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The Folklore & Fiction Ballads

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From 2019 to 2023, the Folklore & Fiction dispatches and podcasts brought the principles of folkloristics to storytellers of all kinds. They were recommended by the American Folklore Society as a trusted source of folkloristic scholarship, they were the topic of peer-reviewed ethnographic research, and they were adopted as an aid to creative writing in several college and university classrooms. They were also an opportunity for me to sing several ballads in the English and Scottish tradition. I included rough mixes in the podcast editions where I discussed the ballads in question, but I also promised that I would someday gather them into an EP. Here they are along with my deepest gratitude for every reader and listener who supported my work.

Folkbyte Newsletter June 2025

Welcome to the June 2025 edition of the Folkbyte newsletter! In this edition, I'm writing about The Long Hidden Friend, House of the Wolfings, The Songwriter's Guide to Folklore, and a few other newsy bits and bytes.

Housekeeping

It's come to my attention that about a dozen of you have missed the last three newsletters because of a database glitch. If this is you, here are the newsletters you missed. Note that the March 2025 edition contains information about updating your account details if you ever need to do that.

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