Tabitha Potts

Tabitha Potts is a published writer with several short stories in print anthologies as well as online. Recently she had stories long-listed

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Nov. 2, 2020

Tabitha Potts

The Abyss Within – new anthology benefits charity Women’s Aid

I recently had two stories, Crow Girl and Masquerade, selected to be included in an anthology, The Abyss Within, by new UK publishers SmashBear Publishing. They specialise in fantasy and horror fiction and all profits from this anthology will be…

Sep. 20, 2020

Tabitha Potts

Elixir Magazine in print for the first time

The Elixir Magazine is one of the magazines that has frequently published my work. It was started in Yemen in the city of Sana’a, by a remarkable young woman named Esra’ AlNaggar. It gives a voice to women, in particular, who may not always have had…

Sep. 14, 2020

Tabitha Potts

Welcome new visitors and followers

I’m not entirely sure why, but I seem to have had more visitors this month – welcome to all of you. I hope you are keeping well in this strange and very disorientating year. I’ve been working in my new marketing role and juggling creative writing, my…

Jul. 26, 2020

Roman Road LDN

Book review: ‘Born Fighter’ by Ruqsana Begum⁠

Book reviewer Tabitha Potts reads Born Fighter by Ruqsana Begum, the Bethnal Green-born world champion kickboxer. As a long time student of Begum’s kickboxing classes, Potts gives us her insights into this ‘searingly honest’ autobiography of how…

Jun. 7, 2020

Roman Road LDN

Book Review: ‘Krays: The Final Word’ by James Morton

‘This boy has been beaten by beasts’ are the first words in Krays: the Final Word, spoken by a Thames Court magistrate investigating the assault on a boy called Roy Harvey who was allegedly beaten with chains by the Kray Twins and their friend…

May. 20, 2020

Tabitha Potts

Download my eBook of short stories for free

With the help of graphic designer Elaine Odlin, I’ve created an ebook with a selection of my previously published short stories, illustrated with my photographs. For a limited time, I’ll be giving it away for free if you sign up to my website…

May. 2, 2020

Tabitha Potts

All changed, changed utterly.

In the early days of the pandemic, I found these words kept repeating in my mind and went back to reread the poem. Yeats’ poem Easter, 1916 is of course about the human cost of politics, not of contagion – but there is something political about this…

Mar. 12, 2020

Roman Road LDN

Book review: ‘My Dad, the Guv’nor’ by Kelly McLean

Tabitha Potts reviews My Dad, the Guv’nor, Kelly McLean’s autobiography about growing up as the daughter of Lenny McLean, the notorious East End wrestler and associate of the Krays. It is a tale of East End gangsters, intergenerational trauma and…

Feb. 2, 2020

Tabitha Potts

My new short story podcast is live!

I’ve set up a short story podcast, Story Radio! It will feature short stories read by new and emerging writers in the English language. The first story I’ve featured is one of mine as I wanted to get comfortable with the technology and set-up before…

Jan. 15, 2020

mironline.org

Tabitha Potts reviews "Haverscroft" by S A Harris

S A Harris’s modern haunted house novel “Haverscroft” is a clever narrative published by SALT. There seems to have been a resurgence of interest in writing about the supernatural recently – from the folk horror of Devil’s Day by Andrew Michael Hurley…

Jan. 8, 2020

Tabitha Potts

Read my short story, The Reckoning, in anthology Exit Earth

Exit Earth, an anthology published by Storgy Books, is currently free to download. It includes my sci-fi story, The Reckoning. The story is set in a California of the future, where the Golden Gate Bridge has disappeared beneath the sea and all the…

Nov. 20, 2019

Tabitha Potts

My writing year in review

It’s been a long and in many ways rewarding year for me as a writer. Most importantly, I submitted my Creative Writing MA Dissertation (the first eight chapters from my novel in progress and an introductory Essay) and received a Distinction. After a…

Nov. 11, 2019

The Elixir Magazine

Masquerade

Tabitha Potts You practice twenty kicks against the punchbag, sweat pouring into your eyes. Teeps, the high kicks, up to twenty. Usually used to gauge distance, so you can follow up with a side kick or some other form of attack. But they can be…

Sep. 26, 2019

Roman Road LDN

‘Swimming with Stingrays’ book review

One issue any autobiography faces is that it is about the messy subject that is real life. Narrative threads are not always neatly tied up and characters don’t always follow classic dramatic arcs. So it is with the story of ‘Gentleman Les’ Clayden,…

Jul. 28, 2019

Storgy Magazine

EXIT EARTH Special Offer

To celebrate the upcoming release of We are offering a whopping 60% off the paperback publication; EXIT EARTH That’s 24 stories for only £4.99* *(R.R.P. £12.99. Postal charges apply) Simply click on the image below and take advantage of this limited…

Jul. 28, 2019

Tabitha Potts

My short story, Crow Girl, has been published by MIROnline

I recently submitted a short story to the MIROnline Folk Tale Festival competition and to my delight, I was one of the five finalists whose short stories were published and illustrated. I also read it to the audience at MIRLive – a wonderful evening…

Jul. 24, 2019

mironline.org

Short Fiction by Tabitha Potts

Short Fiction by Tabitha Potts I was a foundling brat, rescued from the hedgerows where I lay with my beak open, screeching fit to wake the devil. I often think it very likely the first thing I ever saw was a bird in its nest. The people here are…

Jul. 10, 2019

mironline.org

by Lucie McKnight Hardy and published by Dead Ink Press.

Tabitha Potts reviews Water Shall Refuse Them by Lucie McKnight Hardy and published by Dead Ink Press. This utterly absorbing and chilling debut novel is set during the exceptionally hot summer of 1976. It opens with sixteen-year-old Nif, her…

Jun. 19, 2019

Tabitha Potts

If you go down to the woods… it’s Dark Outside.

Recently I recorded one of my short stories and sent it in to The Dark Outside. I was delighted when they told me they will be using it. It’s a very intriguing art project which broadcasts music, unusual sounds, stories and poetry in forests. This…

Jun. 18, 2019

Roman Road LDN

Review: ‘The Sweet Science of Bruising’ at Wilton’s Music Hall

Tabitha Potts is a writer who lives in East London, an area which inspires much of her work. She has had several short stories published in print and online. The Sweet Science of Bruising is an entertaining and moving play that brings together four…