Tag: live literature

  • Spooky Tales for Brockley Max

    Spooky Tales for Brockley Max

    Brockley Max fundraiser Spooky Tales this Wednesday!

  • Catch my writing LIVE

    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…

  • 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…

  • Solstice Shorts: Longest Night, the Midwinter Wife

    The  Midwinter Wife got another outing at Longest Night. Here is the peerless Annalie Wilson reading the shorter performance version You can buy the full length print version in Latchkey Tales Clockwise – Midnight Blues

  • 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…

  • National Short Story Week

    National Short Story Week this year is 13-20th November. Now that I’m so busy doing publishing and stuff, celebrating the short story is all the more important to me, so I’ve done a guest blog over of the NSSW website, all about performing at Towersey. Also, continuing the live literature theme, I will be reading…

  • A Second Hand Emotion, read by Gill Stoker

    A recording of the lovely Gill Stoker reading (and singing – brave woman!) my story A Second Hand Emotion at Tall Tales at the Tavern, an event I co-curated with Bartle Sawbridge back in June. a second hand emotion by cherry potts, read by gill stoker © Cherry Potts 2012