Terri Windling
@terriwindling.bsky.social
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
Dartmoor, Devon, UK
Pinned
"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
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“It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent—lose your invaluable curiosity... It’s as simple as that.”
-Tove Jansson
-Tove Jansson
January 1, 2026 at 6:12 AM
“It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent—lose your invaluable curiosity... It’s as simple as that.”
-Tove Jansson
-Tove Jansson
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Dartmoor, Devon, West Country friends: The Chagford Mummers will be performing all day on Sunday, 4 January, traveling from pub to pub in Drewsteignton and Chagford. It's traditional, folkloric, silly, and free...but the players won't say no to a pint of beer. #Mumming #Folklore #FolkDrama
December 17, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Dartmoor, Devon, West Country friends: The Chagford Mummers will be performing all day on Sunday, 4 January, traveling from pub to pub in Drewsteignton and Chagford. It's traditional, folkloric, silly, and free...but the players won't say no to a pint of beer. #Mumming #Folklore #FolkDrama
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It's the national year of reading in the uk in 2026. Instead of asking "why don't kids read any more", ask "how can I help them find the stories (and non fic) they will fall in love with". Less "get off my lawn whippersnappers" and more "come, sit on the lawn, here's a comic".
January 1, 2026 at 9:47 AM
It's the national year of reading in the uk in 2026. Instead of asking "why don't kids read any more", ask "how can I help them find the stories (and non fic) they will fall in love with". Less "get off my lawn whippersnappers" and more "come, sit on the lawn, here's a comic".
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Have just seen this, I think for the first time -
January 1, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Have just seen this, I think for the first time -
"Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year's prayer, not a resolution. I'm praying for courage." - Susan Sontag
Wishing you kindness, courage, enchanting stories, and abundant creativity as new year unfolds.
Wishing you kindness, courage, enchanting stories, and abundant creativity as new year unfolds.
January 1, 2026 at 11:45 AM
"Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year's prayer, not a resolution. I'm praying for courage." - Susan Sontag
Wishing you kindness, courage, enchanting stories, and abundant creativity as new year unfolds.
Wishing you kindness, courage, enchanting stories, and abundant creativity as new year unfolds.
Our Lottie turned three years old this week. She tumbled into our family at an inopportune time and caused absolute havoc, but stole our hearts. Now I can't imagine life without this bright-eyed, funny, loving, and irrepressibly joyful little soul.
December 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Our Lottie turned three years old this week. She tumbled into our family at an inopportune time and caused absolute havoc, but stole our hearts. Now I can't imagine life without this bright-eyed, funny, loving, and irrepressibly joyful little soul.
Happy winter holidays from me and the little reindeer, whatever you may be celebrating this season. And for those who find the holidays hard, for all kinds of reasons, I'm thinking of you especially today. May the days pass gently.
December 28, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Happy winter holidays from me and the little reindeer, whatever you may be celebrating this season. And for those who find the holidays hard, for all kinds of reasons, I'm thinking of you especially today. May the days pass gently.
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Good morning. It was good to be back in the fields.
December 23, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Good morning. It was good to be back in the fields.
If you're looking for a last-minute holiday present for someone who loves art and biographies, 'Artists, Siblings, Visionaries' is terrific. Our spaniel, Lottie, does't look terribly impressed in this picture, but I was.
Having read all the previous biographies of Gwen & Augustus John, I was intrigued by @judithmackrell.bsky.social's new joint biography, wondering what more could be written about these two artists. Quite a lot, as it turns out. It is a magnificent and insightful book, and I didn't want it to end.
December 22, 2025 at 7:56 AM
If you're looking for a last-minute holiday present for someone who loves art and biographies, 'Artists, Siblings, Visionaries' is terrific. Our spaniel, Lottie, does't look terribly impressed in this picture, but I was.
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I had this poster tacked up in my art studio (on Endicott Street in the North End of Boston) in the late '80s. Too many items on this list are still the same all these years later. <sigh>
Guerrilla Girls, 'The Advantages Of Being A Woman Artist', 1988 poster #womensart
August 8, 2025 at 7:08 AM
I had this poster tacked up in my art studio (on Endicott Street in the North End of Boston) in the late '80s. Too many items on this list are still the same all these years later. <sigh>
Another book for my Reading List. I'm happy to see some fine women artists in this collection of 20th century art conversations.
Presuming to plug this book which was a labour of love & about which I never even had a chat with a publicist. It contains 20 verbatim 1965/6 conversations with huge names of American art (see back of jacket) & is beautifully designed. The conversations were among 100 recorded in one year by my dad.
December 22, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Another book for my Reading List. I'm happy to see some fine women artists in this collection of 20th century art conversations.
A beautiful piece on landscape, loss, and transformation by one of my favourite writers: Terry Tempest Williams, based in Utah.
emergencemagazine.org/essay/a-holl...
emergencemagazine.org/essay/a-holl...
A Hollow Bone – Terry Tempest Williams
Bringing us into her love affair with the receding Great Salt Lake, Terry Tempest Williams embraces a fearless interspecies intimacy and summons us to be present with the losses in this landscape.
emergencemagazine.org
December 21, 2025 at 3:38 PM
A beautiful piece on landscape, loss, and transformation by one of my favourite writers: Terry Tempest Williams, based in Utah.
emergencemagazine.org/essay/a-holl...
emergencemagazine.org/essay/a-holl...
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A great start to the weekend of the winter solstice!
What a morning at Newgrange today.
The livestream link now available - be sure tune in on the morning of 21 December at 8:40am.
🔗 gov.ie/solstice 👈save it, share it, join in!
#ShareTheSolstice #NewgrangeSolstice #WinterSolstice
📸 OPW Guides
What a morning at Newgrange today.
The livestream link now available - be sure tune in on the morning of 21 December at 8:40am.
🔗 gov.ie/solstice 👈save it, share it, join in!
#ShareTheSolstice #NewgrangeSolstice #WinterSolstice
📸 OPW Guides
December 19, 2025 at 1:14 PM
A great start to the weekend of the winter solstice!
What a morning at Newgrange today.
The livestream link now available - be sure tune in on the morning of 21 December at 8:40am.
🔗 gov.ie/solstice 👈save it, share it, join in!
#ShareTheSolstice #NewgrangeSolstice #WinterSolstice
📸 OPW Guides
What a morning at Newgrange today.
The livestream link now available - be sure tune in on the morning of 21 December at 8:40am.
🔗 gov.ie/solstice 👈save it, share it, join in!
#ShareTheSolstice #NewgrangeSolstice #WinterSolstice
📸 OPW Guides
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Happy Winter Solstice, one and all - and welcome back, Light ✨
And thank you @cstrawbridgeart.bsky.social for allowing me to share your magical Winter Fox and Solstice Blessings painting!
#wintersolstice
And thank you @cstrawbridgeart.bsky.social for allowing me to share your magical Winter Fox and Solstice Blessings painting!
#wintersolstice
December 21, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Happy Winter Solstice, one and all - and welcome back, Light ✨
And thank you @cstrawbridgeart.bsky.social for allowing me to share your magical Winter Fox and Solstice Blessings painting!
#wintersolstice
And thank you @cstrawbridgeart.bsky.social for allowing me to share your magical Winter Fox and Solstice Blessings painting!
#wintersolstice
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On the shortest day, have cheer - the light will return! This photo was given to me a few days ago by my friend Clare Nettleton. It shows winter sun lighting up the window I made for Grace’s Room, at Williton Hospital, Somerset. It is of Exmoor …
December 21, 2025 at 7:51 AM
On the shortest day, have cheer - the light will return! This photo was given to me a few days ago by my friend Clare Nettleton. It shows winter sun lighting up the window I made for Grace’s Room, at Williton Hospital, Somerset. It is of Exmoor …
Musicians with a Solstice Tree puppet, and two of the three folkloric Obby Osses who danced down the aisles of our village church at this year's Winter Solstice gathering. Photographs by Claire-Shauna Saunders. Dartmoor, Devon, UK.
December 21, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Musicians with a Solstice Tree puppet, and two of the three folkloric Obby Osses who danced down the aisles of our village church at this year's Winter Solstice gathering. Photographs by Claire-Shauna Saunders. Dartmoor, Devon, UK.
A poem for Winter Solstice: "The Shortest Day" by Susan Cooper, author The Dark is Rising and numerous other luminous books.
The image is from www.thelostland.com. The poem is © Susan Cooper.
The image is from www.thelostland.com. The poem is © Susan Cooper.
December 21, 2025 at 7:14 AM
A poem for Winter Solstice: "The Shortest Day" by Susan Cooper, author The Dark is Rising and numerous other luminous books.
The image is from www.thelostland.com. The poem is © Susan Cooper.
The image is from www.thelostland.com. The poem is © Susan Cooper.
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A wee gift from @righttoroam.bsky.social this season: our first Christmas film!
It's a beautiful mini-doc profiling the concept of Wild Service on a neglected river in east London, now being restored by a community of guerrilla guardians...
Check it out here:
youtu.be/7sjOGOguq5A
It's a beautiful mini-doc profiling the concept of Wild Service on a neglected river in east London, now being restored by a community of guerrilla guardians...
Check it out here:
youtu.be/7sjOGOguq5A
The London barrister who declared a river sacred and began to fight for its rights
YouTube video by Right To Roam
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December 19, 2025 at 5:33 PM
A wee gift from @righttoroam.bsky.social this season: our first Christmas film!
It's a beautiful mini-doc profiling the concept of Wild Service on a neglected river in east London, now being restored by a community of guerrilla guardians...
Check it out here:
youtu.be/7sjOGOguq5A
It's a beautiful mini-doc profiling the concept of Wild Service on a neglected river in east London, now being restored by a community of guerrilla guardians...
Check it out here:
youtu.be/7sjOGOguq5A
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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar
Window 20
‘Winter Sunrise’
Artist: SR Badmin
Window 20
‘Winter Sunrise’
Artist: SR Badmin
December 20, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar
Window 20
‘Winter Sunrise’
Artist: SR Badmin
Window 20
‘Winter Sunrise’
Artist: SR Badmin
An evocative winter image by my Dartmoor neighbour Virginia Lee:
December 20, 2025 at 4:54 PM
An evocative winter image by my Dartmoor neighbour Virginia Lee:
Reposting for New York friends. What a great line-up!
In just 🌟ONE MONTH 🌟BBB is BBBack! Join us on 1/20 at 7pm at Barrow's to hear tales from @amandacockrell.bsky.social @ellenkushner.bsky.social @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social and @michaelswanwick.bsky.social ! Sips, stories and a salon-like atmosphere -- don't miss it! 🍸📖🎙️
More: BrooklynBooksBooze.com
More: BrooklynBooksBooze.com
December 20, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Reposting for New York friends. What a great line-up!
This week I was invited onto performance artist Jolie Rose's 'Nonsense in the Chaos' podcast. It's different than the books-and-publishing talks I usually do, being a conversation about myth, ritual, nature, Spirit, & kairos time. If that appeals, have a listen. It's on Apple podcasts, Spotify, etc.
December 20, 2025 at 12:01 PM
This week I was invited onto performance artist Jolie Rose's 'Nonsense in the Chaos' podcast. It's different than the books-and-publishing talks I usually do, being a conversation about myth, ritual, nature, Spirit, & kairos time. If that appeals, have a listen. It's on Apple podcasts, Spotify, etc.
On my reading list:
"I take a synthetic flower from her,
Twirling its wire stem between my fingers.
The storms part momentarily below,
And together we glimpse the new world's seas."
@oliverklangmead.bsky.social
Twirling its wire stem between my fingers.
The storms part momentarily below,
And together we glimpse the new world's seas."
@oliverklangmead.bsky.social
December 19, 2025 at 12:39 PM
On my reading list:
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'Winter hares in conversation' by UK contemporary printmaker Angela Harding #WomensArt #ArtAdvent
December 16, 2025 at 6:54 AM
'Winter hares in conversation' by UK contemporary printmaker Angela Harding #WomensArt #ArtAdvent
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“And then I laughed.”
Absolute winner of today’s One-Line Paragraph Award.
Absolute winner of today’s One-Line Paragraph Award.
Today's Love Letter is a reflection on the incredible, healing, life-affirming power of pain -- and how good it is to get the chance to hurt.
When It Hurts
A Love Letters Feature by Sarah Gailey - December 2025
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December 17, 2025 at 10:41 PM
“And then I laughed.”
Absolute winner of today’s One-Line Paragraph Award.
Absolute winner of today’s One-Line Paragraph Award.