Zoe Gilbert

Author of novels FOLK (2018) and MISCHIEF ACTS (2022). Preoccupied by plants, fungi, forests & folklore. Also, increasingly, seaweed.

[Zoe Gilbert @mindandlanguage]

FOLK (my book) has become a song cycle, composed by Helen Grime and performed by Claire Booth at the world premiere with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Links to listen and read more here: https://t.co/1VbhWRNE7k

[Zoe Gilbert @mindandlanguage]

@JarredMcGinnis They did. With both guns n roses.

[Zoe Gilbert @mindandlanguage]

@annaframe @kirstylogan @rowe__irvin It sounds gorgeous, Anna!

[Zoe Gilbert @mindandlanguage]

Underworlds, Stephen Ellcock's gorgeous new compendium of images exploring subterranean realms both real and unreal, has just come out, and to celebrate I'll be doing an event with Stephen at Hastings Museum this Thurs, 12th Oct, with @hastingsbooks: https://t.co/cTSM46nik9

[Writers & Artists @Writers_Artists]

From creatures to characters, the symbolic to story structure, join Zoe Gilbert @mindandlanguage for our six week course (1st Nov - 6th Dec) to bring the fantastical into your #writing and build captivating worlds for your readers to explore.

Book here: https://t.co/AIIKUldA60

[LondonLitLab @londonlitlab]

Monthly Writers' Workshops running this Autumn – Join a group of ten for eight Zoom sessions and three rounds of tutor critique. 🖊️ 20Nov–17June, £295. https://t.co/tUORpv9Nbn @mindandlanguage #writingcommunity #writers

[LondonLitLab @londonlitlab]

Last few spots on Saltwater Folktales! We will cross the shoreline and fish for meaning in fantasies of the deep, then bring the sea inside as we explore the uncanny symbolism of a watery home. ⚓️ 12Oct–15Nov at £145 Book here: https://t.co/KfFVGhQ4n1 #WritingCommunity #Folklore @mindandlanguage

[Writers & Artists @Writers_Artists]

Using discussion, working examples and practical exercises, Zoe Gilbert @mindandlanguage will help you explore the supernatural, the fantastical, the magical, in your #writing in our upcoming course.

Book your place to join us from 1st Nov - 6th Dec here: https://t.co/AIIKUld2gs

[LondonLitLab @londonlitlab]

We've just listed our monthly Writers' Workshops running this Autumn. Join a group of ten for eight Zoom sessions and three rounds of tutor critique. 🖊️ 20Nov–17June, £295. https://t.co/tUORpv9flP @mindandlanguage #writingcommunity #writers

[Kellie Jackson @WordsAwayUk]

All signed up! Always in need of enchantment when autumn & winter sets in ✨This is just the ticket - @mindandlanguage runs inspirational #amwriting courses ✨highly recommend.

[Zoe Gilbert @mindandlanguage]

@WordsAwayUk So pleased you'll be there! X

[Zoe Gilbert @mindandlanguage]

@HerneHillBooks @claphambooks Thank you so much @HerneHillBooks and everyone who came along. It was a pleasure to be geeky about the Great North Wood and in a beautiful book shop so close by!

[Zoe Gilbert @mindandlanguage]

Your polite reminder that Herne the Hunter will be waggling his obscene horns in South London, with me, tomorrow evening:

[Zoe Gilbert @mindandlanguage]

Come and say hello to Herne the Hunter in his spiritual home (not an oak tree in Windsor, but a very fine bookshop in South London), next Tuesday:

[Zoe Gilbert @mindandlanguage]

Join me and the brilliant Stephen Ellcock for some Cosmic Mischief in Margate this Thursday, 25th May - a free event at the Fort Road Hotel bar, courtesy of The Margate Bookshop: https://t.co/BWantHs0Z4

[Zoe Gilbert @mindandlanguage]

@folklorepod Yes please!

[Zoe Gilbert @mindandlanguage]

New frock for Herne come spring and the slightly-more-sprightly paperback of Mischief Acts. Thanks to all who have read, written to me, come to say hi, and to the Sunday Times for making Mischief Acts a Book of the Year 2022. Herne will surely kiss you all under the mistletoe.

[LondonLitLab @londonlitlab]

Last chance to book onto Fantastic Literature! ✨ In this 10wk Zoom class for #writers, Zoe will be covering; magic realism & surrealism, uncanny vs. weird, #folktale & folkloric #fiction, repurposing myth & legend, mundane fantastic & metaphorical magic! 24May–26July at £325
https://t.co/Z7w2S9V562

[Zoe Gilbert @mindandlanguage]

Join me, some fantastically-inclined writers, and a troupe of haunted rabbits for lots of fantastic literature and (non-haunted) feedback on your own writing. Only 2 places left on my favourite online course.

[LondonLitLab @londonlitlab]

Last chance to book onto Fantastic Literature! ✨ Take a guided tour through the folkloric to the uncanny, with topic-focused discussion of set reading. 10wk online course, 24May–26July at £325
https://t.co/CNsc7mukTe #writingcommunity @mindandlanguage

[Zoe Gilbert @mindandlanguage]

Didn't realise I was reading out a chant in front of a broomstick, but, serendipity. Thank you dear @Lilydunnwriter & @Ashlyn_Stylist for a wonderful evening!

[Dr Lily Dunn @Lilydunnwriter]

Such a fun event at Bless Stories with @mindandlanguage - chatting books, process, and so much more. Celebrating the paperbacks Sins of My Father and Mischief Acts. Thank you so much @Ashlyn_Stylist and all the lovely people who came!

[Zoe Gilbert @mindandlanguage]

@WoodcockNina @Lumb_Bank Thanks Nina. What a gorgeous group of writers we had. Even better than all that Yorkshire sunshine!