Simon Young makes a very welcome return to Gramarye with a look at the ‘Kinder Mermaid’ and other lake-dwelling ladies around England and Wales. www.sussexfolktalecentre.org/portfolio/gr...

Our next issue of Gramarye, the journal of the Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy, is proudly sponsored by the Writing Equipment Society! Their support helps us continue sharing folklore and fantasy research and creative work. www.sussexfolktalecentre.org/portfolio/gr...

The Chichester Centre for Fairy Tales, Fantasy and Speculative Fiction's journal Gramarye issue 28 is now available to preorder! store.chi.ac.uk/product-cata...

Rugby Yarn Bombers are celebrating the 160th anniversary of the first publication of Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland. Visitors can enjoy more than 30 scenes from the Alice stories as they appear in shop windows and public spaces in the town. www.warwickshireworld.com/whats-on/thi...?

The conference Fairy-Tale Trouble and the Art of Fluidity: Gender, Genre, Media will take place at the University of Cambridge, 21-22 March 2025.

• Conference programme: buff.ly/YVXcXdh
• Conference registration: buff.ly/OlZyNkq
• Creative storytelling workshop registration: buff.ly/m0upsw9

The wonderful Joanna Gilar is giving a talk about Folklore and will read some stories at Chichester Grange care home this Thursday 6 March at 2:30 p.m. This is also open to the local community (not suitable for children).

To attend please call 01243 684930 or email Jessica.Barrett@careuk.com

Feminism and Folklore is an international writing contest organized at Wikipedia annually in the month of February and March to document folk cultures and women in folklore in different regions of the world on Wikipedia. https://buff.ly/41hz03R

#FolkloreThursday

Event: 'Race and the Development of the European Fairy Tale', A talk by Kimberly J. Lau, Tuesday, 4 March 2025, 6 – 7 p.m. GMT, online (Teams) https://buff.ly/3W7AAn3

People in fairy-tale research are getting some....really interesting headlines in their Google alerts this week. We thought the Guardian one couldn't be topped but the internet can always go weirder. https://buff.ly/4gNY8Wu

We would like to wish a very merry Christmas to all our followers :)