It's time to meet the speakers for the next Writing the Occult and I'm starting with the Queen of Polar Horror themselves. Land isn't just all golden fields and green trees, y'know, and Ally Wilkes is here to show us how to connect when the land is not exactly on your side.

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Ally Wilkes is a British author of supernatural, cosmic & weird horror. Her debut novel, All the White Spaces, was a Bram Stoker Award finalist & her critically-acclaimed second novel, Where the Dead Wait, was released in late 2023. Ally’s short fiction has been published in numerous magazines & anthologies including Nightmare, Three Crows, FOUND: an anthology of Found Footage Horror, & others. Ally lives in Greenwich, London, with an anatomical human skeleton & far too many books & plants.

Writing the Occult: Connection to Land happens online on 15 June (i.e. Solstice week!). It's a long day, but we will be recording the whole event for ticket holders to watch back whenever they like.

Hit writingtheoccult.carrd.co for full event details, or go straight to grabbing your tickets from Alex Davis Events: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-the-occult-connection-to-land-tickets-906670705487

It's time to get back to the land.

Writing the Occult: Connection to Land

The latest in the Writing the Occult series serves up a day of talks, workshops and panels exploring our connection to the land.

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