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  • 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…

  • Rebellion: Writing Fantasy

    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…

  • 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…

  • Pictures from Beckenham bookshop reading of The Dowry Blade

    Pictures from Beckenham bookshop reading of The Dowry Blade

  • Callout for pre publication reviewers

    So, experimenting with new stuff, my forthcoming book, The Dowry Blade (February 2016) is on NetGalley, a review site for librarians, bookshop owners, book bloggers and professional reviewers. If that is YOU, you can download a review PDF here. It is UNPROOFED, ok, so no comments about typos!

  • The What Else in the Water read at Liars’ League Leicester

    Eleni is reluctantly accompanying her cousin Jane on a cold morning walk when they find something surprising in the river read by Sophie Talbot follow the link toLiars’League Leicester

  • LGBT History month – LoSoCo

    LoSoCo is what I’ve always known as Lewisham College. I did a reading there on Thursday for LGBT History Month. Here are a couple of snippets. (Apologies for the background noise – it’s the air-conditioning.) Holiday Romance, in which Melanie goes on holiday with her mother and allows her imagination to run riot. Baby Pink/…

  • LGBTHM – Cafe of Good Hope

    This event was very cosy – last public reading for LGBT History Month, and local, and with friends. I think we pulled out all the stops. Sadly Rebecca Idris had been sent to the Ukraine by her employers (what had she done to deserve that?) so was not able to join us, so we each…

  • Earthshaker published in Holdfast #2

    My (longish)  short story, Earthshaker (based on the Minotaur myth) has just been published in the second issue of Holdfast Magazine online, with a fabulous illustration from Zoe Lee.

  • LGBT History Month: Crofton Park Eco-Community Library

    This is about as local as you can get for me, the library is a twelve-minute walk from my house, so I was very pleased to be invited to read. A small audience but a generous one, they bought more books than the other LGBT history month events put together, and most of us ended…