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Weird Lies and Mosaic of Air Launch – Video 2 and recording
More video from the launch of our to new sci-fi/fantasy books Weird Lies and Mosaic of Air. Alistair Lock reads from Peng Shepherd‘s tale of extreme workplace stress, Free Cake and Henrietta Clemett...
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Weird Lies Fantasy reading at Misty Moon
Here are some photos from the reading which formed the second half of our launch activities for Weird Lies and Mosaic of Air, to a capacity audience (hurrah!) at Misty Moon last night. Cherry Potts...
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Mosaic of Air & Weird Lies Fantasy Launch – video
Videos from Saturday night’s sell out (had we been charging) event at Misty Moon. Cherry Potts reads from Penelope is No Longer Waiting (Mosaic of Air) and for Weird Lies: David McGrath reads from The...
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Review of Mosaic of Air
An absolutely lovely review from Sabotage! High points ‘Mosaic of Air’ is an interesting parable featuring a proto-post-feminist lead, a computer programmer whose programme becomes sentient which...
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Peckham Literary Festival
Arachne Press is delighted to announce that we are taking part in the Peckham Literary Festival: showcasing our three Liars’ League collaborations. Thursday 28th November 2013 at 7pm Review Bookshop...
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The Story Sessions – the first ‘Flash From the Floor’
You’ve heard of Flash Mob, you’ve heard of Flash Fiction? Well this is Flash From the Floor, where the audience is invited on stage for 100 words (about 1 minute) of on-theme fiction, (in this instance...
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The Story Sessions – Haunting Tales for Hallowe’en – video
So, Hallowe’en, or nearly, and we got together in The Ivy House to tell stories… V.G. Lee told us a nasty story of revenge, The Passing Guest (from her collection As You Step Outside) and a ‘true...
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Story Sessions November – Armistice tales – video
A big thank you to all our readers, and everyone who came along to listen, and to Summer All Year Long for the musical interlude. Unfortunately the video camera died half way through so there’s no...
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December Story Sessions: Solstice tales
Join Joan Taylor Rowan, Peter Higgins, Bartle Sawbridge Paula Read and Cherry Potts for stories of unwelcome guests, failed dates, taking christmas shopping to extremes, carol singing that doesn’t...
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London Love and Strangeness at Peckham Literary Festival
We had a capacity crowd at Review bookshop for our PLF event: here are some videos of the readings and an audio file of the Q&A. Rhik Samadder reading David Bausor‘s O Happy Day: from London Lies,...
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Weird Lies in Lewisham – the video
A festive evening of stories from Weird Lies at Lewisham Library: icemaidens, time travellers, dream lovers and … cult murder. Like I said, festive! Cliff Chapman reads from Richard Smyth‘s Heriot....
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The Many Hats of Bartle Sawbridge
It was Hats ON for Bartle at Wednesday Night’s Story Sessions, a seasonal collection of stories about cult singing groups and carol services, Spanish and Greek alcohol, a lack of christmas spirit,...
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Festive video from the Story Sessions
We had a great night at December’s The Story Sessions, here are videos of the testbed offering from Paula Read and of our headliners: Paula Read No Room (Testbed) Peter Higgins It Never Snows at...
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The Story Sessions: Queer Tales
19th February 7.45 for 8, at the Ivy House 40 Stuart Road, Nunhead SE15 3BE: February’s Story Sessions celebrates LGBT history month. Headlining we have (arguably) South London’s finest lesbian author...
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LGBT History Month events
LGBT History month is keeping us busy this year. Cherry Potts is reading from Mosaic of Air at a number of events (Incidentally, should you be keen enough to want to come to all the events Cherry is...
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The Story Sessions: Family Tales videos
Here are the video snippets from last week’s Story Sessions, which featured our first poets. Unfortunately Esther Poyer was unable to join us, but we hope she will come along another time. So here are...
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LGBT history event at Walthamstow Library
The third Arachne organised event for LGBT History month, (see Lewisham Library and North Kensington Library for video of the first two) and actor Sarah Feathers joined Cherry Potts at Walthamstow to...
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TLW LEXiCON
Arachne Press is taking part in TLW LEXiCON in Faversham on 15th & 16th March 2014, with readings from Cherry Potts, Katy Darby and Bartle Sawbridge, and a panel discussion from Katy and Cherry...
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Out in South London
Listen to Arachne founder Cherry Potts talk about LGBT History Month, The Story Sessions and Arachne Press on Tuesday’s Out in South London. Cherry is about 32 minutes in, but there’s an interesting...
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Queer Tales at the Story Sessions – the videos
So here’s some snippets of video from our lovely readers last night. Clare Summerskill reads us Jeffrey, talking about the 1930′s from her oral history of Lesbian and Gay lives, Gateway to Heaven...
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