Cambridge Wordfest Team

The Cambridge Wordfest managing committee is made up of individuals from business, academic, publishing and public service backgrounds. The full committee consists of:

Festival Director
Cathy Moore

Programming
Jo Browning-Wroe
Rachel Calder
Helen Taylor

Fundraising
Carolina Gonzales
Kim Horan

Marketing & Development
Jonathan Woods
Michelle Golder
Charlotte Sankey
Laura Dietz
Nigel Cutting
Andrew Rand

Festival Patrons

In 2007, the festival was thrilled to announce the appointment of three festival Patrons all of whom are prominent writers from the region and have appeared at the festival:

Dame Gillian Beer

Distinguished critic and recent King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge, Dame Gillian Beer is currently President of the British Comparative Literature Association and on the Council of Arts Council England, East. She is in the final stages of a new book called Alice in Space.

Ali Smith

Whitbread Novel of the Year winner for The Accidental (2004), Ali Smith’s latest book, Girl Meets Boy, is a retelling of Ovid’s Iphis legend. Ali Smith is also an accomplished writer of short stories and a regular contributor of articles and reviews to journals and newspapers including The Scotsman, The Guardian and the Times Literary Supplement.

Rowan Pelling

Rowan Pelling is a columnist for the Independent on Sunday and regularly writes for a wide variety of other publications. She is a regular guest on Radio 4, is a former Man Booker Prize judge and edited The Decadent Handbook (2006). Until recently, she was also the editor of The Erotic Review, which she helped to transform from a foolscap newsletter to a popular magazine.