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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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The most gorgeous way to spend a stormy December morning... Catching up with Liz Berry's Tranformatrix workshop through Motherlore 🖋️
December 9, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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What books are you hoping to give or receive this Christmas? 📚✨
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#booksky #bookaholic #jólabókaflóð #iceland #wales #welsh #Christmas
December 8, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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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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November 13, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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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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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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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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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 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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Waitrose' reaction was knee-jerk and unnecessarily abrupt but it was a reaction to a system that punishes inclusion instead of supporting it.

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#Disability #DisabilityRights #Waitrose
October 26, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Why was there no witch hunt in Wales? 🤔

#Witches #Witchcraft #Wales #WritingSky #Folklore
October 24, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Actual Mhara Starling though 😭🖤🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

#Witchcraft #Fiction #HistoricFiction #Welsh #Wales #MharaStarling
October 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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"you must be kind to the weak, needy and vulnerable. A good leader cares for all folks, not just those that can benefit him, and kindness is the greatest strength..."

Such true words by EM Duffield-Fuller, needed now more than ever.

Killing Hares coming January 2026 ✨
October 23, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Updated events info (sorry to spam you!) 📚🖊

Really looking forward to chatting, signing books and scouting out #indy #bookshops, and in great company too!

Full info, booking links etc here: tinyurl.com/5n8m34yr

#BookSky #BookTour #HistoricFiction #Witch #Aberystwyth #Cardiff #Pontypridd #HayOnWye
October 21, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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It's a Ghastly kind of day...

#TheGhastling #LitMag #Horror #Supernatural #Fiction #BookSky
October 19, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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October 17, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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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
October 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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I'm really enjoying Carys Shannon's debut novel Truth Like Water 🌊📸

Available now from @parthianbooks.bsky.social 👌🏼
October 14, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Yay! ✨
October 13, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Upcoming events, readings, Q&As & other authorly bits...

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

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#BookSky #BookTour
October 12, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Since there's just one week to go until Witsh hits book shelves, I thought you might like a little preview...

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

#WritingSky #Witchcraft #Witchrature #Novel #HistoricFiction #Wales #Witchcraft
October 9, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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People of #Aberystwyth! Join me at @librarywales.bsky.social for spells, blessings & witchy words 🖋️🕷️

Free entry • Book here 👇🏼

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#Wales #BookLaunch #BookTour #History #HistoricFiction
October 8, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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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

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October 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM