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Mari Ellis Dunning 🖋️
@mariellisdunning.bsky.social
670 followers 1.3K following 160 posts
Author of 'Salacia' & 'Pearl and Bone' 📚
'Witsh' available now 🌛
Creative Writing teacher 📓🖋️
PhD in Welsh Witchcraft 🎓
'Obstinate, headstrong girl'♀️
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I bloody LOVE this!!!
November 19, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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It's never illegal to claim asylum.
November 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Why do the witch trials still matter? Why am I so obsessed with them? Why won't I shut up? 🙃 And what do right wing supporters and swans have to do with any of this? All this and more in the latest Substack...

#Witches #WitchTrials #Politics

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November 14, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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This is a brilliant, and troubling piece by Jannat Ahmed. It's worth listening to and hearing your voice also.

Thank you for being so candid Jannat. I hope the powers that be take note.
lucentdreaming.bsky.social Lucent Dreaming @lucentdreaming.bsky.social · 12d
Some thoughts on the future of Lucent Dreaming from our co-founder Jannat Ahmed.

We appreciate the support we’ve received in every iteration of Lucent and we can’t wait to see what this new season brings 🤍

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November 14, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Ond oes/oedd gwrachod yn Machynlleth? Beth am ymuno â ni ar Nos Llun am Tywyllwch Tachwedd.

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#Machynlleth #BookSky #Gwrachod

Tocynnau 👇🏼
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Gwrach, Plis! ✨ Modern Day Witches of Wales
DILYNA NI 🔔 https://tinyurl.com/2frkduvb Subscribe 🔔 https://tinyurl.com/2frkduvb Mae Rhiannon yn cael ei hadnabod fel ‘boss queen’ y strip club, ond mae ochr arall cudd iddi. Wrth iddi gofleidio…
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November 13, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Join us for a #DarkNightsareforReading soiree at
#AddymanBooks in #HayonWye with 3 writers from 3 indie Welsh presses:⁠
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@clairefayers.bsky.social @fireflypress.bsky.social

@mariellisdunning.bsky.social @honnopress.bsky.social

#CarysShannon @parthianbooks.bsky.social
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See you there? 🌙📚⁠
November 12, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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We may look like the Weird Sisters, but I promise we're not plotting Hamnet's demise... We just want to talk about books! So, people of #Machynlleth, please join us for a spooky autumn evening at Pen'rallt Books on Monday 17th at 6:30pm for readings & chats 📚✨

#BookSky #WritingSky #BookLaunch
November 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Just a week to go before this one! I'm a huge fan of Carly's writing, and devoured Carys Shannon's Truth Like Water, so I feel absolutely privileged to be chatting with them both soon 🖊️📚

www.penralltgallerybookshop.co.uk/dark-novembe...

#Machynlleth #BookTour #Fiction #WritingSky
DARK NOVEMBER CHILL / TYWYLLWCH TACHWEDD — galeri a siop lyfrau pen'rallt gallery bookshop
We're an independent gallery bookshop based in Machynlleth, mid Wales. It's our blend of bookshop, selling a carefully selected collection of reads and pick-up-and-flick-through books \u2013 and…
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November 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Recent book haul from the always brilliant #Aberaeron Book Festival:

• 'Gwrachod Cymru' gan Efa Lois
• 'There She Goes...' by Gosia Buzzanca
• 'Moon Base One' by Jemma King
• 'Storm by' @alhub.bsky.social

What are you reading?

#booksky #shoplocal #poetry #bookhaul #tobereadlist
November 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Horrifying black sows and ghostly apparitions: how the magic and mystery of Wales come alive in winter

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#Halloween #Wales #Folklore
November 10, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Delightful news that Aberystwyth has become Wales' first UNESCO City of Literature. As anyone who has been here knows, this town has a rich bilingual culture of creativity. I owe so much to the region, its institutions, and its mentors. Llongyfarchiadau! nation.cymru/news/aberyst...
Aberystwyth becomes Wales' first UNESCO City of Literature
Aberystwyth has joined a global network of 350 Creative Cities that have been recognised for their excellence in creative fields across the world by becoming Wales’ first UNESCO City of Literature Abe...
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October 31, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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We all associate witches with black hats, cats and broomsticks... But why!? Where did these stereotypes actually come from?

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#Witches #Broomsticks #Familiars #Spells #Cauldrons
November 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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A pleasure & a privilege to have helped my good friend @mariellisdunning.bsky.social launch her debut novel WITSH last week in the Drwm @librarywales.bsky.social, mere hours after Aber was announced as Wales's first UNESCO City of Literature!
Missed out? ⬇️
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Witsh: In Conversation with Mari Ellis Dunning
YouTube video by Llyfrgell Genedlaethol - National Library of Wales
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November 7, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Brilliant article from @cunningfolkmag.bsky.social www.cunning-folk.com/read-posts/t...
Toxic Femininity and the Witch Trials — Cunning Folk Magazine
‘We are the daughters of the witches you couldn’t burn,’ reads a t-shirt in a crowd.  In a woman’s circle, the facilitator at some point announces, ‘men hated women so much, they burnt us.’ Ther...
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November 4, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Nos Galan Gaeaf: the traditional Welsh celebration being eclipsed by modern #Halloween 🎃👻

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#CalanGaeaf #NosGalanGaeaf #Folklore #Wales
Nos Galan Gaeaf: the traditional Welsh celebration being eclipsed by modern Halloween
Nos Galan Gaeaf on October 31 in Wales is steeped in folklore and tradition.
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October 31, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Really looking forward to this evening's launch at @librarywales.bsky.social 📚✨

Tickets have flown & while I'm a tad nervous to be addressing The Drwm after attending so many events there, I can't wait to chat about Welsh witshes, spells, superstition, religion & misogyny.

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October 31, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Writing in The Conversation, Dr Alice Vernon explores how post first world war grief sparked a surge in séances — and how dead soldiers ‘wrote’ home.

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#history #WW1 #spiritualism #seance
After the first world war, séances boomed – and dead soldiers ‘wrote’ home
Never before had death affected so many people at once, and taken so many young men in the prime of their life.
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October 30, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Why did witches ride broomsticks? 🧹

#Witchcraft #Witches #Broomsticks #Magic #WritingSky
October 30, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Perfect evening plans 👌🏼❤️

#WritersSalon with @beewyld.bsky.social & a whole host of Wild Women 🖋️📚
October 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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"It taught me not only that motherhood & creative work can be compatible, & that there's no roadmap for negotiating that, but also that motherhood can complicate & enrich art in ways that make it even more vital & resonant."

Love this by Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett ❤️
This Writing Life: Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett – Folding Rock
Journalist and writer Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett tells us about how motherhood has - and hasn't - changed her writing life on the day of publication for her new book 'The Republic of Parenthood.'
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October 29, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Gosia Buzzanca will be in Bookspace #Cardiff this weekend with her gorgeous #memoir 'There She Goes, My Beautiful World' 🌍 I'll be catching her on Sunday in #Aberaeron & I'm so looking forward to it! 📚
There She Goes My Beautiful World ticket
Join us for an evening in conversation with Gosia Buzzanca, hosted by Sophie Calon, to celebrate her new book There She Goes, My Beautiful World! When: 1/11/25 18:30 start (doors 18:15) Where: 26a…
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October 27, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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"It is not surprising that in women’s hands the historical novel has often become a political tool" — Diana Wallace

Thank you to Kathryn Tann at Folding Rock for asking me to write this piece, in which I ramble on about the crafting of Witsh ✨🖤

#HistoricFiction #Poetry #Novel #BookSky #WritingSky
October 26, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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📣 Poets! 📣

How good does this look!? Overcoming self doubt and improving publication rate sounds very promising...

#WritingSky #Workshops #Poetry
blackboughpoetry.bsky.social Black Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · 29d
Are you a poet? Are you looking to improve your writing routines, profile, publication rate and self confidence

We’ll be working on our writing plans.

Join us on Sunday 16th November, 6.30 - 9.15 Uk time

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#poetry #writing #writers #amwriting #poets
October 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Where to begin!? This month has been an autumnal whirlwind of books, writing, sunbathing (yup!) and socialising.

This issue looks at landscape in literature (‘Truth like Water’ and ‘Storm,’ specifically), combating imposter syndrome and oh, look! It’s Mhara Starling ✨

#BookSky #WritingSky #Witches
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Readers, where to begin!? This month has been an autumnal whirlwind of books, writing, sunbathing (yup!) and socialising. I feel I have so much to say, but in the ever-growing landscape of Substack an...
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October 26, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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‘It’s insanely sinister’: horror writers on the scariest stories they’ve ever read
‘It’s insanely sinister’: horror writers on the scariest stories they’ve ever read
Bloodthirsty ghosts, sadistic supercomputers, creepy childhood games ... Mariana Enríquez, Paul Tremblay, Daisy Johnson and others on the tales that kept them up at night
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October 25, 2025 at 8:31 AM