Mari Ellis Dunning 🖋️

I bloody LOVE this!!!

It's never illegal to claim asylum.

Why do the witch trials still matter? Why am I so obsessed with them? Why won't I shut up? 🙃 And what do right wing supporters and swans have to do with any of this? All this and more in the latest Substack...

#Witches #WitchTrials #Politics

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This is a brilliant, and troubling piece by Jannat Ahmed. It's worth listening to and hearing your voice also.

Thank you for being so candid Jannat. I hope the powers that be take note.

DILYNA NI 🔔 https://tinyurl.com/2frkduvb Subscribe 🔔 https://tinyurl.com/2frkduvb Mae Rhiannon yn cael ei hadnabod fel ‘boss queen’ y strip club, ond mae ochr arall cudd iddi. Wrth iddi gofleidio… Gwrach, Plis! ✨ Modern Day Witches of Wales

Ond oes/oedd gwrachod yn Machynlleth? Beth am ymuno â ni ar Nos Llun am Tywyllwch Tachwedd.

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#Machynlleth #BookSky #Gwrachod

Tocynnau 👇🏼
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Join us for a #DarkNightsareforReading soiree at
#AddymanBooks in #HayonWye with 3 writers from 3 indie Welsh presses:⁠
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@clairefayers.bsky.social @fireflypress.bsky.social

@mariellisdunning.bsky.social @honnopress.bsky.social

#CarysShannon @parthianbooks.bsky.social
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See you there? 🌙📚⁠

Carly Holmes will be interviewing Carus Shannon & myself, so we'll be discussing Truth Like Water & Witsh, & I'm sure Carly will be happy to chat about her books too! There'll definitely be a Q&A & chance to chat 📚🍷

We may look like the Weird Sisters, but I promise we're not plotting Hamnet's demise... We just want to talk about books! So, people of #Machynlleth, please join us for a spooky autumn evening at Pen'rallt Books on Monday 17th at 6:30pm for readings & chats 📚✨

#BookSky #WritingSky #BookLaunch

DARK NOVEMBER CHILL / TYWYLLWCH TACHWEDD — galeri a siop lyfrau pen'rallt gallery bookshop We're an independent gallery bookshop based in Machynlleth, mid Wales. It's our blend of bookshop, selling a carefully selected collection of reads and pick-up-and-flick-through books \u2013 and…

Just a week to go before this one! I'm a huge fan of Carly's writing, and devoured Carys Shannon's Truth Like Water, so I feel absolutely privileged to be chatting with them both soon 🖊️📚

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#Machynlleth #BookTour #Fiction #WritingSky

Recent book haul from the always brilliant #Aberaeron Book Festival:

• 'Gwrachod Cymru' gan Efa Lois
• 'There She Goes...' by Gosia Buzzanca
• 'Moon Base One' by Jemma King
• 'Storm by' @alhub.bsky.social

What are you reading?

#booksky #shoplocal #poetry #bookhaul #tobereadlist

Horrifying black sows and ghostly apparitions: how the magic and mystery of Wales come alive in winter

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#Halloween #Wales #Folklore

Aberystwyth becomes Wales' first UNESCO City of Literature Aberystwyth has joined a global network of 350 Creative Cities that have been recognised for their excellence in creative fields across the world by becoming Wales’ first UNESCO City of Literature Abe...

Delightful news that Aberystwyth has become Wales' first UNESCO City of Literature. As anyone who has been here knows, this town has a rich bilingual culture of creativity. I owe so much to the region, its institutions, and its mentors. Llongyfarchiadau! nation.cymru/news/aberyst...

We all associate witches with black hats, cats and broomsticks... But why!? Where did these stereotypes actually come from?

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#Witches #Broomsticks #Familiars #Spells #Cauldrons

YouTube video by Llyfrgell Genedlaethol - National Library of Wales Witsh: In Conversation with Mari Ellis Dunning

A pleasure & a privilege to have helped my good friend @mariellisdunning.bsky.social launch her debut novel WITSH last week in the Drwm @librarywales.bsky.social, mere hours after Aber was announced as Wales's first UNESCO City of Literature!
Missed out? ⬇️
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Toxic Femininity and the Witch Trials — Cunning Folk Magazine ‘We are the daughters of the witches you couldn’t burn,’ reads a t-shirt in a crowd.  In a woman’s circle, the facilitator at some point announces, ‘men hated women so much, they burnt us.’ Ther...

Brilliant article from @cunningfolkmag.bsky.social www.cunning-folk.com/read-posts/t...

Thanks Caroline! 🖤✨

Nos Galan Gaeaf: the traditional Welsh celebration being eclipsed by modern Halloween Nos Galan Gaeaf on October 31 in Wales is steeped in folklore and tradition.

Nos Galan Gaeaf: the traditional Welsh celebration being eclipsed by modern #Halloween 🎃👻

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#CalanGaeaf #NosGalanGaeaf #Folklore #Wales

Really looking forward to this evening's launch at @librarywales.bsky.social 📚✨

Tickets have flown & while I'm a tad nervous to be addressing The Drwm after attending so many events there, I can't wait to chat about Welsh witshes, spells, superstition, religion & misogyny.

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After the first world war, séances boomed – and dead soldiers ‘wrote’ home Never before had death affected so many people at once, and taken so many young men in the prime of their life.

Writing in The Conversation, Dr Alice Vernon explores how post first world war grief sparked a surge in séances — and how dead soldiers ‘wrote’ home.

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#history #WW1 #spiritualism #seance

Why did witches ride broomsticks? 🧹

#Witchcraft #Witches #Broomsticks #Magic #WritingSky

Perfect evening plans 👌🏼❤️

#WritersSalon with @beewyld.bsky.social & a whole host of Wild Women 🖋️📚

This Writing Life: Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett – Folding Rock Journalist and writer Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett tells us about how motherhood has - and hasn't - changed her writing life on the day of publication for her new book 'The Republic of Parenthood.'

"It taught me not only that motherhood & creative work can be compatible, & that there's no roadmap for negotiating that, but also that motherhood can complicate & enrich art in ways that make it even more vital & resonant."

Love this by Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett ❤️

There She Goes My Beautiful World ticket Join us for an evening in conversation with Gosia Buzzanca, hosted by Sophie Calon, to celebrate her new book There She Goes, My Beautiful World! When: 1/11/25 18:30 start (doors 18:15) Where: 26a…

Gosia Buzzanca will be in Bookspace #Cardiff this weekend with her gorgeous #memoir 'There She Goes, My Beautiful World' 🌍 I'll be catching her on Sunday in #Aberaeron & I'm so looking forward to it! 📚

"It is not surprising that in women’s hands the historical novel has often become a political tool" — Diana Wallace

Thank you to Kathryn Tann at Folding Rock for asking me to write this piece, in which I ramble on about the crafting of Witsh ✨🖤

#HistoricFiction #Poetry #Novel #BookSky #WritingSky

📣 Poets! 📣

How good does this look!? Overcoming self doubt and improving publication rate sounds very promising...

#WritingSky #Workshops #Poetry

Mari Ellis Dunning (@mariellisdunning) Readers, where to begin!? This month has been an autumnal whirlwind of books, writing, sunbathing (yup!) and socialising. I feel I have so much to say, but in the ever-growing landscape of Substack an...

Where to begin!? This month has been an autumnal whirlwind of books, writing, sunbathing (yup!) and socialising.

This issue looks at landscape in literature (‘Truth like Water’ and ‘Storm,’ specifically), combating imposter syndrome and oh, look! It’s Mhara Starling ✨

#BookSky #WritingSky #Witches

‘It’s insanely sinister’: horror writers on the scariest stories they’ve ever read Bloodthirsty ghosts, sadistic supercomputers, creepy childhood games ... Mariana Enríquez, Paul Tremblay, Daisy Johnson and others on the tales that kept them up at night

‘It’s insanely sinister’: horror writers on the scariest stories they’ve ever read

Waitrose' reaction was knee-jerk and unnecessarily abrupt but it was a reaction to a system that punishes inclusion instead of supporting it.

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#Disability #DisabilityRights #Waitrose

Then afterwards, you might want to head downhill in a ghostly procession to see @alicevernon10.bsky.social chatting about her new non-fiction book, Ghosted 👻 Just make sure you don't look Bev the haunted doll in the eye.... tinyurl.com/47xe6444