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Lewisham Library LGBT Lesbian takeover

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We had a great night at Lewisham Library on Thursday. A substantial crowd, a relaxed atmosphere and some great writers. The first of  many events for LGBT History Month, it was a diverse and entertaining evening.

V.A Fearon read from her novel The Girl With the Treasure Chest, about gang negotiator Dani, and her first meeting with lover Marie;

Kate Foley read us some varied poems from several collections covering everything from bedroom tax to first smoochy dance at the Gateways*

Cherry Potts stuck up for Helen of Troy in her story Behind the Mask, from Mosaic of Air

and V.G. Lee‘s heroine struggled to be a proper card-carrying lesbian in the teeth of straight friend Deirdre’s best attempts to scupper her.

*Anyone under the age of thirty may be mystified by the Gateways. If you want to know more, come along to The Story Sessions on 19th February and listen to Clare Summerskill.

Lewisham Library taken over by Lesbians…

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Here are some photos from Thursday’s LGBT History Month event at Lewisham Library, featuring me, Kate Foley, V.A. Fearon and V.G. Lee.

V G Lee copyright Cherry Potts 2014

V G Lee copyright Cherry Potts 2014

V G Lee copyright Cherry Potts

V G Lee copyright Cherry Potts

I really wanted to photograph the lovely audience too, but had too many other things on my mind. But imagine a library stuffed full of women, plus a couple of men, and a baby.

Kate Foley copyright Cherry Potts 2014

Kate Foley copyright Cherry Potts 2014

Kate Foley copyright Cherry Potts 2014

Kate Foley copyright Cherry Potts 2014

I was really, really pleased with the atmosphere and my fellow readers did us proud – video will go up as soon as I’ve edited it.

V A Fearon Copyright Cherry Potts 2014

V A Fearon Copyright Cherry Potts 2014

LGBT History event Lewisham Library TONIGHT

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Thrilled to be doing so many readings for LGBT History month – you must have noticed I’m keen on history?

The first one is tonight, at Lewisham Library 199-201 Lewisham High Street, SE13 6LG 7.45 for 8.

Kate Foley (Poet) has arrived from the Netherlands and is even now upstairs practising, after an entertaining evening yesterday discussing what she was going to read and what qualified as ‘Lesbian Poetry’.

V.G. Lee and V.A. Fearon are joining us for a wide range of stories, covering london gangs, (VA) reworked myth (me), and who knows what VG has planned, but it’ll be funny. Come and join us, it’s free, and there are plenty of tickets left (I don’t think tickets are essential, just so that the library know how many chairs to put out.)

LGBT History Month is coming up: part 1

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New cover for Arachne Press version of mosaic - image copyright Melina Traub

Mosaic of Air – image copyright Melina Traub

You may have realised from the last couple of posts, that I’m a bit of a history gal.  So of course I am taking part in a few events over February.

First out of the traps:

Lewisham Library 199-201 Lewisham High Street, SE13 6LG (see the videos)

6th February 7.45  for 8, until 9.30

free, but ticketed. 40 tickets available so probably wise to book.

Lewisham 6-2-14 posterI will be reading from Mosaic of Air (It’s twenty years since it was first published, it qualifies as history – actually that’s a bit alarming – there are quite a few historical stories in it, and what are now period pieces but were contemporary at the time! ).

I will be joined by poet Kate Foley,

Kate Foley  VG Lee-2

humorist  V.G. Lee and debut novelist V.A. Fearon.

V A Fearongirl with treasure chest

one window north - foley

(Incidentally, should you be keen enough to want to come to all the events I’m involved in over February, I shall be making an As You Step Outside front interimeffort to read something different each time, and the focus will vary too.)