Step through the wardrobe, taste the pomegranate seeds, jump in the fairy ring?
February 21, 2023
Today’s missive is by special request. (And hey, if there’s something you’d really like us to cover, or you have a burning folklore-related question, shoot us an email – we…
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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 MoreJanuary 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 MoreJanuary 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”…
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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 MoreJanuary 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 MoreDecember 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…
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