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Kam Rehal Editor

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. Rosamund Davies has a background as a script editor in film and television and currently works part time as a senior lecturer in screenwriting at the University of Greenwich. A published author of non-fiction, she is also interested in digital forms of storytelling and is the author of hypermedia fiction indexoflove and the location-based short story, Meet Me at Crystal Palace, designed for a mobile phone interface. Rosamund’s interest in the relationship between storytelling and space is also what led her to conceive, together with her colleague at the University of Greenwich Kam Rehal, the idea for the Story Cities anthology, for which she is co-editor and a contributor.