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Terri Windling

@terriwindling.bsky.social

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Writer, editor, artist, folklorist. Winner of ten World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Award (for The Wood Wife), the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFWA Solstice Award. Wanderer of the deep, dark forest of story in language and paint. Dartmoor (Devon, UK)

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 8h

"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

Photograph: Lottie, our young brown spaniel, at the edge of the Dartmoor woodland behind my work studio. Light shines under the old wooden gate leading out to the hills beyond.

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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · 8h

After her second husband’s passing, Jane Goodall headed into the forests of Gombe for a little bit of peace. What followed was “a flash of ‘outsight’” that would buoy her for decades to come.

In the Forests of Gombe - Orion Magazine

"How should the mind that can contemplate God relate to our fellow beings, the other life-forms of the world? What is our human responsibility?"

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 8h

Good heavens, could Ollie be any cuter?

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 12h

Dog Sees the Spirits, 1960 by artist and printmaker of Inuit heritage Kenojuak Ashevak #WomensArt

Print featuring a black stylised dog looking up to purple animal ghost-like creatures which float above it

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Sophie Pierce @smpierce.bsky.social · 13h

Spent a morning clearing vegetation around one of Dartmoor’s strangest oddities - the Rev Bray’s inscribed stones. 200 years ago he decided to carve poets’ names into boulders in the Cowsic valley. Some of the stones also have lines from the poems and others have Bardic runes….

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 8h

For those on the other side of the moor, Emma will also be talking about Dartmoor myths & legends with author & broadcaster @smpierce.bsky.social on 9 October in Ashburton. To book tickets: www.dartmoortorsfestival.co.uk

Event poster: 'Tall Tales and Strange Stories' at St Lawrence Chapel, Ashburton, TQ13 7DD, on 9 October at 7 pm. Explore Dartmoor's legends with guide & author Emma Cunis and writer Sophie Pierce, delving into the moor's best-known myths, their origins, and their deep connection to the land and roots. The image is a drawing of a ghostly coach crossing the Dartmoor landscape. Art by Gina Hemery.

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 9h

For those within traveling distance of #Dartmoor, this #nature & #folklore event is coming up in Chagford soon: a talk with Dartmoor historian & guide Emma Cunis, with art by Gina Hemery. Emma's people have lived on the moor for generations; her knowledge of this land is deep and wise.

Image: The poster for "Magical Myths & Moorland Legends" at Endecott House, Chagford, TQ13 8AJ, on 17 October, 7PM: an evening of Dartmoor tales and enchantment with local historian Emma Cunis, folklorist Terri Windling, and art by Gina Hemery. The evening celebrates the publication of Emma's new book, Dartmoor Myths & Legends. For tickets, visit Emma's Dartmoor's Daughter website: www.dartmoorsdaughter.com. The art on the poster is a Dartmoor landscape by Gina Hemery.

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 9h

On my Reading List: Into Being by @lilydunn.bsky.social
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

Book Of The Week: Exploring the radical craft of memoir

Towards the end of her clearsighted and passionate exploration of the craft of memoir writing, author Lily Dunn quotes memoirists she has interviewed for the book.

www.rte.ie

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 9h

These are ground-breaking, influential books by a writer (and friend) I deeply miss.

Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 10h

"You're a mythago. I made you. My dreams made you. Like the journal said..."

A photo of copies of the 1986 Grafton paperback of Mythago Wood, the 1990 Grafton paperback of Lavondyss and the 1994 Grafton paperback of The Hollowing, all by Robert Holdstock. The cover art of the first is by Peter Goodfellow and of the second and third by Geoff Taylor.

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 9h

I may have to buy extra copies to pass on. 🙂

Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 13h

You're very welcome. Another good essay is Annie Adam's The Blessing of the Animal. It's not quite as focused on caretaking, but does discuss dementia, and writing, (and animals!), and it's a beauty. thesewaneereview.com/articles/ble...

The Blessing of the Animal

America's oldest continuously published literary magazine.

thesewaneereview.com

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 1d

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 1d

On Taylor Swift and Lizzie Siddal. I have to admit I didn't see that pairing coming. (Did you, @kylecassidy.bsky.social?)

The Poetry of Tortured Hearts: On Taylor Swift’s Pre-Raphaelite Era

“Ope not thy lips thou foolish one Nor turn to me thy face The blasts of heaven shall strike thee down ere I will give thee grace” –Elizabeth Siddall, “Ope not thy lips thou foolish one” * “I didn’…

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Sophie Pierce @smpierce.bsky.social · 2d

The coach of bones : one of Dartmoor’s stranger stories .. I’ll be chatting to Emma Cunis about the moor’s many myths and legends at historic St Lawrence Chapel, Ashburton 9/10/25 - do join us! Tickets : dartmoortorsfestival.co.uk/tall-tales-a... @dartmoorcollective.org @visitdartmoor.bsky.social

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 1d

"The beauties, the antlered, the winged ones, all awash in their sea of blue light...I thought, God help me, seven years of this, and this the first night...I tried to think of Meg and Gavin, but the blue light came between me and my image of their hearth fire, and blurred the sun on the hillside."

A photo of a copy of the 1992 Gollancz edition of Thomas the Rhymer by Ellen Kushner. The cover art is by Michael Posen.

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 1d

I particularly recommend Marina Benjamin's book 'A Little Give: The Unsung, Unseen, Undone Work of Women' to anyone who wrestles with the competing demands of creative work and caregiving work. @ecatherine.com also wrote a good essay on this: ruadanbooks.com/do-good-work/

Do Good Work - Ruadán Books

E. Catherine Tobler When my mother discovered that I wanted to be a writer, she told a friend at work. I do not know if she told this friend out of pride or vexation, though I suspect the latter. I ha...

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Nicolette Jones @nicolettejones.bsky.social · 1d

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by James Mayhew from his collection of 10 stories, My Book of Classic Nursery Tales. Characterful creatures in an image from The Tortoise and the Hare, made with collage using paper printed with patterns and textures. Otter-Barry Books 9 October @otterbarrybooks.bsky.social

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 2d

Ooh, I haven't read that yet. Thanks!

Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 2d

I was familiar with a lot of them too, but Marina Benjamin's work is completely new to me. I'm reading A Little Give at the moment and it's hitting me hard. The right book at the right time.

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 2d

Here's a direct link to the list:
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/09...

Into Being: a reading list - Manchester University Press

We asked author Lily Dunn to compile a list of books by the authors she interviewed for her new book, Into Being: The radical craft of memoir and its power to transform. You can also view and shop the...

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 2d

Due to the breadth and depth of this reading list, I've now discovered Marina Benjamin's extraordinary work. Thank you, thank you, thank you to Lily Dunn and Manchester U Press.

Three books by Marina Benjamin: A Little Give: The Unsung, Unseen, Undone Work of Women; Insomnia; and The Middle Pause: On Life After Youth.

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 2d

In the aftermath of the weekend's storms, it's a bright and beautiful day here on Dartmoor. Following my dog through the autumn hills, I am reminded of all that is good in the world; and all that is worth the long work of preserving.

Photograph: Lottie, our young brown spaniel, sits in a field close to my work studio. The slope of Meldon Hill is behind her, with the rise of open moorland beyond.

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 2d

Please let me know of good ones you come across too, as this is an interest we seem to share!

Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 2d

Good morning from Dartmoor, Charles, where the intensely stormly weather of the weekend has passed and all is calm again.

Photograph: Our Dartmoor village nestled in farmland, viewed from the hill behind our house. The rise of the open moorl can be glimpsed in the distance (on the upper left).

Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 2d

I feel it's important to resist on ecological grounds too. In this time of climate crisis, it's absolutely horrifying that anyone would promote this energy-gobbling technology.