Cambridge Writing Centre: Short Story Micro-Festival

Schedule

Thu Apr 30 2026 at 04:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Lord Ashcroft Building | Cambridge, EN

A FREE workshop and panel discussion with book stall and signings
About this Event

Cambridge Writing Centre is a research centre based at Anglia Ruskin University, dedicated to sharing knowledge in the field of creative writing. This year we're holding our first micro-festival to close out the Spring semester, with a focus on the short story.

All events are on the ground-floor in a wheelchair-accessible venue.


4.00-5.30 / LAB 006

Narrowing Down & Opening Up: How to Turn an Idea Into a Story



A writing workshop with Edge Hill Short Story Prize Winner Chris Beckett (The Turing Test)




6.00-7.30/ LAB 002

A Quiet Bomb, a Little Earthquake: Writing Short Stories

A discussion panel with BBC National Short Story Award winner Naomi Wood (This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things), short story writer, editor and anthologist Karen Stevens (Brilliant Blue) and British Fantasy Award winnner and long-term Best British Short Stories editor Nicholas Royle (London Gothic).

Chaired by multi-award-winning novelist and short story writer Alison MacLeod




7.30-8.00 / Foyer

Book-Signing

4.00-6.00 / Foyer
Book Stall/Refreshments

Where is it happening?

Lord Ashcroft Building, Broad St, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Tickets

GBP 0.00

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