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Contact: Elizabeth Kirwin, Editor

Phone: 267-225-3393

Email: info@fairiesinamerica.com\

Date: April 16, 2025

(Philadelphia, PA) Elizabeth Kirwin, editor and founder of FairiesInAmerica.com will present her work at the Harvard Divinity School’s Program for the Evolution of Spirituality Conference, Spirituality and the Arts, on April 25, 2025, in Boston, Massachusetts.

The Program for the Evolution of Spirituality is hosting this conference to bring together academics, artists of all types and spiritual practitioners on the leading edge of the convergence of spirituality and creativity. Conference organizers encouraged representations from those whose spiritual focus falls outside the world’s dominant religions, defies societal norms and gives a voice to those whose practices have been marginalized.

Elizabeth Kirwin will present the Fairy Gothic Ballads, supernatural tales steeped in the fairy faith of Ireland. The Fairy Gothic Ballads were written in the United States. Taking her cues from walkabouts in mountainous wilderness areas, and time spent by the Chesapeake Bay, she imbues the ballads with the liveliness of a bardic wanderer whose intimate connection with nature, people and the fairies – inspire and fascinate. For Kirwin, nature’s innate wildness is connected to and expressed by people who live in small villages and have direct contact with the land and sea – and the fairies who inhabit these spaces.

Elizabeth Kirwin holds a M.A. in English from Old Dominion University. She writes poetry and fiction and has been published in the Oyster Boy Review, Café Lit Magazine, Exquisite Death, Locust Shells Journal and Blue Chrystal Literary Magazine.

“Poets and poetry have been a form of rebellion against the status quo and simultaneously – a retreat into the numinous nature of the psyche;” says Kirwin. “By exploring the tapestry of fairy magic and lore, I reclaim my identity as an American-born Irish woman and a fairy.”  Kirwin has been a part of pagan communities, spanning five different states in the U.S., for over 30 years.

FairiesInAmerica.com is a community-based website that represents the fairy movement in the Americas. The website accepts content that engages readers to contemplate the neo-pagan movement with an emphasis on fairy magic, a branch of earth-based spirituality that is inclusive of all genders – and expresses egalitarian forms of magical practices. The website has been live for 18 years. FairiesInAmerica.com was originally founded by Elizabeth Kirwin in 2007, in Asheville, North Carolina, a locus for fairy communities. Currently, the website is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. For more information, to make a contribution, or schedule a performance, contact info@fairiesinamerica.com.

(Philadelphia, PA) On February 13th at 7 p.m., The Jubilant Thicket Literary Series will present Elizabeth Kirwin, performing the Fairy Gothic Ballads with the music of LiamSckhot, Jonathan Pogoda reading poetic fiction, and poetry by Quincy Scott Jones. The event will be held at The Walking Fish Theatre, 2509 Frankford Avenue, in Philadelphia, PA. Donations are accepted.

Debrah Morkun founded The Jubilant Thicket Literary Series, where she has created a venue to showcase the work of avant-garde poets, featuring them alongside artists of different media and scholars. The series takes its name from the Selected Poems of Jonathan Williams. Debrah Morkun recently published a selection from her new book, Hera Calf, 2. Her calf whispering room in Bardic Sepulchral, the section of FairiesInAmerica.com that features the poetry of fairies, witches, friends of the fairies, the literary avant-garde and more. Bardic Sepulchral is edited by CAConrad, who recently published an expanded version of The Book of Frank with Wave Books.

Elizabeth Kirwin, the editor and publisher of FairiesInAmerica.com, has been collaborating with the music composer LiamSckhot for three years on the Fairy Gothic Ballads, an audio collection of tales of magic sprung from Ireland in the 18th Century. LiamSckhot is a master percussionist and he illustrates the ballads with electronic and acoustic music. Kirwin is of Irish American lineage and she is a performance artist who dresses as her magical male character — the bard. The performance at Jubilant Thicket is the first public presentation of the ballads.

The Fairy Gothic Ballads are imaginary narratives of the land and the people of Ireland, and tell of their precarious relationship to the faeries, a sublime race of beings who rule the wilderness areas and make incursions into the human realm. Visit the Fairy Music section of FairiesInAmerica.com to listen to free podcasts.

FairiesInAmerica.com was founded in 2007 to document the cultural, spiritual, sexual and gender revolution being sparked by the faery movement, an eclectic branch of neo-paganism. FairiesInAmerica.com is open to submissions in gender, sexuality, music, spirituality, art, writing, poetry and more. The website has published the work of Michael Rumaker, Penny Arcade and other writers and artists. FairiesInAmerica.com is currently seeking section editors. Email info@fairiesinamerica.com to submit work or inquire about editorial positions.

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