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CREATIVE WRITING

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In addition to my work in academia, I am also a creative writer. I write poetry, fiction, and even a little creative non-fiction. My work is mostly speculative/fantastic, and I often draw on my academic interests for inspiration. My work has been nominated for the Rhysling Award, the Dwarf Stars Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Washington Science Fiction Association’s Small Press Award, and the Best of the Net Anthology.


Poetry Publications:

“We are Twelve” – poem
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Gingerbread House
Issue #52
2022

“Dreams Vermilion” – poem
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Corvid Queen
2022

“The Robber’s House Is Rigged” – poem
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Riddled with Arrows
Issue #5.3, “Blood and Bone”
2022

“Snow Maidens” – poem
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Enchanted Conversation (now The Fairy Tale Magazine)
2022

“The Witch Hares” – poem
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Eternal Haunted Summer
Winter Solstice 2021

“New Growth” – poem
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Shadow Atlas: Dark Landscapes of the Americas
(Hex Publishers, 2021)
Edited by Carina Bissett, Hillary Dodge, and Joshua Viola

“She Needs” and “The Acoustics of Dissenters” – poems
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Sycorax
Issue #5, 2021

“Frau Trude in Suburbia” – poem
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Wyrd & Wyse
“Witchlore,” 2021

“Twelve” – poem
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Star*Line
Issue # 44.4, 2021

“Spells of Cast Iron” – poem
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Enchanted Conversation (now The Fairy Tale Magazine)
2021

“The Language of the Stars” – poem
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Eternal Haunted Summer
Summer Solstice 2021

“Larkspur and Henbane” – poem
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Arcana
(Poise and Pen Publishing, 2021)
Edited by Rhonda Parrish

“Dancing With the Faerie King” – poem
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Enchanted Conversation (now The Fairy Tale Magazine)
Winter 2021

“Silver and Gold Down To Me” – poem
Co-written with Sara Cleto
From the Farther Trees

“The Green Lace Witch” – poem
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Corvid Queen

“The Owl Wife” – poem
Co-written with Shveta Thakrar
Polu Texni

“The Witch of the Garden of Jewels” – poem
Sycorax Journal
Issue #3

“How to Steal a Selkie Skin” – poem
Sycorax Journal
Issue #1

“The Queen of the Roses Sings to Her Sisters” and “The Winter Cathedral” – poems
Faerie Magazine
Winter 2017

“Lessons with the Green Witch” and “Two Sisters” – poems
Wyrd and Wyse
Issue #1

“An Announcement” – poem
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Uncanny Magazine
Issue #19
Nominated for the 2018 Short Poem Rhysling Award

“The Two Nightingales” – poem
Co-written with Sara Cleto
NonBinary Review
Issue #14: The Tales of Hans Christian Andersen

“Persephone Rising” – poem
Sihaya and Co’s Seasonal Subscription Boxes
Spring 2017

“Waking” – poem
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Liminality: A Magazine of Speculative Poetry
Issue #10: Winter 2016/2017
Nominated for the 2018 Long Poem Rhysling Award

“Wearing My Old Woman’s Skin” – poem
Remixt Magazine by Julia Rios
Volume 1, Issue 1: Move [In/On/Out]
Issue Edited by Layla Al-Bedawi

“Remembrances of McQueen’s Final Runway Show (Unstaged)” – poem
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Recompose
Issue #1: Tropospheric Scofflaw

“Snow and Rose” – prose poetry
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Les Cabinets des Polytheistes:
An Anthology of Pagan Fairy Tales, Fables, and Nursery Rhymes
(Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 2016)
Edited by Rebecca Buchanan

“Mother-Doll” – poem
Apex Magazine
Issue #78

“Ink” – poem
Liminality: A Magazine of Speculative Poetry
Issue #4

“The Crane Wife” – poem
Through the Gate
Issue #5

“Year Forty-Nine” – haiku poem set
Mirror Dance
Autumn 2014 Issue

“L’Unicorne Qui S’Endort” – poem
inkscrawl
Issue #7

“Song from the Islands of Sirenum Scopuli” – poem
Liquid Imagination
Issue #20, February 2014

“Rep/ercussions (Carmina)” – poem
Stone Telling
Issue 10, “Body,” January 2014

“Skin” – poem
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Ideomancer
Volume 12, Issue 4, December 2013

“WereMoonMother” – poem
Mythic Delirium
Issue 0.2, October-December 2013

“Diana Remembers Actaeon” – poem (reprint)
Beyond the Pillars: An Anthology of Pagan Fantasy
(Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 2013)
Edited by Ashley Horn

“Speech of the Witch of the End” – poem
Ideomancer
Volume 12, Issue 3, September 2013

“Alice Underground” – poem
Niteblade
Issue 25: September 2013

“The Lady of St. Mark’s Place” – poem
Cabinet des Fees: Scheherezade’s Bequest
Volume 1, Issue 1, 2013 –
As You Wish: The Loathly Lady Issue

“Her Bones in My Hands” – poem
Rose Red Review
Issue 4, Spring 2013

“Loveless (I Am the Snow Queen)” – poem
Rose Red Review
Issue 4, Spring 2013
Nominated for the 2013 Best of the Net Anthology

“The Blue Hour” – poem
Futuredaze: An Anthology of YA Science Fiction
(Underwords Press, 2013)
Edited by Hannah Strom-Martin and Erin Underwood

“The Second Law of Thermodynamics” – poem
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Niteblade
September 2012 Issue
Nominated for the 2012 Pushcart Prize

“The Mermaid’s Winter Song” – poem
inkscrawl
Issue #4, August 2012
Nominated for the 2013 Short Poem Rhysling Award
Nominated for the 2013 Dwarf Stars Award

“Diana Remembers Actaeon” – poem
Eternal Haunted Summer
Spring Equinox 2012 Issue

“Grateful” – poem
Cabinet des Fees: Scheherezade’s Bequest
Issue 14, December 2011

“Rose Red III” – prose poetry/photograph piece
The Sarah Lawrence Literary Review
2007

“Absorbed” – poem
Magpie Magazine
Issue 1, Summer 2006


Fiction Publications:

“Chasing Ghosts – E is for Emily” – flash fiction
Co-written with Sara Cleto
G is for Ghost
(Poise and Pen Publishing, 2021)
Edited by Rhonda Parrish

“The Shifting Space Between Dreams and Waking” – flash fiction
From the Farther Trees

“The Thirteenth Tale” – short story
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Enchanted Living
Spring 2020

“N is for Neverland” – flash fiction
F is for Fairy
(Poise and Pen Publishing, 2019)
Edited by Rhonda Parrish

“V is for Victory” – flash fiction
E is for Evil
(Poise and Pen Publishing, 2018)
Edited by Rhonda Parrish

“C is for Catechism” – short story
D is for Dinosaur
(Poise and Pen Publishing, 2017)
Edited by Rhonda Parrish

“Documentation Related to Case #688” – short story
[“P is for Photography”]
C is for Chimera
(Poise and Pen Publishing, 2015)
Edited by Rhonda Parrish

“The Sea Does Not Need Me” – flash fiction
Cabinet des Fees: Scheherezade’s Bequest
Volume 1, Issue 2 –
Something Rich and Strange: Tales from the Sea

“A is for Aurora” – flash fiction
B is for Broken
(Poise and Pen Publishing, 2015)
Edited by Rhonda Parrish

“Q is for Queen” – flash fiction
A is for Apocalypse
(Poise and Pen Publishing, 2014)
Edited by Rhonda Parrish

“The Second Mrs. Chapman” – flash fiction
The Rogues Gallery:
The Illustrated Police News Anthology
(Firbolg Publishing, 2014)
Edited by Alex Scully

“The Shifting Space Between Dreams and Waking” – flash fiction
Scareship Magazine
December 2012 Issue

“The Song of the Tower” – flash fiction
Scareship Magazine
September 2012 Issue

“Inside the Wolf” – flash fiction
Mirror Dance
Winter 2011 Issue

“Kitsune/Fox” – short story
Jabberwocky Magazine
Issue 7, August 2011

“Rain Dancer” – short story
Magpie Magazine
Issue 1, Summer 2006

“Knots in My Hair” – short story
EMG Zine
“Mischief” Issue, July 2006

“The Embrace” – short story
Dark Reveries Magazine
March 2006

“Opal” – short story
“Letter to Alejandra” – short story
Finery Magazine
Issue 3, February 2006


Non-Fiction Publications and Non-Academic Reviews:

“Gothic Fairy Tales”
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Enchanted Living
Winter 2023

“Our Top Five Literary Witches”
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Enchanted Living
Fall 2022

“‘For Their Sorceries’: The Sirens of Folklore and Literature”
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Enchanted Living
Summer 2022

“Magic Spells and Tangled Paths: What are Fairy Tales and Why Do They Matter?”
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Enchanted Living
Spring 2022

“Fairy Tales and Decadence: Diamonds, Pearls, and Orange Trees”
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Enchanted Living
Winter 2022

“‘I Shall Go Into a Hare’: Rabbits and Witches in Folklore”
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Enchanted Living
Fall 2021

“Liminality and the Realm of Pure Possibility”
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Enchanted Living
Summer 2021

“Invocation to Titania”
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Enchanted Living
Spring 2021

“L.E.L.: The Forgotten Fairy Queen of the Romantics”
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Enchanted Living
Winter 2021

“Top 5 Feminist Ghosts”
Co-written with Sara Cleto
#FolkloreThursday
2020

“Branches and Wings: Making a Nature Altar”
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Enchanted Living
Fall 2020

“The Magical Cats of Fairy Tales”
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Enchanted Living
Summer 2020

“At Home in the Forest: The Fairy-Tale Dwellings of Witches and Wanderers”
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Enchanted Living
Winter 2020

“The Top 5 Magical Women of Arthurian Legend”
Co-written with Sara Cleto
#FolkloreThursday
2020

“Seeking the Witch: The Tales of the Brothers’ Grimm”
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Enchanted Living
Fall 2019

“Fire and Fur: The Many Guises of the Grimms’ Fairy-Tale Witches”
Co-written with Sara Cleto
#FolkloreThursday
2019

Introduction to Sirens
Co-written with Sara Cleto
(World Weaver Press, 2016)
Edited by Rhonda Parrish

Review: Songs for Ophelia
by Theodora Goss (poetry)
co-written with Sara Cleto
Strange Horizons
2015

Introduction to Fae
Co-written with Sara Cleto
(World Weaver Press, 2014)
Edited by Rhonda Parrish

Review: The Moment of Change:
An Anthology of Feminist Speculative Poetry
edited by Rose Lemberg (poetry)
Bull Spec
Issue 8/9

Review: Unruly Islands
by Liz Henry (poetry)
Stone Telling
Issue 8, August 2012

JOMA Retrospective
A Personal Reflection on The Journal of Mythic Arts
Stone Telling
Issue 5, Fall 2011


Reprints:

“The Language of Stars” – poem (reprint)
The Best of Eternal Haunted Summer
(Sigil House Productions, 2023)
Edited by Rebecca Buchanan

“The Green Lace Witch” – poem (reprint)
Co-written with Sara Cleto
Enchanted Living Magazine
2020

“An Announcement” – poem (reprint)
The 2018 Rhysling Anthology
(SFPA, 2018)
Edited by Linda D. Addison

“Waking” – poem (reprint)
The 2018 Rhysling Anthology
(SFPA, 2018)
Edited by Linda D. Addison

“WereMoonMother” – poem (reprint)
Mythic Delirium Anthology
(Mythic Delirium Books, 2014)
Edited by Mike and Anita Allen

“The Mermaid’s Winter Song” – poem (reprint)
The 2013 Rhysling Anthology
(SFPA, 2013)
Edited by John C. Mannone

“The Mermaid’s Winter Song” – poem (reprint)
The 2013 Dwarf Stars Anthology
(SFPA, 2013)
Edited by Stephen M. Wilson & Linda D. Addison

“Knots in My Hair” – short story (reprint)
The Art of the Business of Fantasy Art
(EMG-Zine, 2007)
Edited by Ellen Million


Other::

“My Cat is a Collector of Stories” – poem
Poetry for Cats – Poets Supporting the Great Lakes Bengal Rescue
Project by Erin Underwood

Luscinia/Nightingale
Self-Published Zine
June 2005

THE CARTERHAUGH SCHOOL

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Sara Cleto and I co-own and operate The Carterhaugh School of Folklore and the Fantastic, a (mostly) online school. We give lectures and teach courses on fairy tales, folklore, witches, writing, and more. Basically, your ultimate fantasy college courses, for a fraction of the price. We’re serious academics, but we also think learning should be joyful, fun, and relevant. We’ll help you see classic tales with fresh eyes, introduce you to stories you’ve never heard before, and welcome you into a community of magic-makers who love this stuff as much as you do. Instead of tests, we’ll give you quests that bring fairy tales and folklore into your own life. Give us an hour, and we’ll show you how an old tale can shine light into your home, your relationships, and your own sense of self.

So that’s what Carterhaugh is, but it doesn’t quite capture what it feels like. You know those magic schools you’ve always read about? Carterhaugh is the online version. One of our recent students told us that “finding Carterhaugh School is like stumbling into Rivendell.” We think she’s right.

Carterhaugh is for voracious learners and dreamers with big hearts and creative souls. It’s for people who always have their noses stuck in books or are always half-way through knitting another fantasy shawl. Did you day-dream about elven battles when you were supposed to be studying economics? Do you love a good ghost story…or maybe you’ve even seen a few yourself? Do you still feel a little betrayed that your acceptance letter to magic school never arrived? Then Carterhaugh is for you.

Please click here to visit!

ACADEMIA

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My academic research interests include folk narrative (especially fairy tales and fairy legends), folkloric retellings in literature, the Gothic and Fantastic, supernatural folklore (especially conceptions of magic and fairylore/witch lore), feminist and queer theory, speculative literature, experimental literature, and digital media. I did my undergraduate work at Sarah Lawrence College, my MA work in Interdisciplinary Studies: Folklore at George Mason University, and earned my PhD in English with a concentration in Folklore and Nineteenth-Century British Literature at The Ohio State University. I also studied abroad at Oxford University: Christ Church and the National University of Ireland: Galway.


Academic Articles:

2019 – “Teaching with Stories: Empathy, “Relatability,” and the Fairy Tale” (co-written with Sara Cleto) – Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies – Vol. 33, Issue 1 (2019), pp. 102-115

2019 – “Porphyro is Dead: Exploring Narrative Ambiguity and Folk Intertexts in Keats’ “The Eve of Saint Agnes” (co-written with Sara Cleto) – Gramarye: The Journal of the Chichester Centre for Fairy Tales, Fantasy, and Speculative Fiction – Issue 15 (2019)

2016 – “I Am the Wolf: Queering “Little Red Riding Hood” and “Snow White and Rose Red” in the Television Show Once Upon a Time” – Humanities: Special Issue on Fairy Tale and its Uses in Contemporary New Media and Popular Culture edited by Claudia Schwabe [online]

Reprinted by MDPI AG in book format as The Fairy Tale and Its Uses in Contemporary New Media and Popular Culture edited by Claudia Schwabe (2016), pp. 98-113

2015 – “Beasts and Bluebeards: Reader Reception, the Fairy Tale, and Jane Eyre” (co-written with Sara Cleto) – Louise Pound: A Folklore and Literature Miscellany edited by Todd Richardson and Shelley Ingram (QRS and the Folklore and Literature Section of the American Folklore Society), pp. 8-14


Book Chapters:

2021 – “The Folklorist as Web Entrepreneur” (co-written with Sara Cleto) – What Folklorists Do: Professional Realities and Possibilities in Folklore Studies edited by Tim Lloyd (Indiana University Press), pp. 70-72

2021 – “Forms of the Marvelous” (co-written with Sara Cleto) – A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in the Modern Age edited by Andrew Teverson (Bloomsbury Academic), pp. 27-42

2018 – “The Fairy Tale and Digital Culture” – Fairy-Tale World edited by Andrew Teverson (Routledge Press, Routledge World Series, Francis and Taylor Group)

2018 – “YouTube and Internet Video” – The Routledge Companion to Media and Fairy-Tale Cultures edited by Pauline Greenhill, Jill Terry Rudy, Naomi Hamer, and Lauren Bosc (Routledge Press), pp. 642-648

2014 – “Molding Messages: Analyzing the Reworking of the “Sleeping Beauty” Fairy Tale in Grimms’ Fairy Tale Classics and Dollhouse” (co-written with Jeana Jorgensen) – Channeling Wonder: Fairy Tales on Television edited by Pauline Greenhill and Jill Rudy (Wayne State University Press Series in Fairy-Tale Studies), pp. 144-162


Speaking Engagements:

With Sara Cleto, as The Carterhaugh School, I have done lectures for the Smithsonian, the Library of Congress, Profs & Pints, FaerieCon, The Folklore Podcast, Magickal Women, The Maryland Renaissance Festival, Readercon, and others


Selected Academic Awards:

2019 – The Dorothy Howard Folklore and Education Prize
Folklore and Education Section of the American Folklore Society
Awarded to “individuals and organizations whose work effectively encourages educators or students to use the study of folklore and folkloristic approaches in all educational environments”
Awarded for The Carterhaugh School of Folklore and the Fantastic
Co-winner with Sara Cleto

2017 – Dissertation Completion Fellowship
The Ohio State University English Department
Awarded to “an outstanding PhD student who has made significant progress in his or her dissertation, and whose dissertation shows exceptional scholarly promise”

2016 – Digital Media Prize for Outstanding Graduate Student Work
The Digital Media Project and The Ohio State University English Department
Awarded for Facets, a multi-model collaborative webtext project
Co-winner with Erin Kathleen Bahl

2016 – Project Narrative Travel Award
Project Narrative: The Ohio State University
Awarded to attend the British Folklore Society’s Reflected Shadows: Folklore and the Gothic Conference in the UK

2014 – Polly Stewart Student Travel Stipend
Women’s Section of the American Folklore Society
Awarded to “an emerging scholar who shows promise of furthering the study of women’s folklore, gender issues in folklore, and/or feminist approaches to the study of folklore”

2012 – The MAIS Department Award for Most Outstanding Thesis
George Mason University
Awarded for MA Thesis Entitled: “Dreams Within Dreams: The Sleeping Maiden Fairy Tales and the Gothic Aesthetic in Contemporary Retellings”

2012 – The MAIS Department Academic Excellence Award for Highest GPA
George Mason University

2010 – Elli Köngäs-Maranda Student Paper Prize
The Women’s Section of the American Folklore Society
Awarded For Paper Entitled: “Awake With New Dreams: Reconstructing Ideas of Sleeping and Waking in Feminist Contemporary Retellings of the Fairy Tale ‘Sleeping Beauty’”

2009 – New Folklore Student AFS Membership Award
George Mason University


Selected Courses Taught:

All Courses at The Carterhaugh School

“Folklore and the Fantastic from Nineteenth-Century to Contemporary Imagination”

“The Stories We Tell: Folk Narrative in the U.S. Experience”

Second-Year Composition: “U.S. Literature and the Fairy Tale”

First-Year Composition: “Adaptations of Traditional Narratives in Contemporary Culture”

For more academic information, please request my full C.V.

BIO

Posted on by Brittany Warman

A faerie folklorist, a writing witch, and a sorceress scholar born under the indecisive skies of a cool November night in northern Virginia, I am the co-founder and co-headmistress of The Carterhaugh School of Folklore and the Fantastic, an online school where we teach creative souls how to re-enchant their lives through folklore and fairy tales. I received my PhD in English and Folklore at The Ohio State University and have also lived in Florida, just outside of New York City (my favorite place in the world) when I was an undergraduate at Sarah Lawrence College, California, and northern Virginia again to complete my MA degree in Interdisciplinary Studies: Folklore at George Mason University. I was also lucky enough to be able to live and study abroad in Oxford, UK and Galway, Ireland

Folk narrative is my passion and almost always the chief inspiration behind the creative writing and academic work that I do. I research and write about fairy tales, legends, myths, folk tales, and supernatural folklore broadly speaking (especially conceptions of magic and fairylore/witch lore.) I am also fascinated by retellings and reimaginings of these materials, both writing them myself and researching them, speculative literature of all kinds (especially the Gothic and Fantastic), nineteenth-century literature, feminist and queer theory, fashion, experimental literature, and digital media, particularly creative digital composing.

My family and I are very close. I laugh way too hard at bad puns. I have three kitten familiars and a changeling of a boyfriend. I’m a very typical Scorpio, an unapologetic geek, a bit too introverted for my own good, an animal lover, and a huge believer in the magic beneath the mundane. I perpetually have ink on my fingers and a book in my hands.


FIVE FAVORITES:

Books – The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern, The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle, 
The Orphan’s Tales Duology by Catherynne M. Valente, The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter,
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, The Strange the Dreamer Duology by Laini Taylor

Musicians – Florence and the Machine, Patrick Wolf, Within Temptation, Poe, Loreena McKennitt

Films – Sleeping Beauty, Only Lovers Left Alive, Whisper of the Heart, Romeo + Juliet, Some Like It Hot

Fairy Tales – “Sleeping Beauty,” “Jorinde and Joringel,” “Kisa the Cat,” “The Witch in the Woods,”
“The White Cat”

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