Anna Smol: A Single Leaf

Tag: Online Midsummer Seminar 2025

  • Grendel’s Mother Talks Back

    “Grendel’s Mother Talks Back: Contemporary Women’s Mythopoeic Revisions” is a talk I gave for the Midsummer Online Seminar of the Mythopoeic Society in August. A link to the recorded talk is included.

  • Two conferences this week!

    Two conferences dealing with Tolkien and with women and gender in mythopoeic works to take place this week — The NY Tolkien Conference, and the Online Midsummer Seminar of the Mythopoeic Society. Follow the link for more info.

  • cfp: New essays on women and gender in Tolkien

    This call for papers comes from Cami Agan and Clare Moore who will be editing a collection to honour the work of Leslie Donovan and Janet Brennan Croft who, almost ten years ago, published Perilous and Fair: Women in the Works and Life of J.R.R. Tolkien. We invite submissions for an anthology focused on women…