Children of the Water

J.S. Watts' lyrically dark short story, Children of the Water (first published by Cover of Darkness), is now available to read online at The Reaper.

Click here to link straight to the story.

Looking For New Words

The Poetry Village has published a brand new poem by J.S.Watts, Looking For New Words.

You can read it for no charge, online by going here.

Let's Twist Again!

Writers' Club is back at the Twisted Cellar for its July meeting!

Landmarkings

Landmarkings, a new poem by J.S.Watts, has been published in Issue 14 (Summer 2019) of The High Window.

You can read it and poems by:

 Daniel Bennett  • Stephanie Bowgett  • Pam Bridgeman • Arthur Broomfield • Peter Carpenter •  Ken Champion • Renata Connors  • Kathryn Daszkiewicz • Stephen Devereux  • Sarah L Dixon • Matthew Duggan • Alison Edwards • Robert Ford • Helen Ivory •  Peter Jarvis • Sarah James • Wendy Klein • Michael Lithgow • Patrick Lodge • Michael McCarthy • Thomas McColl • Jessica Mookherjee  • Abegail Morley • Stuart Pickford • Wendy Pratt  • Lisa Reily • Myra Schneider • R. S. Stewart • Anthony Watts • J.S. Watts • Louise Wilford • Noel Williams

by clicking on the names above or by clicking here

Strawberry Fair 2019

Are you going to Strawberry Fair? If so, and if you like poetry, spoken word, music and and a blurring of the genres you should check out the Wild Strawberries Stage in the Arts Area of the Fair.

J.S. Watts will be performing her poetry at Strawberry Fair in Cambridge at around 2.30pm tomorrow (Saturday 1st June). The rest of the rather wonderful line-up is detailed below. If you'd like to sign up to the open mic, you can do so in advance, or just rock up on the day. http://bit.ly/wsform2019 to sign up in advance

Line-up so far (all of which is subject to the whims of chance, weather, traffic, and poets/ storytellers/ musicians, naturally) is as follows:

12:00: Intro
12:05: Open mic
12:10: Open mic
12:15: Micaela Blitz
12:20: Pauline Radley
12:25: Simone Morton
12:40: Open Mic
12:45: open mic
12:50: Beth Hartley
13:05: The Antipoet
13:50: The Ministry of Unplanned Occurrences (tbc)
14:15: Michael Brown
14:30: J.S.Watts
14:45: Lulu Agate
14:50: Open mic
14:55: Janis Ford
15:00: Bertram Holt
15:05: Paul Eccentric (poetry)
15:20: Jessica Law
15:45: Charlie Finn
15:50: Lucy McEleney
15:55: Jude Stephens
16:00: Jody Lee
16:05: Camille McCawley
16:20: Mark McGivern
16:35: Shelly Harder
16:50: Caron Freeborn
17:05: Moth Conspiracy
17:30: Patrick Widdess
17:45: Lee House
18:00: Nathan Smith
18:15: Debbie Luxon
18:30: Open Mic
18:35: Trish Harewood
18:40: Tracey Cracknell
18:45: Open Mic
18:50: Open Mic
18:55: Open Mic

After this you might want to stick around for:

19:00-20:00 2019 Strawberry Slam in association with Hammer & Tongue Cambridge
20:00-finish 2019 Strawberry Jam (poetry/ music/ interpretive dance/ whatever! - please come and play! 

Words Without Frontiers

Flight

Based on a parable told by the Venerable Bede over a thousand years ago, J.S. Watts explores a lifetime's flight in the poem Flight online in The Reaper.