AFTS is delighted to announce that eZine #10 is available for members.
Ezine 10: Tasty Treats & Culinary Magic
South of the Sun Castlemaine library launch
Celebrate the launch of this groundbreaking anthology with Carmel Bird, Cate Kennedy and Sarah Hart, in a panel chaired by Lorena Carrington, as they discuss fairy tales for grown-ups in contemporary Australia.
Date and time
Sat., 3 July 2021
10:00 am – 11:00 am AEST
Location
Castlemaine Library
212 Barker Street
Castlemaine, VIC 3450
Read the Fairytales for Grownups article in the Midland express here
Enchanting zoom backgrounds
Download 3 designs for your Zoom background created with Helen Hewitts art here – just right click and save image!
The Enchanting program Saturday and Sunday
Red Riding Hood and Bluebeard
Little Red Riding Hood: A Discourse of Disciplinary Punishment by AFTS member Claudia Barnett can be read in the next issue of Gramarye -The Journal of the Chichester Centre for Fairy Tales, Fantasy and Speculative Fiction.
Claudia is also presenting a paper entitled Inside Her Skin: Gendered Violence In Ex Machina & Bluebeard at the Popular Culture Association’s Conference on the 5th June, 2021.
Session Information: FAIRY TALES VI: FEMINISM AND GENDER IN FAIRY TALES
Date: Saturday, June 5, 2021
Time: 12:30pm to 1:50pm
Congratulations Claudia!
South of the Sun – Pre orders!
South of the Sun: Australian Fairy Tales for the 21st Century is an enchanting illustrated book of fairy tales – but not the kind you read to children at bedtime.
They are strictly for grown-ups. Often dark, the stories visit places where things don’t end happily ever after, where a single decision can haunt you forever.
But there are also tales to make you laugh out loud, stories of sweet revenge and scenes of sheer delight in the work of magic and the fey.
Discover stories from emerging talent and leading award-winning Australian writers including Carmel Bird, Sophie Masson, Cate Kennedy and Eugen Bacon, along with artwork from foremost illustrators such as Lorena Carrington and Kathleen Jennings.
So if you’re ready – once upon a time…
Pre-order South of the Sun from our partner publisher Serenity Press
We are made by the stories we are told and by the stories we tell. Reading this collection reveals that we are bold, funny and inventive. We are nourished by history, and face the future with poetry in our hearts. This is a triumph of an anthology that truly captures the 21st Australian Fairy Tale –
KATE FORSYTH, AUTHOR OF BITTER GREENS AND ACCREDITED MASTER STORYTELLER
Wicked and wise, amusing and unexpected. Fresh fairy tales from some of Australia’s finest voices, both established and new.
ANGELA SLATTER, AUTHOR OF THE WORLD FANTASY AWARD-WINNING THE BITTERWOOD BIBLE AND OTHER RECOUNTINGS
Reading South of the Sun feels like collecting shells or pebbles or feathers: the stories belong together but are strikingly individual. Here you will find the hilarious and the bittersweet, the poetic and the in-your-face brash, the historical, the contemporary and the futuristic. And each is brimful with magic. This anthology is a delight from start to finish.
JULIET MARILLIER, AUTHOR OF AWARD-WINNING BLACKTHORN & GRIM SERIES
ONCE UPON A TIME: Fairy tales for our times
Six AFTS fairies from our book South of the Sun are guests of Bendigo Writers Festival!
Along with their own sessions, several are on a fairytale panel ONCE UPON A TIME: Fairy tales for our times.
Claudia Barnett, Lorena Carrington and Sophie Masson with host Eugen Bacon Friday 7 May 4.30pm-5.30pm Capital Theatre $20 / $16 concession
Who tells fairy stories? And who gets to listen? The tales handed down through the generations are worked and reworked by inventive writers and new stories are added to the store. What’s their lasting appeal and why have they been so necessary to different cultures? Eugen Bacon is joined by Claudia Barnett, Lorena Carrington and Sophie Masson to bring us up to date with the fairy world.
We are also delighted to be celebrating with these authors the publication of South of the Sun: Australian Fairy Tales for the 21st Century.
Sophie Masson and Eugen Bacon present additional sessions Sat and/or Sun, Rachel Nightingale joins Eugen, and Carmel Bird presents on Saturday night.
To read their profiles and/or book tickets: https://www.bendigowritersfestival.com.au/all-writers
South of the Sun – Launch
Join us to celebrate the official launch of South of the Sun: Australian Fairy Tales for the 21st Century.
Virtual launch party: Friday 2nd, Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th of July 18:30 AEST
BYO: You bring the Fizzy and we will bring the Fairy Tales. You can join us on Zoom (link posted before the event on facebook) or watch live on Facebook
North of the Moon
Two former AFTS presidents (Reilly McCarron & Louisa JohnKrol) have joined mythic-rock legend Adrienne Piggott of Spiral Dance to compile an Autumnal album:
North of the Moon – Three Australian Faerie Bards
Three fey Celtic-Australian minstrels unite at the Autumn Equinox to bring you some of their most fairytale-ish songs. They hail from three States: Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia. Instruments on this album include flute, mandolin, accordion, charango, various guitars and harps, and of course bardic vocals, from folklorists honed in storytelling, mythology, poetry and Druidic / Pagan / Faery paths. Let these whimsical balladeers carry you through seas and groves of the Faery Lands.
Please join/follow/endorse us at our new shared sites at Bandcamp https://northmoon.bandcamp.com/releases& You Tube: https://youtu.be/c9EJKoGTFEg
https://northmoon.bandcamp.com/releases
| In Tree Time, three Celtic-Australians wove music with myth and fairytale. From Druidic circles to taverns, carnivals, fey indie labels, fairy shops, storytelling guilds, castles and audiobook soundtracks, they’ve fostered links between folklore and eco-spirituality. Fey wishes Louisa✨, Reilly ✨ and Adrienne ✨ |
Three Australian Fairy Tale Society women
Three Australian Fairy Tale Society women feature in an exhibition/book/album presentation at Castlemaine State Festival in historic Buda House 19th March to 18th April: Reilly McCarron’s debut CD ‘Il était une fois’ (Once Upon A Time) is a soundtrack for Sophie Masson’s book ‘French Fairy Tales’. Lorena Carrington illustrated both. All three fey women are in our intercultural anthology ‘South of the Sun – Australian fairy tales for the 21st century’ due this Autumn.
details at Australian Fairy Review. https://australianfairyreview.blogspot.com/
And here is a link to the exhibition, where the book, CD & artwork will be presented: https://budacastlemaine.org/event/secret-garden/
Australian Fairy Tale Society 