“Stop telling tales!” was the admonition if a child gossiped or sounded to be stretching the truth. In writing stories from our personal memory, the truth is subject to ‘slippage’. It could be distance in time from the occasion or character: but more than that,… Read More »Telling Tales: From a Corner of Lancashire
A life-long musician, I am a late-starter in identifying as a writer. I am a pianist, singer, song-writer and even sometimes an amateur music director, so I have always been involved in ‘words and music’. Since 2019, ‘words without music’ slowly took over, though interspersed… Read More »Marianna Michell
Our newsletter editor, Tim Love, recently unearthed this fascinating cutting from The Cambridge Insider, dated 1st October 1998! Impressively, 1998 marked our 50th anniversary as Cambridge Writers. The piece explains CW’s humble beginnings, as a group of thirteen men and women in 1948, who formed… Read More »Ghosts in Cambridge Writers’ Past
Cambridge Writers: Writing Desk A simple, relaxed way to get some writing done — together. What it is: ✅A weekly online writing session (on Zoom) ✅A quiet space to write with others ✅An opportunity to hold yourself accountable ✅A chance to chat about writing with… Read More »Writing Desk
Gytha Lodge is a multi-award-winning playwright, novelist and writer for video games. She is also a single parent who blogs about the ridiculousness of bringing up a mega-nerd small boy. She has a profound addiction to tea, crosswords and awful puns. She studied English at… Read More »7th October – Gytha Lodge
Maud Blair is a local writer although, contrastingly, her evocative memoir In Between draws richly on a life lived across continents, cultures, and generations. Maud spent her childhood in Rhodesia, modern-day Zimbabwe, before moving to the UK to pursue her academic and professional career. Born… Read More »2nd September – Maud Blair
Join two powerhouse voices from the indie publishing world as they share their expertise on self-publishing success and the evolving role of AI in modern writing. James Blatch brings years of industry leadership as co-founder of Self-Publishing Formula and former co-host of The Self-Publishing Show.… Read More »5th August – James Blatch and Cara Clare
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… Read More »3rd June – Flash Fiction Competition Results Night 2025
The results are in for our short story competition! We owe huge thanks to judge, Anne Garvey, for all her hard work in selecting the winners. I’m delighted to announce Siobhan Carew was the winner with her story, “Sea Change”. Huge congratulations to Siobhan! 2nd… Read More »Short Story Competition Winners
‘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.… Read More »6th May – Anita Lehmann