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The Dark Angels programme is a series of residential writing courses tutored by John Simmons, Stuart Delves and Jamie Jauncey at different locations throughout the UK and Europe.  Started in 2004, at Totleigh Barton in Devon, these highly successful courses look at how to use words more engagingly and imaginatively within the business environment.

Highgreen Manor
Highgreen Manor
Sigtuna, Sweden
Sigtunastiftelsen
Finca El Tornero de Abajo
Finca el Tornero
Moniack Mhor
Moniack Mhor

May 2012 – Dark Angels tutors and graduates team up with Oxford's Story Museum to create an extraordinary experience…

Other Worlds

 

 
Next Intensive Foundation Course:
Highgreen Manor, Northumberland
March 2013 (dates tbc)
Places available

Bespoke Intensive Foundation Course:
Ty Newydd, North Wales
13 – 15 June 2012
Arts Council of Wales

Special Intensive Foundation Course:
Sigtuna, Sweden
15 – 18 August 2012
Places available

Next Advanced Course:
Finca el Tornero de Abajo, Andalucia, Spain
27 September – 2 October 2012
Places available

Next Full Foundation Course:
Moniack Mhor, Inverness-shire
15 – 20 October 2012
Places available

Next Masterclass:
Merton College, Oxford
April 2013 (dates tbc)



Who is Dark Angels for?

Dark Angels is for anyone whose job involves writing. Communications, brand management, corporate affairs, marketing, general management, and many areas of management and creative consultancy – these are all typical areas of work for Dark Angels students. Others are freelance business writers.

Dark Angels students have come from organisations including: Arts Council of Wales, Bang & Olufsen, Barclays, The BBC, BP, British Airways, Carlsberg Breweries, Corporate Culture, Elmwood, The Environment Council, Granada Media, Innocent, Interbrand, Lever Faberge, Mazars, National Library of Wales, O2, Penguin Books, QI, Royal Society of Arts, Scottish Arts Council, Sotheby's Europe, Three.

We also run bespoke Dark Angels courses for companies and organisations.


Dark Angels are in print!

Book cover: Room 121

Published July 2011, Room 121 takes the form of a dialogue between John and Jamie (with a foreword by Stuart) – a real masterclass in business writing and communication.

Click here to order..

"Every member of the Scottish civil service should be given a copy."

– Sunday Herald

Press coverage and blogs

BBC Radio Scotland: Business Scotland
BBC Radio 4: In Business
Financial Times
Scotland on Sunday
Sunday Herald
The Penguin Blog
Writers' & Artists' Blog


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"Teaches storytelling techniques as well as how to translate unintelligible management speak into plain English"
– Financial Times
"The course is 'hard-wired' into a real business benefit"
– Scotland on Sunday
"While the atmosphere is relaxed, the writing exercises are the mental equivalent of tightrope walking"
– Sunday Herald