No one has ever described me as socially awkward to my face. I was often called a weirdo in school and maybe that counts. But I have felt socially awkward my entire llfe. I didn't know that absolute knot of dread was anxiety until I was diagnosed as an adult. What...
In this last episode of season four, I talk with Laura Tempest Zakroff, multi-class creative and delightful human. I asked her how she feeds the well of her creativity and how projects of all types emerge for her. We also have a fangirl session over artist and writer...
Deborah Lipp has been writing witchcraft and occult books since the early 2000s—long enough that several of those books are being reissued in updated & revised formats. But she’s also writing new books like Bending the Binary. We talk about the cringe of reading your...
If, as a writer, you need a talk about writing as a job and making a living as someone who writes about magic, this is the episode. Jason Miller and I discuss publishing, professionalism, and coming to the understanding that money isn’t unspiritual. Find Jason’s books...
What do Cornish enthno-nationalism, women’s esoteric art, color theory, Arthuriana, and the far right in occultism all have in common? Dr. Amy Hale writes about them, and at the center of all these threads sits the artist and pagan mystic, Ithell Colquhon. Find Dr....
Martha and Vincent share their writing process of getting Thrifty Witchery into the world. More importantly, they illustrate how having a trusted writing partner can make you a better, and a braver writer. Oh, and the book is brilliant and probably not what you think....
Irisanya Moon is a storyteller, sharing her own experience and stories of the Reclaiming tradition she is a part of. We talk about the importance of getting those stories down while the tellers are still with us as well as the many shapes and forms of activism needed...
Awyn Dawn joins me in this episode to talk about the spark of conversation that lead to Paganism for Prisoners and her more recent book, Paganism on Parole. We also plot a pagan travel show, sing the praises of magical London, and discuss navigating an MFA as a...
Margot Adler’s Drawing Down the Moon is a snapshot of four different decades of the neopagan and witchcraft movement in the United States. Phoenix LeFae joins me to talk about the influence, legacy, and possible futures of this classic work of WitchLit. You can find...
Matthew Ash McKernan, Ash, is a walker in the Wyrd along with being a psyche-therapist, dancer, and musician. In this episode he shares his wyrd and his wisdom about writing, healing, and being. Find Ash on his website Facebook Instagram and purchase Wyrdcraft direct...