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Mari Ellis Dunning 🖋️ @mariellisdunning.bsky.social · 1d

Some lovely quotes from early readers of Witsh ✾

Out tomorrow! Preview event at the lovely Noisy Newt #books in #Llandeilo on the 24th Oct.

You can grab your copy here:
www.lovereading.co.uk/book/9781916...

#Witches #WritingSky #BookSky

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Mari Ellis Dunning 🖋️ @mariellisdunning.bsky.social · 2d

I'm really enjoying Carys Shannon's debut novel Truth Like Water 🌊📸

Available now from @parthianbooks.bsky.social 👌🏼

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Mari Ellis Dunning 🖋️ @mariellisdunning.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks for sharing this & I hope you like it!

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Mari Ellis Dunning 🖋️ @mariellisdunning.bsky.social · 2d

What are the historic origins of stereotypes we associate with witches, like cauldrons & black cats? 🐈🧙🏼‍♀️🧹🍲🦇

theconversation.com/black-hats-c...

#witchcraft #witches #familiar

Black hats, cauldrons and broomsticks: the historic origins of witch iconography

Women in early modern Wales typically dressed in long skirts, large woollen shawls, and tall, black hats. Could they have inspired stereotypes of the witch?

theconversation.com

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Mari Ellis Dunning 🖋️ @mariellisdunning.bsky.social · 2d

And I shall do my best to answer them, as long as I'm not held up by resurrected soldiers on the way there (will bring a #Snickers just in case though) #IYKYK #Aberystwyth

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Aberystwyth University @aberuni.bsky.social · 2d

🧙‍♀️ Writing in The Conversation, Mari Ellis Dunning discusses how women in early modern Wales typically dressed in long skirts, large woollen shawls, and tall, black hats. Could they have inspired stereotypes of the witch?

More: tinyurl.com/5e8c549h

#witch #stereotypes #inspiration #wales

Black hats, cauldrons and broomsticks: the historic origins of witch iconography

Women in early modern Wales typically dressed in long skirts, large woollen shawls, and tall, black hats. Could they have inspired stereotypes of the witch?

tinyurl.com

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Mari Ellis Dunning 🖋️ @mariellisdunning.bsky.social · 3d

And how wonderful will this be with my favourite ghost hunter, @alicevernon10.bsky.social 👻 Aberystwyth is in for a treat!

Emma Butler-Way @ebutler-way.bsky.social · 4d

And after that, I'm hot-footing it down the hill to Waterstones, trying to avoid being waylaid by ghosts with unfinished business at crossroads, to chat to @alicevernon10.bsky.social about her new book, GHOSTED. Will I be able to sleep afterwards? Who knows...
www.waterstones.com/events/alice...

Alice Vernon launches Ghosted | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones

Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Alice Vernon launches Ghosted today.

www.waterstones.com

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Mari Ellis Dunning 🖋️ @mariellisdunning.bsky.social · 3d

Yay! ✨

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Mari Ellis Dunning 🖋️ @mariellisdunning.bsky.social · 4d

Upcoming events, readings, Q&As & other authorly bits...

Looking forward to chatting with @alhub.bsky.social (& others who aren't on Bluesky!)

mariellisdunning.cymru/events-works...

#BookSky #BookTour

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GossamerWight Literary Magazine @gossamerwight.com · 5d

Look, Yule has come early! Delivered earlier this afternoon from www.lovereading.co.uk ... "Witsh" by @mariellisdunning.bsky.social

If you haven't already, we'd highly recommend visiting Mari's website: mariellisdunning.cymru and linktr.ee/maridunning.

#Witchcraft #Novel #HistoricFiction #Wales

The front colour, in colour, of "Witsh", the debut witchcraft novel by Mari Ellis Dunning.

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Mari Ellis Dunning 🖋️ @mariellisdunning.bsky.social · 7d

Since there's just one week to go until Witsh hits book shelves, I thought you might like a little preview...

👇🏼
open.substack.com/pub/marielli...

#WritingSky #Witchcraft #Witchrature #Novel #HistoricFiction #Wales #Witchcraft

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Mari Ellis Dunning 🖋️ @mariellisdunning.bsky.social · 8d

Can't make it? Watch online instead!

www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/onl...

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Mari Ellis Dunning 🖋️ @mariellisdunning.bsky.social · 8d

People of #Aberystwyth! Join me at @librarywales.bsky.social for spells, blessings & witchy words 🖋️🕷️

Free entry • Book here 👇🏼

www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/cer...

#Wales #BookLaunch #BookTour #History #HistoricFiction

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GossamerWight Literary Magazine @gossamerwight.com · 8d

#Essay: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, by C. S. Lewis. I compare Lewis’ children’s classic with Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces: The Call to Adventure, Refusal of the Call, The Crossing of the First Threshold, and Supernatural Aid. bit.ly/4nFyFSi

#Narnia #CSLewis #Booksky

Cropped front cover image of the full-colour Collins collector's edition of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, by C. S. Lewis. Cover illustration © Pauline Baynes.

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Mari Ellis Dunning 🖋️ @mariellisdunning.bsky.social · 9d

Did you know only 5 people were killed on charges of witchcraft in Wales, in comparison with hundreds in England & thousands in Scotland?

But why did #Wales not see a witch hunt..?

#witchcraft #history #witchtrials #historicfiction #writingsky #witches #novel

open.substack.com/pub/marielli...

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Mari Ellis Dunning 🖋️ @mariellisdunning.bsky.social · 10d

✾ W I T S H ✾
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After so many hours of research & writing & redrafting, two babies, a few other publications and projects & a whole lot of life along the way, I can't even describe the feeling of holding six years of work in my hands 📚🖤
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#Witchrature #HistoricFiction #witches #feministwriting #book

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Mari Ellis Dunning 🖋️ @mariellisdunning.bsky.social · 11d

Such an engaging and inspiring morning in the company of some remarkable people @amc-waw.bsky.social #WAWConference2025

#WomensArchives #History #HistoricalFiction

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Mari Ellis Dunning 🖋️ @mariellisdunning.bsky.social · 11d

How to live a good life in difficult times: Yuval Noah Harari, Rory Stewart and Maria Ressa in conversation | Books | The Guardian share.google/LiaZSM2j7Z01...

Great article if you've got 5 minutes

How to live a good life in difficult times: Yuval Noah Harari, Rory Stewart and Maria Ressa in conversation

From superintelligent AI to the climate and democracy, three leading thinkers discuss how to navigate the future

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Mari Ellis Dunning 🖋️ @mariellisdunning.bsky.social · 12d

Really looking forward to attending tomorrow! Edrych ymlaen i hwn fory 🤩

#WomensHistory #Archives #Conference

Archif Menywod Cymru ~ Women's Archive Wales @amc-waw.bsky.social · Sep 11

Have you registered yet for our annual conference in Aberystwyth, 4-5 October? Registration deadline is 25 September! The conference is open to everyone and includes talks and films relating to the history of women in Wales. Visit our website for details:
womensarchivewales.org/en/

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Mari Ellis Dunning 🖋️ @mariellisdunning.bsky.social · 13d

Filming with S4C in Llanon's little bwthin was lots of fun! ✨🎥

#History #Hanes #Witchcraft #Witches #Gwrachod #Filming

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Mari Ellis Dunning 🖋️ @mariellisdunning.bsky.social · 13d

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Mari Ellis Dunning 🖋️ @mariellisdunning.bsky.social · 13d

I have made a grave error.

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Mari Ellis Dunning 🖋️ @mariellisdunning.bsky.social · 14d

My petty gripe: not only am I losing my livelihood to AI – now it’s stealing my em dashes too | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian share.google/WL5DFHyk6C9a...

I really feel this is a perfectly reasonable gripe — love an em dash 🫣🤷🏼‍♀️

My petty gripe: not only am I losing my livelihood to AI – now it’s stealing my em dashes too

The humble em dash is being used as a tell that something is written by a large language model. But it’s James Shackell’s favourite piece of punctuation, and he’s not ready to lose it

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Mari Ellis Dunning 🖋️ @mariellisdunning.bsky.social · 14d

Current reads #NationalPoetryDay

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 15d

Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.

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