Cherry Potts, Writer

Category: Events

  • Spooky Tales for Brockley Max

    Spooky Tales for Brockley Max

    Brockley Max fundraiser Spooky Tales this Wednesday!

  • Short stories and poems on Image

    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

  • 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.  

  • Festival Season

    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…

  • Songs of Protest

    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…

  • 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…

  • Catch my writing LIVE

    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…

  • Edge Lit 5

    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,…

  • 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…

  • Pictures from Beckenham bookshop reading of The Dowry Blade

    Pictures from Beckenham bookshop reading of The Dowry Blade