Ceallaigh's Blog

Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Hello, and welcome to the Folklore & Fiction newsletter. At the summer and winter solstices, I mimic the sun and pause to reflect on my own creative work. In this edition, I'm discussing representation issues in fiction with a passage from my short story "D is for Duel/One Who Dies as a God Dies," which was published in the D is for Dinosaur anthology.

Friday, June 12, 2020

Here are the folklore-related memes I published to social media in May 2020.

Folkbyte Folk Custom 1

Wednesday, May 6, 2020

Wednesday, May 6, 2020

Here are the folklore-related memes I published to social media in April 2020.

Monday, April 6, 2020

New Books and Newsletters by Canadian Authors

A good friend and fellow author recently mentioned that it's a terrible thing to have a book published during a pandemic. She's proud of her work but doesn't feel she should promote it while so many are worried about so much.

This is where I come in. I care very much for my writing community, and I want to help my fellow authors in these troubled times. With that in mind, here are several new releases and a newsletter by fellow Canadian authors. If you're at home and looking for something to read, they've got you covered.

Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Hello, and welcome to the Folklore & Fiction newsletter. In this edition, I'm writing about curses with help from scholars Natalie Underberg, Evangelos Gr. Avdikos, and others, discussing the use of curses in storytelling, and providing you with an example and a reflective writing exercise. If you're new to the newsletter or missed March's "What is a charm?" edition, do go back and read it before engaging with this one. Many folklore scholars agree that curses may be viewed as negative charms, and with that in mind, this discussion is an extension of the last one (Roper 2003a; 2003b; Ryan, Kapalo, and Pocs 2012).

Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Here are the folklore-related blog posts and memes I published to social media in March 2020.

Blog Posts: Folklore & Fiction Supplement: Keeping a Journal in Uncertain Times

Folkbyte Charms 1 Smooring Lore Folkbyte Charms 2 

Wednesday, March 25, 2020

When my husband Sean was in college, he worked part time for the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, digitizing weather reports from the 19th century. These reports were daily accounts written by average people who went outside and wrote down what they observed. At the time, their work might not have seemed critically important to them, but in a university department where irreplaceable ice core samples were kept in a freezer never permitted to go without power, these humble, daily weather reports contributed fundamental insights about the history of Maine's climate. 

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Hello, and welcome to the Folklore & Fiction newsletter. In this edition, I'm writing about charms with help from scholars Joseph S. Hopkins, Jonathan Roper, and others, discussing the use of charms in storycraft, and providing you with an example and an exercise on the topic.

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Here are the folklore-related blog posts and memes I published to social media in February 2020.

Blog Posts: Ged a Sheòl

Folkbyte Superstition 1 Folkbyte Superstition 2 

Pages