Upcoming Events

4th March – Short Story Competition Judging Evening

Our glittering awards evening will take place on March 4th. This year’s short story competition was on the theme of ‘The Sea, though stories can be written in any genre the writer wishes. There are cash prizes to be won but the contest is only open to paid up members of Cambridge

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

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

7th May 2013 – Mid-life – Time to celebrate?

A much needed counterblast to the cliches about being over the hill: David Bainbridge, science writer and vet with a particular interest in the evolution of humans, argues that the years between 40 and 60 are the pinnacle of the human cycle. As well as explaining hot flushes, spare tyres and garden sheds, Bainbridge explodes the myth of the male

2nd April 2013 – John Cornwell

John Cornwell is an author, journalist and Fellow Commoner of Jesus College, Cambridge where he directs the Science and Human Dimension Project, a public understanding of science programme, and the Rustat Conferences. He has written for many well known publications including The Sunday Times, Vanity Fair, Nature, Financial Times, Prospect, New Statesman, Spectator, TLS, The Tablet, New York Times and

5th March 2013 – 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. As if the AGM weren’t enough fun all on its own, we’re also

5th February 2013 – Short Story Competition Judging Evening

Our Short Story Competition will come to its dramatic conclusion tomorrow evening. Dr Jeff Mackowiak will announce the results and we will hear the top winning entries as well as the runners-up.

4th December 2012 – Dame Gillian Beer

A leading figure at the interface between science and literature, Gillian Beer is former President of Clare Hall College in Cambridge and a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature. She has been twice a judge for the Booker Prize, the second time as chair. Among her books are Darwin's Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin,

6th November 2012 – From Word To Flash

Tim Love will lead a workshop whose exercises will focus on first on single words, then the art of writing sentences (Austen, James, etc), and finally micro-fiction. He's had many stories published, some of which will appear in his story pamphlet "By All Means" (Nine Arches Press) later this year.

2nd October 2012 – Rosie Furber

Rosemary read law at Churchill College, practised as a solicitor in London and raised  three children. in 2005 Dublin's Wolfhound Press published her ghost novel for 10-14 year olds What You See Is What You Get.  The Most Intimate Place followed in 2009 (Maia Press) and was described in the Guardian as 'A gripping, plausible and beautifully written literary thriller’.