In addition to the Reading Groups, we have a General Meeting once a month. These are intended to bring together all the members, whether they are writing poetry, short stories, novels or non-fiction.
Meetings are held at Hartington Grove Friends' Meeting House, from 7.30 pm. Hartington Grove runs between Hills Road and Cherry Hinton Road, Cambridge.
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Non-members are welcome to attend these meetings (except the Annual General Meeting) at a charge of £3.
JUST THINK - If you join, you get all this, plus the working groups, plus free to enter competitions, plus a monthly Newsletter for only £18 a year!
Future Programme
Tuesday 2nd September 2008
Tim Love, a member of Cambridge Writers' Committee, will lead a workshop on Breaking Into Print. This will explore why so many writers never even get around to making submissions to magazines or literary agents.
Tuesday 7th October 2008
Rosy Thornton is a member of Cambridge Writers. She is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Her second novel, Hearts and Minds, is set in St Radegund's, a fictional college for women that decides to appoint a male Head of House. With considerable humour and the odd trenchant point about the battle of the sexes, it recounts his struggles to try to win acceptance.
Tuesday 4th November 2008
Catherine Dell, of the Society of Authors, will lead a Workshop on Reading Your Work Aloud. This is a members-only event.
Tuesday 2nd December 2008
Richard Reynolds, who runs the Crime Department at Heffers Bookshop and a much respected judge of many crime writing competitions, will talk on What Makes the Perfect Crime Novel.
Tuesday 7th April 2009
Rebecca Stott, Professor of English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, who is also a Affiliated Scholar at Cambridge University Department of the History and Philosophy of Science, will talk about her recent novel, Ghostwalk. This is set in both modern Cambridge and also the seventeenth century. Historian Elizabeth Vogelsang is found drowned, clutching a glass prism. Her son's ex-lover takes on the task of finishing her book on the great physicist Isaac Newton's alchemical researches. Soon it seems there may also be a murder or a ghost mystery.
Tuesday 5th May 2009
Carole Burns teaches at the University of Winchester and is also an on-line journalist for the Washington Post. Her recent book, Off the Page (published by W.W. Norton), extracts from interviews she has had with many well-known writers, including E.L. Doctorow, A.S. Byatt and Martin Amis. Using their words it addresses central questions for anyone wishing to write.
Tuesday 2nd June 2009
Laura Dietz is Senior Lecturer in Writing in the English and Media Department at Anglia Ruskin University. Her first novel, In the Tenth House, deals with the connection between spiritualism and early psychoanalysis.
Tuesday 7th July 2009
Professor (emeritus) Michael Langford now teaches part-time in the Divinity Faculty of the University of Cambridge. His recent novel, The de Vere Papers (published by Parapress, September 2008), is set in a 19th century Cambridge College. The dons are discussing the burning issues of the day, but someone murders the librarian and important old manuscripts go missing. Dr Simon Weatherspoon, a respectable clergyman, sets out to investigate, but he too may be at risk.
Tuesday 6th October 2009
Jenny Diski may truly be described as a prolific writer. As well as regular reviewing she has had 10 novels published. The first was Rainforest in 1987. The most recent, After These Things was a sequel to Only Human, both of which retell the story of the Patriarchs in Genesis in unusual and challenging ways. Jenny has also had 5 works of non-fiction published, most recently On Trying to Keep Still, which shadows outward travel with inner journeys of the mind. A new novel, Apology for the Woman Writing, is due out in November 2008.
Tuesday 3rd November 2009
Sally Cline, FRSA, teaches at Anglia Ruskin University. She has won many prizes for her writing, which includes biographies of, among others, Zelda Fitzgerald and Radclyffe Hall and also many works of social science, which deal in particular with psychological aspects of feminism.
