As part of our Eighth Anniversary Celebrations (The Arachneversary) editors Rosamund Davies, Cherry Potts and Kam Rehal discuss the ideas behind Story Cities and the process for choosing the stories, with reading snippets from Rosamund and Cherry plus Annabel Banks, Nic Vine, Maja Bodenstein. We drift off into current projects and writing in lockdown too.
You can buy a copy of the book from our webshop, discounted throughout August with the code ARACHNEVERSARY.
Rather delayed (by crowdfunding mainly) here is audio of our second outing at ORNC’s bowling alley. A little echoey!
Readings from Nic Vine, Rosamund Davies, Cherry Potts, Shamini Sriskandarajah of their own stories and some by other people too – Catherine Jones, David Mathews, Rob Walton and Steven Wingate.
Rosamund reads You Stand in the Secret Place by Steve Wingate
Cherry Reads Backwater by David Mathews
Shamini reads Coffee
Nic reads Go Directly to Go by Rob Walton
Cherry Reads Lost and Found by Catherine Jones
Rosamund reads The Right Place
Cherry reads Foundation Myth
Nic reads Tech Down
More readings from the Storytelling Chair, in the skittles alley, under the Painted Hall, in the Old Royal Naval College, in Greenwich. That sounds a bit like we are sending you on a treasure hunt…
Rosamund Davies introducing the book
And reading from Steven Wingate‘s story You Stand in the Secret Place
Shamini Sriskandarajah reading Coffee 
Nic Vine reading Tech Down
full audio later…
Story Cities writers were invited to read from the Storytelling Chair made by Matt Nicholls, at the launch of London Design Festival at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich last night. Here are recordings of our stories read there. (We are back on Sunday! see below)
Shamini Sriskandarajah reads Coffee
Cherry Potts reads Foundation Myth
Annabel Banks reads Other Signals
Evleen Towey reads School Bus
Roland Denning reads Seeing in the Dark
Nic Vine reads Tech Down
Rosamund Davies reads Today’s Arrivals and Departures
You can catch more (some different) stories on Sunday, When Cherry, Nic and Rosamund will be reading their own stories, and others by Steven Wingate, David Mathews, Rob Walton and Catherine Jones.
The Story Cities book is for sale in the bookshop under the Painted Hall, and in the visitor centre for the duration of the festival which includes next weekend Open House festival so you can get in and see everything free!
Or you can buy it from us, or any really good bookshop.
Another of the Story Cities Greenwich launch videos, Nic Vine reads his flash, Tech Down, which went down particularly well with the audience.
The book is available from our webshop post free, or any good bookshop will order it in for you in a couple of days .
