Originally from Norwich, and educated at the University of Southampton, Will has lived in the Newmarket area since 1985 (apart from 1 year in New Zealand), working in the Thoroughbred breeding industry. Since 2013 he has been manager of Deerfield Farm in Dullingham, where he… Read More »Will Tate – Treasurer
Awarded second prize in Cambridge Writers Short Story Competition 2016 Gerald Bowman steps gingerly over his sun-baked terrace and dives into the pool. While the dramas of chapter twenty-five are printing he swims his dozen lengths, then he dries on the lounger and Maria brings… Read More »Work in Progress – by Will Tate
Awarded third prize in Cambridge Writers Short Story Competition 2014. Long ago I had resolved never again to have writers for friends. I suffered too much for them, and with them, when they could not write. But the fourteen years that I had spent away… Read More »The Dangerous Comma – by Will Tate
Commended at Cambridge Writers Short Story Competition 2013 A bunch of them clever professors up at Harvard, or maybe it was Oxford, England, or someplace, reckon the whole universe was caused by accident; some Big Bang or something. Now I ain’t too sure what… Read More »A Chapter of Accidents – by Will Tate
Awarded 2nd place in Cambridge Writers short story competition of 2012 It was a quiet day at police headquarters. I hoped it would stay that way. If I could be bothered to haul my feet off my desk and stare out of my window at… Read More »Fallen Angel – by Will Tate
Read at Cambridge Writers’ Short Scripts Meeting, 19 June 2003 “WRITER VALERIE LAWS HAS BEEN AWARDED A £2,000 GRANT FROM THE NORTHERN ARTS COUNCIL TO CREATE ‘WALKING POETRY’ BY SPRAY-PAINTING WORDS ON TO SHEEP. UP TO 15 SHEEP WILL HAVE ONE WORD SPRAYED ONTO THEIR… Read More »Every Shepherd Tells His Tale – by Will Tate
Sunday 5th February “Every addict thinks that he can stop- just like that. But it isn’t that simple. It gets in deep. He tells everyone, especially himself, that he’s okay. He can handle it. But one day he wakes up, looks in the mirror… Read More »The Porlock Institute – by Will Tate