Greetings, All!
Welcome to the May 2024 Folkbyte newsletter. The clock is ticking on my dissertation defence, which will likely be scheduled for early June. So with apologies, there will be no audio updates in May or June for my work on The Songwriter's Guide to Folklore.
Greetings and welcome to the April 2024 Folkbyte newsletter. I have news on the dissertation and The Storyteller's Guide to Folklore fronts, an excerpt from my preliminary research for The Songwriter's Guide to Folklore, and a monthly Folkbyte newsletter video to share. Onward!
Greetings and welcome to the Folkbyte newsletter for March 2024. I have news on the writing front, an excerpt from my preliminary research for The Songwriter's Guide to Folklore, and the next monthly Folkbyte newsletter video to share. Onward!
Greetings and welcome to the first Folkbyte newsletter. I have news on the writing front, an excerpt from my preliminary research for The Songwriter's Guide to Folklore, and the first monthly Folkbyte newsletter video to share. Onward!
From August 25-29, Sean and I lived aboard the Squander, a 40ft. sloop owned and captained by our sailing instructor, Adrian Rogers. In that time, we sailed 127 nautical miles in sunny weather, rain, and wind to earn our Intermediate Cruising Standard qualification from Sail Canada. Here's a little of our story.
I've already mentioned the first bit of news in various places, but for those of you who haven't seen it, the American Folklore Society (AFS) graciously featured my writing and my Folklore & Fiction work in its "Featured Folklorists" segment a few weeks ago. You can read the article here.
In 2000, I visited Ireland on scholarship for summer study but didn't make it to Kildare and the Solas Bhride Centre, where the Flame of St. Brigid was re-lit 1993 after several centuries of darkness and has been tended by the Brigidine Sisters there since then.
Delighted to be a speaker for The Folklore Podcast Lectures alongside an excellent lineup of fellow folklore researchers. All proceeds support the work of The Folklore Library and Archive and the podcast. You'll find more about the series at the link below.
Greetings, Friends!
I had meant to post a year-end writing recap on New Years' Eve, but I had friends over to play D&D for two days straight, and I'm the glass cannon of the party (sorcerers FTW!). Clearly, casting Tasha's Caustic Brew on invisible giant spiders was far more important than writing about writing. Anyway, here I am, and here's the recap.
Here are the folklore-related memes I published to social media in November 2022.
