Our practice-based research integrates, among other areas, short fiction, poetry, dramatic writing, creative nonfiction, speculative fiction, and writing for children, as well as exploring interactivity and hybridity between these genres.
Our members are writers and researchers situated within the Cambridge School of Creative Industries and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, working with local writers and organisations to create public-facing events and workshops.
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Cambridge Writing CentreAlison McLeodAlison is a novelist, short story writer, editor and senior academic. Alongside her publishing and academic careers, she has been a writer-in-residence, a writing mentor, a BBC contributor, a higher-education consultant, a ‘Writer for Liberty’ for Liberty UK, and a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund.
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Cambridge Writing CenterColette PaulColette Paul is particularly interested in short fiction, both theory and practice, and has published a book of short stories, Whoever You Choose to Love; these were serialized on Radio 4. Although her publications are in short fiction, she is interested in all types of prose fiction and has supervised many novel projects.
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PhD Researcher — Cambridge Writing CentreDominique De-LightDominique De-Light is an arts and health consultant and creativity and wellbeing coach, as well as co-founder of Creative Future, an arts charity supporting underrepresented artists and writers.
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Cambridge Writing CentreJon StoneJon is a poet, researcher and editor with a specialism in hybrid and ludic literary forms, interactive fiction and collaborative writing. He is a co-director of Sidekick Books, a small press which focuses on multi-author mixed-genre anthologies.
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PhD Researcher — Cambridge Writing CentreKarl FisherKarl's research explores death and death-metaphors through magical realism, surrealism, absurdism and postmodernism.
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Cambridge Writing CentreKatharine ReeveKatharine Reeve is Course Leader MA Publishing and Senior Lecturer Practitioner teaching BA and MA Creative Writing and Publishing. Her creative practice is in nonfiction writing with a focus on the environment, cultural history and memoir, specifically the Norfolk Broads.
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PhD Researcher — Cambridge Writing CentreLisa FarrellLisa Farrell is a postgraduate researcher exploring interactivity in fiction and producing a collection of speculative short stories.
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PhD Researcher — Cambridge Writing CentreMaria SangerMaria is writing a cycle of short stories that interweave historical and fantastic fiction. The thesis will explore the challenges of writing a collection of stories spanning different times, places, and cultures, how to create uncanny effects in historical fiction.
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PhD Researcher — Cambridge Writing CentreMark GalvinMark is a fiction writer researching approaches to collaborative storytelling via social media.
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Cambridge Writing CentreSarah Gibson YatesSarah’s current teaching and research practice draws on careers in art curatorship, cultural film programming, film production and community arts education. She is currently involved in narrative making projects across a range of media including screenwriting, narrative games, and children’s literature.
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Cambridge Writing CentreTim JarvisTim Jarvis is a writer of supernatural fiction. He has research interests, as a practitioner and critic, in the fields of genre fiction, the Gothic, experimental and innovative writing, fictocriticism, and Creative Writing pedagogy.
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Cambridge Writing CentreTory YoungTory is an Associate Professor of English Literature, teaching and publishing on 20-21st-century literature. Her 2008 practical guide for undergraduates, Studying English Literature (Cambridge University Press), has sold around the world.
Since our inception in 2024, we've arranged and hosted a range of live readings, workshops and research seminars.
We also list events by Cambridgeshire-based grassroots organisations; if you would like us to list your literary event on our website, or want to propose a collaboration, you can email jon.stone@aru.ac.uk to get the ball rolling.