Vonnie Winslow Crist
Folklore, Fairytales, Myths & Legends
Vonnie Winslow Crist
Jarrettsville, MD
United States
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Interviews, Articles & Essays
COLUMNS:
I'm writing "The Writer's Block" column for Harford Heart's Magazine. The current issue can be found at www.harfordsheart.com Just leaf through the pages until you find "The Writer's Block."
ARTICLES:
Issue #20 of Faerie Magazine includes my article, "Tussie Mussies - Talking Victorian Bouquets,"* along with wonderful work from Neil Gaiman, Brian Froud, Charles Vess, Myles Pinkney, and other talented writers and artists. 
I highly recommend buying "Faerie Magazine" from your local bookstore or from: http://faeriemagazine.com *"Tussie Mussies - Talking Victorian Bouquets" was voted the best nonfiction article of 2010 in the Preditors & Editors Reader's Poll.
ESSAYS:
The Spring 2011 Little Patuxent Review Make Believe Issue includes my essay, "Fairies, Magic & Monsters" - "Make believe is one of childhood's greatest gifts and, if we're lucky, an enduring part of our lives. From daydreaming and wishful thinking to the imagined worlds of books, television, films, and video games -- it's woven into our culture. Make believe is a large and varied universe, but there is a special corner in it where magical beings and miraculous events have thrived since our ancestors first told stories around a cooking fire. And the reasons for the hold of fairies, magic, and monsters on humankind haven't changed much since Homo sapiens stood upright..."
Available from: http://littlepatuxentreview.org *"Fairies, Magic & Monsters" was voted the best nonfiction article of 2011 in the Preditors & Editors Reader's Poll.
The 2008 Manorborn Memory Issue includes my essay: "Country Stroll" written in memory of my father, Nathan J. Winslow. An excerpt: "Went for a stroll on Sunday. I stepped from concrete onto grass by the nearly-spent purple heather that had started to bloom on the eve of my father's death, and was suddenly aware that a month had passed in a haze of grief. I'd missed the snowdrops, the crocus, the first greening of the forest..." Manorborn is published by the Harford Poetry Society: http://astore.amazon.com/vonnwinscris-20
I'm one of the editors of The Gunpowder Review, a women's literary magazine. To order a sample copy of the 2009 issue or for writers' guidelines, please check: http://gunpowderpenwomen.wordpress.com and go to the Gunpowder Review page.
To order a sample copy of the 2010 or 2011 issues, visit www.Lulu.com/buy and type in Vonnie Winslow Crist or go to http://astore.amazon.com/vonnwinscris-20
Vonnie Winslow Crist
Jarrettsville, MD
United States
vonniewi
