I love the short story format and I’ve written several hundred in a range of lengths. What I like about writing short stories is that they are so complete and satisfying in themselves, and can have as much impact in a few thousand words as… Read More »Short Story Workshop November 2025
*Online only* Kickstart your 2026 writing with our first Cambridge Writers event of the year. Ready to breathe fresh energy into your writing projects as we step into the new year? Join us for an inspiring online workshop on Dialogue, designed to help you elevate your… Read More »6th January 2026 at 7.30pm – Online Dialogue Workshop with Hannah Hooton
The Sea – Short Story Competition Anthology by Cambridge Writers This year’s anthology makes a perfect stocking filler for the avid reader in your life. Packed with a wide variety of unique short stories, all sharing the competition theme ‘The Sea’. Such an evocative theme… Read More »The Sea – Short Story Anthology 2025
Calling all members! We’ll be enjoying an evening of literary cheer as we gather to celebrate another year of creativity, community, and storytelling. Whether you’re polishing a manuscript, dabbling in poetry, or simply enjoying the written word, this is your chance to unwind among fellow… Read More »2nd December – Members’ Christmas Social
Join us for an evening of stories, creativity, and community as we launch the 2025 Cambridge Writers Short Story Competition anthology. The evening will include nibbles, a glass or two shared among friends, and a special mini-workshop with award-winning short story writer Josephine Warrior. Get… Read More »4th November- Short Story Workshop and Anthology Launch
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