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
Rachel writes short stories in a range of genres, and is currently working on a crime mystery novel. Recently, she moved into flash fiction too, and was delighted to have a 500-word story published in Writers’ Forum magazine. Rachel also writes non-fiction articles, most commonly on horses,… Read More »Rachel Levy – Website Manager
Geoff is currently writing a book called ‘The Celery Shovel’. It is a collection of stories and anecdotes set around his area of the Fens, which he mostly tells from a farming point of view. Geoff and his family were farmers. Apart from this, he… Read More »Geoff Norman
David is making a practise of contributing to building a community he would like to live in. As such he has agreed to take on the job of tea boy, committed to making the Tuesday gatherings as welcoming and nurturing as possible. He intends increasing his… Read More »David Lynch
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