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Shortest Day, Longest Night
21st December 2016 ORDER NOW from Arachne Press Edited by Cherry Potts 978-1-909208-28-5 print £9.99 978-1-909208-29-2 epub £5 978-1-909208-30-8 mobi/kindle £5 144 pages The Solstice Shorts festival celebrates the shortest day of the year, which is also short story day, with stories poems and songs to an appropriate theme. In 2015 that theme was Longest…
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Liberty Tales
17th November 2016 ORDER NOW from Arachne Press 978-1-909208-31-5 Print 978-1-909208-32-2 ebook 978-1-909208-33-9 mobi/kindle £9.99 198x129mm 144 pages 2015 marked the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta and Arachne Press celebrated with an evening of stories, poetry and song on the subject of Liberty. The call out continued until the end of the year, and here…
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Liberty Tales Lewisham videos

knitting-for-demons-snippet Videos of the Lewisham Library launch for Liberty Tales, with a snippet from Knitting for Demons… hmm. Reblogging recordings and videos doesn’t work! That’s annoying. I’ve uploaded my video, for the rest, follow the link to the original. Arachne Press Welcome to the Liberty Tales Lewisham videos (yes, I got the video to work!),…
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Liberty Tales launch recordings and Human Rights Day
A short recording of me reading from Knitting for Demons at the launch of Liberty Tales …and re-blogging recordings doesn’t work! Follow the link to the original for the other recordings, here is mine… https://cherrypotts.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/cherry-potts-knitting-for-demons-snippet.mp3 Arachne Press Our next reading event for Liberty Tales is at North Kensington Library, appropriately on Human Rights Day, Saturday…
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NOT the Booker! The Dowry Blade is long-listed

Trumpet Fanfare…. The Dowry Blade has been long-listed for The Guardian’s Not the Booker prize …along with over 100 other books. Thank you Neil & Juliet for nominating. So if by some miracle you, like them, have finished reading it, and feel moved to vote, follow the link above and do that thing – for…
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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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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!
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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…
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Catch my writing LIVE

I had a spurt of doing submissions recently, and happily can now announce that my story Greenlanders is being read at Liars’ League on Tuesday 14th June – a transport themed evening in which I take up the baton for whaling ships and emigrant steamers. I can’t be there as I’m teaching in another part…
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The Thirty Second Mariner
And… the poem is published. you can read it here, and even rate it. Spilling Cocoa is rapidly getting stuffed with witty and daft poems, go and have a browse.

