Cherry Potts, Writer

Tag: flash fiction

  • 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!!

  • Foundation myth -again!

    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!  

  • Shortlisted! WHQ FLASH QUARTERLY 2019: ROUND 1

    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…

  • The Speed of Light – Story Fridays

    If I could travel at the speed of light, I would be reading my flash story Rising Dawn, at Story Fridays ‘Speed of Light’ event in Bath this Friday, 22nd September, but I’m booked on a film course Saturday morning and it’s one thing too many. Fortunately actor Kirsty Cox is there to read it…

  • my first ever poem is about to be published

    Well, that isn’t actually true. I’ve written loads of poems, but I’ve just had one accepted for publication for the first time ever. Anyway its very short and a bit silly, but it works – it’s a ‘proper’ poem with a recognisable form. I love writing free poetry but there’s a different kind of satisfaction…

  • 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,…

  • Catch ‘Joining’ on ‘Litro’

    Anyway, my story Joining (recently performed in a slightly different version at Towersey Festival) was a runner-up in Litro magazine’s cults and clubs competition, you can read it here. It’s been a month for getting mentioned on other people’s websites, and you can also read my guest blog about publishing short stories on BooksEtc. and…

  • .Cent Magazine

     .Cent Magazine  published my flash fiction, Is Nothing, in their Cornucopia edition under the Harvest theme. You have to sign up to read, but it doesn’t commit you to anything. Lovely illustration too. This story came from running an exercise with a group at Swindon  Festival of Literature in 2012 –  in silence, just writing…

  • Tall Tales at the Tavern

    Tall Tales at the Tavern Join WOOA Brockley Writers’ Group for an evening of stories by local writers: Bartle Sawbridge, Cherry Potts, Clare Sandling, David Bausor, Joan Taylor Rowan, Rosalind Stopps Read by Gill Stoker and Mike Burnside Followed by a flash fiction open mic session for any other writers who want to join in,…