—watch this space!
Starting to Write – Fiction/Non-fiction
A week of inspiration and confidence-building, led by two multidisciplinary creatives: Elise Valmorbida and John-Paul Flintoff, with guest Luan Goldie, 2022.
Live guest reading + Q&A [online] December 2021
Non-fiction [online]
A fact-fuelled storytelling week with Elise Valmorbida and Tobias Jones, 2021.
Non-fiction [online]
The FIRST-EVER non-residential version of an Arvon residential week. Elise Valmorbida and John-Paul Flintoff, May 2020.
Creative Writing and Wellbeing
Elise taught this week with positive psychologist Vanessa King and guest author Beth Kempton, 2019.
Popular Non-Fiction
Arvon's first ever 'Popular Non-Fiction' week. Elise taught with editor Emily Robertson and guest author Oliver Kamm, 2018.
Suitcase Stories (Fiction, Non-Fiction & Life Writing)
Elise developed the idea of 'Suitcase Stories' with Nick Barlay, before proposing it as a course to Arvon. She taught with Nick at Lumb Bank in 2013 (guest Haifa Zangana), with Aaamer Hussein at Totleigh Barton in 2015 (guest Anne Aylor), and again with Aamer at Lumb Bank in 2017 (guest Fadia Faqir).