Cherry Potts, Writer

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  • Refugees Welcome at The Story Sessions Asylum -videos

    A video of me reading at The Story Sessions, I am also reading TONIGHT at Story Fridays at Burdalls Yard 7a Anglo Terrace in Walcott, Bath 7.30 for 8. Arachne Press It’s taken a while to get these up, sorry – here are videos of the three stories from The Refugees Welcome Anthology read at…

  • It’s publication day

    It’s publication day

    A bit like giving birth – with the idea as conception, the writing as gestation and the editing and production as labour so 20ish years in the writing, this is definitely MY baby.

  • How Idomeneo looks from here

    How Idomeneo looks from here

    The audience are never going to experience an opera the way the chorus does. Even though performance in the round gives them some idea, as they peer through the crowds to catch a glimpse of th action, but actually, the action is what they are peering round. Our chorus experience is  sweaty, loud and partial…

  • Orchestral Manoeuvres

    One of the delights of being involved in the community opera at Blackheath Halls is working with the Blackheath Halls Community Orchestra. We don’t get to hear what they are up to until the sitz probe, when we run through the entire opera and work out the corners. This is one of my favourite sessions,…

  • Review of Root: New Stories from North East Writers

    My review from The Short Review of short story anthology ‘Root’

  • Review of The Woman Who Loved the Moon and other stories

    My review from The Short Review, of Elizabeth A Lynn’s ‘The Woman Who Loved the Moon’.

  • Review of Bones of an Inland Sea by Mary Akers

    My Review of Mary Akers magnificent collection ‘Bones of an Inland Sea.’ One of those ‘I wish I could do that’ books.

  • Aimee Bender, The Color Master – review by Cherry Potts

    My Review on The Short Review of Aimee Bender’s The Colour Master. The title story of this collection is a clever prequel to a well-known fairy tale which gives you no inkling of where it is going until close to the end, dressed up as it is with fantastical touches such as invoices sent by…

  • The Historical Birthday-Tea Party March 29th

    No particular birthday today so let’s celebrate Louisa Lumsden CBE (1840-1935), the first prominent female figure at the University of St Andrews. Louisa was one of the original students of Girton College Cambridge.  She taught classics there and later at Cheltenham. In 1877 she became Head of St Leonard’s school in St Andrews. In 1895…

  • The Historical Birthday-Tea Party 26th March

    No Birthday today so looking forward a couple of days, let’s celebrate Louise-Honorine Crozat Du Châtel, Duchesse de Choiseul, 28th March 1737-1801 ‘A charming little fairy born out of a magical egg’ Her husband was a chief minister to Louis XIV, eventually discredited. Louise-Honorine was arrested during the Terror but seems to have survived it…