A pleasure & a privilege to have helped my good friend @mariellisdunning.bsky.social launch her debut novel WITSH last week in the Drwm @librarywales.bsky.social, mere hours after Aber was announced as Wales's first UNESCO City of Literature! Missed out? ⬇️ youtu.be/Xa8P98gUQoQ?...

Brilliant article from @cunningfolkmag.bsky.social www.cunning-folk.com/read-posts/t...

Nos Galan Gaeaf: the traditional Welsh celebration being eclipsed by modern #Halloween 🎃👻 theconversation.com/nos-galan-ga... #CalanGaeaf #NosGalanGaeaf #Folklore #Wales

Really looking forward to this evening's launch at @librarywales.bsky.social 📚✨ Tickets have flown & while I'm a tad nervous to be addressing The Drwm after attending so many events there, I can't wait to chat about Welsh witshes, spells, superstition, religion & misogyny. tinyurl.com/37ddc4fn

Writing in The Conversation, Dr Alice Vernon explores how post first world war grief sparked a surge in séances — and how dead soldiers ‘wrote’ home. 🖱 tinyurl.com/4puc894m @alicevernon10.bsky.social #history #WW1 #spiritualism #seance

Why did witches ride broomsticks? 🧹 #Witchcraft #Witches #Broomsticks #Magic #WritingSky

Perfect evening plans 👌🏼❤️ #WritersSalon with @beewyld.bsky.social & a whole host of Wild Women 🖋️📚

"It taught me not only that motherhood & creative work can be compatible, & that there's no roadmap for negotiating that, but also that motherhood can complicate & enrich art in ways that make it even more vital & resonant." Love this by Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett ❤️

Gosia Buzzanca will be in Bookspace #Cardiff this weekend with her gorgeous #memoir 'There She Goes, My Beautiful World' 🌍 I'll be catching her on Sunday in #Aberaeron & I'm so looking forward to it! 📚

"It is not surprising that in women’s hands the historical novel has often become a political tool" — Diana Wallace Thank you to Kathryn Tann at Folding Rock for asking me to write this piece, in which I ramble on about the crafting of Witsh ✨🖤 #HistoricFiction #Poetry #Novel #BookSky #WritingSky

📣 Poets! 📣 How good does this look!? Overcoming self doubt and improving publication rate sounds very promising... #WritingSky #Workshops #Poetry

Where to begin!? This month has been an autumnal whirlwind of books, writing, sunbathing (yup!) and socialising. This issue looks at landscape in literature (‘Truth like Water’ and ‘Storm,’ specifically), combating imposter syndrome and oh, look! It’s Mhara Starling ✨ #BookSky #WritingSky #Witches

‘It’s insanely sinister’: horror writers on the scariest stories they’ve ever read

Waitrose' reaction was knee-jerk and unnecessarily abrupt but it was a reaction to a system that punishes inclusion instead of supporting it. www.facebook.com/share/1GGsvo... #Disability #DisabilityRights #Waitrose

How are you spending #Halloween this year? How about joining me at @librarywales.bsky.social for spells, blessings & witchy words 🖋️🕷️ Free entry • Book here 👇🏼 tinyurl.com/pxrfcbn2 Or watch online: tinyurl.com/mjk4396x 💻 #Wales #BookLaunch #BookTour #History #HistoricFiction

Why was there no witch hunt in Wales? 🤔 #Witches #Witchcraft #Wales #WritingSky #Folklore

Actual Mhara Starling though 😭🖤🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #Witchcraft #Fiction #HistoricFiction #Welsh #Wales #MharaStarling

"you must be kind to the weak, needy and vulnerable. A good leader cares for all folks, not just those that can benefit him, and kindness is the greatest strength..." Such true words by EM Duffield-Fuller, needed now more than ever. Killing Hares coming January 2026 ✨

Sgwrs wych gyda Siân Melangell Dafydd, Gareth Evans-Jones ac eraill fan hyn 🎙️✨ www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Updated events info (sorry to spam you!) 📚🖊 Really looking forward to chatting, signing books and scouting out #indy #bookshops, and in great company too! Full info, booking links etc here: tinyurl.com/5n8m34yr #BookSky #BookTour #HistoricFiction #Witch #Aberystwyth #Cardiff #Pontypridd #HayOnWye

Gosia Janik

This poem is from a WIP called #FuckMeLikeGraffiti. It’s called Softcore Mirrors (after The Honeymoon — Juno Calypso). Poem & self-portrait that sparked it below. I've written extensively on my gender, now I'm focusing on my sexual self. I'm expecting a dwindling readership at this stage 😂

It's a Ghastly kind of day... #TheGhastling #LitMag #Horror #Supernatural #Fiction #BookSky

In case you're wondering how Bev the Haunted Doll's upward trajectory to fame is going, she's just been filmed for a TikTok video for the university's official account. She'll be demanding a separate office from me soon, and a lecture theatre named after her. She is becoming Too Powerful.

📖 A haunting novel inspired by the largely unknown history of Welsh witchcraft has been published by one of our lecturers. 🖱️ tinyurl.com/3nhm5fyc @mariellisdunning.bsky.social #novel #history #wales #witchcraft

📖 Mae nofel frawychus sydd wedi’i hysbrydoli gan hanes anghofiedig dewiniaeth yng Nghymru wedi’i chyhoeddi gan un o'n darlithwyr. 🖱 tinyurl.com/3thdauua @mariellisdunning.bsky.social #nofel #hanes #dewiniaeth #cymru

Some lovely quotes from early readers of Witsh ✾ Out tomorrow! Preview event at the lovely Noisy Newt #books in #Llandeilo on the 24th Oct. You can grab your copy here: www.lovereading.co.uk/book/9781916... #Witches #WritingSky #BookSky

I'm really enjoying Carys Shannon's debut novel Truth Like Water 🌊📸 Available now from @parthianbooks.bsky.social 👌🏼

What are the historic origins of stereotypes we associate with witches, like cauldrons & black cats? 🐈🧙🏼‍♀️🧹🍲🦇 theconversation.com/black-hats-c... #witchcraft #witches #familiar

🧙‍♀️ Writing in The Conversation, Mari Ellis Dunning discusses how women in early modern Wales typically dressed in long skirts, large woollen shawls, and tall, black hats. Could they have inspired stereotypes of the witch? More: tinyurl.com/5e8c549h #witch #stereotypes #inspiration #wales

And how wonderful will this be with my favourite ghost hunter, @alicevernon10.bsky.social 👻 Aberystwyth is in for a treat!

Yay! ✨

Upcoming events, readings, Q&As & other authorly bits... Looking forward to chatting with @alhub.bsky.social (& others who aren't on Bluesky!) mariellisdunning.cymru/events-works... #BookSky #BookTour

Look, Yule has come early! Delivered earlier this afternoon from www.lovereading.co.uk ... "Witsh" by @mariellisdunning.bsky.social If you haven't already, we'd highly recommend visiting Mari's website: mariellisdunning.cymru and linktr.ee/maridunning. #Witchcraft #Novel #HistoricFiction #Wales

Since there's just one week to go until Witsh hits book shelves, I thought you might like a little preview... 👇🏼 open.substack.com/pub/marielli... #WritingSky #Witchcraft #Witchrature #Novel #HistoricFiction #Wales #Witchcraft

Can't make it? Watch online instead! www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/onl...

People of #Aberystwyth! Join me at @librarywales.bsky.social for spells, blessings & witchy words 🖋️🕷️ Free entry • Book here 👇🏼 www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/cer... #Wales #BookLaunch #BookTour #History #HistoricFiction

#Essay: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, by C. S. Lewis. I compare Lewis’ children’s classic with Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces: The Call to Adventure, Refusal of the Call, The Crossing of the First Threshold, and Supernatural Aid. bit.ly/4nFyFSi #Narnia #CSLewis #Booksky

Did you know only 5 people were killed on charges of witchcraft in Wales, in comparison with hundreds in England & thousands in Scotland? But why did #Wales not see a witch hunt..? #witchcraft #history #witchtrials #historicfiction #writingsky #witches #novel open.substack.com/pub/marielli...

✾ W I T S H ✾ • After so many hours of research & writing & redrafting, two babies, a few other publications and projects & a whole lot of life along the way, I can't even describe the feeling of holding six years of work in my hands 📚🖤 • #Witchrature #HistoricFiction #witches #feministwriting #book

Such an engaging and inspiring morning in the company of some remarkable people @amc-waw.bsky.social #WAWConference2025 #WomensArchives #History #HistoricalFiction

How to live a good life in difficult times: Yuval Noah Harari, Rory Stewart and Maria Ressa in conversation | Books | The Guardian share.google/LiaZSM2j7Z01... Great article if you've got 5 minutes

Really looking forward to attending tomorrow! Edrych ymlaen i hwn fory 🤩 #WomensHistory #Archives #Conference

Filming with S4C in Llanon's little bwthin was lots of fun! ✨🎥 #History #Hanes #Witchcraft #Witches #Gwrachod #Filming

I have made a grave error.

My petty gripe: not only am I losing my livelihood to AI – now it’s stealing my em dashes too | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian share.google/WL5DFHyk6C9a... I really feel this is a perfectly reasonable gripe — love an em dash 🫣🤷🏼‍♀️

Current reads #NationalPoetryDay

Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.

New opportunity to join this popular lifelong learning course @aberuni.bsky.social open to all. - Pre-recorded lectures (learn in your own time) - Lively seminar discussions - Heaps of reading suggestions & research resources - focus on what interests you - Real world skills & issues + much more!