Cherry Potts, Writer

Category: short story

  • Latest Liars’ League gig

    So, as some of you know I’ve had several stories read at Liars’ League, and this happened again recently, for their Slings & Arrows event. Hurrah for Liars’ League! A  version of The King’s Champion, minus the subplot and now entitled Kassell for the place the story is set, (Kassel, Germany – birthplace of the…

  • Earthshaker published in Holdfast #2

    My (longish)  short story, Earthshaker (based on the Minotaur myth) has just been published in the second issue of Holdfast Magazine online, with a fabulous illustration from Zoe Lee.

  • LGBT History month: reading at North Kensington Library – video

    This week I did two readings from Mosaic of Air for LGBT History Month, the first at North Kensington Library. (note about the videos: my website randomly allocates different formats to video, not all of which work with internet explorer: they all work with Mozilla Firefox so try that of you can’t see them!) Here…

  • The Woman Who Loved the Moon and other stories

    For LGBT History Month, here’s an edited version of the review I wrote for Short Review of the fantasy/ scifi/ horror collection from 1981 by Elizabeth A. Lynn Lynn is one of the earliest fantasy writers to include same-sex relationships in her writing as a matter of course. Author of A Different Light, The Dancers…

  • Lewisham Library taken over by Lesbians…

    Here are some photos from Thursday’s LGBT History Month event at Lewisham Library, featuring me, Kate Foley, V.A. Fearon and V.G. Lee. I really wanted to photograph the lovely audience too, but had too many other things on my mind. But imagine a library stuffed full of women, plus a couple of men, and a…

  • Forthcoming Publication – Earthshaker

    A bit of good news this morning, my story Earthshaker has been accepted for Holdfast’s  Beasts edition due out in March (I think!)

  • Inspirations – Russian Fairytales, illustrations and London Bridge

    Two stories came from the same picture, which I have been completely unable to trace. I think it is from an edition of The Snow Queen, and the illustrator might have been Kay Neilsen or Edmund Dulac or possibly Arthur Rackham, but as I’ve been unable to track it down I can’t confirm; maybe, like…

  • Inspirations – The Archetypal Good Wife

    The first story I ever got published, Penelope is no Longer Waiting ( A Very, Very long time ago) came from my finally reading Homer (not in the original Greek, comprehensive schooling isn’t that kind of comprehensive) as opposed to interpretations of… and I found that what I thought I knew about the Odyssey was…

  • 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…

  • National Short Story Week

    National Short Story Week this year is 13-20th November. Now that I’m so busy doing publishing and stuff, celebrating the short story is all the more important to me, so I’ve done a guest blog over of the NSSW website, all about performing at Towersey. Also, continuing the live literature theme, I will be reading…