Here’s a video celebrating autumn, and all the beauty of Mabon. Halloween is over, but the autumn colours are still here.
The temperature has really dropped here in Northern Ireland, though we have managed to avoid snow, unlike some photos that friends in England have shared on social media. I’m sure that will change over the next few days though as snow is certainly forecast.
My fiction books and autumn colours
Last Saturday we went to the Santa parade in Belfast, which was at the little guy’s request. Apart from that we haven’t been personally getting into the whole festive spirit just yet. I know that a lot of people, and a lot of businesses, get their Christmas trees and decorations up from mid-November onwards, but for my family personally, once Halloween is over, we leave the generic autumnal decorations and door wreath in place until the 1st of December when we get ready for Yule. It’s still Mabon for a while longer!
Santa and Mrs Claus coming to town in Belfast city centre
Leilanie Stewart is an award-winning author and poet from Belfast, Northern Ireland. She writes ghost and psychological horror, as well as experimental poetry. Her writing confronts the nature of self; her novels feature main characters on a dark psychological journey who have a crisis and create a new sense of identity. She began writing for publication while working as an English teacher in Japan, a career pathway that has influenced themes in her writing. Her former career as an Archaeologist has also inspired her writing and she has incorporated elements of archaeology and mythology into both her fiction and poetry.
In addition to promoting her own work, Leilanie runs Bindweed Anthologies, a creative writing publication with her writer husband, Joseph Robert. Aside from publishing pursuits, Leilanie enjoys spending time with her husband and their lively literary lad, a voracious reader of sea monster books.
Leilanie Stewart 