Cherry Potts

Cherry Potts


Cherry Potts is the author of two published collections of short stories, Mosaic of Air (Arachne Press 2013) and Tales Told Before Cockcrow, (Onlywomen Press 2008, out of print), and a Photographic Diary of a Community Opera, The Blackheath Onegin, plus numerous short stories in magazines and anthologies, some of which can be found on this site. She has completed one fantasy novel and is currently working on three more novels in various genres: science fiction, young adult and historical. Work has been read at Towersey Festival, Literary Kitchen Festival, Brixton Book Slam, and Liars' League in London, Leicester, Leeds and Hong Kong.

Cherry started publishing (award winning) anthologies of short stories in August 2012 as Arachne Press Limited and has produced five so far, together with a poetry anthology and a Young Adult novel by Alex Smith, which was nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2015.

Cherry runs the bi-monthly live literature event The Story Sessions in South London, and is responsible for the Solstice Shorts Festival and its associated short story competition. She sings in choirs (opera and folk mainly) for fun, and lives in South London with her life partner and two spoilt cats.

Cherry's website: http://cherrypotts.co.uk
Arachne Press: http://arachnepress.com

Credentials


Cherry Potts in 60 seconds

When did you start writing?

1966 Eltham, S E London when I was 8.

What do you love about short stories?

A really great short story is like a jewel: vivid, perfect, and priceless, but with the added bonus that the reader can make of it what they will.

Do you write in other forms?

Novel, very bad poetry!

What distracts you from writing?

Reading and typesetting for Arachne Press to say nothing of the admin and accounts!

Outside of writing, what are your other passions?

Publishing, live literature, singing - choirs, opera and folk.

What is your favourite book?

Too many to mention, I'd need one for every genre or every month of my life!

Who are your favourite writers?

Children's & Young Adult: Rosemary Sutcliff and William Mayne, Fantasy/Sci Fi: Neil Gaiman, C J Cherryh, Elizabeth A Lynn and Short Stories: Mary Akers.

Where is your dream location?

Pembrokeshire. A very specific valley, about which I intend to reveal nothing.

What one item would you put into Room 101?

Bigots!

Do you have any advice for new writers?

Edit by reading aloud, preferably to an audience.

Work by Cherry Potts:

Tante Rouge
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Hannah is on her way to the bus stop when she is accosted by a man offering her eternal life. Once she gets over the surprise, her feelings are decidedly mixed
Is Nothing
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A flash fiction story - someone is hiding in the maize fields, someone who needs help.
Prairie Rain
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A flash fiction set on a porch in Illinois
Eye of the Beholder
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Bill keeps seeing the same woman on his way to and from the train - at least, he thinks she's the same woman...
Starkridge
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Hell hath no fury like a mountain underestimated, and on one bleak spring day just about everyone underestimates the Old Woman, with disasterous consequences.
Deja Vu
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Lucy wakes on a house she does not recognise, next to a man she doesn't know. It is only when Mrs McCready comes to the door that she begins to understand what has happened, and how long ago...
Glory, or Hope
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Two goddesses meet on a beach.
Judges
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Jael tells what really happened when her husband Heber's old mate Sisera dropped in. Not quite what you read in the Song of Deborah.
All Hallows
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Keith's obsession with naming things, and with Gerda the newspaper seller outside his office, leads him into danger.
Tales Told Before Cockcrow
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A fairly tale for adults and older children - Sybil tries to get Amelia to sleep - a long, long sleep.
The Red Dress
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A daughter's loyalty to her family is tested.
The She-Lord and Her Tailor
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A fairy tale for adults and older children, in which a tailor meets a very large cat, and tries to sell her some clothes.

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