Royston Book Fair

 

J.S. is attending the Book Fair to sell and sign her books (both novels and poetry), plus she will be giving a short reading of her poetry at 13:20 on the day.

The fair, and the talks and readings, are all free. So, why not come along? You could also check out some of the other creative events taking place as part of this year's Royston Arts Festival.

High Window - Autumn 2025

The Autumn 2025 issue of The High Window is now available to read online. Everything can be accessed via the top menu: https://thehighwindowpress.com/

The reviews section includes a review by J.S. Watts of Malcolm Carson's poetry collection Winging It. Just scroll down from this link. It's the second review in.

Olmo in August

J.S. Watts will be the guest reader at this month's Olmo Lounge poetry event in Huntingdon, alongside a variety of readers from the Huntingdon area.

The event will take place on Tuesday, 26th August. People gather from 6.30pm and readings kick off at 6.45. Further details can be found on this website's Events Page

Telling Stories

 

J.S. has a brand new (never before published) short story out now in  The Lorelei Signal. 

The story is Telling Stories and you can read it for free here.

Want to know what it's about?

Those who are right are not always likeable. On a dying world, a cantankerous elderly woman stubbornly refuses to change the stories she tells in order to be popular, but she will not be the only one who has to pay the price for her unbending approach.

From A High Window

J.S.'s review of Elaine Briggs' confident, descriptively rich poetry collection Cusp is peering out from the latest set of High Window reviews. Read it and other up to the minute reviews here. 

An Eventful July

J.S. has a number of events taking place in July, three of which are listed on the events page of this website.

The first two are:

Word Salad on Saturday, 5th July from 6pm at the Thrive Cafe, Norfolk Street, Cambridge. J.S. will be reading a couple of her poems from The Submerged Sea.

CB1 on Sunday, 6th July from 6.30pm at the Town and Gown, Market Passage, Cambridge. J.S. will be the spotlight poet for the event and will be reading from Underword.       

42

Yes, the answer is 42 (search "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" if you're not certain what that signifies), or at least issue 42 of The Seventh Quarry International Poetry Magazine, which is out now. J.S. has two new poems in issue 42: Dead Deer on Tarmac and Waiting for The Snow To Fall (From Inside The Goldfish Bowl).