Video: Sara & Brittany Answer Folklore Questions!
February 7, 2023
We’ve got something a little different for you this week – a video! We filmed ourselves answering a bunch of folklore questions we got at our last lecture for Smithsonian…
Read MoreA Playlist for the Wine-Dark Sea
January 31, 2023
Enrollment for The Wine-Dark Sea: Folklore of the Ocean opens tomorrow!!! (Selkies! Mermaids! Ghost ships! Monsters and heroic guilt and the fathomless, existential scope of endless waters!) And we’re working furiously on all the…
Read MoreA Few Brief Updates!
January 24, 2023
Sara’s wrist is back in a brace, so we’re keeping today’s note short and snappy, like a very small turtle. Our Smithsonian Associates talk “How to Write a Fairy Tale”…
Read MoreWhat Do You Want To See From Us in 2023?
January 17, 2023
Quick question for you: What do you most want to see from us in 2023? Tomorrow, the two of us are driving to Asheville for our Carterhaugh Summit. We have…
Read MoreWhat Are You Most Proud of From 2022?
January 10, 2023
What are you most proud of from 2022? Did you finish a poem that says something vulnerable and true? Make a new friend who really gets you or revive an…
Read MoreA Mini-Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories!
December 20, 2022
When we decided we wanted to do a whole Gothic Solstice event, we knew one thing for sure – we wanted to talk about Victorian Christmas ghost stories. We’d talked…
Read MoreWant a Cozy Gothic Solstice? We do!
December 13, 2022
The Gothic is an atmosphere. A shiver running down your spine, a stormy sky, a tattered but soft burgundy rug before a roaring hearth. Fairy-tale author Angela Carter once summed…
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