We are celebrating International Women’s Day on Wednesday 8th March at 7pm with Jennifer A McGowan at Lewisham Library Lewisham High Street SE13 6LG. FREE!
Expect poems about women, especially those who speak up for themselves!
Here’s a poem from With Paper For Feet read by Jennifer A McGowan at Oxford on Friday at the lovely Albion Beatnik:
A Sort of Love Story
You can hear more from Jennifer at Lewisham Library, Lewisham High Street, SE13 6LG this Wednesday 8th March at 7pm, free entry, and refreshments laid on by the lovely library staff. It’s International Women’s Day, so expect a lot of poetry from a female perspective.
Our Lewisham stop on the tour, with poems from Lisa Kelly and A J Akoto (read by Cherry Potts – AJ wasn’t able to join us). Stories from David Steward, Cherry Potts, Liam Hogan
Buy the book: Shortest Day, Longest Night
Help us crowdfund for the rest of the tour and the next books
Catch us on Tour:
Saturday 04/02/2017 2pm North Kensington Library
Poems: Bob Beagrie, Lisa Kelly, A J Akoto. Story: Katy Darby, Liam Hogan, Pauline Walker, Cherry Potts FREE but TICKETED
If you like Liam’s work, you’ll be delighted to know we are publishing his first collection, Happy Ending NOT Guaranteed in April.
Welcome to the Liberty Tales Lewisham videos (yes, I got the video to work!), not posted until now because I was too busy doing other events!
so here are:
David Mathews Border Country
Jim Cogan Lag
Cherry Potts Knitting for Demons
Liam Hogan The King’s Computer
Incidentally, each time I post a snippet of video or audio, it will be a different pieces, so you can search around for more of the piece without repetition.
On which subject TODAY at 5pm, you can catch Katy Darby, Cassandra Passarelli, Liam Hogan and Carolyn Eden reading at Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road, N1 9DX from 5pm, and if you buy a book they’ll sign it for you.
Here we all are having a rollicking good time at Albion Beatnik in Oxford. There was a bit of discussion about the correct pronunciation of ‘C’ in Latin , and there was apparently a bona fide Classics teacher in the audience, so only one author was brave enough to read their Magna Carta clause in the original.
Here’s some snippets of video (yay! got the video to work!) to whet your appetite for TONIGHT’s event in Lewisham.
With Oxford (Thank you to Dennis at Albion Beatnik for hosting) under our belts – and some in-focus video – I think – which we will share tomorrow, our thoughts turn to next week, and LEWISHAM.
Join Jim Cogan, Liam Hogan, David Mathews and Cherry Potts for stories of day release, love in captivity, crossing borders and escaping the past, Wednesday 7pm 23/11/2016 Lewisham Library: 199,Lewisham High Street, SE13 6LG
Liam Hogan
Cherry
David
Which will be perfectly lovely.
HOWEVER: COLCHESTER, we are going to have to let you down for the time being! Sorry! Greenstead Library are temporarily unable to host us, and we are looking at rebooking in Mid January. Just co-ordinating author diaries now.
The opening of The Dowry Blade, a lesbian epic fantasy, read by author Cherry Potts, at Lewisham Library 24th February 2016
With any book that involves adult relationships there is the thorny issue of how to depict intimate moments (she says coyly), this bit is introduced as ‘a bit of virginal fumbling’ so if that’s going to embarrass you, don’t listen. Not remotely raunchy. I don’t consider sex a spectator sport!
Once again, thanks to Joan and Thomas and everyone else at Lewisham Libraries for organising a great evening.
Here’s the video of Cherry Potts reading the ‘obligatory tavern scene’ from The Dowry Blade at Lewisham Library on Wednesday.
Lewisham Libraries have been good friends to us, and provided a buffet and everything! There are more videos to come, and sound files from the event at Clapham Books on Thursday.
If you like what you see here, head over to our events page for details of more readings in March and April, in Beckenham (Thursday 3rd March, that’s next week) , Kings Cross (Gays the Word 24th March), Earls Court ( Brompton Library 14th April) and Hastings (Polari on Sea)…
or to our SHOP to buy a copy, or to your local bookshop, of course.
Our lovely friends at Lewisham Library are hosting a just-pre-publication event for The Dowry Blade our first adult novel, by Cherry Potts.
Join us at Lewisham Library 199-201 Lewisham High Street SE13 6LG
6:30 – 8pm on Wednesday 24th February
(the day before publication)
Free!
for readings, discussion,
modestly reduced pre-publication pricing on (signed) copies of the book,
and I believe there will be refreshments, which may include cakes!
The Dowry Blade is a lesbian epic fantasy of the strength and limitations of love and loyalty in a time of war and danger: between friends, lovers, kin, strangers– and enemies.
Suitable for anyone over the age of fourteen.