Amanda Hall is an award-winning illustrator, renowned for her wonderfully decorative and colourful children’s book illustrations. She excels at capturing the visual worlds of different cultures, their peoples, animals and landscapes as well as their spiritual traditions. Amanda will give us an introduction into the… Read More »5th November 2019 – The Art of Illustration
This workshop is for debating the idea of whether an exciting story is better or worse than a stylistically strong story – or whether they are equally important?
Hannah Hooton will give the presentation "Interactive Storytelling: The Art of Reader Engagement", which explores different creative writing techniques that help to give our readers a more personal and immersive experience with heightened emotional impact. Hannah is the author of eight indie-published novels, writing both… Read More »3rd September 2019 – Interactive Storytelling
This is a members-only competition. A few rules to make this a successful event: Stories must be no longer than 250 words. They must have a title, which is not part of the word count. Bring a printed copy of your story to the evening.… Read More »4th June 2019 – Flash Fiction Competition
From our juror of this year’s competition, Ingrid Jendrzejewski: “First of all, huge congratulations go out to everyone who submitted a story to this year’s Cambridge Writers’ Short Story Competition. The overall quality was exceedingly high – much higher, on average, than most other competitions… Read More »Short Story Competition Results 2019
Anne Atkins has written three novels, all with a Cambridge aspect: The Lost Child, On Our Own, and A Fine and Private Place. Her fourth (working title: An Elegant Solution) follows the life of the child protagonist of On Our Own, living in the famous Cambridge… Read More »7th May 2019 – Anne Atkins
All writers seek to convey a message, a story or a feeling through their work, but writers of prose and poetry often work in very different ways. As a result of this, many people believe that the two types of writing are polar opposites, and… Read More »2nd April 2019 – The link between poetry and prose
Of all our meetings, this is the gem, the much looked-forward-to AGM. Well, yes, there will be a little formal business, but don’t cower at home in fear. There is only one vacant Committee post, that of Publicity Officer. It involves writing a press… Read More »5th March 2019 – Annual General Meeting
The annual Short Story Competition is judged this year by Ingrid Jendrzejewski who has given us a presentation in May, 2018. Ingrid received a BFA in Creative Writing and a BA in English literature and has since won 11 writing competitions, judged three short-story contests,… Read More »5th February 2019 – Short Story Competition Judging Event
Simon Hall is a BBC Television and Radio News Correspondent, and an author of crime fiction. He has been a broadcaster for twenty five years, covering some of the biggest stories Britain has seen. His books – the tvdetective series – are about a television… Read More »4th December 2018 – Simon Hall