Cherry Potts, Writer

Author: Cherry Potts

  • Remembering Lilian Mohin

    Remembering Lilian Mohin

    I’ve just read in yesterday’s Guardian Other Lives, that Lilian Mohin has died, age 81, although the online version is dated March, so lockdown and Covid-enlarged deathrate must have pushed her off the paper version initially. I don’t think she’d be pleased. We argued, the first time Lilian and I met, and for a while…

  • Some bits of good news

    Some bits of good news

    This morning I signed the contract on a short story being included in an anthology: Final Flight will be in Air: Sylphs, Spirits and Swan Maidens edited by Rhonda Parrish for Canadian publishers, Tyche Books. No idea about the publication date yet! Needless to say, the heroine of my story is not as ethereal as…

  • International Women’s Day Women on the Move reading

    International Women’s Day Women on the Move reading

    On 8th March Arachne Press held an International Women’s Day of readings from female authors and poets, surrounded by the  Tatty Divine exhibition at the Stephen Lawrence Gallery. Many thanks to Greenwich University Galleries for hosting. Here I am reading my short story from Departures, Cloud Island.

  • Brockley Max fundraising reading at Halloween

    Brockley Max fundraising reading at Halloween

    Here’s a snippet of audio of my reading of Red Dress, at the Brockley Max fundraiser at Halloween. We raised around £200, but more is needed – If you’d like to support our local festival, there’s a crowd fund here   If you liked the audio, Red Dress is available to buy as an e-story…

  • Foundation myth -again!

    Foundation myth -again!

    Foundation Myth is getting out and about – this is the audio recording of a reading of Story Cities we did at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich for Design Week. That was a lot of fun, there was a storytellers’ chair!  

  • Story Cities – Foundation Myth

    Story Cities – Foundation Myth

    Story Cities is an Arachne Press project, bringing together 42 writers and 51 stories about the city – any city, every city, in flash of under 500 words. The brief for the book was: no names, no recognisable landmarks, and to fit one of the themes – termini, transport, hotels, cafes, squares and parks, markets,…

  • Writing the Past: The Bog Mermaid

    Video from the Arachne Press Writing the Past event for Hither Green Festival 2019 at Manor House Library. An extract from the 1926 thread of this novel.  

  • Shortlisted! WHQ FLASH QUARTERLY 2019: ROUND 1

    Shortlisted! WHQ FLASH QUARTERLY 2019: ROUND 1

    Knock me down with a feather, I got shortlisted with a bit of flash. Thanks to Writers’ HQ and congrats to the other shortlistees and the winners. https://writershq.co.uk/demonstrating-change-cherry-potts/ This was an unintentionally topical story, written a while back. For those of us of a certain age, demonstrating, even on the streets of London was not…

  • Video of Fish-fish at Liars’ League

    Math Jones embodying Joel’s confusion, excitement, fear and …

  • City Writes Mini Solstice Shorts

    City Writes Mini Solstice Shorts

    I will be reading The Midwinter Wife from Longest Night, at this term’s City Writes at Northampton Suite C, City University, Northampton Square EC1V 0HB on Thursday December 13th doors  6.30. the venue is quite a way from the entrance on Northampton square, so allow time to get up to it! I will be joined by…