Cambridge Writers

Penny lives with her husband and three children in Cambridge, where she teaches at a school for children with speech and language impairment. Tideline is her first novel. Penny is now working on her second.

Nick Warburton writes plays for stage, television and radio and scripts for television series including Doctors, Holby City and EastEnders. He has been part of the regular writing team on Holby City since 2001. His radio plays, On Mardle Fen are one of the few… Read More »4th June 2013 – Nick Warburton

A much needed counterblast to the cliches about being over the hill: David Bainbridge, science writer and vet with a particular interest in the evolution of humans, argues that the years between 40 and 60 are the pinnacle of the human cycle. As well as… Read More »7th May 2013 – Mid-life – Time to celebrate?

John Cornwell is an author, journalist and Fellow Commoner of Jesus College, Cambridge where he directs the Science and Human Dimension Project, a public understanding of science programme, and the Rustat Conferences. He has written for many well known publications including The Sunday Times, Vanity… Read More »2nd April 2013 – John Cornwell

The AGM is when all members of Cambridge Writers can learn what the committee's been up to on their behalf during the past year and vote on ideas for the future.  It's also an opportunity to raise suggestions for improving the service we provide to… Read More »5th March 2013 – Annual General Meeting

Our Short Story Competition will come to its dramatic conclusion tomorrow evening. Dr Jeff Mackowiak will announce the results and we will hear the top winning entries as well as the runners-up.

A leading figure at the interface between science and literature, Gillian Beer is former President of Clare Hall College in Cambridge and a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature. She has been twice a judge for the Booker Prize,… Read More »4th December 2012 – Dame Gillian Beer

Tim Love will lead a workshop whose exercises will focus on first on single words, then the art of writing sentences (Austen, James, etc), and finally micro-fiction. He's had many stories published, some of which will appear in his story pamphlet "By All Means" (Nine… Read More »6th November 2012 – From Word To Flash

Rosemary read law at Churchill College, practised as a solicitor in London and raised  three children. in 2005 Dublin's Wolfhound Press published her ghost novel for 10-14 year olds What You See Is What You Get.  The Most Intimate Place followed in 2009 (Maia Press)… Read More »2nd October 2012 – Rosie Furber

Come and learn the latest about this new method of publishing. A panel of members will share their experiences to be followed by a Q and A session.