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In autumn 2024, I had the absolute pleasure of teaching a short fiction course with Comma Press. With writers from across the world, we came together to learn how to approach writing fiction with folklore. Every fortnight, I'd log on and meet the most enthusiastic writers, working hard on their short fiction and generating the most amazing ideas. We shared diverse folklore, we had fascinating discussions, and I read some great writing. (In fact, you can read it, too, right he

I'm one of the folks behind the National Folklore Survey for England and today we launch a new podcast called Folklore Matters . For the next six weeks, we'll be releasing one episode a week where we talk to someone who is working with folklore in some capacity — collector, practitioner, researcher —to find out what drew them to folklore, and how they work with it. Crucially, we want their thoughts on the Survey, too. Me (in desperate need of a hair cut!), with my colleagues,

I'm not going to write a summary of what I've been doing in 2025 — you don't need to read another one of those. But I thought I'd post some links to recently published works in case there's anything that tickles your fancy. Songlines is proving a lovely place to publish about folklore, and folk and traditional music (and -adjacent). Recently I wrote a piece on Gatherings , a new six-part series about calendar customs, filmed and produced by Dave Brewis, who has been visiting