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
The Lusty Month of May
This is woad. Ysatis tinctoria. It's grown as a dye plant but I use it as a magical oil, to access my inner Pict. Merry May, all! I've spent the day running errands and now it's too hot outside to work in the garden. That makes it a good day for laundry though...
Back to Back…and Back Again. But, for Now, I’m Back
This is a repost from my Matreon account, as I try to get caught up. See for yourself. Golly. It has been a zinger of a ride, I tell you. Back in February, I cancelled an appearance in Pennsylvania because I had a gum infection--or so I thought. I've had these off and...
Too Long Away
I'm still not back in the swing of blogging, mostly because I need to do it from my phone. I've become someone who does so much from that little Android box and don't open my laptop as much as I should. We are in a helluvan election year and I want us to walk through...
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Coming Soon:
The Ragged Wound: Tending the Soul of Appalachia
Feral Church
I welcome readers and friends to join my Matreon to read the very latest writing. I share brand-new thoughts and experimental writing there.
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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