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Location: South London
Cherry Potts
Cherry Potts is the author of a lesbian fantasy epic, The Dowry Blade, two collections of short stories, Mosaic of Air and Tales Told Before Cockcrow, and a Photographic Diary of a Community Opera, The Blackheath Onegin. She also has short stories and poems published in anthologies and magazines in print and on-line, and performed in London, Leeds, Leicester and Hong Kong through Liars’ League, and has performed her own work at the Towersey festival, Story Fridays in Bath, and numerous other London events.
Cherry’s novel, The Bog Mermaid won the 2022 Quill LGBTQ+ prize, and her story Medusa Wonders was shortlisted for the Bridport Flash Fiction Prize 2020.
She is currently working on a young adult timeslip and an urban fantasy.
Until recently Cherry taught creative writing at City, University of London as a visiting lecturer and she owns and runs Arachne Press for whom she edits short stories, novels and poetry, and sometimes designs covers and animated book trailers; and was the founder and curator of the annual literature and music festival, Solstice Shorts.
Cherry sings in choirs for fun, and lives in London with her wife and cats.
Instagram @cherry_potts_writer
Blog https://cherrypotts.co.uk