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

Continue reading 4th February – Kate Rhodes

Competitors bring a printed copy of their anonymous entry to the meeting.  Word limit of 250 words.

Cambridge Writers member Alice Turner will be talking about herself, getting rejected and published, about making sense of the hero’s journey, and conduct an interactive exercise in "democratic editing"

Victor Watsonis an English author who has written on the nature and history of children’s literature and how children learn to read. He later turned to writing novels for children. The stories in the Paradise Barn quartet take place in a fictional country town called Great Deeping.

An AGM may not be anyone's idea of a great night out.  Yet this is actually  our general forum and opportunity to have a say in how things are run.  The Committee is, after all, made up of its own members, we consider ourselves forward-thinking and open to new ideas, so please come along and let us hear from you. 

Continue reading 1st March 2016 – Annual General Meeting

Local author Deborah Meyler will announce the results of our Short Story Competition dealing with the theme of The Seven Deadly Sins.  We will hear the top three winning entries as well as the three runners-up.  This always proves a very stimulating evening and gives us a chance to hear what someone else thinks of our work.

We welcome a popular children's author, Virginia will come and speak to us about her latest work Storm  which manages a dark and mysterious feel, though not without humour:   Welcome to The Rain (H2O in the US) and The Storm . . . I’m Virginia and I – did not write this story. Ruby did.  She's my main character and

Continue reading 1st December 2015 – Virginia Bergin

Come and meet one of Britain's best loved poets.  Since her bestselling debut Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis was published in 1986, Wendy Cope has been responsible for some of the best-known and most-quoted lines in contemporary poetry. She was voted the listeners' choice in a BBC Radio 4 poll in 198 and was appointed Officer of the Order of

Continue reading 3rd November 2015 – Wendy Cope

Richard Gould leads a workshop on the challenge of describing physical features of characters. Be ready to participate in group discussion, listen to ideas and share your own.

Cambridge Writers Les Brookes and Hannah Hooton share the floor and talk to us about how they approach their writing, and their experience of being published.

Competitors bring a printed copy of their anonymous entry to the meeting.  Word limit of 250 words.

Useful aids that help with writing – discussion of reference books, writing courses, ‘learning-to-write books’ – are they any good? Writers associations (Romantic Novelists, Historical Novel Society, etc.), companies that will criticize your writing (such as Cornerstones), short story competitions, information about agents and publishers, inspiration and sources for what we write, websites and writing software, in fact anything that

Continue reading 5th May 2015 – The Writers’ Resources Evening.

Catherine teaches at the University of Swansea.  Her most recent work A Future for Criticism puts forward the case for increased attention to the joy of fiction and the way it engages readers. She supports the work of GENCAS, the Centre for Research into gender and culture in Society.