Cherry Potts is a Londoner born and bred. She is the author of two collections of short stories: Mosaic of Air, and Tales Told Before Cockcrow; a photographic diary of a community opera The Blackheath Onegin, and has had several stories in anthologies.  She is has completed a Lesbian Fantasy Epic, and is currently working on her next collection, a science fiction novel, and a timeslip-young-adult kinda thing.  She also runs workshops for writers exploring NLP (Neurolinguistic programming) approaches to language and characterisation; and is the owner of Arachne Press, and editor of London Lies and Stations.

Cherry’s personal website can be found here

Her coaching and NLP website can be found here

Cherry’s story in London Lies, Leaving was first read at London Liars’ League in October 2009

Cherry describes it as

Lesbian leaves work, misses train, but gains something more valuable.

Cherry Potts Leaving clip

Cherry’s story for Stations, A Place of Departures is set in Rotherhithe and was written especially for the collection; she describes it as

motivated by a love of history, a feeling for place, and a belief that your roots can sometimes tie you down.

norwood cherry snippet

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Her story for Lovers’ Lies, Mirror, was read at Liars’ League Blood & Thunder night in November 2009 and is a story of repressed emotion just after WWI.

wood green mirror

Mirror Deptford

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Cherry’s 1992 collection Mosaic of Air is to be republished by Arachne Press in September 2013

cherry potts copyright alix adams 2011