In need of reading recommendations? Some favourite books from the team at Folding Rock 🪨 foldingrock.com/books-in-the...

Another month, another #Substack post. There's some helpful articles linked here about existing online as a #writer (or anyone trying to 'build a brand.') open.substack.com/pub/marielli... #Rest #Christmas #AmReading #AmWriting #BookSky #WritingSky

A small window of peace with a coffee and a well-worn book this afternoon 📚✨ it's been a difficult few weeks so I'm always grateful to find quiet moments like these. What are you reading? #Bookish #BookSky #Reading #CoffeeShop

How gorgeous to have popped up in the “12 Brilliant #Bookish Gifts” guide 📚 really lovely to see this & to be in such good company, & all in support of #Welsh #indie businesses too. Supporting indie bookshops makes a big difference, especially at #Christmas 🎄🌜✨ foldingrock.com/12-brilliant...

The most gorgeous way to spend a stormy December morning... Catching up with Liz Berry's Tranformatrix workshop through Motherlore 🖋️

Love this guide to a sustainable Christmas 🎄 I already do lots of this & will definitely be trying out some of the ideas I haven't yet implemented. Btw when it comes to books — second hand, pre loved & dogeared is just as good a gift as something brand new! 📚 www.theguardian.com/thefilter/20...

What books are you hoping to give or receive this Christmas? 📚✨ • #booksky #bookaholic #jólabókaflóð #iceland #wales #welsh #Christmas

🎅 Looking for a gift for the poetry reader in your life? 📚 Everything in my Ko-fi shop is 25% off until 25th December when you use discount code ISAWONESHIP ko-fi.com/rhysowainwil... Books can be sent signed or unsigned, and if you let me know the person's name I'll write a dedication to them ✍️

I bloody LOVE this!!!

It's never illegal to claim asylum.

Why do the witch trials still matter? Why am I so obsessed with them? Why won't I shut up? 🙃 And what do right wing supporters and swans have to do with any of this? All this and more in the latest Substack... #Witches #WitchTrials #Politics substack.com/home/post/p-...

This is a brilliant, and troubling piece by Jannat Ahmed. It's worth listening to and hearing your voice also. Thank you for being so candid Jannat. I hope the powers that be take note.

Ond oes/oedd gwrachod yn Machynlleth? Beth am ymuno â ni ar Nos Llun am Tywyllwch Tachwedd. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvYI... #Machynlleth #BookSky #Gwrachod Tocynnau 👇🏼 www.penralltgallerybookshop.co.uk/dark-novembe...

Join us for a #DarkNightsareforReading soiree at #AddymanBooks in #HayonWye with 3 writers from 3 indie Welsh presses:⁠ ⁠ @clairefayers.bsky.social @fireflypress.bsky.social @mariellisdunning.bsky.social @honnopress.bsky.social #CarysShannon @parthianbooks.bsky.social ⁠ See you there? 🌙📚⁠

We may look like the Weird Sisters, but I promise we're not plotting Hamnet's demise... We just want to talk about books! So, people of #Machynlleth, please join us for a spooky autumn evening at Pen'rallt Books on Monday 17th at 6:30pm for readings & chats 📚✨ #BookSky #WritingSky #BookLaunch

Just a week to go before this one! I'm a huge fan of Carly's writing, and devoured Carys Shannon's Truth Like Water, so I feel absolutely privileged to be chatting with them both soon 🖊️📚 www.penralltgallerybookshop.co.uk/dark-novembe... #Machynlleth #BookTour #Fiction #WritingSky

Recent book haul from the always brilliant #Aberaeron Book Festival: • 'Gwrachod Cymru' gan Efa Lois • 'There She Goes...' by Gosia Buzzanca • 'Moon Base One' by Jemma King • 'Storm by' @alhub.bsky.social What are you reading? #booksky #shoplocal #poetry #bookhaul #tobereadlist

Horrifying black sows and ghostly apparitions: how the magic and mystery of Wales come alive in winter open.substack.com/pub/marielli... #Halloween #Wales #Folklore

Delightful news that Aberystwyth has become Wales' first UNESCO City of Literature. As anyone who has been here knows, this town has a rich bilingual culture of creativity. I owe so much to the region, its institutions, and its mentors. Llongyfarchiadau! nation.cymru/news/aberyst...

We all associate witches with black hats, cats and broomsticks... But why!? Where did these stereotypes actually come from? open.substack.com/pub/marielli... #Witches #Broomsticks #Familiars #Spells #Cauldrons

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