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Welcome to the Folklore & Fiction podcast, where folklore scholarship meets the storytelling craft.
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Sunday Dec 31, 2023
Sunday Dec 31, 2023
This episode of the Folklore & Fiction podcast was first published as a newsletter in July 2019. I'm recording it as a supplemental podcast now so that new listeners and subscribers have an opportunity to engage with the material. In it, I'm discussing the ballad genre with help from scholars Gordon Hall Gerould, David Buchan, Roger deV. Renwick and others, helping you analyse a ballad, and discussing ways to bring ballads to your story craft. (Companion Dispatch: https://csmaccath.com/blog/what-is-a-ballad)
Sunday Dec 31, 2023
Sunday Dec 31, 2023
The last and greatest of the Fianna goes to the otherworld for a twelvemonth and returns an old man. Join me for a discussion of fairy time, and come away with suggestions for characterizing internal conflict in your storytelling. (Companion Dispatch: http://csmaccath.com/blog/usheen)
Sunday Dec 31, 2023
Sunday Dec 31, 2023
A far-future psychopath is forced to take an empathy drug and spends the journey to his execution reflecting upon reparations he can never make to his victims. Join me for a discussion of forgiveness and atonement in my novelette titled "He Who Steals the Sun Shall Bear Its Gravity." (Companion Dispatch: http://csmaccath.com/blog/summer-solstice-dispatch-2022)
Sunday Dec 31, 2023
Sunday Dec 31, 2023
Join me for a discussion of Icelandic folklore in my short story entitled "B is for Burned/Every Broken Creature," which was published in the F is for Fairy anthology of short fiction. (Companion Dispatch: https://csmaccath.com/blog/summer-solstice-newsletter-2019)
Sunday Dec 31, 2023
Sunday Dec 31, 2023
This episode of the Folklore & Fiction podcast was first published as a newsletter in May 2019. I'm recording it as a supplemental podcast now so that new listeners and subscribers have an opportunity to engage with the material. In it, I'm writing about the personal experience narrative genre with help from scholars William Labov and Joshua Waletzky, Sandra K.D. Stahl, Gillian Bennett, and others, helping you analyse a personal experience narrative, and discussing ways to bring personal experience narratives to your story craft. (Companion Dispatch: https://csmaccath.com/blog/what-personal-experience-narrative)
Sunday Dec 31, 2023
Sunday Dec 31, 2023
A nobleman's daughter makes love to a knight and risks everything to rescue him from the Queen of Fairies. Join me for a ballad about the heroine of Carterhaugh, her bravery, and her beloved, and come away with recommendations for creating your own fictional magic system. (Companion Dispatch: http://csmaccath.com/blog/tam-lin)
Sunday Dec 31, 2023
Sunday Dec 31, 2023
This episode of the Folklore & Fiction podcast was first published as a newsletter in April 2019. I'm recording it as a supplemental podcast now so that new listeners and subscribers have an opportunity to engage with the material. In it, I'll be introducing the memorate genre with help from scholars Carl W. von Sydow, Lauri Honko, Diane Goldstein, and others, helping you analyse a memorate, and discussing ways to bring memorates to your story craft. (Companion Dispatch: https://csmaccath.com/blog/what-memorate)
Sunday Dec 31, 2023
Sunday Dec 31, 2023
Fe, fi, fo, fum! A clever young heroine outwits a giant to save the lives of her sisters and returns to his house on behalf of a king to steal a sword, a bag of gold, and a ring. Join me for a discussion of violence and sanitization in fairy tales, and come away with suggestions for writing multilingual characters. (Companion Dispatch: https://csmaccath.com/blog/mollywhuppie)
You're a storyteller who loves folklore and wants to use it more effectively in the writing craft. I can help!
Who I Am
Greetings! I'm Dr. Ceallaigh S. MacCath-Moran. I hold B.A. in Celtic Studies from the University of Toronto, an M.A. in English and Creative Writing from the University of Maine, and a PhD in Folklore from Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. I'm also an author, poet, and musician under the pen name C.S. MacCath, and I bring over twenty years of publishing and teaching experience to the Folklore & Fiction project.
What the Folklore & Fiction Project Is
The Folklore & Fiction dispatches and podcasts synthesize these passions with a focus on folklore scholarship aimed at storytellers. Here you can learn what folklore is and learn to use it in the writing craft from the first project ever developed by a professional folklorist for storytellers like you. The podcast is presently on hiatus, but all five seasons are still available free of charge when you sign up for an account here on the Folklore & Fiction website. They've been recommended by the American Folklore Society as a trusted source of folkloristic scholarship, they've been the topic of peer-reviewed ethnographic research, and they've been adopted as an aid to creative writing in several college and university classrooms.