Author of novels FOLK (2018) and MISCHIEF ACTS (2022). Preoccupied by plants, fungi, forests & folklore. Also, increasingly, seaweed. tinyurl.com/Mischief-Acts
Joined February 2011
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24 Oct 2024
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: zoegilbert.com/folk-song-cyc…
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10 Oct 2023
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: eventbrite.co.uk/e/underworl…
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4 Oct 2023
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: bit.ly/43ureDI
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5 Sep 2023
Monthly Writers' Workshops running this Autumn – Join a group of ten for eight Zoom sessions and three rounds of tutor critique. 🖊️ 20Nov–17June, £295. londonlitlab.co.uk/course/po… @mindandlanguage #writingcommunity #writers
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22 Sep 2023
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: londonlitlab.co.uk/course/sa… #WritingCommunity #Folklore @mindandlanguage
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25 Sep 2023
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: bit.ly/43ureDI
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11 Aug 2023
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. londonlitlab.co.uk/course/po… @mindandlanguage #writingcommunity #writers
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3 Aug 2023
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.
2 Aug 2023
Enchantment in #Fiction ✨This 12wk online course explores enchanting techniques such as creating wild and strange settings, invoking ritual, and using the fantastical to spark wonder or apprehension. 23Nov–28Feb, £295
londonlitlab.co.uk/course/en… #writing @mindandlanguage
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24 Jul 2023
Your polite reminder that Herne the Hunter will be waggling his obscene horns in South London, with me, tomorrow evening:
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18 Jul 2023
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:
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22 May 2023
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: themargatebookshop.com/cosmi…
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12 May 2023
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
londonlitlab.co.uk/course/su…
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9 May 2023
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.
7 May 2023
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
londonlitlab.co.uk/course/su… #writingcommunity @mindandlanguage
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9 May 2023
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!
5 May 2023
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!
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26 Apr 2023
1 week until Zoe Gilbert and Lily Dunn get together in-person to celebrate the publication of the paperback version of their books! ♥️ Join us at Bless Stories in London, N16 0UD, May 03, £5
eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-laun… #MischiefActs #SinsofMyFather @mindandlanguage @Lilydunnwriter
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16 Apr 2023
Want to explore the difference between the uncanny and the weird in fiction? Or compare folkloric fiction with retold myth and legend? Be inspired by a range of the literary fantastic, and get to grips with how it creates the effects it does.
✨24May–26July at £325
londonlitlab.co.uk/course/su… #writingcommunity #writers @mindandlanguage
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13 Apr 2023
I'm teaching this course, reading and writing and critiquing forms of fantastical literature. We will be reading things almost as sinister as these twinkly roses.
12 Apr 2023
Fantastical literature takes many forms – from the mythic to the uncanny. Explore a range of genres in literature that toy with reality, and discuss your own work with likeminded #writers on this online course.
🪷 24May–26July, 10wks at £325
londonlitlab.co.uk/course/su… #folklore
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12 Apr 2023
If you're in North London on May 3rd drop in to Bless Stories in Stoke Newington and listen to me and @mindandlanguage chat about our books, our business and our friendship. Really hope to see some of you there. eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-laun… PS. There will be wine! #WritingCommunity
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3 Apr 2023
Hello! @mindandlanguage and I are in conversation about our books, how different they are and their similarities - also our teaching, and our friendship. We'd really like you to come to help us celebrate the publication of our paperbacks. #WritingCommunity eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-laun…
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31 Mar 2023
The Great North Wood project has been a wonderful thing - and this is a wonderful blog post about it. I gave workshops in woodland glades (with butterflies on my head) and met people who'd just discovered the woods after years nearby, thanks to the project. Thank you, GNW team!
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