Terri Windling -Fantasy writer, editor, and folklorist Terri Windling will be joining us for the first time in Glastonbury. She will talk about why we need mythic, magical fiction and art today, more than ever. Followed by a Q & A.

2.30pm noon until 3.30pm on Saturday 17th October, upstairs at the Glastonbury Town Hall in the Council Chamber.

BIO: Terri Windling is a writer, editor, artist, folklorist, and life-long wanderer of mythic woods. She has published over forty books, receiving ten World Fantasy Awards (including the Life Achievement Award in 2022), the Mythopoeic Award (for her novel The Wood Wife), the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFWA Solstice Award for “outstanding contributions to the speculative fiction field”. She’s been shortlisted twice for the Shirley Jackson Award, and once for the Tiptree Award (for The Armless Maiden).

Terri has edited fantasy fiction for over forty years, working with many of the major writers in the field and co-creating such book publications as the Fairy Tales series of novels and the Bordertownurban fantasy series. She has published numerous short story anthologies, often in partnership with Ellen Datlow — including sixteen volumes in The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror series, six volumes in the Snow White, Blood Red series of adult fairy tales, and four volumes of mythic fiction for YA readers: The Green Man, The Faery Reel, The Coyote Road, The Beastly Bride. Her latest anthology, Fairy Tales for Grown-ups, is forthcoming from the British Library in March, 2027.