@terriwindling.bsky.social
Writer, editor, artist, folklorist. Winner of ten World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Award (for The Wood Wife), the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFWA Solstice Award. Wanderer of the deep, dark forest of story in language and paint. Dartmoor, Devon, UK
Just two days left to bid on this 1st edition fairy book - and to help dogs in need at the same time. The book will be signed by Wendy & Brian Froud and me, and can be posted to you anywhere. Please share to help spread the word about this auction - it's SUCH a good cause. More info in the 🧵 below.
Sad news indeed.
I just love Mat's work.
In addition to being an excellent fiction writer, Jo Walton is one of the finest critics of the sf/fantasy field -- so I feel honoured indeed that The Wood Wife is listed here, alongside four brilliant novels that use tradition fairy lore in vastly different ways.
Your work doesn't look boring at all!!!
It's nice, by the way, to have this conversation with someone gets this, even though our situations were also different.
I'm sorry you grew up with the Troubles, which must have been rough, and frightening. Violence, whether domestic or social, is not something I'd wish on any child, and yet it can shape us in good ways in addition to the bad. That doesn't excuse the violence, but it does help us to survive intact.
That's a very good point. While I don't condone the situation that made me so silent as a young girl (domestic violence), it did enhance my observation skills and turn me into a bookworm, both of which remain valuable all these years later. Gifts come from the strangest places.
An excellent idea. I've written to them too.
It truly does reverberate for many of us. (And I had the not-speaking thing as a kid too.)
Another March Hare. This is ‘The Hare Woman’s Cottage’. Available as a print and a reminder that the print shop will be taking a couple of months break from 19th March.
A big Amen to that.
Please read this eloquent expression of the fury so many of us feel.
....And this gives me an excuse to post one of my favourite poems about the importance of books: "Library" by Alvy Carragher. She's a Dublin-based Irish poet, but her poem perfectly describes my troubled, library-loving young mother in New Jersey/Pennsylvania too.
I spent part of my childhood in New Jersey, still have family there, and really appreciate this focus on literacy from Senator Kim.
Her work is marvelous. More here: sophieryder.com
🖼️ Catherine Hyde
Republic of Consciousness Prize (now the Queen Mary Small Press Fiction Prize) news alert. The SHORTLIST is out.
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Dr. Sara Cleto and Dr. Brittany Warman have done remarkable work with their compendium of faefolk, "Fairylore." It is divine to see a thoroughly researched collection that not only details different folk, but addresses their role in story-telling and legends while also adding tales for each section…
I feel exactly the same way.
Thanks, Charles. It's nice to be home again on a misty Dartmoor morning with Lottie. I hope your week is a good one.
It's always a pleasure to remind people just how briliant Laurie's work is. ♥️
I've just finished Francis Spufford's new fantasy novel, Nonesuch, and it's just stunningly good.
We've had the same, Simon. While we were away for two nights last week, Lottie stayed with a friend and her two daughters and had a wonderful time. Then she came home and slept and slept and slept....
For International Women's Day, I highly recommend the Elemental Logic series by Laurie J. Marks: four books that ought to be known as the Masterworks of Fantasy that they bloody well are. And a bonus: the gorgeous cover art for these editions is by @tanaudel.bsky.social, a very fine writer herself.
"This morning I watched the deer
with beautiful lips touching the tips
of the cranberries, setting their hooves down
in the dampness carelessly, isn't it after all
the carpet of their house, their home, whose roof
is the sky?"
Mary Oliver
🎨 William Morris tapestry (detail)
#BookWormSat
‘Often when I imagine you,
your wholeness cascades into many shapes.
You run like a herd of luminous deer,
and I am dark;
I am forest.’ ~ Rainer Maria Rilke. #BookWormSat
This needs to be done because Sylvia Townsend Warner deserves all the remembering we can manage
