Mari Ellis Dunning 🖋️

✾ W I T S H ✾
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After so many hours of research & writing & redrafting, two babies, a few other publications and projects & a whole lot of life along the way, I can't even describe the feeling of holding six years of work in my hands 📚🖤
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#Witchrature #HistoricFiction #witches #feministwriting #book

Such an engaging and inspiring morning in the company of some remarkable people @amc-waw.bsky.social #WAWConference2025

#WomensArchives #History #HistoricalFiction

How to live a good life in difficult times: Yuval Noah Harari, Rory Stewart and Maria Ressa in conversation From superintelligent AI to the climate and democracy, three leading thinkers discuss how to navigate the future

How to live a good life in difficult times: Yuval Noah Harari, Rory Stewart and Maria Ressa in conversation | Books | The Guardian share.google/LiaZSM2j7Z01...

Great article if you've got 5 minutes

Really looking forward to attending tomorrow! Edrych ymlaen i hwn fory 🤩

#WomensHistory #Archives #Conference

Filming with S4C in Llanon's little bwthin was lots of fun! ✨🎥

#History #Hanes #Witchcraft #Witches #Gwrachod #Filming

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I have made a grave error.

My petty gripe: not only am I losing my livelihood to AI – now it’s stealing my em dashes too The humble em dash is being used as a tell that something is written by a large language model. But it’s James Shackell’s favourite piece of punctuation, and he’s not ready to lose it

My petty gripe: not only am I losing my livelihood to AI – now it’s stealing my em dashes too | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian share.google/WL5DFHyk6C9a...

I really feel this is a perfectly reasonable gripe — love an em dash 🫣🤷🏼‍♀️

Current reads #NationalPoetryDay

Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.

Poster for Lifelong learning course 'Beyond Statues'.

New opportunity to join this popular lifelong learning course @aberuni.bsky.social open to all.

- Pre-recorded lectures (learn in your own time)
- Lively seminar discussions
- Heaps of reading suggestions & research resources - focus on what interests you
- Real world skills & issues
+ much more!

‘She wrote the best first line – and the most chilling stories’: Stephen King on the dark brilliance of Daphne du Maurier From Rebecca to The Birds and scores more creepy short stories, Du Maurier was queen of the uncanny, writes the US horror maestro

Some haunting words on Daphne Du Maurier's pervasive skills as a writer of all things spooky...

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Little bit of filming with S4C this morning 🎥

Bach o ffilmio gyda S4C bore ma. Trafod gwrachod, Rhiannon a pethau hudol ✨

#Witchcraft #Wales #Magic #Filming #Llanon

Want to try something new? I'm running #Writing Women again through Aberystwyth Uni's Lifelong Learning.

✶ Online course
✶ Self-paced
✶ One to one feedback
✶ Expert guidance

Here's the link to my course, & there are heaps of others to choose from too!

www.aber.ac.uk/en/lifelong-...

#WritingSky

Were Welsh women witches? 🤔🖤

Preorder Witsh: www.lovereading.co.uk/book/9781916...

#Witchcraft #Writing #AmWriting #BookSky #WritingSky

This is it... I worry about not saying enough about the sad state of the world. About you know what and Tylenol gate and Gaza and all the atrocities we're faced with at the moment. But I just don't have the words right now. I'm so heavy with it all.

Spellbinding history: Aber author delves into real Welsh witchcraft in new book Witsh is the new spell-binding book based on Welsh witchcraft history, out this Hallowe’en.

Lovely little write up in the Cambrian News <3

www.cambrian-news.co.uk/news/enterta...

📚Our historians have published a landmark new book about the main supporters of Owain Glyndŵr's rebellion.

🖱 tinyurl.com/2z4x7t65

#OwainGlyndwr #WelshHistory #Rebellion

"In sum, we shall see how the peculiar properies of animal-naming stopped language from going entirely to the dogs." Ben Parsons, "Introducing Medieval Animal Names" (@uniwalespress.bsky.social / @uchicagopress.bsky.social)

🧑‍🍳💋<chef's kiss>

#Booksky

On an October’s day in 1594, Gwen ferch Ellis was led to the gallows in the middle of Denbigh town square in north #Wales, and hanged. She was the first recorded woman in Wales to be executed on charges of #witchcraft.

theconversation.com/curses-whisp...

#Witches #History #WritingSky #BookSky

As Skunk Anansie said: "yes it's fucking political!"

Ethereal 🕯️

#NotJustPretty: Meet the Artists Leading the Charge - The Broken Spine On October 4, 2025, we’ll be launching #NotJustPretty — a new series that celebrates artists who identify as women. For us, this project is about refusing to

#NotJustPretty — we don’t platform women to show them. We publish them to hear them.

Poetry. Art. Defiance.

Read it: thebrokenspine.co.uk/2025/09/14/notjustpretty-womens-voices-womens-power/

@karenpgonzalez.bsky.social
@jenwithwords.bsky.social
@petitecreature1.bsky.social

"There’s no gesture toward healing or closure. The collection doesn’t offer relief. It observes, interrogates, and holds its ground."

Thanks so much @alanparrywriter.co.uk for such a considered review of my pamphlet.

#PoetrySky #BookReviews #DomesticViolence

Did you know... there's a tiny Dracula statue hidden in Hungary? 🧛‍♂️
Perched just outside Budapest’s Vajdahunyad Castle - a building inspired by Transylvanian fortresses - this little bronze statue shows Count Dracula reading... Bram Stoker’s Dracula! 🦇

Feel like I’m going insane with the revisionist history that Charlie Kirk fostered open debate. He chilled speech and his targeting of professors for wrongthink led to threats, harassment, and being forced out of their jobs. His legacy is chilling speech right now, about him

All these archives are available to see in the @librarywales.bsky.social.

#WelshHistory #Wales #Witchcraft #WitchTrials #WritingSky #Research #Library

👻 The enduring allure of ghost hunting is explored in a new book published by Dr Alice Vernon today.

🖱️ tinyurl.com/yzs9fxfz

@alicevernon10.bsky.social
#ghost
#ghosts
#paranormal
#ghosthunting

Want to research the witch trials of Wales? Where better to start than the National Library?

#archives #witchtrials #wales #witches #writing #writingsky

Wouldst thou like to live deliciously? (in Villars, Switzerland) 🐐🇨🇭