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
Terri Windling
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"Get up from your desk and wander outside occasionally. To be a good writer one needs to be a good observer, and there isn't a lot to be observed at desk level." - Jane Yolen
Lottie and I wish you a good weekend. I'll be back in the studio, and back online, on Monday.
Heart-breaking news.
"Step across the boundary and the trespass of story will begin. The forest takes a deep breath...This is the moment of beginning, the pause on the threshold before the journey. So many tales begin here, hard by a great forest."
- Jay Griffiths (Kith: The Riddle of the Childscape)
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Congratulations to all the Nebula winners, and to the finalists as well. I'm particularly pleased that @amalelmohtar.com's gorgeous, gorgeous book has been recognized for the marvel it is.
"At its best, fantasy rewards the reader with a sense of wonder about what lies within the heart of the commonplace world." - Patricia A. McKillip
Photograph: Lottie finds wonder in the emergence of foxgloves on her hill.
"So what is wild? What is wilderness? What are dreams but an internal wilderness and what is desire but a wildness of the soul?" - Louise Erdrich (from The Blue Jay's Dance)
Indeed. Fully agree with you 👍
The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), and the children’s book world, is saddened by the news that author, mentor and friend, Jane Yolen, has died. She was 87 and her loss cannot be measured.
Please find the full obituary here: www.scbwi.org/remembering-...
"I believe in story. It helps us make sense of the world in all its messiness, glories, mismatches, and marvels."
- Jane Yolen, 1939-2026
