Upcoming Events
1st April – AGM 2025
It’s time for our 2025 Annual General Meeting! All members are welcome and encouraged to come along to the meeting to see how Cambridge Writers is run, and be a part of steering our direction for the future. The AGM is only open to fully paid up members of Cambridge Writers. Our
6th May – Anita Lehmann
‘Show Don’t Tell’ Workshop In May we welcome Anita Lehmann, an award-winning, internationally published author of over a dozen books for both children and adults. Anita also runs courses and workshops to help writers get on with their projects, complete them and ultimately get published. She provides assistance with everything from simply
3rd June – Flash Fiction Competition Results Night 2025
Our flash fiction competition is judged on the night, in person. Simply bring a printed copy of your story, with title but WITHOUT your name on it, to the meeting on 3rd June. The word limit is pretty tight, at 250, which does not include the title. When penning your story, make
2nd September – Steps in the Search for an Agent or Publisher
Your book is finished, you’re ready to take the plunge – or are you? Siobhan Carew takes us through the process of acquiring an agent or approaching a publisher with your finished project.
7th October – Gytha Lodge
Gytha is a playwright, novelist and writer for video games. After studying English at Cambridge she became known for dark and twisty drama. Her debut novel She Lies in Wait was an international bestseller. Her crime novels feature DCI Jonah Sheens.
4th November – James Blatch
James is a former BBC Defence Reporter, he has reported from HMS Invincible, Kuwait, and the Arctic Circle. He now writes bestseller Cold War thrillers.
Our monthly writers’ events are held at: Hartington Grove Meeting House.
91-93 Hartington Grove
Cambridge
CB1 7UB
Non-members are welcome to attend most events, at a charge of £3. Please contact our chairman Harry Goode if you would like to come along.
If you have any suggestions for speakers you would like to hear at our writers’ events, please contact our programme secretary, Karin Milner.
Recent Events
4th March – Short Story Competition Judging Evening
Our glittering awards evening will take place on March 4th. This year’s short story competition was on the theme of ‘The Sea, though stories can be written in any genre the writer wishes. There are cash prizes to be won but the contest is only open to paid up members of Cambridge Writers, so if you want to enter, join up quick!
4th February – Kate Rhodes
We are delighted to welcome crime and mystery novelist Kate Rhodes to our first event of 2025. Kate completed an English Degree and PhD on Tennessee Williams while living in the USA. She now lives and writes poetry and novels in Cambridge. Her latest books are the Isles of Scilly Mysteries, featuring DI Ben Kitto and his wayward wolfdog, Shadow.
December Social!
Our December social will be held at The Old Tram Depot in Cambridge on Tuesday 3rd December. We have a private room booked for fully paid up members of Cambridge Writers from 7pm until closing. Food isn’t included, but the pub does do food so you can order some on the night if you wish. The Old Tram Depot is
5th November – Hannah Hooton
Book launch!!! Hannah Hooton will discuss her latest novel, The Thirteenth Hour, set in the present day and in 1940. As well as reading from her work she will touch on her way of researching, structure and point of view. Hannah, a member of Cambridge Writers for many years, and our publicity officer, is a prolific writer. She has produced
1st October – Hollie McNish
Hollie is a poet, author and performer based in Cambridge and Glasgow. She won the Ted Hughes award for poetry. Her collections include Nobody Told Me, Plum and Cherry Pie, her latest is entitled Lobster. Her work often includes themes of pregnancy and motherhood. Find out more about Hollie at her website
3rd September – Nicholas Best
Nick served in the Grenadier Guards and worked as a journalist and literary critic for the Financial Times, before writing full-time. His first novel Where were you at Waterloo? is in places as sharp as Waugh and sometimes better – quotes The TLS. His second, Tennis and the Masai, considered the funniest book of the year by the Daily Telegraph
2nd July – Fantasy Fiction Competition Results Evening
At this event, the top three stories as voted for by you, the members, will be revealed! There will be a chance to hear the stories read by their authors, and free refreshments. If you have entered, we urge you to attend, so you can read out your story if you are among those placed. A little about the competition:
4th June – Flash Fiction Competition 2024 Results Night
Our flash fiction competition is judged on the night, in person. Simply bring a printed copy of your story, with title but WITHOUT your name on it, to the meeting on 4th June. The word limit is pretty tight, at 250, which does not include the title. When penning your story, make sure every word counts, and you do produce
7th May – Mike Levy
We are delighted to welcome Mike Levy, a former teacher and journalist who helps run history-based projects with a strong arts element thrown in. He is a Holocaust educator and regular theatre and music reviewer for www.thecambridgecritique.com. Now pursuing a PhD at Anglia Ruskin on the Cambridge Refugee Committees 1938-48. He enjoys giving talks on Broadway lyricists and history subjects.
2nd April -AGM 2024
It’s time for our AGM 2024! All members are welcome and encouraged to come along to the meeting to see how Cambridge Writers is run, and be a part of steering our direction for the future. The AGM is only open to fully paid up members of Cambridge Writers. Our annual general meeting will be held at: Hartington Grove Meeting
5th March – Short Story Competition Judging Evening
Our glittering awards evening will take place on March 5th. This year’s short story competition was on the theme of ‘Darkness’, though stories can be written in any genre the writer wishes. There are cash prizes to be won but the contest is only open to paid up members of Cambridge Writers, so if you want to enter, join up
6th February – Cecilia Vinesse with agent, Molly Ker Hawn, of The Bent Agency
Cecilia is a local young adult romantic comedy novelist. Born in France but has lived in Japan and USA. Her latest publication is The Girl Next Door, previously Seven Days You and The Summer of Us. She’s influenced by the works of Nora Ephron, the American journalist and film maker of works such as When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless