Upcoming Events
15th September – Flash Fiction Evening
We’re still running our popular flash fiction competition evening, but as an extra event to give the opportunity for more talks and workshops. Attending in Person Members of Cambridge Writers may attend this event for FREE as part of your membership. Our events start at 7.30pm and are held at: Hartington Grove
6th October – Short Story Anthology Launch 2026
We’re launching the next short story anthology – the 2025 launch was such a hit, we’re doing it again (with enough Prosecco this time!). We’re hoping to add a mini-workshop too. Attending in Person Members of Cambridge Writers may attend this event for FREE as part of your membership. Our events start
3rd November – Kate Rhodes
Author and poet Kate Rhodes joins us to discuss her work, including the Isles of Scilly Mysteries – shortlisted for the Crime Novel of the Year Award 2018 as well as long-listed for the 2021 Dagger in the Library award. Attending in Person Members of Cambridge Writers may attend this event for
Where and When
Our monthly events are held at:
Hartington Grove Meeting House
91-93 Hartington Grove
Cambridge
CB1 7UB
Non-members are welcome to attend most events, at a charge of £5. Please contact our events officer, Hannah Hooton on cambridgewriters1948@proton.me if you would like to come along.
If members have any suggestions for speakers you would like to hear at our writers’ events, please contact our events officer.
Recent Events
7th October 2014 – Sarah Churchwell
Sarah Churchwell is Professor of American Literature and Public Understanding of the Humanities. Her research and teaching expertise are in 20th-21st century and contemporary American literature and culture. She is the author of The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe (Granta 2004), co-editor of Must Read: Rediscovering the Bestseller (Continuum 2012), and author of various articles, chapters and introductions (see research and
2nd September 2014 – Making Words Work
Out of ideas? Fed up of soul-searching? Why not take a break and relax at an evening of fun and games. Without realizing it, you might go home with enough material to last you the rest of the year. Bring writing materials!
3rd June 2014 – Tessa Hadley
Author of four novels (Accidents in the Home, Everything Will Be All Right, The Master Bedroom, The London Train), Tessa teaches creative writing at Bath Spa University, publishes regularly in The New Yorker, Granta and Guardian, and has written on Henry James, JM Coetzee. Tessa will talk about her writing life and recent works.
6th May 2014 – An introduction to visual story-telling
Comic creator Karrie produces illustrated articles, graphic novels and works on art projects. Her work include the autobiographical comic strip, My Peculiar World (Guardian), the fictional graphic story, The Night I Lost My Love (The Times), The House That Groaned (Random House's Square Peg) and comic articles and reviews for The New Statesman, The Telegraph, Time Out, The Guardian, Psychologies Magazine
1st April 2014 – Clare Mulley
Clare Mulley is the award winning author of two biographies, The Spy Who Loved, the secrets and lives of Christine Granville, Britain's first female special agent of WWII and The Woman Who Saved the Children , exploring the life of Eglantyne Jebb, the controversial founder of Save the Children. She has also contributed to The Arvon Book of Life Writing (Methuen, 2010), and
4th March 2014 – Annual General Meeting
The AGM is when all members of Cambridge Writers can learn what the committee's been up to on their behalf during the past year and vote on ideas for the future. It's also an opportunity to raise suggestions for improving the service we provide to the membership. We will be holding a book swap that evening so please bring a
3rd December 2013 – Anna Whitelock
Dr Anna Whitelock is a historian, author and broadcaster. She is the prize-winning author of Mary Tudor: England’s First Queen (Bloomsbury 2009). Her latest book is is Elizabeth’s Bedfellows: An Intimate History of the Queen’s Court (Bloomsbury, 2013). Anna writes and reviews for The Telegraph, The Guardian, Times Literary Supplement, BBC History magazine, History Today and The New York Times. She regularly appears in the media to talk
5th November 2013 – Jeff Mackowiak
Jeff is a lecturer for English Literature at Robinson College, Cambridge University, and his diverse interests include the literature of Victorian scientific materialism, literature about university life, ‘badness’ in poetry, the English Tripos Tragedy paper, and comedy.
1st October 2013 – Workshop ‘A Point of View’
Cambridge Writers member Tim Love will hold one of his superb workshops on the theme of 'point of view', something we all need to bear in mind when writing,
3rd September 2013 – Workshop
Tips and Tricks in the Writing Trade with presentations by the members of Cambridge Writers David Franks, Will Tate and Harry Goode
2nd July 2013 – Penny Hancock
Penny lives with her husband and three children in Cambridge, where she teaches at a school for children with speech and language impairment. Tideline is her first novel. Penny is now working on her second.
4th June 2013 – Nick Warburton
Nick Warburton writes plays for stage, television and radio and scripts for television series including Doctors, Holby City and EastEnders. He has been part of the regular writing team on Holby City since 2001. His radio plays, On Mardle Fen are one of the few recurring series on BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Play strand. He has published seven novels for