Welcome to part one of a Creative Writing Blog Series with Hannah Hooton Descriptive Writing Types of descriptive writing: What do you want to describe? Why do you want to describe it? (Emotional motivation – don’t just describe what your grandfather looks like – describe… Read More »Descriptive Writing
Huge congratulations to… Harry, Victoria and Lyndon who bagged first, second and third respectively in the Steve Hammond Memorial Competition this year. Well done to all those who entered and a big thank you to all members who voted on their favourite stories.
“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
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
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
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 – Treasurer
David is making a practise of contributing to building a community he would like to live in. As such he has joined the committee as tea boy committed to making the Tuesday gatherings as welcoming and nurturing as possible. He intends increasing his life focus onto creative… Read More »David Lynch – Event Refreshments Officer
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