Lincolnshire Folk Tales Reimagined
Edited by Anna Milon & Rory Waterman.
Published February 2025 by Five Leaves Publications.
Contains new work by: Aliya Whiteley, Alison Brackenbury, Alex Harvey, Jane Simmons, Robert Etty, Philippa East, Fee Griffin, Anne Zouroudi, Rory Waterman, Daniele Pantano, Juliet E. McKenna, Rahul Gupta, Nick Triplow and John Gallas.
This book is an example what can happen when folk tales are not in aspic, are not regarded only as fixed documents from the past, but continue to change with the ‘folk’.
It brings together new, original fiction and poetry by some of Lincolnshire’s most celebrated writers, all taking inspiration from the county’s rich, diverse, and evolving heritage of folk tales. Yes, here you will find boggarts, rogues, princesses, witches, demons, old rites and customs. Mostly, however, the stories and poems in this book are concerned with the present, with how our collective cultural heritage might add colour to our lives, and with ripping good yarns for their own sakes and for our times.
The book also includes detailed, entertaining gloss notes about the original tales and sources, and an introduction.
The project is grateful to project partners Five Leaves Publications, and to all the authors who contributed new work to the book.
Lincolnshire Folk Tales Project 