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Cherry Potts

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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: Fairytales for Adults; a photographic diary of a community opera The Blackheath Onegin, and has had several stories in anthologies. Her Lesbian Fantasy Epic, The Dowry Blade is out in February 2016 and she 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 teaches Creative Writing at City University as a visting lecturer.In her spare time Cherry is the owner of Arachne Press, and (co)editor of London Lies, Lovers' L ...more

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Short stories and poems on Image

recordings from BrockleyMax session of stories and poems about image.

Inspired by the fact that our venue, The Brookmill Pub, was also hosting a photography exhibition, we chose ‘image’ as our theme.

My story, Double Exposure, is about doppelgangers and alternate lives.

and three poems, Great Queen Street, from Joy//Us Poems of Queer Joy ; 20:20, and How Does It End

Many thanks to Robin Green, ph

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