Terri Windling

"How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but in oneself? There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light." - Barry Lopez

'Otters' in ink by Jackie Morris, artist, author who lives and works in a small cottage by the sea in Wales #WomensArt #Monday

🖼️ Kelly Louise Judd

"All stories are a response to the world in some way, but fantasy is very often a response to landscape," writes Susanna Clarke in the Observer. Her new story, The Bishop of Durham Attempts to Surrender the City, is out now from Bloomsbury & it's utterly wonderful. observer.co.uk/culture/book...

To friends & work colleagues: Storm Austen has hit Dartmoor and the electricity and internet have already been down once. If you can't reach me during the storm's duration, that will be why. Photograph: Lottie in a milder storm, not this one. Today she is warm, cozy, and dry at home.

The Australian government is introducing legislation to allow AI companies to use authors’ work to build their models. This would apply to authors from anywhere in the world. Authors: To sign the US Author's Guild petition against (you don't need to be a member): authorsguild.org/news/austral...

The post that Dr Davies links to below provides yet another good example of why human research, thought, experience, and creativity cannot be replicated by machines.

Autumn on Dartmoor.

"C.S. Lewis and Ireland" A Webinar with @littleislandbooks.bsky.social author of GIANT Judith McQuoid Saturday, October 24th at 10:00 AM Pacific /11:00 AM Mountain / 12:00 PM Central / 1:00 PM Eastern Register cslewis.simpletix.com

I'm very much enjoying Perilous Enchantment: The True History of Faeries by folklore historian Sarah Clegg (author Women's Lore and The Dead of Winter, also recommended).

Change of plan. This arrived. #NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Laura Carlin from Lena and the Bear. Text by Katya Balen. Walker Books 8 Oct. An image that is all softness and warmth in a book about love, accepting difference and the need to be yourself, and about letting go. @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social

“Hope is a discipline and despair is a luxury… And the best antidote to despair is repair” A privilege to hear @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social give the first of his Reith Lectures tonight - on the human superiority complex, and how we become interdependent with the rest of nature again

London friends, please take note:

I had the honor of writing the introduction for Folio Society's new collection of Grimms' Fairy Tales, a delightful yet daunting task, and I had a wonderful time revisiting these stories in these woods. This edition contains 50 tales and is beautifully illustrated by Sophy Hollington.

One of my long-term projects is putting the essays I've written up on a dedicated essays website. The latest I've uploaded is about the wonderful Australian illustrator Ida Rentoul Outhwaite. Here's where to find it: theodoragossessays.com/koalas-in-fa...

Thank you @countrylifemag.bsky.social for the kind review of William Morris & his gardens. Such a warm feeling when a reviewer (of note) is sympathetically in tune with what you are hoping to achieve. @yalebooks.bsky.social

My friend Rima Staines, who lives & works on the other side of Dartmoor, is giving an online talk on 7 November on a topic that is particularly urgent to those of us working in the arts right now: Holding on to Humanity in Art in the Age of AI. More info here: rimastaines.com/shop/p/paint...

Here's a terrific episode of the @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social podcast on Rosemary Sutcliff and the Magic of Childhood Reading, with the utterly wonderful Rebeka Russell of @manderleypress.bsky.social. Enjoy! foxedquarterly.com/rosemary-sut...

In Glastonbury this weekend? @shvetathakrar.com and I will be doing a talk at the launch of Brian Froud's Green Women, for which we're both contributors. The whole event is going to be fun, so come say hi if you can. Haven't read the books in my author photo? Do! Here they are: tinyurl.com/nvvetupj

Re-posting for this event coming up on Saturday.

This is an amazing, unique project: I feel so honoured to be a part of it…

"May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children." - Rainer Maria Rilke Lottie in the River Teign on an autumn morning.

“Angel of the Eon”, 48x36. Acrylic and collage on canvas. Collage elements are created from palette paper and hand painted deli paper.

Speaking of amazing illustrators, the Austrian artist Lizbeth Zwerger is one of the very best.

Jessie M. King was amazing. More of her work here: www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-arti...

Yes, it made me cry too.

Going to point to the Scbwi GenAI policy, totally unrelated to anything else going on today

Three new titles edited by @terriwindling.bsky.social and me have just been released: our middle-grade fairy tale anthos: A Wolf at the Door, Swan Sister, and Troll's Eye view: openroadmedia.com/ebook/a-wolf... openroadmedia.com/ebook/swan-s... openroadmedia.com/ebook/trolls...

Ann Macbeth (1875 – 1948) , Glasgow Girl, embroiderer (see below), designer, teacher and author. She was also an active suffragette #WomensArt #GlasgowGirls

Brief, powirful, unforgettable - plese repost & share: "Do we acknowledge the necessity of the Humanities—history, art, literature, and all those things that make us human—or, do we fall prey to their erasure by those who benefit the most from them?" rolandbetancourt.substack.com/p/humanities...

We humans are fragile, inefficiente, mercurial, emociounal, and caringe. We seeke comfort & felloweshippe and are enchauntid by beautye. We love yn manye wayes. We have survived thrugh the ages not by competinge but by collaboratinge. How angrye some yn power are about these trouthes.

'Green Beast and Sun' by Laura Holden, contemporary artist from Somerset in the UK, inspired by folklore #WomensArt 🌞

The face of a dog who rolled in fox poo, had a bath to remove the incredible stink, and now sits on my studio couch, plotting further mischief.

'The Pond' by Dee Nickerson contemporary English painter who explores themes of living in the countryside #Womensart

I had to make the same decision when I got an offer for Wooing the Witch Queen from a Russian publisher on the condition that Saskia & Ailana would be rewritten as straight. As someone who makes her living through writing, it hurts to turn down $ for food and bills, but I couldn't say yes to that.

Happy Publication Day! I can't wait to tuck into this....

I'm reposting this because it's coming up soon. I very much wish I could be there....

London friends: Please don't miss the Richard Dadd exhibition, ending soon. I went with the wonderful folklore Profs from @carterhaughschool.bsky.social and we were stunned by the layered details and luminous light of his work when seen in person, not printed. www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/r...

Jessie Newbery (1864 – 1948) Scottish artist/embroiderer, a hugely important ' Glasgow Girl' as she created the Department of Embroidery at the Glasgow School of Art, establishing needlework as a form of unique artistic design #WomensArt #GlasgowGirls

Such good news, and so well deserved.

I'm beyond thrilled to be part of this — can't wait to see & read the finished book — with gorgeous artwork (natch) and stellar writers, it's the perfect thing to read as the veil thins between the worlds.

I wish I could be there....

Otter statue, Egypt, ca. 664–30 B.C.E.

'Artist's Mother in an Interior.' (c1930) Ruth Doggett played a notable role in early Modern British Art, studying under Camden Town painters Walter Sickert and Harold Gilman, who strongly influenced her bold use of colour and form.

I have a poem in Brian Froud's Green Women www.abramsbooks.com/product/bria... which is out now, and has a fabulous list of authors, where I'm proud to be on the same table of contents. Can't wait to read all the other contributions.

Friends in or near Glastonbury: I'm giving a talk on 'The Power of Story' with Wendy Froud (artist, author, film puppet designer for The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, etc.) on Saturday, 17 Oct, 2:30 pm at the Glastonbury Town Hall. In-person, not online. Tickets & info here: allevents.in/glastonbury/...

A short but lovely piece by the editor-in-chief of Foreward Reviews: www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/bria...