Joy//Us

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.Jeremy Dixon was born in Essex and spent 45 year in rural South Wales making Artist’s Books that combine poetry and photography. He now lives on the Wirral. His poems have appeared both online and in print in Roundyhouse Magazine, Riptide Journal, Lighthouse Journal, Durable Goods, and Really System, among others. Arachne Press published his first poetry pamphlet, In Retail, and his first full collection, A Voice Coming From Then, which won the Wales Book of the Year 2022 Englsih Language Poetry Category

• IntroductionCherry Potts & Jeremy DixonFlint Knapping is Queer NowK. AngelBlessed BeDean AttaShort Back and Sides JP SeabrightTrees Like UsZo CopelandBalcony SceneRick DoveSmall Green ThingJohn McCulloughFlexibleMwelwa ChilekwaThe WrestlerJoshua JonesProbably Won’t Be a Church Service Rab GreenMaking Queer Friends on PurposeTanya Erin SheehanThem and TheyVron McIntyreGreat Queen Street Cherry PottsThe Quick Camp Laugh Alexander WilliamsShe Said Everyone Falls a Little Bit In Love With Their Friends Sometimes Helen BowiePlas Newydd Tom McLaughlindoes it fit Conway EmmettA Night in t’Pub Joshua LinneyBread the LoveAbhiWomen, Lava Maria JastrzębskaLegacy Steph MorrisMadison Square Park on July 14thRobert HambergerWhen I am Twelve a New Girl Joins Our School P Burton-MorganGorse Track Maria JastrzębskaFreshKate FoleyAbracadabra!John McCulloughHeading OutAoife MannixHip Hop Line Dancing in DallasDean AttaMoonBecky BrookfieldFirstLaurie B.Dirty DykesVron McIntyreLivingLawrence WilsonComing-home JeansElizabeth GibsonTime WarpGarnett ‘Ratte’ FrostDon’tJoy HowardInstead of a Bible Lydia FulleyloveHow We LoveKhakan Qureshi, BEMHer Blue Shirt Annie KerrAfter the Parade Aoife MannixOnionLydia FulleyloveWhile Cruising Cardiff BayJeremy DixonDance Free on Hope Cherry PottsFoundationDesreeIn a Meadow a Girl Holds her Friend’s HandElizabeth Chadwick PywellNew Town 2013 Sophia BlackwellOld Flip-Phone Videos Jane AldousJOY//USJeremy Dixon