Laura Joyce Laura Joyce

Tiny Acts of Witchcraft in Aase Berg’s Hackers

Fixed air: hacking, repurposing systems, linguistic play

Berg’s collection offers this small hope, this tiny act of witchcraft in a collection that both reproduces and interrogates patriarchal violence and its necrotizing effect.

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The Beautiful Apocalypse in Skin Horse by Olivia Cronk

Fixed air: revelation, visions, futures

These everyday objects take on a plastic significance, the ashtray is a repository for waste, and the mingling of the ash with the ‘pink seat’ suggests an uneasy disruption of categories.

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Ritual Support System for Writers

Fixed air: systems, ancient wisdom, collective practices

This can become the container for all of your rituals, devotions, and divinations, and a space to process what your subtle body is experiencing when you generate, edit, and share creative work.

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Year Ahead Spreads

Fixed air: future visioning, collective energies

What happens if you think about your projects not in terms of word counts, but in seasons? Could you be guided by a full seasonal cycle, from solstice to solstice, or Samhain to Samhain? Or could you work with your solar return?

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Two of Wands: Writing Sabbaticals

Fixed air: portals, balance, opposition

How do you build rest into your writing practice? When do you let the field lay fallow, and when do you let it grow wild?

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