Helen will give part talk, part workshop about the "Emotional Resonance and the Short Story". Sheis a Lecturer of Creative Writing and Publishing at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, England. Her first collection of fiction Hair Side, Flesh Side won the Sydney J Bounds Award… Read More »3rd October 2017 – Emotional Resonance and the Short Story
Alexander Masters is an author, screenwriter, and worker with the homeless and lives in Cambridge. He is the writer and illustrator of "Stuart: A Life Backwards", the biography of Stuart Shorter. It explores how a young boy, somewhat disabled from birth, became mentally unstable, criminal… Read More »5th September 2017 – Alexander Masters
5.00 – 8.30 pm at 22a Riverbank, Littleport Our member Siobhan Carew and her husband have kindly made their farm available for this event. There will be a charge of £5 per head, and members are welcome to bring guests. You must also bring a… Read More »1st July 2017 – Summer Social
This is a members-only competition. Bring along a printed story of not more that 250 words. It must have a title, although this is not part of the word count. Stories will be read aloud anonymously by a single reader to ensure a uniformity of… Read More »6th June 2017 – Flash Fiction Competition
Guinevere is a former member of Cambridge Writers whom we are pleased to welcome back to talk about her successful debut novel. It tells the true story of Helena Jans, an illiterate serving girl in 17th century Holland. A lodger is the famous philosopher and… Read More »2nd May 2017 – The novel ‘The Words in my Hand’
Julian is a longstanding partner in the Blake-Friedmann literary agency. He will talk on the current state, and likely future direction, of both literary agencies and publishing in general. The explosion in those writing, or trying to write, together with self-publishing as e-books, have undermined… Read More »4th April 2017 – Julian Friedmann
An AGM may not be anyone's idea of a great night out. Yet this is actually our general forum and opportunity to have a say in how things are run. The Committee is, after all, made up of its own members, we consider ourselves forward-thinking… Read More »7th March 2017 – Annual General Meeting
The judge was Helen Marshall, teacher of Creative Writing at Anglia Ruskin University, announced the winners for this year’s competition that was themed ‘Rituals’. All authors were present and in a vibrant and stimulating evening read the stories to us. First prize was given to… Read More »Cambridge Writers Short Story Competition 2017: The Winners
Join our judging event of our annual short story competition with Helen Marshall as the juror. Helen is a Lecturer of Creative Writing and Publishing at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, England. Her first collection of fiction Hair Side, Flesh Side won the Sydney J… Read More »7th February 2017 – Short Story Competition – Judging event
Join us for another sterling workshop by our member Tim Love who will give us a fresh view on dialogue in prose. Bring writing equipment.