Stony Live! Alternative Finge

The poster says it all, really. Saturday 7th June is the day for Stony Live! Alternative Fringe and you are going to want to be there.

There is an exciting line up of performers, including J.S.Watts, who will be reading a selection of her poetry at 2.45pm on the Spoken Word Stage at the Bull Hotel. See the Events page of this website for further information.

The event is taking place under the wing of the main Stony Stratford Festival - Stony Live! Which has some pretty amazing events (in addition to StonyLive! Alternative Fringe, of course) taking place between 7th and 15th June this year, including Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman.

My Writing Process - Blog Tour

J.S.Watts has joined the My Writing Process - Blog Tour.  

You can read her responses to the four blog tour questions: What am I working on? How does my book differ from others of its genre? Why do I write? What is my writing process? over on Goodreads. The blog post will also link you to the answers of other authors to the same four questions.

Click here to read J.S.Watts' take on My Writing Process

New Poem: Another Spring Morning

J.S.Watts has published a brand new poem, Another Spring Morning. 

You can read the poem for FREE over on Random Acts of Would-Be Photography, under The March of Spring post.

Summer Events 2014

It's Spring and that time of year when event organisers start booking writers for festivals and other summery events.

Over on J.S.Watts' Events Page, dates for summer readings and events are beginning to appear (including the inaugural StonyLive! Alternative Fringe Festival) and more will follow in due course. Please check back regularly to find out where and when you can hear J.S. reading her work in 2014.

Inspiring Change - Saturday, 8th March

It’s March! Spring is in the air (possibly) and it’s International Women’s Day on March 8th.

On Saturday 8th March 2014 between 12pm-4pm Peterborough Rape Crisis Care Group will be hosting a community event at St John's Square, Peterborough City Centre to commemorate International Women's Day and its theme of Inspiring Change.

There will be a host of activities to both inform and entertain and to truly celebrate the talents and achievement of women, including poetry readings by J.S.Watts and Leanne Moden.

J.S will be reading at 3pm in St. John's Square and Leanne will be reading at 1pm - you don't want to miss them!

There will also be dancers and musicians:

Jelly Belly Dancing
Zumba with Sophie
Wiz & Bex
Fyzz Wallis

And speeches by:

Peterborough Rape Crisis Care Group
SHINE - Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus Information Networking Equality
Lisa Forbes

As well as a demonstration of self protection techniques.

Please tell your friends so we can raise awareness of the fantastic charities that support women in Peterborough and the surrounding areas as well as celebrating the many talents of women locally.

Tales of the Ethereal

Once upon a time there was a magazine called "Ethereal Tales" that published all sorts of fantastical tales. It was a good little magazine and very popular with its readers, but all good things must come to an end and so "Ethereal Tales" published its last edition.

Then along came another magazine, "Morpheus Tales", a purveyor of dark fiction which had been very supportive of "Ethereal Tales" in the past. It shared the breath of life with "Ethereal Tales" and for one, brief, shining moment "Ethereal Tales" was reborn, or rather, an Ethereal Tales Special Issue was released into the world.

Edited by Teresa Ford, this magnificent new edition featured: WILLOW BY AMY J. BENESCH, RECESS BY DAN DEVINE, UNDERGROUND BY J.S.WATTS, OBADIAH’S FARTHING BY PETER SIMON, A GRIMM DAY BY M.B. MANTEUFEL, HIGH LONESOME ROAD BY STEVEN LEE CLIMER, MORNING FLIGHT BY PAUL MICHAEL MOREAU, RED DUST BY MICHAEL A. KECHULA, TORCH SONGS IN PURGATORY BY CHRISTINE MORGAN, OAR-STEED BY JOSIE GOWLER, I’M SCARED OF THE DARK BY ASHBY MCGOWAN, STRANGE ENCOUNTERS, CHAPTER 7 - THE HAUNTING OF HAYWARD BY JASON FISCHER, THIS TOWN AIN’T BIG ENOUGH BY JAMES AUSTIN MCCORMICK, BLACK BEAR BY VONNIE WINSLOW CRIST, IN THE FATHER’S IMAGE BY ALAN LOEWEN. At 76 pages it was the largest special issue ever produced by Morpheus Tales Publishing and you, yes YOU, can have a sneak preview of this magnificent edition here:

Ethereal Tales Special Issue preview

Poetry (and Folk) Reviewed

Following on from the inaugural Bury Folk Collective Unplugged on Friday 31st January, for which J.S.Watts was the evening's poet, there is a rather fine review of the evening, complete with equally fine photographs, over at Bury Folk Collective's website