Cherry Potts 
Hiatus 
The Best of Solstice Shorts Festival

An introduction to the world of Solstice Shorts, short fiction and poetry for the shortest day of the year. After 8 years and 7 books, Solstice Shorts is taking a break – a Hiatus – until the next time the winter solstice falls on a weekend. Solstice literally refers to the pause when the sun seems to briefly hang unmoving in the sky on the 21st December, so Hiatus is quite an appropriate time theme. Chosen by public vote, the best poems and short stories from each of the previous anthologies sit alongside two pieces chosen by competiton, written to this year's theme of Hiatus.

عن المؤلف

Cherry Potts is the Director of Arachne Press, for whom she is editor of almost all our anthologies and runs the Annual Solstice Shorts Festival.

Cherry is the author of an epic fantasy novel, two collections of short stories, a photographic diary of a community opera, and has had many stories in anthologies, magazines and online. Her novel of sibling hatred in the 1920s, The Bog Mermaid, won the Quill LGBTQ+ Prose prize 2022.