Are you free on the evening of December 16th? 🎄 Join me for this masterclass all about finding multiple (infinite?) ways in to the same subject matter. We’ll write a ridiculous amount of poems in 2 hours…with brand new exercises ⁦‪‬⁩ www.arvon.org/writing-cour...

Lauren Berlant reading group 📚 Join CRASSH Fellow @darlingorlaith.bsky.social in tracing Berlant’s understanding of normative fantasies and their role in maintaining and critiquing the social and political orthodoxies of given eras From 13 October, Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP bit.ly/4nFi9C0

Join CWC's Tory Young for an interview with novelist Tessa Hadley at Waterstones, Cambridge this Wednesday, 8th October. Tickets here: www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...

On the 15th October, we're hosting a special performance by poets Christina Thatcher and Alice Willitts -- full details here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/silence-sp...

Pan MacMillan are currently recruiting for a Communications Assistant to work in their Bluebird and Picador imprints. careers.panmacmillan.com/jobs/6563623...

Kim Moore is judging this year's Poetry Business International Book & Pamphlet Competition. Submit 20 pages of poetry by 2nd November -- two winning entries will be selected for publication by Smith|Doorstop Books. poetrybusiness.co.uk/competitions...

Curtis Brown's Discoveries 2026 Prize for women writers is free to enter, and you only have to submit the first 10,000 words of a novel. Deadline 12th January! www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/discoveries-...

The Hilary Mantel Prize for adult longform fiction is open till the end of the year! More details: amheath.com/hilary-mante...

Reminder, especially to #Cambridge residents! Brand new poems and stories on the Major Arcana of the Tarot this Wednesday, at ARU's Recital Hall. @angliaruskin.bsky.social @anglialt.bsky.social More info/free tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/future-kar...

We're getting close now...! The Henshaw Press Writing Competition closes at midnight TOMORROW. Now is the time to send us your most brilliant 2k-word stories - we can't wait to read them! #writing #WritingCommunity

🧪 Open to Science Poetry Submissions 🖋️ The Consilience journal is now open for submissions of science-themed poetry and artwork! Issue 23 explores the topic of ‘Tension’. Submit your work for free here: www.consilience-journal.com/submit #SciComm #SciArt #Poetry

FLASH WRITERS! I'm judging the Allingham Flash Fiction Comp and it's been extended! The deadline extended to Sunday, 12 Oct at 23:59 / 11:59 pm. Applies to both on-line and postal submissions. All other competition rules and guidelines remain in effect; see www.allinghamfestival.com/fiction-poet...

Winners of this short fiction contest receive cash and a physical copy of the anthology they are published in! Simultaneous and multiple submissions of all genres are accepted. Follow: @mgliterary.bsky.social #WritingCommunity #LitMag #5amWritersClub #WritersLift

On the 15th October, we're hosting a special performance by poets Christina Thatcher and Alice Willitts -- full details here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/silence-sp...

Aaaaand we're back! Tickets for the 13th Future Karaoke are available FOR FREE here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/myevent?eid=... Poems and stories inspired by the Major Arcana. Wednesday 1st October from 6.30pm at ARU's Recital Hall in Cambridge. Attend in-person or online!

Our friends at @writerscentre.bsky.social Norwich are running a FREE online drop-in next week for anyone who's interested in applying for Escalator New Writing Fellowships. A great opportunity to get advice on applying! More details here: nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/events/escal...

Cambridge #Poetry Festival have a stall outside #Cambridge station this afternoon, as part of Summer in the Square! Here's our poetry dice game.

This is happening tonight: #Cambridge #Poetry Festival 50th anniversary reading!

The #Cambridge #Poetry Festival returns in 2026. This year it's the 50th anniversary of the original 1975 festival, so under the CPF branding, we're helping to promote a whole load of Cambridge-based poetry events over the summer. bsky.app/profile/angl... bsky.app/profile/angl...

CWC's Alison MacLeod contributes to this BBC Radio programme examining three faces of D. H. Lawrence. Episode 2, 'Class', is up now! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

The next Future Karaoke lit jam will be at the Devonshire Arms on June 17th -- Cambridge-based writers read new poems and stories inspired by the names of Milton Brewery beers! Free entry: bit.ly/futurekaraoke12 to book ahead!

Cambridge Community Arts are introducing new paid-for courses to help support their community work; first two courses are Kick-start your novel and Online screenwriting. See their website for details: www.camcommarts.org.uk/paid-courses

Free writing workshop at Cherry Hinton Library, 28th May: Writing the Non-Human: A Nature Poetry & Prose Workshop. See Library Live for details: www.library.live/calendar/wri...

Any Cambridge-based writers on Bluesky who we haven't followed yet?

Submissions are OPEN for our 11th theme 🔸️LOST & FOUND🔸️ Please be mindful of word counts when submitting flash fiction, nonfiction, and short story. Check out our website for more information and details regarding our guidelines. We can't wait to read your work!

And if you don't know what Pirate Point is? Check out the first issue of our funny little punk zine here 🏴‍☠️ piratepoint.itch.io/issue-1

#Writersky, start your engines! Submissions for our summer issue are now OPEN! 📢 Theme: Love and Hate #Fiction: max. 5,000 words #Poetry: max. 4 poems Non-fic: 1,000-2,000 words about #writing. For full submission guidelines, visit: penstricken.com/submissions

Submissions are open until the end of the month for our 2025 flash fiction, poetry, short story and novel prizes! 📝⭐ Don't forget, you may also be eligible for our Young Writer Award, Dorset Award or Never Too Late Award (you don't need to enter these separately). All info at bridportprize.org.uk

The Cambridge launch of 'Ten Poets Travel to the Dark Side of the Moon' is tomorrow at 6.00 in Waterstones. Jon has written an over-long promotional Substack talking about other space-themed poetry books. shotscarecrow.substack.com/p/low-gravit...

Cambridge! Who's up for this tonight? Cocktails and poetry at D'Arry's from 6.30pm.

Photos from last night's fantastic readings: Matt Howard, Claudine Toutoungi, Rebecca Watts.

Cambridge! Check out what's coming up this week.

This Sunday: Yang Lian and YoYo, reading with translators at Anglia Ruskin University, from 2-4pm. A rare Cambridge appearance from two great contemporary Chinese poets!

💫 The story makers Interested in discovering and inspiring stories? Join us at the Cambridge Festival for a crash course in talking to people and collecting narratives 👪 all ages 🗓️ 22 March 2025 from 10-11.30am 📍 Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP 🎟️ buff.ly/mtUa3te

Future Karaoke: Memories and Dreams is on tonight. bit.ly/futurekaraok... if you haven't booked your free online ticket, or just turn up if you're about in Cambridge!

We now have a whole Spring programme of events in place! If you're in or around Cambridge in the lead up to the summer, drop in on one of these!

On 26th March, CWC's own Alison McLeod will be interviewing Doctor Who writer Rob Shearman. It's free and online! creativeshowcase.aru.ac.uk/events/curre...

Calling all fiction writers! We are looking for stories between 1000 and 3000 words! Please send them our way! 😘 We can't wait to read you.😘

We're hiring! We're looking for a Programme Assistant to support us in the ongoing development and delivery of our artistic programme.

🖤 The day is finally here!🖤 We're now open for unagented submissions (13-26 Jan). Read all about it and send us your novel manuscript. We're specifically looking for literary and upmarket fiction. What we're looking for and query info available on our Google Form 👇 https://bit.ly/WHB-2025-subs

Our submissions portal is now open! That's right, we're accepting direct submissions of innovative literary fiction, poetry, & narrative nonfiction until March 15, 2025. Interested in submitting to Book*hug Press? Read our submission guidelines here: bookhugpress.ca/bookthug-sub...

The Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize now for the "unputdownable" novel f RT on unpublished women. The winner will receive a £1,500 prize, and all shortlisted authors get a one-on-one consultation with a literary agent. Please share. www.lucy.cam.ac.uk/fictionprize

As of today, our plan is to open submissions for our TTRPG grants next month, on February 15th. Submissions will remain open until March 15th, with results announced in May. We appreciate your patience, and thank you for your understanding.

Our first event of the new year! Join us in ARU's Recital Hall for Seeds in the Dirt: A Celebration of Eco-Writing, with Sarah Royston, Alice Willitts, Freya Sacksen and Clare Pollard. Free to attend -- book ahead here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/seeds-in-t...

First two Cambridge Writing Centre anthologies on sale at the City of Literature Publishing Fair in Norwich!

And we have another event coming up today at 2pm, at Thrive cafe: the launch of 'The Word is Smut'!

A couple of shots from last night's Future Karaoke: Supernatural Beings. Thanks to everyone who came and made it a splendid, spooky, rambunctious night!

This coming Wednesday! Back-to-back book launch and Supernatural Beings night, from 5.30 at ARU. The beginning of a run of great literary get-togethers. You can even join us for Future Karaoke on Zoom: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/future-kar...

The latest episode of our podcast, 'Blindsided by Butt Jokes' (thanks, Bryan), is an interview with poet Penny Boxall, in which Penny reads her poem 'The Present' from 'In Praise of Hands'. US novelist Bryan is also in the studio! cambridgewritingcentre.podbean.com/e/episode-3-...