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sanctity's well
Plus Account, Created on 23 April 2004 (#2930112), Last updated on 22 May 2013 [Gift]
- Name:
- Lady T. - "The Witch Is In"
- Birthdate:
- 13 June 1977
- Location:
- Delaware, United States
- Website:
- Shannon Connor Winward
- Interests: (150)
- a prairie home companion, ani difranco, ante un cadaver, anthropology, anthropology of food, archaeology, art history, astrology, babies, bare feet, being right, blogging, bonfires, books, bookstores, bouguereau, brigid, buffy, camping, carl jung, celts, chats, chocolate, cinnamon, clove cigarettes, coffee, comparative mythology, comparative religion, consistency, conversations with multi-layered meanings, cooking, critique, crossword puzzles, crows, crushes, curry, cut & paste, david tennant as the_doctor, dead like me, debate, demeter, divining, dr. mrs. the monarch, dragons, drama, dream interpretation, dreaming, drums, edgar allen poe, egg rolls, epiphany, everybody's song, extra-curricular, faith, farscape, father christmas, fiction, finding nemo, firefly, folklore, food, food culture, food network, friends like family, gaelic, gaia, gardening, ghosts, good eats, graveyards, gregory maguire, haindl tarot, hearths, hecate, hera, herbs, hermes, hiking, history, honesty, hopi, incense, ireland, kindred, kitchen gardens, kitchens, legends, literature, live, living, looking in windows, lost, lugh, making it right, mercury, my boys, my bubble, mythology, nature walks, npr, old school sesame street, owls, pan, performance poetry, pheremones, pining, poetry, premonitions, psychology, public speaking, pubs, ratatouille, reading your vibe, reconciling, rivers, rogues, rum & coke, secrets, serendipity, sesame street, sexuality, singing, sky-watching, sleeping in, smart cookies, spanish, speculative fiction, spices, spirit, star trek, storms, streams, susan seddon boulet, sylvia plath, syncretism, tarot, the god-king, the kinglet, theatre, top chef, trivial pursuit, visions, waterhouse, wells, whisky, witches, words, writing, writing on skin, yoga
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To remind me of home, Persephone had said. She switched on a tall Tiffany lamp beside the piano and clusters of colored light fell over it, rose and mint and marigold. As Orpheus raised the lid and gently touched the keys, he thought of verdant fields and bubbling streams. He could feel the places that Persephone’s fingers had been, playing music of youth and hope, and so that is where he began.
She is the spring, his fingers said.
From She Is - a story by Lady TairnGire
My mind is so green, it spills from my eyes
and chokes out the words
somewhere between the yawning
of my intention
and my computer screen.
From Envy - a poem by Lady TairnGire
I am Lady Tairngire (aka "Lady T.", "Lady Tea", "Shannon Connor Winward" or, more usually, "Mommy".) This is my blog of writing, witchery, mommyhood, and general sassiness. It is also my vessel for angst and joy, and the chronicles of The Kinglet's Quest (our adventures in the world of O.D.D. and early-onset Bipolar Disorder).
I am an author of poetry and fiction. I am seeking representation for my first novel, TO THE TOUCH, a story about a stalker haunted by her dead – and disapproving – father. I have also written a number of children's picture books, an urban fantasy novel (currently in revisions) and many stories and poems that can be found in anthologies, print magazines, and on the web.
I have a predilection for italics and em dashes. I’m a sucker for ghost stories (obviously), fairy tale-tinged fiction, and anything having to do with pagan gods. I am a devotee of performance poetry, but I do not memorize my work; I'm afraid that if I look you in the eye from the mic I will fall in love with you, and really. Who has time for that?
I live in Delaware with The God-King and The Kinglet (my greatest creative endeavor) and a cranky cat named Wolf.
List of works Published or Forthcoming:
Fiction
"Passage" - The Alchemy Press Book of Ancient Wonders - available through Amazon.com, Amazon.UK and Barnes and Noble
"Stranded" - Basement Stories
"When She's Ready" - Flash Fiction Online (and first place winner of the 2nd Saturday Poets Writing Contest 2012, prose category)
"Conversation Piece", "Envy", "This in a Blink" (micro-fiction)- Flashshot
"Appointment" - Grasslimb Journal
"Breakfast in Bed" (a dirty dozen micro-fiction) - Vestal Review
"The Seven" (truly twisted retelling of The Seven Ravens) - Twisted Fairy Tales: Volume Two anthology, available from Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble and Wicked East Press
Genre Poetry
"Moon Song" - Bete Noire and forthcoming on Tales to Terrify podcast
"Into" - Dream Fantasy International
"Lughnasadh" - Dreamstreets
"Paracusia" - Eclectica Magazine
"Creator" - EMG Zine
"Bast" - Eternal Haunted Summer
"Come Kali" - Eternal Haunted Summer
"A Tale of Two Witches" - Fairy Tale Magazine [Honorable Mention February 2012]
"Bride Gift" - Fairy Tale Magazine [Monthly winner November 2012]
"Beansidhe" - Ideomancer and forthcoming on Tales to Terrify podcast
"Itinerant" - Illumen
"Undoing Winter" - Jabberwocky Magazine
"Warren" - The Magazine of Speculative Poetry
"Apotheosis" - NewMyths.Com
"Session" - Pedestal Magazine
"Away" - Poetry Motel
"Word-Wright" - SageWoman Magazine
"When Brothers Go Wandering Off" - Scape Zine
"And So He Falls" - Silver Blade Magazine
"Fallen" - Strange Horizons
and "All Souls' Day"* - part of the Jack-O'-Spec: Tales of Halloween and Fantasy anthology (Raven Electrik Ink), available from Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble. Featured also in: Spec-tacular: Fantasy Favorites from Raven Electrick Ink and The 2012 Rhysling Anthology (Nominated for a 2012 Rhysling Award)
Other Poetry
"Arrangement" - Apiary Magazine Issue 3
"Star-Gazing" - Apiary Magazine Issue 2. Also forthcoming in Astropoetica
"Paradox of Return" - Astropoetica
"Do Not Read This Unless You Have a Womb of Your Own" - Blood and Thunder Journal
"Long-Distance Love Affair" - Clutching At Straws
"'Tis Relative" - Defenestration
"Day 188" - Halfway Down the Stairs
"Portrait of a Woman Drinking Coffee" - forthcoming in Kaleidoscope
"Barista" - forthcoming in Retail Woes Anthology
"To My Mother (On Her Fiftieth Birthday)" - SageWoman Magazine subscribers' E-Newsletter
"Rival" - The Smoking Poet
"My Valentine" - Smories.com
"Slip", "Teapot" - Shot Glass Journal
"My Heart is With Egipt" - Short, Fast, Deadly
"Memo:To" - THEMA Literary Journal (with thanks to Beverly Wilkinson, apologies to William Carlos Williams)
"Stasis" - Up the Staircase Quarterly
"Blink" and "The Wrong Thing to Say" - Waterways
Creative Non-fiction
"Hyacinths (Connections)" - Hip Mama Zine
"Picture Me" - Shape of a Mother
"The Good Word" - Witches & Pagans Magazine subscribers E-newsletter
"The Shortest Distance Between Two Points is Through the Pudenda" - - This Modern Writer [Pank Magazine]
Reviews and other links
Shannon Connor Winward on "Compression" The Journal of Compressed Arts
Interview at NewMyths.com
Review for "Stranded"
Review for "The Seven"
Review for "When She's Ready"
Recorded reading of "All Souls' Day" at "Write Around Here" inaugural podcast of the Written Remains Writers Guild.
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artwork by Sarah A. Jackson my niece and future illustrator.
"A witch is born not in the body but in the mind." - A.A. Attanasio, The Moon's Wife
"She was still practical enough not to have her mouth hanging open, that would just have made her look silly, and she knew that half of being a good witch is making sure everyone takes you seriously." -
aellwynde
"How shallow the words are, really - She is a witch. One might as well say, She is a mother... that about covers the same terrain, doesn't it?" - Gregory Maguire, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
Remember:
that giants sleep too soundly;
that witches are often betrayed by their appetites;
dragons have one soft spot,
somewhere, always;
hearts can be well-hidden,
and you betray them with your tongue.
- Neil Gaiman, Instructions
"Notice, notice; let noticing take the place of screaming." - Gregory Maguire, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister