The Newsletter of the
Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy Aug-Sept 2016
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Contents
Events at the Sussex Centre. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 A Fairy Tale Creative Writing Workshop,
with Rose Williamson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Dr Jeremy Harte, 'Subversive or What? Fairy Traditions and Social Order' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Other events around the world. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 International calls for submissions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 V.H. Leslie nominated for a fantasy award. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Gramarye issue 9 available now. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
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Events at the Sussex Centre
A Fairy Tale Creative Writing Workshop Rose Williamson Wednesday 12 October 2016, 3-5 p.m. or 5.30-7.30 p.m., Room C120, Bishop Otter Campus Come explore the history and craft of fairy tales by writing your own! Whether you want to subvert the tale of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ or dream up a new story that takes place in a wondrous fairytale world, this workshop aims to Rose Williamson, integrate writing exercises and fairy-tale researcher at the Sussex Centre story planning with an introduction to the genre of fairy tales. Please note this workshop is for adults and some content may not be suitable for children. Places are limited so please book early. £10/£7 concessions or free to University staff and students. Contact Heather at h.robbins@chi.ac.uk to reserve your ticket. This event is kindly sponsored by A Chapter Away, running residential creative writing courses in south-west France with agents, authors and publishers (www.achapteraway.com) 3
Jeremy Harte, ‘Subversive or What? Fairy Tradition and Social Order’ Monday 31 October 2016, 6-7.30 p.m., room L04, Bishop Otter Campus For a secret people, the fairies have been surprisingly conspicuous in social protest – administering rough justice in colonial Ireland, leading French forest guerrillas, and pixying JCBs at road protest camps. Are these just casual appropriations of the fairy mask, or do they reveal something about the lore behind it? Jeremy Harte is a researcher into folklore and archaeology, with a particular interest in sacred space and tales of encounters with the supernatural. His book Explore Fairy Traditions won the Folklore Society’s Katharine Briggs Award in 2005. Tickets £5/£3 concessions or free to University staff and students. Contact Heather Robbins at h.robbins@chi.ac.uk to reserve your ticket. 4
Children’s Fantasy Literature: An interview with Prof. Farah Mendlesohn Monday 14 November 2016, 6-7.30 p.m., L04, Bishop Otter Campus, University of Chichester Fantasy has been an important and much-loved part of children’s literature for hundreds of years, yet relatively little has been written about it. Farah Mendlesohn, Professor of Literary History at Anglia Ruskin University, recently co-authored Children’s Fantasy Literature: An Introduction, examining the works of Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, C.S. Lewis, Image: Reading is Funda-Mental, from Bouguereau, copyright Mark Helwig 2014. Cover illustration Dahl, J.K. Rowling and for Farah Mendlesohn and Michael Levy, Children’s Roald Fantasy Literature: An Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2016) others from across the Englishspeaking world to place each in its appropriate context within the fantasy tradition. This event will be an interview and discussion of Mendlesohn’s research. Tickets are £5/£3 concessions or free to University staff and students. Please e-mail h.robbins@chi.ac.uk to reserve your place or with any queries. 5
Other events around the world
‘Magic, witches and devils in the early modern world’, exhibition, Deansgate, 21 January - 21 August 2016. Experience how supernatural forces shaped the lives of everyone from kings and queens to clergymen and maidservants. https://uomhistory.wordpress. com/2016/01/11/magicwitches-and-devils-in-theearly-modern-world-newexhibition/ Widdershins exhibition 25 June-27 Aug, Greenhill Arts (Devon) An exhibition of work by mythic artists who live on Dartmoor including Alan Lee, Brian & Wendy Froud, Paul Kidby, David Wyatt,Virginia Lee and Rima Staines, plus many others. http://www.greenhillar ts.co.uk/calender/2016/5/4/ widdershins-2016-pathways-to-the-faerie
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The Crick Crack Club presents ... Gilgamesh at the British Museum, 11 Sept (London): Over 3,500 years after this ancient Mesopotamian myth was first recorded on clay tablets in cuneiform, world-renowned storyteller Ben Haggarty and multi-instrumentalist Jonah Brody bring Gilgamesh to the stage in an extraordinary, passionate and powerful telling of one of the first great works of literature. http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/events_calendar/ event_detail.aspx?eventId=3178 The Gollancz Fantasy Festival 17-18 September, Foyles (London) Science fiction and fantasy publisher Gollancz hosts discussions, debates, workshops and talks. http://www.foyles.co.uk/Gollancz-Festival Literature of the Hidden and Fantastic Conference 23-4 September, Fort Smith, Arkansas (US) The theme of 'Literature of the Hidden and Fantastic' will be an exploration of all aspects of fantasy, magic realism, fairy tales and folk tales, and in particular, their more arcane or enigmatic qualities and/or structures. http://www.hiddenandfantastic.com/
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Le Roi-Grenouille ou Henri-de-Fer des Grimm: quelle destinĂŠe dans la littĂŠrature de jeunesse? Clermont-Ferrand, (France) 12-14 October 2016 Papers in English and French focus on the Grimm's fairy tale 'The Frog Prince', and its paradoxical ability to seem so memorable while being so often misremembered. http://www.fabula.org/actualites/le-roi-grenouille-ou-henride-fer-des-grimm-khm1-quelle-destinee-dans-la-litteraturede-jeunesse_70740.php Roundtable: 'Folklore in Global Conversations' Washington DC, 17-20 November 2016 The Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Folklore Association (SEEFA)'s annual conference welcoming both folklorists and specialists in all areas. https://networks.h-net.org/node/3128/discussions/103474/cfpseefa-slavic-east-european-and-eurasian-folklore-association Reorienting the Fairy Tale Kanagawa University, Japan, 29-30 March 2017. This international conference seeks to re-orient the fairy tale and to advance comparative fairy-tale studies on a global scale. h t t p : / / w w w . i s f n r. o r g / f i l e s / a r c h i v / C f P _ R e OrientingtheFairyTale.pdf
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International Calls for Submissions
CfP Transcreation through text and image: The case of Perrault’s and Grimm’s tales Deadline: 31 August 2016. This session proposes to study illustrated editions of Perrault’s and Grimms’ tales, as well as their translations, adaptations and transpositions, to find transcreation across languages, cultures, genres, forms, formats and media. h t t p : / / w p. u n i l . c h / re p ro d u c t i o n 2 0 1 7 / p ro g r a m m e / panels/?lang=fr#Cyrille_François Damsels in Redress: Women in Contemporary Fairy-Tale Reimaginings Deadline: 1 November 2016 7-8 April and Saturday 2017, Queen’s University, Belfast! This conference aims bring together a range of ideas about the representation of women in contemporary reimaginings of traditional fairy tales, such as those from the Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault. Abstracts of no more than 250 words, and a bionote of up to 50 words, to damselsinredress2017@gmail.com. https://www.facebook.com/events/949101051853840/ 9
V.H. Leslie nomiated for Fantasy Award
Sussex Centre postgraduate researcher V.H. Leslie has been nominated for a 2016 World Fantasy Award. Her anthology of short stories, Skein and Bones, is in the running for Best Collection. http://www.tor.com/2016/07/11/worldfantasy-award-nominees-2016/ Leslie's PhD project is The erotics of water: folk creatures and femininity in 19th-century Europe, comparing stories and significances of water spirits across Europe in that period. You can find out about the all the research projects undertaken at the Sussex Centre at http://www.sussexfolktalecentre. org/projects/.
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Gramarye issue 9 available now
Gramarye issue 9 is now available as an e-book from our online store. This issue’s contents include: • Guest Editor’s Introduction, Ruth Bottigheimer • ‘The Fairy-tale Collections of Andrew Lang and Joseph Jacobs: Identity, Nation, Empire’,Andrew Teverson • ‘“As the World Falls Down”: David Bowie’s Role as a Father Figure in Jim Henson’s Labyrinth’, John Patrick Pazdziora • ‘Filming Tolkien’s Legendarium’, Shaun Gunner • ‘The Devil and St Dunstan’, Steve O’Brien • An excerpt from Cult of Chaos: An Anantya Tantrist Mystery, Shweta Taneja • ‘The Skald and the Spaewife’, Judith Woolf • ‘Norse Codes in a Wartime Childhood’, Nicholas Tucker • A review of Bradford Lee Eden’s (ed.) The Hobbit and Tolkien’s Mythology: Essays on Revisions and Influences, Shaun Gunner • A review of Kirsty Logan’s A Portable Shelter, Katherine Langrish 11
• A review of Stephen Jones’ (ed.) Fearie Tales: Stories of the Grimm and Gruesome, Katherine Langrish • A review of Kimberley J. Lau’s Erotic Infidelities: Love and Enchantment in Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber, Michelle Ryan-Sautour • A review of Michael Dylan Foster’s The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore, Judith Woolf The printed edition of Gramarye issue 9 was only available to preordering customers and subscribers. To guarantee your printed copy of future issues, please subscribe here. Exclusive offer Gramarye readers are entitled to 20% off Scrivener software, the project management tool for writers. Just visit http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.php and enter the coupon code ‘SUSSEXCENTRE’. The printed edition of Gramarye 8 may still be ordered from: • Atlantis Books (London) • Byre Books (Wigtown) • Foyles (London) • Kims (Chichester) • Treadwells (London) • Waterstones (Chichester)
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If you have any queries or feedback about this newsletter, please contact Heather Robbins at h.robbins@chi.ac.uk
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