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Spooky Tales for Brockley Max
Brockley Max fundraiser Spooky Tales this Wednesday!
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Short stories and poems on Image
recordings from Wooa’s BrockleyMax session of stories and poems. Inspired by the fact that our venue, The Brookmill Pub, was also hosting a photography exhibition, we chose ‘image’ as our theme – I provided a story and 3 poems
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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.
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Festival Season
It’s that time of year when the festivals come thick and fast. Over the next couple of months I will be taking part in a number of SE London events, so I thought I’d just mention them, in case you felt like coming along. Hither Green Festival I will be talking, with Katy Darby (fellow…
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Songs of Protest
Back in the day, when you went on a march through London – something I did a lot of in my youth, starting with the march against the Corrie Bill, and moving on to Section 28, the Police Bill, Anti-Nuclear marches with CND, Reclaim the Night, anti-cuts marches with various unions, Lesbian Strength, Gay Pride…
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out and about with Carmen
I’ve not been on here much recently, there’s been too much happening. The opera – of course the opera! Each year I’ve done more and written about it less. Barely managing a faint tweet now and then this year. Carmen, under the direction of Chris Rolls had us on stage almost all the time even…
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Catch my writing LIVE
I had a spurt of doing submissions recently, and happily can now announce that my story Greenlanders is being read at Liars’ League on Tuesday 14th June – a transport themed evening in which I take up the baton for whaling ships and emigrant steamers. I can’t be there as I’m teaching in another part…
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Edge Lit 5
I will be on a panel at Edge Lit 5, The Midlands’ premier speculative fiction event on Saturday July 16th. The panel is at 12 Noon and is entitled: High Fantasy, High Art: Is Fantasy Growing More Literary? Last I heard, I will be joined by Peter Newman, Jen Williams and Edward Cox. Venue: QUAD, Market Place, Derby,…
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Kate Foley & Cherry Potts reading at Gay’s the Word – Video
Arachne Press We had a great evening at Gay’s the Word – thank you to Uli & Jim – and despite Kate’s determination to walk out of shot, we have some video – where it got silly, with just a sleeve on show, there’s audio instead. Here’s Cherry reading a bit about family from The…
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Pictures from Beckenham bookshop reading of The Dowry Blade
Cherry Potts, Writer 