Cambridge Writers

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.

Jane Beryl Hawking Jones, Ph.D. is an English author and educator. She is the ex-wife of Stephen Hawking and the author of the autobiography Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen. When Jane Hawking was first sent the script of The Theory of Everything– James… Read More »1st November 2016 – Jane Hawking

Deborah Meyler has degrees from Oxford and St Andrews. She worked for six years in a bookshop in New York, and now lives in Cambridge. Her novel, ‘The Bookstore’, has received widespread praise as a work of literary fiction. She judged our Short Story Competition… Read More »4th October 2016 – Deborah Meyler

Rosemary Hayes will run a workshop on creative writing.  She has lived in England and Australia and is the author of The Mark, a story of teenagers on the run and The Travellers, four modern gypsy stories.

Competitors bring a printed copy of their anonymous entry to the meeting.  Word limit of 250 words.

Cambridge Writers member Alice Turner will be talking about herself, getting rejected and published, about making sense of the hero’s journey, and conduct an interactive exercise in "democratic editing"

Victor Watsonis an English author who has written on the nature and history of children’s literature and how children learn to read. He later turned to writing novels for children. The stories in the Paradise Barn quartet take place in a fictional country town called… Read More »5th April 2016 – Victor Watson

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 »1st March 2016 – Annual General Meeting

Local author Deborah Meyler will announce the results of our Short Story Competition dealing with the theme of The Seven Deadly Sins.  We will hear the top three winning entries as well as the three runners-up.  This always proves a very stimulating evening and gives us a… Read More »2nd February 2016 – Short Story Competition Judging Event