Tag Archives: marina warner
Ladies of the Fright: Witches!!
Art by Kathleen Jennings as always, from Flight.
Over Halloween I had a chat with the delightful and delovely Lisa Quigley and Mackenzie Kiera, the Ladies of the Fright! About witches (or my “witch work”). Me, sounding very Australian
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Review: Of Sorrow and Such
Well, a year since its release and my lovely Ditmar Award winning Tor.com novella, Of Sorrow and Such keeps getting nice reviews. Huzzah! Thanks, Alasdair Stuart.
Mistress Gideon is a witch. The people of Eddas Meadow, the village where she lives, either don’t
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Sweet! Infinite Adaptations …
Happy-happy-joy-joy! In today’s mail is the latest WQ magazine – the Adaptation issue.
My excitement? Is caused by seeing the article I wrote about the enduring power of fairy tales.
Critic and writer Marina Warner
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New Wine in Old Bottles: A Meditation on Writing
Arthur Rackman's Little Match Girl
(This is an extract from my MA thesis from 2006, and is a meditation on my own writing of Black-Winged Angels and Carter’s The Bloody Chamber and Donoghue’s Kissing the
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The Chosen Girl – Happily Never After
This is a little something extracted from my Masters thesis, Black-Winged Angels: Theoretical Underpinnings (which is a collection of nine reloaded fairytales and an accompanying exegesis). It’s just lying around, so why not post it here? Complete with dodgy bibliography
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