Writings
I began my writing life at an early age, passing short stories back and forth with a friend who lived around a corner and up a dirt road. I wrote poetry throughout my teen years more as therapy than artful expression and have always felt a little uncomfortable writing poetry given my name.
I took a playwriting class in graduate school, and that encouraged me to write plays for the next decade or so. I have several scripts available. These plays have been produced and the rough edges smoothed out. Some are original and some are adaptations of folklore and world literature. They include:
- The Odyssey
- Beowulf
- MotherSongs: the Story of Witchcraft from the Paleolithic to the Present
- The Burning Times: a Study of the Continuing Inquisition
- Carolina Folk Tales: Haints and Boogers
- The Blue Bird (an adaptation of the Maeterlinck classic)
- Three Sisters (an adaptation of Chekhov’s work)
- Moby-Dick
- Leviticus: the Fifth Book of Moses
Now I write nonfiction – books mostly. I have published seven and am editing number eight. My books are predominantly concerned with Appalachian folkways, which is my practice as well as my study.
The Village Blog: Writings and Musings
A Find Amongst the Documents
I'm working on the Mother Grove Solstice ritual and ran across this poem. I'm not much of a poet, in spite of my name, but sometimes I can't resist. So, here's this-- Seasoning By Byron Ballard I peel the myth away, smelling the acid in the air, feeling the...
The Rime Moon
Today was the perfect day for garden clean up. Sunny and warm but not hot. Bright enough to give me a headache, by the way. We cleaned the little kitchen garden and then tackled the Italian garden. Cleaned and renovated the beds. I watered the raise bed with its...
Dreaming of Farms
As usual. As always. I grew up in west Buncombe on what was once a pretty little farmstead, with a lovely orchard, a root cellar, a springhead. My parents were not active stewards, shall we say, and the whole place was run-down by the time I was old enough to remember...
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Coming Soon:
The Ragged Wound: Tending the Soul of Appalachia
Feral Church
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Anthologies:
- Which Witch is Which by Patricia Telesco (Essay on Mixed-Gender Dianic Wicca)
- Women’s Voices in Magic, edited by Brandy Williams “Cove Witches and Curanderas”
- Christmas Presence, edited by Celia Miles and Nancy Dillingham. “Getting the Tree Story”
- Clothes Lines, edited by Celia Miles and Nancy Dillingham. “Boots”
- Birthed from Scorched Hearts: Women Respond to War, edited by MariJo Moore. “The Daughters of Boudicca”
- The Crone Initiative, edited by Jay Louise Aldred, Pat Day, and Trista Hendren
- New World Witchery: a Trove of North American Folk Magic, edited by Cory
Thomas Hutcheson - In Defiance of Oppression: the Legacy of Boudicca, edited by Trista
Hendren, Joey Morris, and Pat Daly - My Wandering Uterus: Tales of Traveling While Female, edited by Kate Laity
- Warrior Queen: Answering the Call of the Morrigan, edited by Trista
Hendren, Jessica Johnson, and Pat Daly - Brigid’s Light: Tending the Ancestral Flame of the Beloved Celtic Goddess,
edited by Cairelle Crow and Laura Louella
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