Cherry Potts, Writer

Tag: Writing

  • How to be successful …without hollow laughter…

    I’m tidying up my other webisite and came across this piece I wrote several years ago, so I thought I’d share it here. These days I’m a publisher as well as a writer, and when I look back at when I had my first work published I realise I was dreadfully naïve – I thought…

  • 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…

  • Blog hopping the writing process with fellow writers

    I don’t know where the idea originated, but here I am blog hopping, thanks to Michelle Shine, author of the extraordinary fictional biography of Dr Paul Gachet, Mesmerised, and of short story Skin Deep, which I published in Lovers’ Lies. So here goes with the hopper’s questions: What am I working on? I’m always working…

  • Playing at Spring

    We know it isn’t really spring, right? A day lent, as A.’s Ma would have said; but it is doing a fair impression: washing drying on the line, bees in the Pulmonaria, first lunch in the garden (in jumper, but still!), but we are promised the bitter east wind back again, and rain too, so…

  • Writing from a Lesbian Perspective

    Its LGBT History Month. Whether you know this may depend on whether you or any of your friends is Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Transgender. It certainly doesn’t get the kind of coverage Black History month gets. With my Arachne Press hat on, I’m doing a reading tonight at Ealing and on Monday at Deptford, with…

  • One Eye Grey: Stories from Another London Vol 3 Press Release

      My Story ‘Eye of the Beholder’ is in this collection.

  • One Grey Eye

    I’ve just had a story accepted for One Grey Eye, an electronic ‘Penny Dreadful’ available on  Kindle. My story, Eye of the Beholder will be available around Halloween in Stories From Another London along with other excellent stories to unsettle you good and proper! Here’s a snippet to whet your appetite: Eye of the Beholder…

  • 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,…

  • Food for Thought

    Writing Workshop and Writers’ Lunch At the Swindon Festival of Literature Lower Shaw Farm West Swindon Wiltshire SN5 5PJ Tel 01793 771080 12.30pm – 5pm 19 May • £25 12.30pm – 1.30pm WRITERS’ LUNCH where healthy homemade food will nourish you and meeting other writers at table may inspire you! 1.30pm – 5pm WRITING WORKSHOP:…

  • Why Short Stories?

    Why Short Stories?

    There’s been a lot of chat going on recently about short stories, including on the radio, this week’s Open Book had  Aminatta Forna giving a potted history of the short story from Poe, Chekhov and Saki to Helen Simpson, and even Ramblings (a walking programme … fascinating, listen!) had Claire Balding in company with short…