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Terri Windling

@terriwindling.bsky.social

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Writer, editor, artist, folklorist. Winner of ten World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Award (for The Wood Wife), the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFWA Solstice Award. Wanderer of the deep, dark forest of story in language and paint. Dartmoor (Devon, UK)

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 7d

"How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but in oneself? There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light." - Barry Lopez

Photograph: Lottie, our young brown spaniel, at the edge of the Dartmoor woodland behind my work studio. Light shines under the old wooden gate leading out to the hills beyond.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 8h

I will cut adrift—I will sit on pavements and drink coffee—I will dream; I will take my mind out of its iron cage and let it swim—this fine October.

- Virginia Woolf
#Womensart

Monochrome photograph featuring a white woman sitting sideways on a patterned armchair dressed in a dark jacket and skirt and with her hand raised to her face

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 5h

Good heavens, I didn't know this fabulous video is on YouTube. It's lovely to see my friends and neighbours Brian and Wendy Froud when they were still so very young! I've spent the last year helping them with a new book (we're not allowed to reveal the subject yet), which will be out in autumn 2026.

Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 3d

"The World of the Dark Crystal" documentary (1983, 1 hour) is available for free on Youtube.
>> www.catsuka.com/breves/2025-...

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Nicolette Jones @nicolettejones.bsky.social · 6h

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Jacques Goldstyn from Sketch, a wonderful (& very grown-up) graphic novel about a child who is drawn differently & is creative, imaginative and unconventional in a strictly conventional community. Skilled, lighthearted cartoon in ink & watercolour. Greystone Kids 16 Oct.

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 6h

I hear them through my bedroom window at night, from the woods that edge our back garden. Such a beautiful and evocative sound to fall asleep to.

Jackie Curtis @jcurtisart.bsky.social · 1d

Sound up!

Tawny owls last night.

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Melissa Caruso @melissacaruso.bsky.social · 20h

The best thing you can do for your writing is to take good care of yourself. The work comes easier, faster, and better when you've got full bars.

Corollary: The best thing we can do to get more amazing art from our faves is to take good care of the artists.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 21h

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 1d

A reminder that this is happening in Chagford on Friday evening. All are welcome. #Dartmoor #Folklore

Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 7d

For those within traveling distance of #Dartmoor, this #nature & #folklore event is coming up in Chagford soon: a talk with Dartmoor historian & guide Emma Cunis, with art by Gina Hemery. Emma's people have lived on the moor for generations; her knowledge of this land is deep and wise.

Image: The poster for "Magical Myths & Moorland Legends" at Endecott House, Chagford, TQ13 8AJ, on 17 October, 7PM: an evening of Dartmoor tales and enchantment with local historian Emma Cunis, folklorist Terri Windling, and art by Gina Hemery. The evening celebrates the publication of Emma's new book, Dartmoor Myths & Legends. For tickets, visit Emma's Dartmoor's Daughter website: www.dartmoorsdaughter.com. The art on the poster is a Dartmoor landscape by Gina Hemery.

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 1d

On my Reading List:

Erin Coughlin Hollowell @beingpoetry.bsky.social · 1d

It is such an honor to have one of my poems within the pages of this collection with so many of my poet heroes. Thank you Luisa A. Igloria, David Hassler, and Aileen Cassinetto for this work of the heart.

Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 2d

Good morning from Dartmoor, Charles. I hope all is well on your side of the world.

Photograph: three Dartmoor ponies in a field close to my work studio. A grey-and-white pony looks toward the viewer, a brown pony grazes in the background, and the white pony is beyond the picture frame. There is farmland in the distance, with the open moor rising above.

Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 2d

A musician's bow is so important. (My husband's uncle was a master bow maker, and thus we know something about how individual and precious they are.) If you are in the UK, please help boost the signal.

Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 3d

My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.

Lost viola bow on the way from Honor Oak Station to Heathrow Terminal 2. The bow slid from its bow case somewhere along the way, possibly on the train. TFL contacted already.
It weighs 68.2 grams and has got a stamped DODD next to the frog. If any info on this, please pm me.

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Mat Pringle @matpringle.bsky.social · 4d

‘Combining my love of folklore and stupid dances here are some linocut mummers. Mummers were (are) cavorting masked performers in folk play or mime often demanding food or booze for their efforts. The hare mummer is dancing like a goofball to the quiet bit in 'Blisters in the Sun'…’

Linocut illustration of a dancing Mummer hare next to the lino plate.

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Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 4d

Kirsteen McNish introduces 'Flow' — a zine made in collaboration with @dartmoorcollective.org, contemplating the movement and flux which has taken place on the moor over hundreds of thousands of years www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/10/flow...

Image: Jaiyana Chelikha

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Paul Zimmerman @paulczimmerman.bsky.social · 4d

If you’re an archaeologist and have never done Skype A Scientist, I urge you to give it a try. It’s a lot of fun!

Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 4d

Here I am. Once again. I'm out of archaeologists.

We matched 576 groups w/archaeologists, leaving 13 groups unmatched. This brings me pain! We've never run out of scientists like this before. 598 requests for one category is A LOT. But still.

Archaeologists 🥺
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

Skype a Scientist gives you the opportunity to connect with students and the public around the world.

www.skypeascientist.com

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 4d

While it can't and shouldn't be compared to Tom Holland's Lip Sync masterpiece, the Netherlands-based CDK dance company's take on Somebody I Used to Know by Goyte is another video I keep returning to when my spirits need a lift.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=REPP...

CDK - Somebody That I Used To Know by Gotye

YouTube video by Sergio Reis

www.youtube.com

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Rob Maslen @profrmaslen.bsky.social · 6d

In May this year I had a conversation with Graham Foster about Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan (1946), which he recorded for his brilliant podcast Ninety-Nine Novels. Here it is!
www.anthonyburgess.org/podcasts/nin...

Ninety-Nine Novels: Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake - The International Anthony Burgess Foundation

In 1984, Anthony Burgess published Ninety-Nine Novels, a selection of his favourite novels in English since 1939. The list is typically idiosyncratic, and shows the breadth of Burgess’s interest in fi...

www.anthonyburgess.org

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 4d

Today, The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin opens at AA Gallery in London! Curated by Sarah Shin and Harriet Jennings, the exhibition presents a selection of Ursula's maps, including some that have never been exhibited before.

A photo of the entrance to The Word for World exhibition, with two banners hanging vertically down outside the doorway to a brick building with white-paned windows. A row of bicycles are parked in front. The banners are purple and white and say the name of the exhibition and Ursula K. Le Guin's name.

A cord-wrapped rock rests on a vivid blue background next to a map of and program for The Word for World exhibition.

A stack of copies of The Word for World book, which shows the title in vivid blue against a black cloth cover.

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks, Charles. The two projects I'm working on are worth it, and I've got some "away time" planned in a couple of weeks to look forward to. 🙂

Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 5d

Lottie sleeps on the studio sofa, snoring softly as I work. I can't rest today (deadlines, deadlines), so I've outsourced this job to her.

Photograph: Lottie, a young brown Sprocker Spaniel, sleeps on the sofa in my work cabin, snuggled against a blue Morris blanket. A reproduction of a medieval French tapestry hangs on the wall behind her.

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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 5d

I wrote this quite a few years ago now. CW: what you'd expect. richarddsmyth.com/2020/11/03/o...

Sarah Owen MP @sarahowen.org.uk · 6d

Today marks the start of Baby Loss Awareness Week.

This year, it comes as the UK is about to pass a law guaranteeing the right to bereavement leave for miscarriage, making us one of only 4 countries in the world to offer it.

My heart is with everyone who experiences the heartbreak of baby loss.

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 5d

That's a beautiful and heartbreaking piece, Richard. Thank you for sharing it. I have too many friends who have gone through this as well, the depth of their grief too often unacknowledged by the world around them.

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Annie Worsley @annieworsley.bsky.social · 6d

The stones of Calanais... brooding, magical, other-worldly... a remarkable place especially on a wild Hebridean day.

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Marina Benjamin @marinabenjamin.bsky.social · Sep 4

Always a joy to work with Jay Griffiths. Her unique understanding of our relationship to nature shines through this essay. @aeon.co
aeon.co/essays/why-w...

Why we should tune into the orchestra of the animal world | Aeon Essays

Listen to the boundless sounds of nature, the great animal orchestra, whose songs imbue the world with fresh meaning

aeon.co

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 5d

Only one, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. Class of 1974.

Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 5d

What a gorgeous setting! I'm glad it went well.

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Steve Toase @stevetoase.bsky.social · 5d

I'm trying to get some writing done, but this morning we had seven magpies and two jays feeding in the garden. It felt like I was in a Charles de Lint novel, and honestly, it's very distracting. However, it bodes well for my corvid army.

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 5d

Good morning from me and Lottie, Charles. We hope you have a good weekend.

Photograph: Lottie, a young brown spaniel, on the path leading into the woods.