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Category Archives: Hever Castle 2012
Alex Shoumatoff is publishing work from two of Abroad Writers’ Conference participants
Two participants from our recent conference at Hever Castle, have submitted their work for publication to Alex Shoumatoff’s site, DispatchesFromTheVanishingWorld.com. In addition, he is also working with the Moore Family on their multigenerational family saga, the subsistence farmer grandpa, Woody the … Continue reading
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My Week at Hever Castle, by Alex Shoumatoff
The week I spent with Robert Olen Butler and Paul Harding at Hever castle was marvelous and memorable, not just for the spectular venu that the castle provided for the conference. It was really reinvigorating and reinspiring to get into … Continue reading
Alison Weir will teach a writing workshop on Historical Fiction
In Late September, BEST SELLING AUTHOR, BRITISH HISTORIAN ALISON WEIR will teach a five day Historical Fiction Workshop for Abroad Writers’ Conference in SCOTLAND.
Memories of Hever Castle by Mary Pauer
Hever Castle, Kent, England – Anne Boleyn’s Childhood Home November 21-28 2012 Abroad Writers Program My bedroom, Daffodil, is on the cover of the brochure, the double bed with a canopy – and featured in the Hever … Continue reading
Eric Ives on Anne Boleyn: ‘More than sex and murder’
“There was more to the story of Anne Boleyn than sex and murder.” This is the message that acclaimed historian Eric Ives hopes to convey to an audience of Tudor fans when he takes centre stage at Hever Castle this … Continue reading
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Anne Boleyn – an early French Reformist
Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII, lived in France from 1514 to 1521. During her teenage years in France, Anne was at the center of the French Reformist Movement. She lived in the court of Queen Claude of … Continue reading
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Alison Weir book uncovers Mary Boleyn ‘happy ending’
Best-selling UK historian Alison Weir will begin the Abroad Writers’ Conference lecture series at Hever Castle this November, with a talk based on her book Mary Boleyn: The Mistress of Kings. The lecture starts at 18:00 GMT and 20% of … Continue reading
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Pulitzer prize winner Robert Olen Butler ‘Write every day’
Robert Olen Butler describes how he gets in the zone for writing every day, revisits his time in Vietnam, and describes his move from drama to fiction in this interview on YouTube with A Well-Lighted Place.
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Sarah Gristwood and Alison Weir bring Hever to life
There is no substitute for travelling to a place of history and seeing it with your own eyes if you want to understand the past, historian Sarah Gristwood says. Writers will walk in the footsteps of the Tudors at Hever … Continue reading
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Meet the experts: Abroad’s lecture series
A while ago, we wrote our Hever Castle writing conference would be a first for us on many levels – our first conference in a castle, our first conference in autumn, and the first time we have combined history with … Continue reading
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