Here’s a list of all the events and publications that we can link you to in the coming weeks.

Events

July 15 at 7:00 PM ET

Book Club – HOW have we never done this one?? We are honestly baffled. Apparently this is the summer of correcting inexcusable oversights in book club! Join us on July 15th at 7PM ET to discuss Angela Carter’s brilliant short story collection, The Bloody Chamber. This is the work that really kicked off all the subversive, uncanny, fascinating fairy-tale retellings we all love, and we cannot wait to talk about it with you (especially the less popular but no less brilliant stories that we never get to talk about!)

Here are a few reviews:

“A wonderfully written book, ironical, cerebral, elegant.” – Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times Book Review

“She writes a prose that lends itself to magnificent set pieces of fastidious sensuality: dreams, myths, fairy tales, metamorphoses, the unruly unconscious, epic journeys, and a highly sensual celebration of sexuality in both its most joyous and darkest manifestations.” – Ian McEwan

“She was, among other things, a quirky, original, and baroque styleist, a trait especially marked in The Bloody Chamber – her vocabulary a mix of finely tuned phrase, luscious adjective, witty aphorism, and hearty, up-theirs vulgarity.” – Margaret Atwood, The Observer

If you would like to join us, make sure you’re on the $7+ tier on our Patreon for the month of July!

July 23 at 7:00 PM ET

Fairy Tale Salon – Here is the info for our July Fairy-Tale Salon.

Prompt: What Are You Excited About Right Now?

Quest: Last month, Jules shared that she was taking a new Druidry course that she was super excited about, and we were so delighted that we wanted it to inspire the prompt for this month’s salon! So, this month, we’d love for you to come and tell us about something new that you’re really excited about. Have you started a new hobby recently? Perhaps you’ve discovered a cool new place in your neighborhood? Maybe you too have started a new course or are about to (like our upcoming ocean folklore course!) Even if the thing you’re excited about is just a new recipe, or a fun article you recently read, or your amazing new sunglasses, we want to hear about it!

If you’d like to participate, just make sure that you’re on the Salonnières tier or higher on our Patreon for July!

July 31-August 2

Dublin Irish Festival – We’re so delighted to announce that we’ll be giving three talks at the Dublin Irish Festival in Columbus, Ohio again this August! Our talks will be:

Saturday, August 1st

1:30PM-2:15PM – “Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray and Irish Fairylore”

5:30PM-6:15PM – “Irish Folklore and Bram Stoker’s Dracula”

Sunday, August 3rd

12:30PM-1:15PM – “Terrors of Irish Fairylore”

All of our events will take place in the Spoken Word tent.

We are also thrilled to add that our book, Fairylore: A Compendium of the Fae Folk, will be available to purchase from The Book Loft’s tent! Directly after each lecture, we’ll head over there to sign books.

Click here for more information about the festival and get your tickets!

June–September 2026

Summer Reading Challenge – Welcome to the 2026 Carterhaugh School Summer Reading Challenge!

Ready to stretch your brain, find amazing new-to-you authors, return to beloved favorites, and feel terrifyingly accomplished? Want to read some books with us?

First up, some challenge logistics, followed by the challenge checklist.

All are welcome to enjoy the challenge. Come read your heart out!

HOWEVER. If you’d like a chance to win a fabulous PRIZE (spoiler: it’s a box of books) and to support our work, you can enter by:

1. Joining our Patreon at any paying level (we strongly recommend the book club tier – our book club is legendary, the community is wonderful, and if you’re doing this challenge, you belong in there!) and
2. Commenting on each weekly designated challenge thread with what you’re reading to fulfill it.

One lucky winner who comments on all 15 threads will win THE GRAND PRIZE – a care package shipped to your door full of folklore-y books, stickers, and some additional surprises! Sadly due to unpredictable and rising costs for postage, we can’t send the prize to international readers. They are still welcome to participate in the challenge though!

Check out the 15 challenge categories and our recommendations here!

Current Courses Available

The Wine-Dark Sea: Folklore of the Ocean ($497) – A live, newly expanded six-week odyssey into oceanic folklore and legends from around the world, gathering tales, songs, and poems like sea glass on the shore.

The sea is calling.

The tide is turning, and the maps are unfinished. The monsters are waiting.

The ghost ships are already on the horizon, and the selkies are wrapped in their coats. Somewhere beneath the waves, the stories are still singing.

This summer, we’re setting sail together.

Not just to study the folklore of the sea, but to explore it. To ask impossible questions. To lose ourselves in the old lore. To discover why oceans have always been home to our deepest fears, enduring loves, beguiling monsters, forgotten cities, and impossible dreams.

Pack your books and your sense of wonder.

We’ll bring the maps.

Each week, we’ll dive into a different current: 

• Week One: Love, Lust, and Longing
• Week Two: Getting Lost and Found
• Week Three: Ghosts & Guilt
• Week Four: Becoming Monstrous
• Week Five: Lady Pirates
• Week Six: The Odyssey

Grab your fellow travelers (and maybe your favorite tea.) This is a journey best taken in good company!

No memorization, no gatekeeping – just real scholarship, real depth, and the kind of companions that makes a long voyage feel like the best part of the trip.

The wine-dark sea and its lore are deep and dark enough to hold us all. 

Click here to grab it!

Find Your Fairy Tale Mini-Course ($17) – Find Your Fairy Tale is a bite-sized mini course made to help you connect genuinely with the world of fairy tales and tap into the personal stories that underpin your life – so that you can harness their power or even start to change them. We guarantee academic excellence, dedication to whimsy, and an avenue right into a real sense of everyday enchantment. 

Some people swear by their Enneagram (we’re both 3s) or their Zodiac sign (*waves in Virgo and Scorpio*). We’re all about fairy tales and the insights they reveal.

Click here to grab it!

Press

We are thrilled to have a poem, called “Gretel’s Apprentice” in the new issue of The Otherworld Magazine! The issue is called Faerie Fruit and involves forbidden fruit, dangerous picnics, and enchanted feasts. Get Faerie Fruit here!

We were interviewed by Sasha Baylin from Inglenook. Check out our interview about our book, Fairylore, fairy literature, magic and scholarship. Read the article here!

We were interviewed by Lydia for her Flirting with Life podcast! We talked about fairytales as cultural scripts, practical ways to have an enchanted life, and flirting with something as a practice, and more. Listen to it here! 

We were interviewed on Kelly Jarvis’ blog about Fairylore! Check out our interview on friendship, Carterhaugh’s origin story, Fairylore, and more! Read it here!

We were interviewed on Deborah Zehna-Adams’ Substack about writing and Fairylore! Read it here! 

Publications

OUR BOOK, FAIRYLORE, IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER!!!

Here’s the official description from our publisher, Sterling Ethos @ Hachette:

“A gorgeously illustrated guide to the fae, filled with intriguing and well-researched explorations of folklore from around the world.

In Ireland, the sinister leannán sídhe suck the life from artists and poets in exchange for muse-like inspiration. In Japan, the elusive zashiki-warashi bestow prosperity on the human families whose homes they share. From the dvorovoi of Russia to the Brazilian curupira, Malaysia’s orang bunian to English brownies, and the moksin tongbŏp of Korea, the world is full of magical creatures who assist, haunt, and dazzle humankind.

This illustrated compendium written by expert folklorists invites us to enter the realm of the fairy folk. Sections dedicated to fairies of the home, nature, romance, and more emphasize what fairies do and what they mean to people around the world. Each chapter illustrates a different way of seeing fairies—a way they’ve been used to explain our world and ourselves.

This is a fascinating reference for anyone who has ever been enchanted by fairies—or would like to be.”

Kelly Jarvis wrote a wonderful review of our new book, Fairylore, in The Fairy Tale Magazine! “Fairylore: A Compendium of the Fae Folk is a necessary book for all those who seek the rare blend of intellectual contemplation and fairy enchantment that Dr. Sara Cleto and Dr. Brittany Warman provide. It is both a valuable academic resource and a work of art that I will cherish and return to often as I continue to explore the fairy magic that beckons from ‘betwixt and between.’” Check out their review of Fairylore and order our book here!

Lastly, if you’re looking for a SIGNED COPY of the book (with both of our signatures!) and won’t be able to see us in person anytime soon, Virginia Highland Books should still have a few that you can order directly from them! You can purchase from them online here, but be sure to message them first to make sure they still have a signed copy left to send!