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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.
Finca el Tornero
Moniack Mhor
Merton College
Highgreen Manor
Next Masterclass:
Merton College, Oxford
10 – 13 April 2013
By invitation
Next Intensive Foundation Course:
Highgreen Manor, Northumberland
15 – 18 May 2013
Places available
Next Advanced Course:
Finca el Tornero de Abajo, Andalucia, Spain
19 – 24 September 2013
Places available
Next Full Foundation Course:
Moniack Mhor, Inverness-shire
21 – 26 October 2013
Places available
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, Clore Leadership Programme, 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, Swiss Reinsurance, Three.
We also run bespoke Dark Angels courses for
companies and organisations.
Dark Angels are in print!
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.
"Every member of the Scottish civil service should be given a copy."
– Sunday Herald
Press coverage
BBC Radio Scotland: Business Scotland
BBC Radio 4: In Business
Financial Times
Scotland
on Sunday
Sunday Herald
Recent blogs
The Secret Archaeolgogist
Tales From A Small Island
Neil's Notebook
The Penguin Blog
Writers' & Artists' Blog
Video
John and Jamie give a workshop at the Sigtuna Literature Festival, Sweden
Alberto German, Sculptor, filmed by members of the 2012 Advanced Course, Aracena
Pechakucha – John Simmons
Links
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26 Fruits
A Few Kind Words
Dark Angels on Twitter
