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Terri Windling

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Writer, editor, painter, folklorist. Winner of ten World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Award (for my novel The Wood Wife), and others. Wandering the deep, dark forests of story at Myth & Moor. linktr.ee/terriwindling

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"All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each says to me, 'Sir, write me, I am beautiful.' " - Umberto Eco (The Island of the Day Before)

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... Speaking of The Wood Wife, I had a lovely conversation about it back in April with author/anthologist/naturalist Tiffany Trent, fielding questions from her Patreon Book Club that really made me stop and think. A recording of it is now available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NBS...

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Good afternoon from Dartmoor, Charles!

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... We'll be talking about The Wood Wife, of course, but also about myth, magic, and the creative processes of conjuring enchantment using words or graphite & paint. The talk will be introduced by @ellenkushner.bsky.social. The art below: working sketches for The Nightmage by Mary Jane Begin. (2/2)

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I'm looking forward to this online talk with Mary Jane Begin, whose art inspired by my novel The Wood Wife is simply breathtaking. Come join us on Tues, July 16, at 1 pm EST in the US / 6 pm UK time. Free ticket link: hollins.zoom.us/webinar/regi... The art here is by Mary Jane Begin.

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Good morning from Dartmoor, Charles. I hope you have a good weekend too.

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This is Lottie's first election. She's hoping for change, and biscuits. #dogsatpollingstations #Dartmoor #CentralDevon

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Up on the hill with our young hound, getting perspective.

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Sending love and strength to American friends and colleagues who are feeling as socked in the gut by the Supreme Court as I am.

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Heavens, yes. Carrington, Varo, and the other women Surrealists are "rediscovered" and then ignored again on a regular basis. It's a bit like those constantly recurring articles "discovering" that women write fantasy literature. Definitely a pattern for women in the arts, alas.

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I love Leonora Carrington's work. Her life story is truly fascinating, and her best friend in her Mexico years, Remedios Varo, was the inspiration behind the Surrealist painter Anna Naverra in my novel The Wood Wife. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

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"We all hunger for narrative, from the simplest anecdote or joke to the most convoluted saga, as we hunger for bread or companionship or sunlight; and we all may be fed, and even restored, by a tale that speaks to our condition." - Scott Russell Sanders (The Power of Stories)

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Lottie and the foxgloves on our hill at the edge of the moor. What an amazing foxglove season it's been.

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For local friends (and travellers to Dartmoor): The Celebrating the Earth series of nature-inspired events at St Michaels in Chagford is now on Summer Hiatus. We'll be back again on 12 Sept, 5:30 pm, for a celebration of oak trees with harpist, folklorist, & woodland keeper Elizabeth-Jane Baldry. .

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Hound and husband in my studio yesterday. Heart melting.

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One final reminder for local friends that this is happening tonight in Chagford at 5:30 pm. See you there?

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"Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe. And their guides, the writers of fantasy, should take their responsibilities seriously." - Ursula K. Le Guin

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"Dealing with the impossible, fantasy [literature] can show us what may really be possible. If there is grief, there is the possibility of consolation; if hurt, the possibility of healing; and above all, the curative power of hope." - Lloyd Alexander Statue by Wendy Froud.

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"I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too." - Mary Oliver

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Good morning from Dartmoor, Charles. I hope the week is a good one for you too.

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I'm heading out of the office early today. Have a good weekend.

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I'm always glad to meet others who love the latter books best. So many people have read only the first three, in which case they don't really know Earthsea at all. Le Guin deconstructed and reconstructed her world from Tehanu onward; it's a masterclass in how to write fantasy and I'm in awe of it.

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Happy Summer Solstice from all of us at Bumblehill. Be sure to carry salt and oak leaves in your pocket, garland yourself with wildflowers, and drive your cattle through the smoke of a midnight bonfire for protection from fairy mischief!

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"It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be." - Ursula K. Le Guin (Tales from Earthsea) Photo: Lottie in our hillside garden, knowing exactly where she needs to be.

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"We keep each other alive with stories. We need to share these patterns, as much as we need to share food." - Barry Lopez, from a beautiful essay published in 1998 and available online here:
www.hcn.org/issues/issue...

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He's still a cutie. This is our Lottie as a pup. Mind you, she's 18 months old now but turned out to be so much smaller than expected that she still gets mistaken for a puppy....

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#Devon/#Dartmoor friends: The next Celebrating the Earth evening in Chagford is on 27 June: Notes from Wild Places. Composer Helen Habershon will perform her nature-inspired music and discuss the ways the natural world can influence and support creativity. The poster art & design is by Alan Lee.

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Lift up your faces, you have a piercing need For this bright morning dawning for you The horizon leans forward Offering you space to place new steps of change. - Maya Angelou (from On the Pulse of Morning)

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Flying away.... I'll be away and entirely off-line for a few days and back in the office/studio (and back online) on Monday. I hope you have a good and creative week. Art by the great Arthur Rackam.

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Yes! And these signs are still in the churchyard.

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"Whatever art offered the men and women of previous eras, what it offers our own, it seems to me, is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit." - John Updike Have a good weekend.

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Local #Devon/#Dartmoor friends: My husband Howard's band is on at The Ring O Bells in Chagford tonight, playing early rock-and-roll (1950s/60s). Bring your dancing shoes. Photo: Catherine Back (sax), Pete Shields (lead guitar), Howard Gayton (drums), Nick Allison (bass guitar).

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“Until one has loved an animal," said Anatole France, "a part of one's soul remains unawakened." I can't remember a time when I didn't love animals. Lottie is 18 months old now, full of enthusiasm for life and love for the world. It's been a hard week, but her joy keeps me going.

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I'm delighted to be a Guest of Honour at WorldCon 2024, being held this year in a city I love. (The art! The folk music! The Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic!) Fantasy readers, writers, artists, editors, scholars, etc.: Please come if you can -- and please come say "hi" if you do.

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Lottie in light and shadow on the path leading from my studio to the woods. She still looks like a pup but she's growing up -- she'll be 18 months old this month. Where has the time gone?

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Good morning from Dartmoor, Charles, where it's very green after all the rain.

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Sunshine, water, canine companion and the summer issue of Slightly Foxed on a green hillside in Devon. Bliss.

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