Terri Windling - Fantasy and Magic in a Fragmented World

Terri Windling is an author, editor, artist, essayist. She has won nine World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award. In 2022 Terri was given the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement award, and has been named a Guest of Honour for the 2024 Glasgow Worldcon.

“If there is a single person at the nexus of fantasy literature, it is Terri Windling -- as editor, as writer, as painter, as muse.” - Jane Yolen

I joined Terri in her Dartmoor studio to talk about fantasy literature, magic, myth, and the importance of all this in our beautiful, broken world.

Myth and Moor, Terri's Website: https://www.terriwindling.com
Terri's Patreon:   / terriwindling  
Journal of Mythic Arts: https://endicottstudio.typepad.com/jo...
Fantasy: Realms of Imagination (Exhibition at British Library): https://www.bl.uk/events/fantasy-even...

0:00 - Deepening the Field of Fantasy Literature
14:30 - Endicott Studios and the Journal of Mythic Arts
18:46 - From being an editor to being a writer
22:18 - Nature Writing and Fantasy
24:50 - The word 'numinous'
31:29 - Pothos, Longing, Commercial Fantasy
35:48 - Mystery and wildness in fantasy during an age of existential risk
40:08 - Urban fantasy
46:01 - Creating community
55:28 - Witches, Faery, Electrons, Imagination
1:12:00 - Being a disciplined writer
1:17:55 - Trickster
1:27:48 - Social media - creating in the echo chambers
1:34:19 - Community: defence against soul erosion
1:46:58 - Glasgow: Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic
1:48:45 - Tilly, grief, going forward
1:50:13 - Closing words

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