Category: video

Air: Sylphs, Spirits and Swan Maidens

My latest publication! buy it here: I couldn’t make the launch, which although on line was at 2am in the morning, so I recorded a reading of the first page or so. Here it is. my creature of the air, is nothing like the cover image. I had something more like this in mind, but…

October 18, 2020
International Women’s Day Women on the Move reading

On 8th March Arachne Press held an International Women’s Day of readings from female authors and poets, surrounded by the Tatty Divine exhibition at the Stephen Lawrence Gallery. Many thanks to Greenwich University Galleries for hosting. Here I am reading my short story from Departures, Cloud Island.

March 25, 2020
Story Cities – Foundation Myth

Story Cities is an Arachne Press project, bringing together 42 writers and 51 stories about the city – any city, every city, in flash of under 500 words. The brief for the book was: no names, no recognisable landmarks, and to fit one of the themes – termini, transport, hotels, cafes, squares and parks, markets,…

August 4, 2019
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.

May 25, 2019
Video of Fish-fish at Liars’ League

Math Jones embodying Joel’s confusion, excitement, fear and …

February 16, 2019
Solstice Stories at Story Fridays & Greenlanders at Liars’ League

Great fun at Bath’s Burdall’s Yard reading for Solstice at Story Fridays. You can listen to my story, Midsummer Morris Marathon and the other stories here. And here’s the video of Tim reading Greenlanders at Liars’ League. It’s been a busy week!

June 19, 2016
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…

April 6, 2016
World Premier… my very first tune

Organising Longest Night kept me away from my own blog for a while, but it was completely worth it, not least because it gave me an opportunity to share my first ever musical composition with musicians who would do it justice. Here are Ian Kennedy and Sarah Lloyd singing The Cold Time. This is a…

January 9, 2016
Portrait of the Artist’s Model as a Young Woman at Liars’ League HK

Brad Powers and Saffron Chan reading Portrait… (rather well!) at Liars’ League Hong Kong for True & False.

March 21, 2015
The Wetland Way at Liars’ League HK

Jeanne Lambin. reading The Wetland Way for Hunter & Prey at Liars’ League Hong Kong. The sound isn’t great but still…

March 20, 2015