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Editorial Correspondence:

The Journal of Mythic Arts ceased publication with the Summer 2008 issue, and the JoMA blog ceased publication in May 2008. Thus we can no longer accept submissions, blog nominations, or material for review.

For other Endicott Studio queries, write to: TheEndicottStudio at gmail dot com -- but please read the material below first to see if your question has already been answered.

 

Contact information for the writers and artists
who contributed to this site:

We cannot accept mail for the many writers and artists who contributed to The Journal of Mythic Arts (including Alan Lee and Brian Froud), and we are not authorized to pass on their private contact information. Please seek out their personal websites for contact information, or write to them c/o their book publishers.

Likewise, contact information for Terri Windling and Midori Snyder can be found on their personal websites.

 

Reprint Requests:

To reprint text or art by Terri Windling, please refer to the Copyright & Permissions page on Ms. Windling's website.

To reprint text by Midori Snyder, contact Ms. Snyder via her website.

Requests for permission to reprint text or art by any of the other writers or artists found on this site should be sent to the copyright holders of the work, not to JoMA or the Endicott Studio. You'll find copyright information at the end of each page or article.

Regarding historical art: If the piece of art you want to reproduce is old and the artist is long deceased, it's possible the work is in Public Domain, or that the use you want to make of it falls under Fair Use rules. For more information on the ins and outs of copyright, we recommend the Stanford University Libraries Copyright and Fair Use website. Please note that the Endicott Studio cannot give assistance tracking down copyright information on historical works of art, nor do we have the authority to grant reproduction permission ourselves.

Technical Problems:

If you are encountering technical problems with the JoMA pages, the JoMA blog, or the Endicott Studio site, please write to: TheEndicottStudio at gmail dot com.

 

         

Virgina_lee_5Frequently Asked Publishing Questions:

Can Ms. Windling, Ms. Snyder, or anyone else at the Endicott Studio give me feedback on my mythic fiction and poetry?

Regretfully, no. There is, however, a good online workshop for those wishing to work in the genre of fantasy literature at SFF Online Writing Workshop. Professional editors assist in the work, and there is online community support provided, along with market information. We also recommend the Clarion workshops, the Odyssey Fantasy Writing Workshop, and the Wiscon convention writing workshops (run by SF3).


Can you give me advice on how to get my work published, how to get an agent, or suggest some markets for my work?

Again, regretfully, no. This isn't what the Endicott Studio was set up to do. There are, however, other websites where you can find publishing news, information, practical advice, and market reports. Here are a few of them: The Speculative Literature Foundation, The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (in the UK, go here),  The Critters Library Page of Writing Resources and Market Report Links, and The Market List. You'll also find some useful tips and links on Holly Black's Writers' Resources Page, Ellen Datlow's Writing Tips Page and Patricia C. Wrede's Fantasy World Building Page.

 

Can you answer a folklore question for me, or help me track down an old fairy tale book?

We suggest posting your questions to the Fairy Tale and Folklore Discussion Forum hosted by the excellent Surlalune Fairy Tales website. The forum is frequented by professional writers, fairy tale scholars, and devotees of myth and legend. If they can't help you, they may at least be able to point you in the right direction.

 

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Art: "Fairy Scribe" copyright by Alan Lee; "Beauty is the Beast" copyright by Virginia Lee. Pen drawings by Oliver Hunter. Used with permission.

 

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    "Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the real? For me, it was those early readings of fairy tales that made me who I was as a reader and, later on, as a storyteller."
    - Alice Hoffman

    "Current cant equates fantasy with escapism, and current fashion would have it that fantasy is both easy to read and to write. It isn't. When it is done honestly, by a skillful writer, fantasy takes us far enough beyond our daily perceptions to open us to the essential realities beneath it. This is the true goal of all art."
    - Ellen Kushner

    "Our lives are stories, and the stories we have to give to each other are the most important. No one has a story too small and all are of equal stature. We each tell them in different ways, through different mediums—and if we care about each other, we'll take the time to listen."
    - Charles de Lint

    "As our storytellers continue to draw upon past knowledge, including looking to the animal world and to tribal storytellers for guidance, we grow in strength. We reshape our ancestors' stories for our children, so that these tales will, like our people, our spirits, endure."
    - Carolyn Dunn

    "When we change the shape of the Land, we alter the contents and contexts of our collective, familial, and personal memories. Yet, stories can preserve both mythic and familiar elements of geography even when the physical features are forgotten, buried, or obliterated. And more than this: the stories can bring these elements back. If the Land can be preserved long enough for its stories to be told, and retold, perhaps we all—as custodians of both place and memory—stand a chance at real preservation."
    - Ari Berk

    "Vision is one of the five senses, a gift that's easy to take for granted. It comes to us so easily. We simply open our eyes and 'see.' And yet there are levels of seeing. As fairy tales tell us, when we constrict or confuse our vision we are primed for betrayal and destruction; we are in the hold of the witch. To free ourselves we must both try to see clearly and allow ourselves to be seen. These are acts of courage and of power. If we can go beyond that and see compassionately, we may even partake in acts of grace."
    - Ellen Steiber

    "I grew up in a milieu of Carribean writers and writing. I bring that sensibility to my own work, but I write within a particularly northern tradition of speculative and fantastical fiction. There, plot and content are equally important, and the speculative or fantastical elements of the story must be 'real': Duppies and jumbies [elements of folklore] must exist outside the imaginations of the characters; any scientific extrapolation should seem convincingly based in the possible. It's an approach designed to ease or force the suspension of disbelief, to block flight back into the familiar world, to shake up the reader into thinking in new tracks."
    - Nalo Hopkinson

    "Folklore is the perfect second skin. From under its hide, we can see all the shimmering, shadowy uncertainties of the world."
    - Jane Yolen

    "At its best, fantasy rewards the reader with a sense of wonder about what lies within the heart of the commonplace world. The greatest tales are told over and over, in many ways, through centuries. Fantasy changes with the changing times, and yet it is still the oldest kind of tale in the world, for it began once upon a time, and we haven't heard the end of it yet."
    - Patricia A. McKillip

    "Stories. I've been telling stories for years, with paint, with words, with film and video cameras and pixels on computer screens. Yet what do I know? Nothing, really. I can't explain storytelling the way teachers explain math or history. When I draw, or write, or envision a film, I try to switch off and not think too much. To explain what I'm doing when I create would be like waking up while still dreaming. Dreams. We are all storytellers night after night, for even the most inartistic of us can still dream like masters."
    - Iain McCaig

    "As artists, Brian and I are merely part of a long mythic tradition—giving old faery tales new life and passing them on to the generations to come."
    - Wendy Froud

    "Painting, to me, is soul work, healing work."
    - Marja Lee Kruÿt

    "I believe that art is sacred and inseparable from life."
    - Mark Wagner