Cherry Potts, Writer

Tag: Short Story

  • Back in the Water – video

    The idea behind back in the water as a theme (Brockley Max festival, Writers of Our Age) was getting back to normal life. We still haven’t really, and we didn’t stick to that brief, but water definitely came into it! Two stories from me, Lift Off, which will be featured in FlashFlood 2021 on 26th…

  • Air: Sylphs, Spirits and Swan Maidens

    My latest publication! buy it here: I couldn’t make the launch, which although on line was at 2am in the morning, so I recorded a reading of the first page or so. Here it is. my creature of the air, is nothing like the cover image. I had something more like this in mind, but…

  • International Women’s Day Women on the Move reading

    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.

  • Brockley Max fundraising reading at Halloween

    Brockley Max fundraising reading at Halloween

    Here’s a snippet of audio of my reading of Red Dress, at the Brockley Max fundraiser at Halloween. We raised around £200, but more is needed – If you’d like to support our local festival, there’s a crowd fund here   If you liked the audio, Red Dress is available to buy as an e-story…

  • 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!  

  • Video of Fish-fish at Liars’ League

    Math Jones embodying Joel’s confusion, excitement, fear and …

  • Brockley Max – urban myths

    Brockley Max – urban myths

    Here’s a recording of me reading Algorithms, written specifically for the Urban Myths event at Brockley Max last night, which showcased the work of my fellow WooA writers. Still recovering from an epic evening of communal writing!

  • 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…

  • 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

  • Cutting a Long Story Short

    NAWE’s new website ‘Cut a Long Story‘ is finally live, and you can or will soon be able to find several of my stories on there to buy as single story ebooks. The fastest way to find my stuff is via my profile page. I’ve only got one story up at the moment, but I…