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

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‘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

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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

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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.

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.

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.

Broo is one half of Wade and Doherty Literary Agency. She has worked in publishing for twenty years and handles all genres, but is particularly interested in crime, cookery and women's fiction.

Since retiring from his life on the range, Alec has turned his hand to writing at his home in Cambridge. His latest book is called A Way of Life and recalls his training in cattle management with the Argentinian gauchos and working as a jackeroo on a cattle station in Australia.

Patrick grew up in Cambridge and is the author of Corn Dolls, Steel Witches and Cut Out, a trilogy set in Cambridge and the Fens. His books have been acclaimed by reviewers in publications as diverse as The Times Literary Supplement and The News of The World, and have been published successfully in Italy, Germany and Holland. Join him as

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Alison will speak about how she came to write both fiction and non-fiction, introduce her detective series and talk about her experience of being published etc.  She has worked in all kinds of jobs, from admin to electro-plating and from DJ-ing to IT management.  She didn’t always plan to become a full time novelist but can’t remember a time in

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Olivia Abbott, Editor of Agenda, will judge the competition to write an article or story of interest to magazine readers entitled ‘A Cambridge Secret’, limit of 800 words.

Josephine (seen here not waving and definitely not drowning!) is a Cambridge Writers member. A considerable number of her short stories for women have been published, most recently Hibiscus in Women's Weekly Fiction Special

Broo is one half of Wade and Doherty Literary Agency. She has worked in publishing for twenty years and handles all genres, but is particularly interested in crime, cookery and women's fiction.

John has written about property and travel for more than 25 years in several national newspapers. Since his retirement he has worked as writer, interviewer and presenter at a community radio station. He will talk about his first novel ‘Agent from Hell’ which he has self-published.

Cambridge Writers member Siobhán Carew will present the different routes of publishing: traditional, partnership, contract and self-publishing. The talk will include advice and opinions from literary agents, and publishers in each field, including self-published author