Upcoming Events
7th April – Annual General Meeting
It’s time for our 2026 Annual General Meeting! All members are welcome and encouraged to come along to our Annual General Meeting to see how Cambridge Writers is run, and be a part of steering our direction for the future. Don’t be put off by the initials – there will be games,
2nd June – Sue Moorcroft
photo credit: Silvia Rosado Photography We are delighted to welcome Sue Moorcroft for a seminar on ‘Tricky Writing Bits’! Sunday Times bestselling author Sue Moorcroft joins us to explore how to overcome the ‘tricky’ bits of writing commonly encountered in the craft. The evening promises to be practical, insightful, and motivating. Attending
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 £3. Please contact our chairman Harry Goode 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
2nd July 2016 – Summer Social Event
Venue and catering to be determined
7th June 2016 – Flash Fiction Competition
Competitors bring a printed copy of their anonymous entry to the meeting. Word limit of 250 words.
3rd May 2016 – Mad Cows and Englishmen
Cambridge Writers member Alice Turner will be talking about herself, getting rejected and published, about making sense of the hero’s journey, and conduct an interactive exercise in "democratic editing"
5th April 2016 – Victor Watson
Victor Watsonis an English author who has written on the nature and history of children’s literature and how children learn to read. He later turned to writing novels for children. The stories in the Paradise Barn quartet take place in a fictional country town called Great Deeping.
1st March 2016 – Annual General Meeting
An AGM may not be anyone's idea of a great night out. Yet this is actually our general forum and opportunity to have a say in how things are run. The Committee is, after all, made up of its own members, we consider ourselves forward-thinking and open to new ideas, so please come along and let us hear from you.
2nd February 2016 – Short Story Competition Judging Event
Local author Deborah Meyler will announce the results of our Short Story Competition dealing with the theme of The Seven Deadly Sins. We will hear the top three winning entries as well as the three runners-up. This always proves a very stimulating evening and gives us a chance to hear what someone else thinks of our work.
1st December 2015 – Virginia Bergin
We welcome a popular children's author, Virginia will come and speak to us about her latest work Storm which manages a dark and mysterious feel, though not without humour: Welcome to The Rain (H2O in the US) and The Storm . . . I’m Virginia and I – did not write this story. Ruby did. She's my main character and
3rd November 2015 – Wendy Cope
Come and meet one of Britain's best loved poets. Since her bestselling debut Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis was published in 1986, Wendy Cope has been responsible for some of the best-known and most-quoted lines in contemporary poetry. She was voted the listeners' choice in a BBC Radio 4 poll in 198 and was appointed Officer of the Order of
6th October 2015 – Workshop
Richard Gould leads a workshop on the challenge of describing physical features of characters. Be ready to participate in group discussion, listen to ideas and share your own.
1st September 2015 – Les Brookes and Hannah Hooton
Cambridge Writers Les Brookes and Hannah Hooton share the floor and talk to us about how they approach their writing, and their experience of being published.
2nd June 2015 – Flash Fiction Competition
Competitors bring a printed copy of their anonymous entry to the meeting. Word limit of 250 words.
5th May 2015 – The Writers’ Resources Evening.
Useful aids that help with writing – discussion of reference books, writing courses, ‘learning-to-write books’ – are they any good? Writers associations (Romantic Novelists, Historical Novel Society, etc.), companies that will criticize your writing (such as Cornerstones), short story competitions, information about agents and publishers, inspiration and sources for what we write, websites and writing software, in fact anything that