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📢 BIG NEWS! Lucy Cavendish College wins National Innovation Award for pioneering virtual reality research.
The project used
#AI
and
#VR
to better translate and visualise
#emissions
data. 🥽💚
Read more at
Lab Director,
@cmacdonaldphd
, says: "We were
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📺 Lucy Cavendish College were on BBC News last night to celebrate their historic admissions milestone: First Cambridge University College to admit more than 90% from state schools!
👀 You can watch it via link below 👇
🔗
📣 Please share far & wide 🌐
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Know any low-income women writers who might like to enter the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize for free? We have 10 sponsored entries left to snap up thanks to
@perkinsfran1
& others. You need first 40-50 pgs and synopsis. Could be your route to publication!
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Could you write the next bestseller? Delighted to announce the 9th annual Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize now open. A unique opportunity for unpublished female writers over 21 to launch careers:
#Creativewriting
#Writingcompetitions
#fiction
#GetInspired
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Delighted to announce the biggest year yet for the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize - a huge 602 entries! The competition is now closed. Thanks and best of luck to everyone who entered. Thanks also to all our supporters and friends for the retweets!
#grateful
#GoodLuck
#fictionprize
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We are delighted to announce the Fiction Prize 2019 longlist, our biggest year yet with over 600 entries. Congratulations to all!
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The 2018 Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize is now open for entries - a unique opportunity for unpublished female writers:
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An amazing win and a tense race! Congratulations
@cubcsquad
and the women’s crew, especially
@lucycavcoll
’s Sarah Tisdall and Anouschka Fenley
@gemini
@theboatrace
#lightblue
#teamwork
#excellence
#passion
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We are proud to announce and immensely grateful for receiving the largest
#Donation
in College history. The gift will enable our unique
#Outreach
and
#StudentSupport
programmes to be carefully evaluated, developed and expanded over the next 10 years ⬇️
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We are delighted to announce the longlist of the Lucy Cavendish
#FictionPrize
2022.
Congratulations to the
#authors
who were selected 🍾 Thanks to our judges and to
@PFDAgents
👇
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We are delighted to announce that Hannah Stapleton has won the 2022 Lucy Cavendish
#FictionPrize
with her
#novel
'Blue Tears’. Huge congratulations from us all!🥂
Thank you to our judges & sponsor
@PFDAgents
for making the Prize a success once again.
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We are delighted to announce the longlist of the
@LucyCavColl
#FictionPrize
2021.
Congratulations to the
#authors
who were selected 🍾 Thanks to our judges and to
@PFDAgents
👇
#lucylonglist
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The moment we've all been waiting for! 🎉Congratulations to the winner of the 2024 Lucy Cavendish
#FictionPrize
@matildbattersby
with the incredible novel, 'Forced Perspective'! ✨
This "whip-smart, unsettling, and compulsive read " is a testament to the
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We are delighted to announce the election of Professor Madeleine Atkins CBE, FAcSS as our ninth President, from October 2018:
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We are delighted to share the
#Longlist
for the 2023 Lucy Cavendish
#FictionPrize
, showcasing an eclectic range of dazzling debut
#novels
.
Congratulations to the 17 talented
#authors
who were selected 🥂
➡️ ⬅️
#Awards
#WritingCommunity
@PFDAgents
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The
#LucyFictionPrize
#Lucylonglist
has been announced! Congratulations to those authors who were selected - the hard work paid off!
@PFDAgents
@LucyCavColl
@LucyWriters
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We are delighted to announce that our 9th President, Professor Madeleine Atkins has been awarded a DBE (Dame Commander of the British Empire) in the New Year’s Honours List 2019 for her outstanding contribution to the field of HE:
#NewYearHonour
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We are delighted to announce that Sarah Harman is the 2023
#FictionPrize
winner with her
#novel
The Dirtbag Detective. 🎉
Congratulations to Sarah, and to all those selected for the shortlist!
Thank you to our judges &
@PFDAgents
for making it all happen.
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Our Senior Tutor &
@Cambridge_Uni
virologist Dr
@JaneGreatorex
explains what we know and don't know about Covid 19 👉 .
Read more about Jane at
#COVID19
uk
#coronavirus
#virology
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The Lucy Cavendish
#FictionPrize
could be just what you need to kick-start your literary
#career
.
Deadlines:
▪️Low-income writers submissions: 9 February 2022
▪️Paid submissions: 11 February 2022
Enter now
#getpublished
#fiction
#novel
@PFDAgents
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We are pleased to announce that thanks to the generosity of
@isobel_maddison
we are able to offer 8 sponsored entries for low income writers for the 2021
#FictionPrize
. Find out how to apply at ✒️📚
#womenwriters
#unpublishedauthors
#firstnovel
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Lucy Cavendish Fellow
@DrAnneLaura
Van Harmelen promoted to full Professor in
#Brain
#Security
and
#Resilience
at Leiden University, Netherlands. Read more 👉
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Excitement builds - find out who the 6 shortlisted authors are for the 2020
@LucyCavColl
Fiction Prize
@PFDAgents
#creativewriting
#fiction
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Huge congratulations to
@MeganDavis931
winner of the
@LucyCavColl
#FictionPrize
2021 with The Messenger. Thanks to all shortlisted authors for reading extracts of their amazing
#novels
.
@juliebu72
@cwightwick
@BCWidow
@elenacmontanez
@salskins
@PFDAgents
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Only few more days to enter the Lucy Cavendish
#FictionPrize
. You don’t need to have finished your novel, just the first 40-50 pages plus a synopsis.
Kick-start your literary career. Enter at
Deadline: Friday 11/02 at 12 noon.
Best of luck!
@PFDAgents
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It's
#LucyShortlist
day at last! Check out our super seven for 2019 here: (link: )
#LucyFictionPrize
Many congratulations to all for making it this far in our biggest year yet!
#CONGRATULATIONS
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📢 Exciting news! Lucy Cavendish College's 2024
#FictionPrize
longlist is here! 📚
16 brilliant debut
#novels
– could your next favourite read be on the list?
Congratulations to the authors! Find out more ⬇️
@PFDAgents
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Congratulations to the six successful authors in this year's
#shortlist
@cwightwick
@BCWidow
@elenacmontanez
@salskin
@MeganDavis931
@juliebu72
@PFDAgents
@LucyWriters
@AlumLucy
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And the winner is... Deepa Anappara, with her novel 'Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line':
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Perseverance has paid off for Laura who found out today she has a place to study Veterinary Science, 6 years after leaving school without A-levels:
#GoingToCambridge
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The Lucy Cavendish College
#FictionPrize
2018 longlist has been announced – congratulations to all these talented writers!
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📢Great news! The 2022
@LucyCavColl
#FictionPrize
is now open for entries ⬇️
#WritingCommunity
#Novel
#Fiction
#GetPublished
@PFDAgents
@BookBrunch
@LucyWriters
@WritersDigest
@thebookseller
@TheTLS
@GuardianBooks
@indybooks
@GrantaMag
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The pretty little trespasser continues his tour... (space for one more at Formal Hall tonight?)
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Bookings open this Fri for the first ever Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize Festival! Sat 19 Jan 2019. A day packed full of inspiring talks, panels & workshops from novelists, agents, publishers & editors:
#FictionPrizeFestival
#SaveTheDate
#creativewriting
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Two days to go until we announce the winner of the 2019
#LucyFictionPrize
!!
#excitingtimes
#goodluck
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📣 Tonight's the night! The Lucy Cavendish
#FictionPrize
ceremony is just hours away!
Who will take home the coveted award? 🏆
But that's not all... we'll also be celebrating the incredible talent of our student
#writing
prize winners ✍️📚
Congrats to ALL shortlisted authors -
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Lucy Cavendish College announces a shortlist of six authors for its annual Fiction Prize. Many congratulations and thanks to our judging panel:
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Six talented
#authors
make the Lucy Cavendish
#FictionPrize
shortlist for 2022. Congratulations! 🎉🥂
➡️ ⬅️
#WomenWriters
#WritingCommunity
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Another frosty start of the day at
@LucyCavColl
. Brrrr!
Keep warm 🧣☕️
#frosty
#earlystart
#collegelife
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The Lucy Cavendish 2023
#FictionPrize
#shortlist
is out! 🎉 Huge congratulations to the six talented
#authors
. 🥂
Find out who they are and hear from our judges at
@PFDAgents
#WritingCommunity
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We are flying our LGBTQ+ flag to celebrate the start of
#LGBTHistoryMonth
Lots of events planned at the University and in town:
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From
#LucyFictionPrize
shortlist to international publishing deals - and now a TV series - there's no stopping Frannie Langton and its brilliant author,
@mrsjaneymac
.
Sara is leading a session at our Creative Writing course in September. Find out more 👇
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Thanks and good luck to everyone who submitted an entry for the 2018 Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize! Over 400 entries for our judges to read now, and we’ll announce longlist on 10 April.
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Huge congratulations to
@aoifefitz_
winner of the
@LucyCavColl
#FictionPrize
2020 with 'Arrangement in Grey & Black' 🎉 Thanks to all shortlisted authors for reading extracts of their amazing novels
@BibiBerki1
@SStokesChapman
@emmabarlow
@Laure0901
@francescasteele
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Lucy
#PhD
@juliainclusion
wins the Cambridge Creative Partnership competition
@CamUniEngage
to fund an animation of her
#research
on educating
#children
with disabilities in rural Colombian
@Escuela_Nueva
schools 👇
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Congratulations to the winner of the 2017 Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize, Sarah Ward!
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We are delighted to welcome
#Research
Fellow Dr
@ColleenDrapek
to the College community.
Read about her research, inspiration and goals ⬇️
@slcuplants
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Lucy Cavendish College has presented Dr Karen Ottewell as its first ever Proctor for the academic year 2018-2019. She is the only the 13th woman to hold the office at the University, as it was restricted to men until the 1970s:
#progress
#WomenLeaders
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Practice has started for the
@Gemini
@theboatrace
on Sunday - coverage from 3pm! So exciting to see the
@CUBCsquad
and the
@LucyCavColl
rowers on the water today! Good luck everyone 🤞🍀👏👏👏
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Win a free place on the Lucy Cavendish College Creative Writing Course! An amazing chance to join a residential course and learn from published authors, fellow writers and industry experts in an inspiring setting.
Find out more:
#creativewriting
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Look out for the
@LucyCavColl
#FictionPrize
longlist on April 19! Thanks to our chair of judges
@JackieAshley
, judges
@gillybethstern
,
@sophiehannahCB1
, Ansa Khan Khatta, Tim Bates
@PFDAgents
, Lindsey Traub &
@isobel_maddison
for making this happen.
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Victory for Cambridge! Congratulations to
@CUWBC
and especially to
@mhcwilson
and
@Goudet3
we are so proud of you!
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Our warmest congratulations to Lucy Cavendish Fellow and Vice-President Dr Henriette Hendriks who ha been promoted to
#Professor
in
#Language
Acquisition and Cognition 👉
Photo © ED
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Congratulations to alumna and founder of the Lucy Writers' Platform, Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou (English, 2011) on being shortlisted for the
@BBCr4today
Student Journalism Awards, in the category of ‘Today Programme Critic of the Year’:
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Lucy Cavendish College announces plans to change admissions criteria to include men and women from the standard university age of 18/19 years old. The priority is to support widening participation in collegiate Cambridge:
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Congratulations to all our students who graduated at the weekend, here walking proudly to the Senate House 🎓👏🎉
It was lovely to have families there too. Oh, and we have the best porters in Cambridge. John and Andy looking very smart. 😁
📸: Dr
@JaneGreatorex
, Senior Tutor
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Wonderful news
@JoBrowningWroe
, and well deserved! Congratulations from all
@LucyCavColl
.
@FaberBooks
is to publish
@JoBrowningWroe
's debut novel A Terrible Kindness as a superlead title in spring 2022, billed as "a novel with deep emotional truth at its heart, and wit, honesty and resilience pulsing through every paragraph"! More here:
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Congratulations to all Lucy students who graduated at the weekend. Well done! 🎓
We are proud of you all and couldn't be more pleased to be able to celebrate your achievement together 🤩
#graduation
#cambridgeuniversity
#lucycavendishcollege
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Why has the % of women physics undergrads been stuck at 20% for 20+ years? How can we better support the 30% of gender non-conforming people in STEM who feel uncomfortable at work? Read blog by Henslow Research Fellow Dr Sarah Morgan on
#STEMGamechangers
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We're so proud of our Bursary teams whose hard work on reducing the College's environmental impact has been recognised with a Gold Award at the
#GreenImpactAwards
. Deborah, Katie &
@dolcevitatoo
rightly grinning. 😃♻️
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Lucy looks forward to welcoming students for the
#Cambridge
Foundation Year, an innovative new
@Cambridge_Uni
programme offering talented
#students
from backgrounds of educational and social disadvantage a new route to
#undergraduate
study. Read more 👉
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📺 Lucy Cavendish College were on ITV News to celebrate historic admissions milestone: First Cambridge College to admit more than 90% from state schools!
👀 You can watch it here 👇
📢 Please share far & wide 🌐
@Cambridge_Uni
@LucyCavAdm
@AlumLucy
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Lucy Law student Melissa Wilson is on the big screen today talking to
#clarebalding
before
#TheBoatRace2018
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Lucy Cavendish College is proud to reveal that The Reverend Canon Adrian Daffern, one of its distinguished Fellows, has been appointed Chaplain Extraordinary to the Archbishop of Canterbury for Their Majesties' Coronation on Saturday. Part of a large team who are involved in the
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At Lucy Cavendish College we know how to
#staysafe
and
#staysocial
too! The undergraduates enjoyed a wonderful matriculation supper in Warburton Hall thanks to our fantastic kitchen staff and dedicated tutorial team
#staysafecambridgeuni
#matriculation2020
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We've really enjoyed sharing a daily snippet from each of the 20 books in our
#LucyLonglist
. Well done to all the authors for getting this far, and good luck for the
#LucyFictionPrize
shortlist, revealed this Friday.
Whatever happens, keep writing!
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📢 Are you an unpublished & unrepresented woman
#writer
living in the UK & Ireland? Great news!
The 2023 Lucy Cavendish
#FictionPrize
is now open for entries 🎉⬇️
#WritingCommunity
@PFDAgents
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I spy, with my little eye, something beginning with J: judges. The winner of the 2019
#LucyFictionPrize
is at this very moment being debated on sunny Strathaird lawn by
@allisonpearson
,
@JackieAshley
,
@Nelle_Andrew
,
@sophiehannahCB1
,
@katyloftus
&
@gillybethstern
.
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As we eagerly anticipate the longlist for the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize, we take a moment to celebrate the remarkable achievements of the past four years' winners. Their journeys since claiming the prize have been truly inspirational!
#LucyCavFictionPrize
#WritersCommunity
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Many congratulations to
#LucyFictionPrize
writer
@kgjephcott
for winning the McKitterick Prize. We are so proud of you!
And the winner of the McKitterick Prize is…
@kgjephcott
for her debut novel SWAN SONG. Congratulations!
#SoAwards
@HutchinsonBooks
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📢 Are you an unpublished and unrepresented woman
#writer
living in the UK and Ireland? Great news!
The Lucy Cavendish College
#FictionPrize
2024 is now open for entries! 🎉⬇️
#WritingCommunity
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Lucy Cavendish College has named the 2020 winner of its prestigious
#FictionPrize
as Aoife Fitzpatrick with her
#novel
An Arrangement in Grey and Black. 📚✒️ Read more 👇
@aoifefitz_
@PFDAgents
#Writer
#writerslife
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Great to see Honorary Fellow
@sanditoksvig
on the team behind
@PrimadonnaFest
, "a new and inclusive festival celebrating the creative community, giving prominence to work by women". 👏👏👏
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@LucyCavColl
moves up 8 places in the Tompkins Table, our best result on record! Congratulations all! Read more:
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We had an amazing time last Thursday with the shortlisters, judges & alumnae of the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize. Here's a photo of our final 6 (& congrats again to winner Deepa Anappara). Wish we didn't have to wait another year for the next one!
#backtowork
#writing
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Rabia Nasimi
@AlumLucy
#Mphil
#Sociology
tells us about her post-graduation journey as a social
#researcher
& her mission to improve people’s lives 👉
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We are proud to announce new members to the
#Fellowship
. 11 new
#Fellows
appointed yesterday to strengthen academic opportunity and improve
#collaboration
with
@Cambridge_Uni
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How do you beat writer's block? With 8 days to go before the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize deadline, here are some tips from our 2018 shortlisted authors
@CarolMFarrelly
@amhdove
@nakedvix
@laurenvanschaik
#WritingCommunity
#writerslife
#fictionprize
#fiction
@Cambridge_Uni
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Final preparations here for the Fiction Prize Festival on Saturday 19th, like this poster about our speakers. It's quite an impressive line up isn't it?!
#MondayMotivation
#excited
#grateful
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Thanks to everyone for coming out this evening for our garden party (especially the ☀️!)
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Now we have a hedgehog! (for the many people who only follow for our wildlife posts). Name suggestions?
#collegelife
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The big day is here and we can’t wait to welcome guests and speakers for our first ever to residential Creative Writing Course!
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Thanks to our final power panel of the day
#fictionprizefestival
@laurajm8
@kgjephcott
@gillybethstern
@JackieAshley
@Nelle_Andrew
@mrsjaneymac
@perkinsfran1
@LSandersonbooks
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What a wonderful evening. Thanks to all who attended our garden party!
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Are you thinking of entering the 2023
#FictionPrize
? You don't need a finished
#novel
, just the first 40-50 pages and a synopsis.
Here's some useful advice from Prize judge
@JackieAshley
.
Enter at . You could win a £1500 and a chance at
#Literary
#Success
!
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Farewell dinner yesterday, where Jackie Ashley shared her plans for the future as an Honorary Fellow. We’re glad it’s an ‘au revoir’ rather than a goodbye.
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Since its foundation, the Lucy Cavendish
#FictionPrize
has been a starting point in numerous entrants’ success stories, giving them the platform to launch their careers as
#novelists
.
The competition is open for 2022 entries ⬇️
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📢 Lucy Cavendish is delighted to launch this year’s Cottrell Essay Prize for
#Medicine
&
#VeterinaryMedicine
, a fantastic opportunity open to all year 12s interested in
@Cambridge_Uni
& other top
#universities
👇
@LucyCavAdm
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Packed audience
@Cambridge_ICE
to hear
@mrsjaneymac
talking about how the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize and
@Nelle_Andrew
gave her a route to publication
#writerslife
#WritingCommunity
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We are offering one free place for a low income writer on our upcoming online Creative Writing Course 🤩 Don't miss out! Find out more 👉
#creativewriting
#WritingCommunity
@LucyWriters
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Look who's on p.43 of yesterday's
@CambridgeIndy
:
@kgjephcott
, 2016
#LucyFictionPrize
shortlistee for Swan Song, a book which has been bothering awards lists ever since, including the 2019
@WomensPrize
longlist.
Get familiar with our 2019 shortlist: the winner is announced 23/5.
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@LucyCavColl
is offering one free place for a low income writer on its upcoming Creative Writing Course - don't miss out!
#creativewriting
@LucyWriters
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#LucyCavendishCollege
has made history by becoming the first
#Cambridge
College to admit over 90% from state schools, and the most diverse intake of students ever admitted by any
#College
at
#CambridgeUniversity
@CambridgeIndy
@TheGuardian
@Cambridge_Uni
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☃️ He arrived by icicle.
❄️❄️❄️❄️
#Snowing
in
#Cambridge
#CambridgeUniversity
#UKSnow
@Cambridge_Uni
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