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Foundation myth -again!
Foundation Myth is getting out and about – this is the audio recording of a reading of Story Cities we did at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich for Design Week. That was a lot of fun, there was a storytellers’ chair!
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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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Video of Fish-fish at Liars’ League
Math Jones embodying Joel’s confusion, excitement, fear and …
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Plotting the course of a novel – on a defunct railway
I recently put together a mind map for my writing students about world building. this is a phrase usually used in conjunction with fantasy and science fiction, but part way through, I realised it applied just as much to stories set in unfamiliar real worlds – whether they be unknown because of distance, or time.…
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out and about with Carmen
I’ve not been on here much recently, there’s been too much happening. The opera – of course the opera! Each year I’ve done more and written about it less. Barely managing a faint tweet now and then this year. Carmen, under the direction of Chris Rolls had us on stage almost all the time even…
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Rebellion: Writing Fantasy
Arachne Press Rebellion: Writing Fantasy, author talk and workshop Author Cherry Potts reads from her new novel The Dowry Blade, and discusses ways of writing fantasy with an opportunity for a short writing exercise for the audience. World building, weird logic and rule breaking at Brompton Library 210 Old Brompton Road London SW5 0BS Thursday…
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Refugees Welcome Anthology
I’m delighted that I have TWO stories in the forthcoming Refugees Welcome anthology. These are We Apologise for the Delay… a story of what it means to be a stranger and how communities form in times of need, told through the prism of the London Underground as the site for ‘first contact’ with aliens; and…
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Pretending poetry, songs of liberty and Ursula le Guin
The thing about running your own business is that holidays become almost entirely theoretical. It’s a holiday to leave the computer for long enough to hang out the washing on a sunny day, it’s a holiday to take the long way to the post office, it’s a holiday to read something that isn’t for work,…
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Secret shortlist?
Thanks to Rosalind Stopps for pointing out that my story Knitting for Demons had been shortlisted for the Momaya Press 2014 award. I had no idea! They didn’t tell me. Anyway I’ve not won; but still, better than a poke in the eye with a blunt codfish. (That means I’m pleased, in case it doesn’t…
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