Cherry Potts, Writer

Category: Writing

  • Judge’s comments on The Bog Mermaid

    Here are the delightful comments from Elizabeth Bradfield, the judge of the Quill Prose Award (the one Mermaid just won!) What does a bog contain?  Water, layer upon layer of sphagnum, darkness, cold; things preserved in that airless chill beyond what light and air would allow.  So the past burbles into the present, and currents…

  • The Bog Mermaid wins Quill Prose Prize

    Excited to announce that The Bog Mermaid has won the Quill Prose Award 2022, run by Red Hen Press There won’t be a publication, we couldn’t agree terms on the contract, but still, a prize is a prize. Read about the book itself here Read about searching for the right place to set the book…

  • 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…

  • 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!!

  • 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…

  • Welcome to the Arachneversary: Video One – Mosaic of Air

    Welcome to the Arachneversary: Video One – Mosaic of Air

    The first of the Arachneversary posts over on Arachne Press I’ve been interviewing authors and editors all month, here’s me talking about Mosaic of Air https://youtu.be/_1QZUjerINM   Arachne Press Mosaic of Airwas the book that kicked off Arachne Press. Here, Arachne owner, editor (and in this case, author) Cherry Potts talks about the how and…

  • Who or What is WooA?

    Who or What is WooA?

    I’m reading at this virtual event on Friday, so no matter where you are, join us! Arachne Press WooA… a recent member of this writing group asked me how the name came about: WooA = Writers of OUR age. Apparently, when founding members were on an MA together, amongst much younger writers, they found themselves…

  • Remembering Lilian Mohin

    Remembering Lilian Mohin

    I’ve just read in yesterday’s Guardian Other Lives, that Lilian Mohin has died, age 81, although the online version is dated March, so lockdown and Covid-enlarged deathrate must have pushed her off the paper version initially. I don’t think she’d be pleased. We argued, the first time Lilian and I met, and for a while…

  • Some bits of good news

    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…

  • International Women’s Day Women on the Move reading

    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.