1st Bryony Stubbs for ‘Secret Shopper’. 2nd Francis Thompson for ‘Master Your Mind’ 3rd Ian Hill for Shakespearean Monkeys’ We enjoyed a fantastic evening of fiction over Zoom tonight, for the judging of the Flash Fiction Competition. There were 18 entries in all, beautifully read… Read More »Flash Fiction Competition Results 2021
Competitors bring a printed copy of their anonymous entry to the meeting, word limit 250
How do I blindside my reader without completely cheating them? How do I lay a trail of clues without my plot becoming predictable? This workshop is designed to help you answer those questions and more. We will be covering the five different types of foreshadowing,… Read More »4th May 2021 – Workshop
Cambridge Writers’ member, Rachel Levy, had a story published in the April edition of ‘Writers’ Forum’ magazine. She wrote a flash fiction piece entitled ‘Missing Trains’, in response to the prompt: “Write a story where the first and last paragraphs are identical, but the meaning… Read More »Writers’ Forum Magazine Publication
This beautiful volume is a compilation of winning and commended stories from competitions run between 2013 and 2017. Story themes include ‘Encounters’, ‘Surprising Angles’, ‘Seven Sins’, and ‘Rituals’. Buy our compilation anthology here in paperback or kindle edition.
Flash Fiction Competition This will be held by Zoom on Tuesday 1st June at 7.30 pm. There is no set theme, but entries must not exceed 250 words. Each entry must have a title, which is not part of the word count. They must reach… Read More »Flash Fiction Competition 2021
*** Note that the date for this meeting has changed *** Our competition Rosemary Hayes is an author and creative writing tutor. She came to writing from a background in advertising, marketing and publishing. Working intermittently for Cambridge University Press from 1986-2001, one of her… Read More »25th February 2021 – Short Story Competition Judging Event
Our collection of short stories from the 2020 competition is now in print. The pieces all follow the theme of Mountain, with a wide variety of interpretations. We owe a big thank you to our Secretary, Siobhán Carew, for putting this together and coming up… Read More »Mountain – Short Story Competition 2020 Anthology
Andrew McDonnell is the course leader for the English Literature and Creative Writing degrees at University Centre Peterborough where he undertakes research in Literary Theory, English Literature and Creative Writing. His debut poetry collection, The Somnambulist Cookbook was published by Salt in June 2019. It… Read More »1st September 2020 – Andy McDonnell
The 1st prize goes to Angela Wray for Crumbs! A Cautionary Tale. The 2nd prize goes to Ann Abineri for Ambition. The 3rd prize goes to Rachel Levy for Location, Location, Location. Our 2020 flash fiction competition was conducted in rather a different way to usual. Members were emailed the entries and voted on their favourites. Though… Read More »Flash Fiction Competition Results 2020