Tabitha Potts

Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize

I was checking through my submissions when I discovered that I had made it to the shortlist for the Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize for a short story I sent to them on the theme of freedom. It’s an extraordinary prize which invites winners and…

I am standing for the Mile End Ward as a Liberal Democrat Councillor

I am proud to say I am standing for the Liberal Democrat Party as a councillor in the local elections for Tower Hamlets. I grew up on Brick Lane and have lived in Stepney and now Bow for many years apart from some time spent living abroad in the USA…

New audio flash fiction for Prompety Prompt

Underground Places by Marie O'Shea 1st November 2021 Marie O'Shea

A new short story of mine, The Necropolis Railway, is now on the Story Radio Podcast

The Necropolis Railway by Tabitha Potts 2nd February 2022A clerk goes to a funeral and meets a mysterious young woman in this short story set on the famous Victorian 'Ghost Train'. This story was written and produced by Tabitha Potts. The story was…

Happy New Year

I have spent a great deal of 2021 in the doldrums, a term I first encountered in that excellent children’s book The Phantom Tollbooth. It can mean a period of stagnation or depression, and in sailing, it refers to an area near the equator where ships…

Winter

It’s been a long and difficult year, although with vaccines we are at least seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. I thought you would like to see this photo of the restored gamekeeper’s hut where I’ve been spending time writing and producing my…

Happy Halloween

After the disappointment that was summer this year, I’ve found myself really loving Autumn – the colours of the leaves in the woods, the moody skies, the abundance of strange-looking mushrooms. I enjoy this time of year and the otherworldly feeling…

The Cabinet of Curiosities

Stray Dogs and Cowboys by Steve Wade 30th September 2021 Tabitha Potts

The Cabinet of Curiosities to be published in print anthology

I’ve been a little quiet on here recently as although life has been busy, I haven’t had much writing news to share. I’m happy to say that that is about to change as one of my pieces, a short story about innocence and experience set in the eighteenth…

Singing with Nightingales

I happened to see an email from Tower Hamlets Council asking residents to contribute to a recording, A Nightingale Sang in Pollard Square, run by Sam Lee of the Nest Collective. Every year Sam Lee records nightingales – which only sing between April…

Finally, Spring is on its way

What a draining and exhausting year it’s been. I am very grateful to have had my vaccine and to be looking forward to seeing my friends and family soon, but it’s going to take a long time to shake off the general feeling of dread that COVID brought…

Reviews for The Abyss Within

Some reviews for The Abyss Within, a charity anthology benefiting Women’s Aid which features two of my short stories, Crow Girl and Masquerade, appeared recently as part of a book tour and I had to share a couple of them. “This anthology is perfect…

Winter

Strange times continue, and we plod on trying to cope. I’ve been walking a lot, like I imagine everyone has, finding a lot of comfort in looking at the winter landscape, the sea and the woods. I’ve been taking a lot of photographs with my new camera,…

Radio interview with Chat and Spin

I was interviewed recently by Chat and Spin Radio talking about Story Radio Podcast. Thank you to Ron Clark and Ian Johnson for inviting me on their late show – the catch up link is now live and you can listen to my interview here. Photo by…

Two new short stories published recently

Recently I had two short stories published. One, Some Notes on Container Gardening During the Apocalypse, is a satirical short story I wrote at the beginning of the pandemic, and was published by the excellent American literary magazine The…

The Sin-Eater

The Sin Eater crawled on her hands and knees, as she had been bid, towards the catafalque. The huge state-room, richly decorated, was empty, for no one is allowed to witness this private ceremony. She had been woken early this morning at the Relicts…

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…

Some Notes on Container Gardening During the Apocalypse ~ fiction by Tabitha Potts

We’d talked about starting a vegetable garden for years, but it took the pandemic to make us actually do it. I’d realised quite swiftly that the weekly Ocado delivery was a thing of the past and that if I wanted a reliable supply of lollo rosso and…

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…

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…