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Back in the Water – video
The idea behind back in the water as a theme (Brockley Max festival, Writers of Our Age) was getting back to normal life. We still haven’t really, and we didn’t stick to that brief, but water definitely came into it! Two stories from me, Lift Off, which will be featured in FlashFlood 2021 on 26th…
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Yes, Shortlisted for the Bridport!
Had to keep quiet until now, but just been watching the award ceremony so it MUST be ok now. I was shortlisted for the Bridport Flash Fiction prize 2020 for my tiny story Medusa Wonders. Ta da!!
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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…
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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…
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Catch ‘Joining’ on ‘Litro’
Anyway, my story Joining (recently performed in a slightly different version at Towersey Festival) was a runner-up in Litro magazine’s cults and clubs competition, you can read it here. It’s been a month for getting mentioned on other people’s websites, and you can also read my guest blog about publishing short stories on BooksEtc. and…
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.Cent Magazine
.Cent Magazine published my flash fiction, Is Nothing, in their Cornucopia edition under the Harvest theme. You have to sign up to read, but it doesn’t commit you to anything. Lovely illustration too. This story came from running an exercise with a group at Swindon Festival of Literature in 2012 – in silence, just writing…
Cherry Potts, Writer 