Upcoming Events
7th May – Mike Levy
We are delighted to welcome Mike Levy, a former teacher and journalist who helps run history-based projects with a strong arts element thrown in. He is a Holocaust educator and regular theatre and music reviewer for www.thecambridgecritique.com. Now pursuing a PhD at Anglia Ruskin on the Cambridge Refugee Committees 1938-48. He enjoys
4th June – Flash Fiction Competition 2024 Results Night
Our flash fiction competition is judged on the night, in person. Simply bring a printed copy of your story, with title but WITHOUT your name on it, to the meeting on 4th June. The word limit is pretty tight, at 250, which does not include the title. When penning your story, make
Our monthly writers’ 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 you have any suggestions for speakers you would like to hear at our writers’ events, please contact our programme secretary, Karin Milner.
Recent Events
1st November – Genre-Bending Workshop
Genre-bending workshop run by Tim Love. What is Genre? Why is it so significant? And can works really fit into more than one genre? A chance to discuss all these questions and more, and to learn about this mysterious yet important theme. Tim Love will conduct this workshop. Tim has had poems in Rialto, Stand, Smith’s Knoll, Oxford Poetry etc. His prose has recently been
4th October – Chris Priestley
Local writer of fiction for children, artist and illustrator. He’s been writing since 2000 and has earned many accolades and awards. Books fall into the horror genre and include a series called Tales of Terror’. His paintings have appeared at the Royal Academy Exhibition.
6th September – Professor Edith Hall
Edith is Professor of Classics at Durham University, previously at King’s College London. She specialises in showing how Aristotle’s philosophy from the Ancient World can be applied to how to live in the modern world in her book Aristotle’s Way, Ten Ways Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life. Topics such as love, contentment, resisting temptation, decision-making, intention, happiness and mortality
June 7th – Flash Fiction Awards Evening (Members Only)
Our flash fiction awards evening is always a lot of fun. All the entries will be read out by two designated readers and then members attending will have the opportunity to vote on their favourites for first, second and third prizes. The event will be held at Hartington Grove Meeting House, in another welcome return to pre-pandemic get togethers. No
3rd May – Deborah Balm
Deborah Balm is an audiobook narrator of fiction and non-fiction books. A relatable, contemporary native British female voice artist with a smidge of sass. Born in Yorkshire, she now lives in Cambridge after her career in software engineering took her from Leicester, to Basel, and on to Amsterdam. Her background in singing performance and musical theatre dovetailed perfectly with her
5th April – AGM (Online) – Members Only
Our Annual General Meeting will be held online this year, over Zoom. All members are encouraged to attend. It’s your chance to hear how the group is doing, understand more fully how it is run and put forth opinions on various subjects. Our Chairman, Harry Goode, will be sending out email invites to members closer to the date, so please
Routes to Publishing – 1st February 2022 (Online)
Online Workshop: Siobhan Carew will be hosting this workshop over Zoom on the various routes to publishing. Routes to Publishing There are two main routes to publishing: through a traditional agent/publisher, or by self-publishing. Within those choices, there are sub-choices. Few traditional publishers take on work directly. They usually prefer agents to act as intermediaries, filtering the wheat from the
1st March 2022 – Short Story Competition Results Evening (Online)
Our March meeting will take place online via Zoom, and will comprise the results of the Cambridge Writers 2022 short story competition. Our competition this year was judged by Andrew Cowan, Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. Since his first prize-winning novel Pig (1994), he’s written four more novels depicting people in provincial worlds. The theme
7th December 2021 – Giles Yeo
Giles Yeo is a geneticist with over 20 years’ experience dedicated to researching obesity and the brain control of food intake. His current research focuses on understanding how these pathways differ from person to person, and the influence of genetics in our relationship with food and eating habits. Giles will present his book, Gene Eating: The Science of Obesity and
2nd November 2021 – Sophie Hannah
Sophie Hannah is a Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling writer of crime fiction, published in forty-nine languages and fifty-one territories. Her books have sold millions of copies worldwide. In 2014, with the blessing of Agatha Christie’s family and estate, Sophie published a new Poirot novel, The Monogram Murders, which was a bestseller in more than fifteen countries. She has since
5th October 2021 – Rosie Sykes
Rosie Sykes is a food writer and chef, living in London and Cambridge who was, at one time, Head Chef at Fitzbillies. She has cooked in the kitchens of some of Britain’s most celebrated chefs, including Joyce Molyneux, Shaun Hill and Alastair Little. Her critically acclaimed gastropub, The Sutton Arms in Smithfields, London, established her as one of the most
