Cherry Potts is the Director of Arachne Press, for whom she is editor of almost all our anthologies and runs the Annual Solstice Shorts Festival.
Cherry is the author of an epic fantasy novel, two collections of short stories, a photographic diary of a community opera, and has had many stories in anthologies, magazines and online. Her novel of sibling hatred in the 1920s, The Bog Mermaid, won the Quill LGBTQ+ Prose prize 2022.
22 Ebooks by Cherry Potts
Cherry Potts: Mosaic of Air
Delving into lecturing spiders, Helen of Troy, seaside libraries, computers that fall in love, murder and memory; but most of all humour, and a delight in all that women can be. Praise for the first …
EPUB
Inggeris
€2.49
Cherry Potts: The Dowry Blade
Nine years after the loss of her sister, and near obliteration of her clan in an ill conceived raid, Brede, a plains’ nomad, is living unwillingly in the marshes. The sudden ending of a decade long d …
EPUB
Inggeris
€5.49
Cherry Potts: Shortest Day Longest Night
Featuring work from Abby Beckel, Bob Beagrie, Cherry Potts, David Mathews, David Mc Vey, Frances Gapper, Neil Brosnan, Pauline Walker, Sarah Evans, Sarah James and Wendy Gill with themes as various a …
EPUB
Inggeris
€5.49
Sarah Evans & Elinor Brooks: Liberty Tales
2015 marked the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta and Arachne Press celebrated with an evening of stories, poetry and song on the subject of Liberty, now collected together in book form. The call out …
EPUB
Inggeris
€5.49
Cherry Potts: Dusk
The Solstice Shorts Festival celebrates the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year with time themed stories poems and songs. 2017 saw the festival go UK wide, with 12 sites taking part at DUSK …
EPUB
Inggeris
€5.49
Katy Darby & Joan Taylor-Rowan: Five by Five
A showcase for authors Arachne Press has published previously in anthologies, giving a wider perspective on their writing. The collection as a whole has tendency towards fantasy and magical realism, …
EPUB
Inggeris
€5.49
Cherry Potts: An Outbreak of Peace
November 2018 marks the centenary of the end of WWI. After all the commemorative works of art over the past four years, we felt it was important to reflect on what comes after – an outbreak of peace, …
EPUB
Inggeris
€5.49
Cherry Potts: Noon
Everyone thinks of noon as being a split second as the clock's hands draw together, the bell tolls twelve times – but there is so much more to it than that – Solar noon happens as much as half a …
EPUB
Inggeris
€5.49
Dizz Tate & Tannith Perry: Solstice Shorts
Sixteen short stories that chart the meaning of time, and explore what it can do to us, and for us. Broken hearts, lives lived on fastforward, missed chances, and catastrophic meetings on the road. T …
EPUB
Inggeris
€5.49
Cherry Potts: Departures
Stories and poems about leaving, and being left behind; or that take an unexpected turn, going completely off piste. From authors featured at The Story Sessions, the South London live literature even …
EPUB
Inggeris
€5.49
Jennifer Rickard & Arike Oke: We/She
In Collaboration with Liars League. A celebration of the centenary of women in the UK getting the vote. Stories about women by women, which have been performed at one of Liars’ League’s events in Lon …
EPUB
Inggeris
€5.49
Annabel Banks: Story Cities
Story Cities explore ways in which stories respond to, reflect and re-imagine the city. Explore new short fictions in multiple genres that address the city. A guide book to the fictional city, all ci …
EPUB
Inggeris
€5.49
Cherry Potts: Time and Tide
An anthology of stories and poems chosen for performance at the Sosltice Shorts Festival 2019, in Greenwich, Maryport, Hastings, Peterhead, Clydebank, Holyhead and Lisbon. How do tides affect our liv …
EPUB
Inggeris
€5.49
Cherry Potts: Vindication
The third of our #Women Vote100 Anthologies:a showcase for poets Arachne has previously published in anthologies, giving an opportunity to explore their writing in greater depth. These are poems made …
EPUB
Inggeris
€5.49
Adrienne Silcock & Alwyn Marriage: The Other Side of Sleep
What started as a complaint about the '40-line rule' in much of the poetry world has turned into an anthology that not only breaks that rule, but stomps all over it. Featuring 25 poems whic …
EPUB
Inggeris
€5.49
Jennifer A McGowan & Maria Kyle: No Spider Harmed in the Making of this Book
Stand up for the small and not especially cuddly! Back in September 2019 we were inspired by Lady Hale and distracted by her spider brooch. Then we realised we were coming up to our 8th Anniversary i …
EPUB
Inggeris
€5.49
Cherry Potts: Tymes Goe By Turnes
Frustrated by working under lockdown and worried that the 2020 festival might not happen, Arachne Press decided to continue as though everything would be alright, and asked writers to something that …
EPUB
Inggeris
€5.49
Cherry Potts: Words from the Brink
For Solstice Shorts 2021 we invited writers to respond to the growing climate crisis. From an exceptionally strong field we chose stories and poems that respond to the floods and droughts and fires a …
EPUB
Inggeris
€5.49
Cherry Potts & Jeremy Dixon: Joy//Us
Arachne Press has long been a champion of LGBTQ+ writers, but we’ve never before published an anthology of LGBTQ+ poetry. These are joyful poems that celebrate all that is best about our community/ie …
EPUB
Inggeris
€5.49
Catherine Pestano & Cherry Potts: Menopause: The Anthology
The subject of Menopause is just beginning to break the barrier of taboo, and become a mainstream discussion point, but that discussion has until now been very serious, medical, and, we would argue, …
EPUB
Inggeris
€5.49
Cherry Potts: Byways
Byways, an anthology of stories and poems from across the UK and elsewhere, exploring the urban shortcuts, well-trodden meanders, ancient pathways, hillside and field paths. The public and the secret …
EPUB
€8.99
Cherry Potts: Hiatus
An introduction to the world of Solstice Shorts, short fiction and poetry for the shortest day of the year. After 8 years and 7 books, Solstice Shorts is taking a break – a Hiatus – until the next ti …
EPUB
Inggeris
€3.49
