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Submissions open for BBC National Short Story Award and BBC Young Writers’ Award with Cambridge ̽��ֱ��

15 Jan 2021

Novelist James Runcie and broadcaster Katie Thistleton will chair the judging panels for the 2021 BBC National Short Story Award and BBC Young...

Children’s fiction on terror is leading a youth ‘write-back’ against post-9/11 paranoia

24 Aug 2020

A wave of children’s fiction which tackles subjects such as suicide terrorism, militant jihadism and counter-terror violence is helping young readers...

2018 winner Ingrid Persaud accepts her award at the West Road ceremony earlier this year.

Submissions open for BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge ̽��ֱ��

13 Dec 2018

Booker Prize shortlistee Daisy Johnson and beatboxer Testament have today been announced as judges of the BBC’s National Short Story Award and Young...

Cambridge ceremony reveals the winners of BBC Short Story and Young Writers’ Awards

02 Oct 2018

Trinidadian writer Ingrid Persaud, has won the thirteenth BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge ̽��ֱ�� for ‘ ̽��ֱ��Sweet Sop’, her first...

̽��ֱ�� of Cambridge supports BBC Short Story Awards

28 Sep 2017

̽��ֱ�� ̽��ֱ�� of Cambridge is partnering with BBC Radio to promote the BBC National Short Story Award, the BBC Young Writers’ Award and the BBC...

Opinion: How to write a best-selling novel

05 Apr 2016

Andy Martin (Department of French) discusses the "magic potion" for writing a thriller.

Opinion: ̽��ֱ��man with no plot: how I watched Lee Child write a Jack Reacher novel

30 Nov 2015

Andy Martin (Department of French) discusses the year he spent sitting behind author Lee Child as he wrote the latest Jack Reacher novel.

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Cambridge launches first Creative Writing degree

26 Mar 2013

̽��ֱ�� ̽��ֱ�� of Cambridge’s first Master of Studies (MSt) in Creative Writing will explore the art of writing in all its many forms and guises, not...

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