‘I am once again craving an injection of inspiration that only a Dark Angels experience can give.’
~ Robert England
It all began in a thatched roof cottage
Dark Angels took flight in 2004 in Devon, at Totleigh Barton with 15 students, a series of writing exercises and two tutors. Two tutors became three and three became twelve. Five hundred students later, it’s humbling to hear how Dark Angels has changed so many lives for the better. We now hold workshops in the Scottish Highlands, magical corners of England, Ireland, Spain, and the United States. We can be found online. Inspired by place, and guided by tutors, writers develop the confidence to take their writing to new levels.
On the fertile, broken ground in between
Dark Angels takes its name from the book of the same title by John Simmons, with its nod to Milton’s Paradise Lost. John writes that as Dark Angels, we are neither those who have fallen, nor those who have ascended, neither all evil or all perfect, but we occupy the fertile, broken ground in between. We find our creativity in our flawed human nature. In other words, all of us—including these beloved Angels seen below—are at our most creative when we bring our unique, imperfect selves to our writing.
