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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.
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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,…
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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.
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Festival Season
It’s that time of year when the festivals come thick and fast. Over the next couple of months I will be taking part in a number of SE London events, so I thought I’d just mention them, in case you felt like coming along. Hither Green Festival I will be talking, with Katy Darby (fellow…
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Old Women in Books: on publishing your mother
Today is my mum’s birthday. Ghillian Potts is 84. Like me, she has written all her literate life, and still has a notebook full of poems written between the ages of about 7 and 12, (of variable quality!) To celebrate, my publishing company, Arachne Press, is publishing two of her books today. I crowd funded…
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TODAY: Songs of Protest at Brockley Max
Vocal Chords are reprising our Songs of Protest repertoire for Brockley MAX Festival today, Sunday 4th June at 3.30. St Hilda’s Church, Courtrai Road SE23 1PL We are joined by Carrie Cohen & Silas Hawkins who will read poems from Arachne Press’ Liberty Tales anthology. £7 on the door (proceeds to Wheels for Wellbeing)…
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Pictures from Beckenham bookshop reading of The Dowry Blade
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The Dowry Blade, live and in the flesh
There is nothing to beat a pile of new books, except a pile of new books that you wrote yourself. And this is a big pile, of big books! The Dowry Blade is big! It weighs 620 grams. I hadn’t really thought through the amount of space a 400 page book printed in Royal format…
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readings this week
Busy week again, singing Monday (Vocal Chords mid-project ‘stop-over’ concert) and Sunday (rehearsing Brundibar at Blackheath – more on this later), teaching Tuesday, reading Saturday. So the readings are: Saturday: Arachne Press event at Keats House – readings from The Other Side of Sleep, and discussion of Narrative Poetry. I’m not reading personally apart form…
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Live from TLW LEXiCON
A lovely sunny day in Faversham and Alix & I are womaning the stall for Arachne Press at LEXiCON in the Alexander Centre. I’m on stage later reading and taking part in a panel on cross genre writing. The timetable is a bit all over the place, but there’s something going on in the main…
Cherry Potts, Writer 