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Field Notes for Storytellers: Research, Security, and the Archival Muse fills a wide gap in storytelling instruction by helping you organize and conduct the research that underpins the stories you tell. There are four modules in the course, and each of them draws upon my experience as a storyteller, a folklorist, a doctoral researcher of ethically sensitive topics, and the CEO of a technology company.
Greetings, and mòran taing for taking the time to read my newsletter. This is the June 2026 edition of Folkbyte, and it comes to you a week in advance of my departure for Iceland and the ISFNR conference in Reykjavik. Iceland always captivates me long before my feet hit the ground there, and this time I'll also be travelling north to Ásbyrgi Canyon again for the first time in nine years. So part of me is already, inevitably gone as I write these words.
Dispatches from the Word Mines
I'm nearly finished writing the "Superstition" chapter of The Storyteller's Guide to Folklore. Folklorists understand the genre in a few distinct but overlapping ways, and I've included the most critical of these, but I couldn't cram everything I wanted into the chapter. So here's a bit of scholarship that hit the cutting floor:
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