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
6th March 2012 – 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. The committee functions largely by e-mail, meeting together only 3 or 4 times
7th February 2012 – Competition Judging Evening
The results of the annual short story competition will be announced at this meeting. This is always an exciting event and a rare chance to listen to the creme de la creme of our members' writing. This year Dr Trudi Tate will act as judge, she will have read all entries and decided which are worthy of the first, second
6th December 2011 – Barry Kaufmann-Wright
Author, photographer, lecturer and lifelong wildlife enthusiast, Barry Kaufmann-Wright, will be talking to Cambridge Writers on December 6. Barry was born on a farm and on leaving school went to work with the late TV naturalist and author, Gerald Durrell, at the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust (Jersey Zoo). Here he learned about conservation and the breeding of endangered species
1st November 2011 – workshop “People who need people”
Most authors desperately need characters but how can they find them? Introspection? Using family and friends? Wandering about pubs? And when they find the right people how should they treat them – like galley slaves (Nabokov) or should the author just put them in a room and wait to see what happens (Beryl Bainbridge)? Tim Love will introduce a series
4th October 2011 – Glenn Dakin
Come and enjoy listening to this interesting and original local author. Glenn is a cartoonist who has written for comics and children's television, you may be familiar with Shaun the Sheep, Bob the Builder and most certainly with Spiderman at some point! He will talk about his latest creation "Candle Man" and discuss writing children's fantasy and the development of
6th September 2011 – Dr Trudi Tate
Fellow of Clare Hall specialising in British and American literature and writer on 1st World, Crimean and Vietnam Wars.
5th July 2011 – Broo Doherty
Broo is one half of Wade and Doherty Literary Agency. She has worked in publishing for twenty years and handles all genres, but is particularly interested in crime, cookery and women's fiction.
7th June 2011 – Alec Rainey
Since retiring from his life on the range, Alec has turned his hand to writing at his home in Cambridge. His latest book is called A Way of Life and recalls his training in cattle management with the Argentinian gauchos and working as a jackeroo on a cattle station in Australia.
3rd May 2011 – Cambridge Influences
Patrick grew up in Cambridge and is the author of Corn Dolls, Steel Witches and Cut Out, a trilogy set in Cambridge and the Fens. His books have been acclaimed by reviewers in publications as diverse as The Times Literary Supplement and The News of The World, and have been published successfully in Italy, Germany and Holland. Join him as
5th April 2011 – Alison Bruce
Alison will speak about how she came to write both fiction and non-fiction, introduce her detective series and talk about her experience of being published etc. She has worked in all kinds of jobs, from admin to electro-plating and from DJ-ing to IT management. She didn’t always plan to become a full time novelist but can’t remember a time in
1st March 2011 – Annual General Meeting
This year we are in urgent need of two volunteers – for the posts of Treasurer and Membership Secretary. The efficient and reliable Rik Gammack has been doing both but now wants to take a well-earned break for a while. Please will you ask yourself if you could take on one or other, the club can't function without them. Rik
1st February 2011 – Competition Judging Evening
Olivia Abbott, Editor of Agenda, will judge the competition to write an article or story of interest to magazine readers entitled ‘A Cambridge Secret’, limit of 800 words.