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In episode 16 of the Pointy Hat Press podcast, hosts Kristin Lisenby & Caitlyn Barone interview Jess Adams. Jess is a voice-trained word witch and musician whose creative work bridges the realms of craft and spirit, and explores the liminal space between verbal and non-verbal communication. In this conversation, Jess discusses tarot as a song and music as a way to play with mystery. He contemplates the faces of the High Priestess and the Magician, and explains why divination is a doorway to decorate time. Together, they venture into Horned God territory, where the journey of an artist is a reunion with our desires.

Mentioned in this episode:

Chapter 11: Chapter Art Witchery with Caitlyn Barone

Chapter 12: Literary Spellcraft with Sarah Justice

Chapter 13: Mediumship and Journeying with Jennifer Green

Chapter 14: Nostalgia in the Paranormal with Amanda Paulson

Chapter 15: The Crossroads of Creativity with Kate Belew

“The Hero’s Journey,” Joseph Campbell

Magick & Alchemy podcast

“78 Degrees of Wisdom,” Rachel Pollack

The Mists of Avalon Oracle deck

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Join the Pointy Hat Press Literary Coven and receive a key to our digital garden of folklore, enchanted artwork, and spells for the literary witch! Coven members will also be privy to book-related updates, new releases, and tips on submitting their work for publication.  For more magick, find us casting spells and sharing stories on Substack.

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📖 Little Witch Tales: Telling the Bees is an illustrated fairy tale about a little witch, a curious invitation, and a sticky, springtime tradition.

📖 Little Witch Hosts Samhain Supper is an illustrated bedtime story about autumn, ancestral magick, and the Season of the Witch.

You can also explore the library of *digital* tales, including The Witch & the Raven, The Deer Mother, and The Hanged Weaver. Digital stories that receive the most love might find their way into future books...

The Pointy Hat Press podcast was created by Kristin Lisenby & Caitlyn Barone, and is produced by Julio Montero. Manuscript submissions are currently closed, but you can follow the PHP Literary Coven on Substack, or at @pointyhatpress and @littlewitchbooks. For wholesale inquiries, please contact [email protected].

In episode 15 of the Pointy Hat Press Podcast, hosts Kristin Lisenby & Caitlyn Barone talk word witchery with Kate Belew. Kate is an author, poet, and Witch whose work exists at the crossroads of creativity and magic. In this conversation, Kate reflects on her childhood muses, libraries as portals, and the first poem she ever wrote. She contemplates the ever-evolving landscape of her creativity and discusses the origin of the Crossroads writing community. Kate also introduces us to her upcoming book, Word Witch: How to Call Upon and Cultivate the Creative Magic Within You.

To connect with Kate Belew, visit her website and follow her on Instagram. Read more of her writing at her Substack, Word Witch, and pre-order her upcoming book!

Mentioned in this episode:

The Crossroads: Sacred Stories & the Dark Moon

Magick & Alchemy podcast

The Seal Maiden - YouTube

Monica Furlong

Selkie: Nobody’s Wolf Child - YouTube

Tamed Wild

The Threshold: An Automatic Writing Ritual with Kate Belew

Word Witch: How to Call Upon and Cultivate the Creative Magic Within You, Kate Belew

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Join the Literary Coven and receive a key to our digital garden of folklore, enchanted artwork, and spells for the literary witch! Coven members will also be privy to book-related updates, new releases, and tips on submitting their work for publication.  For more magick, find us sharing stories on Substack.

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📖 Little Witch Tales: Telling the Bees is an illustrated fairy tale about a little witch, a curious invitation, and a sticky, springtime tradition.

📖 Little Witch Hosts Samhain Supper is an illustrated bedtime story about autumn, ancestral magick, and the Season of the Witch.

You can also explore our library of *digital* tales, including The Witch & the Raven, The Deer Mother, and The Hanged Weaver. Digital stories that receive the most love might find their way into future books…

The Pointy Hat Press podcast was created by Kristin Lisenby & Caitlyn Barone, and is produced by Julio Montero. Manuscript submissions are currently closed, but you can follow the PHP Literary Coven on Substack, or at @pointyhatpress and @littlewitchbooks. For wholesale inquiries, please contact [email protected].

In episode 14 of the Pointy Hat Press podcast, hosts Kristin Lisenby & Caitlyn Barone interview Amanda Paulson. Amanda is a paranormal investigator, public speaker, and medium based in the Pacific Northwest. This week, Amanda visits the halls of Pointy Hat Press to discuss nostalgia in the paranormal, odd emotions, and her journey as an artist and medium. She discusses trance, channeling, and traveling through the subconscious like a waking dream. Amanda also discusses haunted objects, including one of Caitlyn’s childhood toys.

Mentioned in this episode:

MTV’s Fear

Medium Cindy Kaza

Medium Tyler Henry 

Veda Austin 

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Join the Pointy Hat Press Literary Coven and receive a key to our digital garden of folklore, enchanted artwork, and spells for the literary witch! Coven members will also be privy to book-related updates, new releases, and tips on submitting their work for publication.  For more magick, find us casting spells and sharing stories on Substack.

Buy our Books!

📖 Little Witch Tales: Telling the Bees is an illustrated fairy tale about a little witch, a curious invitation, and a sticky, springtime tradition.

📖 Little Witch Hosts Samhain Supper is an illustrated bedtime story about autumn, ancestral magick, and the Season of the Witch.

Explore our library of *digital* tales, including The Witch & the Raven, The Deer Mother, and The Hanged Weaver. Digital stories that receive the most love might find their way into future books…

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The Pointy Hat Press podcast was created by Kristin Lisenby & Caitlyn Barone, and is produced by Julio Montero. Manuscript submissions are currently closed, but you can follow the PHP Literary Coven on Substack, or at @pointyhatpress and @littlewitchbooks. For wholesale inquiries, please contact [email protected].

In episode 13 of the Pointy Hat Press Podcast, hosts Kristin Lisenby & Caitlyn Barone interview Jennifer Green. Jennifer is an artist and spiritual practitioner who has spent over thirty years dedicated to the creative arts, healing, and her ever-evolving magical practice. She is a printmaker, illustrator, clairvoyant, and a lover of birds. In this conversation, Jennifer shares insight into her journey as a magical practitioner and explains how her creative process intersects with ritual work. She discusses making medicine dolls, the power of humor in spirit communication, and what it was like growing up in a ‘weird-tolerant’ family.

To learn more about Jennifer, follow her on Instagram @jennifer_green_artist and read an extended interview in the Literary Coven on Substack!

Mentioned in this episode:

Sue Weaver

Lu Wray

Creative Mediumship: Spells for Spring - Literary Coven

Swan Bones: Freedom and Becoming - Art Witch Atelier

Doris Stokes

Join the Pointy Hat Press Literary Coven!

Join the Pointy Hat Press Literary Coven and receive a key to our digital garden of folklore, enchanted artwork, and spells for the literary witch! Coven members will also be privy to book-related updates, new releases, and tips on submitting their work for publication. For more magick, find us casting spells and sharing stories on Substack.

Buy our Books!

📖 Little Witch Tales: Telling the Bees is an illustrated fairy tale about a little witch, a curious invitation, and a sticky, springtime tradition.

📖 Little Witch Hosts Samhain Supper is an illustrated bedtime story about autumn, ancestral magick, and the Season of the Witch.

You can also explore our library of *digital* tales, including The Witch & the Raven, The Deer Mother, and The Hanged Weaver. Digital stories that receive the most love might find their way into future books…

The Pointy Hat Press podcast was created by Kristin Lisenby & Caitlyn Barone, and is produced by Julio Montero. Manuscript submissions are currently closed, but you can follow the PHP Literary Coven on Substack, or at @pointyhatpress and @littlewitchbooks. For wholesale inquiries, please contact [email protected].

In episode 12 of the Pointy Hat Press Podcast, hosts Kristin Lisenby & Caitlyn Barone talk literary magick with Sarah Justice. Sarah is the managing editor of Witchology Magazine and the owner of Tiny Cauldron, an online site that offers cottage witchery ritual tools rooted in folklore and history. She is also an author, educator, and the editor at Little Witch Books. In this conversation, three witches meet to discuss literary magick, verbal incantations, and syllables in spell writing. They share their thoughts on community, feeding our muses, and partnership as a portal.

Learn more about Sarah and Tiny Cauldron at TinyCauldron.com. Follow her on Instagram, @tinycauldron, and look for her writings in the Literary Coven on Substack!

Use code pointyhat at Tiny Cauldron for 20% off courses and packets!

Mentioned in this episode:

Chapter 11: Art Witchery with Caitlyn Barone

The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, Robin Wall Kimmerer

Join the Pointy Hat Press Literary Coven!

Join the Pointy Hat Press Literary Coven and receive a key to our digital garden of folklore, enchanted artwork, and spells for the literary witch! Coven members will also be privy to book-related updates, new releases, and tips on submitting their work for publication. For more magick, find us casting spells and sharing stories on Substack.

Buy our Books!

📖 Little Witch Tales: Telling the Bees is an illustrated fairy tale about a little witch, a curious invitation, and a sticky, springtime tradition.

📖 Little Witch Hosts Samhain Supper is an illustrated bedtime story about autumn, ancestral magick, and the Season of the Witch.

You can also explore our library of *digital* tales, including The Witch & the Raven, The Deer Mother, and The Hanged Weaver. Digital stories that receive the most love might find their way into future books…

The Pointy Hat Press podcast was created by Kristin Lisenby & Caitlyn Barone, and is produced by Julio Montero. Manuscript submissions are currently closed, but you can follow the PHP Literary Coven on Substack, or at @pointyhatpress and @littlewitchbooks. For wholesale inquiries, please contact [email protected].

In episode 11 of the Pointy Hat Press Podcast, host Kristin Lisenby interviews her partner and co-host, Caitlyn Barone. Caitlyn is the illustrator for Little Witch Books and co-founder of Pointy Hat Press. She is also a photographer, graphic designer, poet, educator, and art witch. In this conversation, Caitlyn shares her creative journey and introduces us to her muses. She contemplates art as a language and the overlaps between art and the occult. 

Mentioned in this episode:

Chapter 4: Literary Spellcraft

The Art of the Occult, S. Elizabeth

Women Dreaming into Art, Patricia Ann Ariadne & Emme Edizioni

Library of Esoterica: Witchcraft, Jess Hundley and Pam Grossman

Artemisia Gentileschi, "Susanna and the Elders"

To see different interpretations of "Susanna and the Elders," click here and here.

Join the Pointy Hat Press Literary Coven!

Join the Pointy Hat Press Literary Coven and receive a key to our digital garden of folklore, enchanted artwork, and spells for the literary witch! Coven members will also be privy to book-related updates, new releases, and tips on submitting their work for publication. You can also find us casting spells and sharing stories on Substack.

Buy our Books!

Little Witch Tales: Telling the Bees is an illustrated fairy tale about a little witch, a curious invitation, and a sticky, springtime tradition.

Little Witch Hosts Samhain Supper is an illustrated bedtime story about autumn, ancestral magick, and the Season of the Witch.

You can also explore our library of *digital* tales, including The Witch & the Raven, The Deer Mother, and The Hanged Weaver. Digital stories that receive the most love might find their way into future books…

The Pointy Hat Press podcast was created by Kristin Lisenby & Caitlyn Barone, and is produced by Julio Montero. Manuscript submissions are currently closed, but you can follow the PHP Literary Coven on Substack, or at @pointyhatpress and @littlewitchbooks. For wholesale inquiries, please contact [email protected].

In episode 10 of the Pointy Hat Press Podcast, hosts Kristin Lisenby & Caitlyn Barone ask one another - what does it mean to tell the bees? Inspired by the pollinators in their backyards and the mythical bee from stories, Kristin and Caitlyn hover around the tales of the cosmic bee, which is not wholly lunar or solar but both. In this conversation, they discuss the bee’s relationship with the god Apollo, the goddess Artemis, and the Pythia, the most famous prophetess in the ancient Greco-Roman world. They consider the bee as a messenger, psychopomp, familial guardian, muse, and alchemist. 

Mentioned in this episode:

The Crossroads: The Luminous Months

Little Witch Tales: Telling the Bees

Chapter 9: Spiders in Fairy Tales

Porphyry

Step Into the Night Garden: Bees in Mythology

The Secret Teachings of All Ages, Manly P. Hall

Magick & Alchemy, Episode 116: The Veil is Thin

This Jungian Life, The Archetypal Brain: Jung from an Evolutionary Perspective

Join the Pointy Hat Press Literary Coven!

Join the Pointy Hat Press Literary Coven and receive a key to our digital garden of folklore, enchanted artwork, and spells for the literary witch! Coven members will also be privy to book-related updates, new releases, and tips on submitting their work for publication.

Buy our Books!

Little Witch Tales: Telling the Bees is an illustrated fairy tale about a little witch, a curious invitation, and a sticky, springtime tradition.

Little Witch Hosts Samhain Supper is an illustrated bedtime story about autumn, ancestral magick, and the Season of the Witch.

You can also explore our library of *digital* tales, including The Witch & the Raven, The Deer Mother, and The Hanged Weaver. Digital stories that receive the most love might find their way into future books…

The Pointy Hat Press podcast was created by Kristin Lisenby & Caitlyn Barone, and is produced by Julio Montero. Manuscript submissions are currently closed, but you can follow the PHP Literary Coven on Substack, or at @pointyhatpress and @littlewitchbooks. For wholesale inquiries, please contact [email protected].

In episode 9 of the Pointy Hat Press Podcast, hosts Kristin Lisenby & Caitlyn Barone spin threads and weave webs with the mythical spider. Led by the arachnids from their favorite fairy tales, they contemplate spiders as messengers, witches, and symbols of time and truth. Considering the lessons of Arachne, Charlotte’s Web, and The Hanged Weaver, they gather secrets from the spider’s ceremony, both viscous and vital.

Mentioned in this episode:

Little Witch Tales: The Hanged Weaver

Caveman: An Interview with Michel Siffre, Living beyond Time with Joshua Foer and Michel Siffre

Legends and Traditions of the Cailleach Bheara or Old Woman (Hag) of Beare. Hull, E. (1927). Folklore, 38(3), 225–254

Charlotte’s Web, E.B White

Brewers Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, John Ayto

Baba Yaga’s Book of Witchcraft: Slavic Magic from the Witch of the Woods, Madam Pamita

The Crossroads writing community

This Jungian Life podcast

Dream Wise: Unlocking the Meaning of Your Dreams, Marchiano, Lee & Stewart

Join the Pointy Hat Press Literary Coven!

Join the Pointy Hat Press Literary Coven and receive a key to our digital garden of folklore, enchanted artwork, and spells for the literary witch! Coven members will also be privy to book-related updates, new releases, and tips on submitting their work for publication.

Buy our Books!

Little Witch Tales: Telling the Bees is an illustrated fairy tale about a little witch, a curious invitation, and a sticky, springtime tradition.

Little Witch Hosts Samhain Supper is an illustrated bedtime story about autumn, ancestral magick, and the Season of the Witch.

You can also explore our library of *digital* tales, including The Witch & the Raven, The Deer Mother, and The Hanged Weaver. Digital stories that receive the most love might find their way into future books

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The Pointy Hat Press podcast was created by Kristin Lisenby & Caitlyn Barone, and is produced by Julio Montero. Manuscript submissions are currently closed, but you can follow the PHP Literary Coven on Substack, or at @pointyhatpress and @littlewitchbooks. For wholesale inquiries, please contact [email protected].

In episode 8 of the Pointy Hat Press podcast, hosts Kristin Lisenby & Caitlyn Barone narrate The Hanged Weaver,  an original fairy tale from the Little Witch Books library. The Hanged Weaver is a curious story about a witch in the woods, the bones of our youth, and a girl with an important question - how old is the Hanged Weaver?

Mentioned in this episode:

Little Witch Tales: The Hanged Weaver

Join the Pointy Hat Press Literary Coven!

Join the Pointy Hat Press Literary Coven and receive a key to our digital garden of folklore, enchanted artwork, and spells for the literary witch! Coven members will also be privy to book-related updates, new releases, and tips on submitting their work for publication.

Buy our Books!

Little Witch Tales: Telling the Bees is an illustrated fairy tale about a little witch, a curious invitation, and a sticky, springtime tradition.

Little Witch Hosts Samhain Supper is an illustrated bedtime story about autumn, ancestral magick, and the Season of the Witch.

You can also explore our library of *digital* tales, including The Witch & the Raven, The Deer Mother, and today's story, The Hanged Weaver. Digital stories that receive the most love might find their way into future books…

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The Pointy Hat Press podcast was created by Kristin Lisenby & Caitlyn Barone, and is produced by Julio Montero. Manuscript submissions are currently closed, but you can follow the PHP Literary Coven on Substack, or at @pointyhatpress and @littlewitchbooks. For wholesale inquiries, please contact [email protected].

In episode 7 of the Pointy Hat Press Podcast, hosts Kristin Lisenby & Caitlyn Barone summon their inner Little Witches, gather their tools (Polly Pockets, old books, and a Wicked-themed Build-A-Bear) and craft a collage of memories. Together, they explore nostalgia as an aesthetic and a portal, and contemplate how our moods influence creativity. They talk about the purpose of play, finding inspiration through remembering, and bringing Nostalgia Magick into the modern world.

Mentioned in this episode:

Magick & Alchemy Episode 71: Nostalgia magick

Witchology Magazine

Starhawk

Mirrors in the Earth: Reflections on Self-Healing from the Living World, Asia Suler

The Unforgivable & Other Writings, Cristina Campo

“How do Mood States Influence Creativity?”  National Library of Medicine

The Link Between Creativity, Cognition, and Creative Drives and Underlying Neural Mechanisms 

“When looking back helps us move forward, or how nostalgia can be good,” The Washington Post

The Lost Bookshop,  Evie Woods 

The Velveteen Rabbit, Margery Williams

Join the Pointy Hat Press Literary Coven!
Join the Pointy Hat Press Literary Coven and receive a key to our digital garden of folklore, enchanted artwork, and spells for the literary witch! Coven members will also be privy to book-related updates, new releases, and tips on submitting their work for publication.

Buy our Books!

Little Witch Tales: Telling the Bees is an illustrated fairy tale about a little witch, a curious invitation, and a sticky, springtime tradition.

Little Witch Hosts Samhain Supper is an illustrated bedtime story about autumn, ancestral magick, and the Season of the Witch.

You can also explore our library of *digital* tales, including The Witch & the Raven, The Deer Mother, and The Hanged Weaver. Digital stories that receive the most love might find their way into future books…

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The Pointy Hat Press podcast was created by Kristin Lisenby & Caitlyn Barone, and is produced by Julio Montero. Manuscript submissions are currently closed, but you can follow the PHP Literary Coven on Substack, or at @pointyhatpress and @littlewitchbooks. For wholesale inquiries, please contact [email protected].