Hello everyone! On my blog you can find articles about folklore, writing and fairy tales. Visit the about section if you would like to know more about me and my work or scroll down for trailers and my latest blog posts. Thank you for visiting!
It has been a huge honour and an amazing experience to work together with The Alternative Stories and Fake Realties Podcast on several projects.
In Scottish folklore a selkie is a being that can shapeshift from seal to human. My audiodrama Selkie is based on this and tells the story of a selkie who is forced to live her life on land and cannot return to the sea. You can view the trailer below and listen to the episode here.
‘The Fairy Tree’ tells the story of a girl who is transformed into a tree. It is part of an anthology about forests and woodlands and you can listen to the piece here.
Naart Stuyck is a short piece of fiction based on Flemish folklore about a haunted bakery and part of the Ghostlore Audio Fiction Anthology. Listen here.
The Folklore of Animals, Creatures, Beasts and Familiars. Listen to this episode here.
Read my short story ‘Women’s March on Versailles’ in The Copperfield Review.
You can support me on Ko-fi here. Donations will not be used to buy coffee but to purchase research materials, submit short stories to literary magazines and make sure that I can update my blog with fresh content.
BookWormSaturday
Dear Bookworms, we are delighted that so many of you are participating in the #BookWormSat every Saturday on Twitter. Reading all your literary tweets, what your favourites are, and discovering new novels, poems and plays to read is absolutely wonderful. Because the hashtag is growing a little bit every week we thought it would be …
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The Belgian Karnemelkbrug: Ghosts, Water devils and Witchcraft
The Karnemelkbrug or buttermilk bridge in Ghent, Belgium is first mentioned in the city archives in 1199. The bridge was demolished in 1900 but fortunately the folktales that were set there didn’t disappear along with the bridge. It was a place where water devils lurked, a place associated with witchcraft and the spot where the …
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Magical veils of mist and smoke in folklore
As long as you’re not driving your car on a zigzag road on a misty morning, mist can be beautiful, mysterious and sometimes even magical. There’s always this sense that something otherworldly might be hidden behind that cloudy veil. The idea that mist is something more than just tiny droplets of water that are suspended …
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Signe Maene 