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
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
7th April 2015 – Catherine Belsey
Catherine teaches at the University of Swansea. Her most recent work A Future for Criticism puts forward the case for increased attention to the joy of fiction and the way it engages readers. She supports the work of GENCAS, the Centre for Research into gender and culture in Society.
3rd March 2015 – Annual General Meeting
The proposal is to elect the Programme Secretary, Membership Secretary, Newsletter Editor, Webmaster and Publicity Officer at the AGM. The current officers are all willing to stand for re-election.
2nd December 2014 – Douglas Palmer
Douglas is a science writer based in Cambridge, England who specializes in the history of life, especially human evolution and Earth’s environments. Over 20 of his books have been published over the last 14 years with Fossil Detectives and Neanderthal accompanying TV series. His latest published works are Earth in 100 groundbreaking discoveries, Origins :human evolution revealed and Evolution: the
4th November 2014 – Jim Kelly
Jim is one of the most original and distinctive writers of modern British crime fiction. His first series is set in Ely, in the Fens, and features journalist Philip Dryden and his side-kick Humph. The books won a Dagger In The Library. His new detective series is set in North Norfolk