Cherry Potts 
Words from the Brink 
Stories and Poems from Solstice Shorts Festival 2021

For Solstice Shorts 2021 we invited writers to respond to the growing climate crisis.
From an exceptionally strong field we chose stories and poems that respond to the floods and droughts and fires all around the globe with tenderness, compassion, fear, grief and rage. Gaia is represented in all ther power and glory, and butterflies and plants sow seeds of hope, while other writers ask:
How do we stop it? How do we survive it? And how do we live beyond the catastrophe on our horizon?
Stories and Poems from Angela Graham, Ben Macnair, Cath Holland, Cath Humphris, Cathy Lennon, Claire Booker, Corinna Schulenburg, Diana Powell, Elaina Weakliem, Emily Ford, George Parker, Jane Aldous, Jane Mc Laughlin, Jared Pearce, Jessica Conley, Jill Michelle, Julian Bishop, Karen Ankers, Kate Foley, Katherine Gallagher, Kelly Davis, Lesley Curwen, Lisa Clarkson, Lucy Grace, Lucy Ryan, Lyndsey Weiner, Mandy Macdonald, Michelle Penn, Natascha Graham, Rachael Chong, Rob Walton, Robert René Galván, Samn Stockwell, Savannah Mc Daniel, Simon Brod, Stevie Krayer, Tara Willoughby, Tim Dillon, Vanessa Owen, Xia Leon Sloane.

Circa l’autore

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.