Online Workshop: Siobhan Carew will be hosting this workshop over Zoom on the various routes to publishing. Routes to Publishing There are two main routes to publishing: through a traditional agent/publisher, or by self-publishing. Within those choices, there are sub-choices. Few traditional publishers take on… Read More »Routes to Publishing – 1st February 2022 (Online)
Our March meeting will take place online via Zoom, and will comprise the results of the Cambridge Writers 2022 short story competition. Our competition this year was judged by Andrew Cowan, Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. Since his first prize-winning… Read More »1st March 2022 – Short Story Competition Results Evening (Online)
Robert has had poems published in Agenda, and aspires to other outlets. He is very keen on poetry as a spoken art.
Visitors – Short Story Competition Anthology 2021 from Cambridge Writers. Our anthology is filled with comic, poignant, and fantastical short stories. A ghostly train whistle and a hawk moth are just two of the varied interpretations of the ‘visitors’ theme. Another absolutely beautiful cover design… Read More »Visitors – Short Story Competition Anthology 2021
Giles Yeo is a geneticist with over 20 years’ experience dedicated to researching obesity and the brain control of food intake. His current research focuses on understanding how these pathways differ from person to person, and the influence of genetics in our relationship with food… Read More »7th December 2021 – Giles Yeo
Sophie Hannah is a Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling writer of crime fiction, published in forty-nine languages and fifty-one territories. Her books have sold millions of copies worldwide. In 2014, with the blessing of Agatha Christie’s family and estate, Sophie published a new Poirot… Read More »2nd November 2021 – Sophie Hannah
Rosie Sykes is a food writer and chef, living in London and Cambridge who was, at one time, Head Chef at Fitzbillies. She has cooked in the kitchens of some of Britain’s most celebrated chefs, including Joyce Molyneux, Shaun Hill and Alastair Little. Her critically… Read More »5th October 2021 – Rosie Sykes
Our short story competition is now open for entries! Theme: Coincidence – The theme was chosen by a vote at the AGM. It may be interpreted in any way you choose. Closing date: Monday 3rd January 2022 (entries must be received by midnight). Word limit:… Read More »Short Story Competition 2022 NOW OPEN!
Andrew Cowan studied at the University of East Anglia, where he is now Director of Creative Writing and teaches on the Creative Writing MA.
Since his acclaimed and prize winning first novel, Pig (1994), he wrote another four novels which depict people in provincial worlds; there is an interest in the domestic, in the mechanics of relationships when the blood-rush lust of the beginning falls away
One of the best things about Andrew Cowan is that he refuses write to a pattern. Quietly innovative and always intriguing, he never resolves his plots with pat or easy answers. He has already produced an impressive body of work and is one of the most accomplished of contemporary British writers.
