Elyse
Welles
Magazines I Contribute To
Witch Way Magazine
Past and upcoming articles include Calling on the Muses, Beetroot & Rosemary: Kitchen Witchery to Heal Painful Nostalgia & Memories, Personalizing Your Spellwork, Daily Card Pulls to the Next Level, and more.
I'm the Greece/Europe correspondent for the Wild Hunt News. Past articles include covering the Eleusinian Mysteries, the Dionysian Falliforia Parade, Piligrmage: Brigid's Well, Malta's Prehistoric Goddesses, Bulgaria's Rose Festival, and more. Read all my articles for free here at the wildhunt.org.
Until January 2024, I served as the ritual writer for Full Moon Magazine, a subsidiary of the Metaphysical Times. Past rituals include "Balancing Creativity", "Why We Call in the Directions", "Scrying for Shadow Work", "Bay Lead Blessings: Celebrating the Self", and more.
Published In
"Neo Pagans and the Ainur Pantheon: Real World Practice of Tolkien's Elven Religion" appearing in Follow Me: Religion in Fantasy & Science Fiction from Luna Press Publishing.
The poem "Sadhu" in Truthtellers: An Anthology of the Best Poetry of 2022 from Free Verse Revolution.
2 of my sacred poems, Drawing Down, and Meeting the Goddess (excerpt), were accepted to the 44th edition of this incredible yearly planner.
Witchology Magazine -- The Underworld Issue -- Autumn 2023
Meeting the Land Spirits of Greece
Witchology Magazine -- The Underworld Issue -- Autumn 2023
Meeting the Land Spirits of Greece
The Water Looks Peaceful Away From the Coastline
Aayo Magazine - April 2022
Poetry
Transients Magazine, Issue II - Growing Up - February 2024
Yellow Arrow Journal, 2023 Vignette: SPARK - July 2023
Coals in the Rain (pg. 34) (link opens a PDF)
Free Verse Revolution, Issue VII: Tahmina (love & loss) - September 2022
Tuesday Twilight (pg. 26-27)
Gypsophila Magazine - August 2022
Bottled (performance)
Poetry Archive - August 2022
Flash Fiction Podcast - May 18th, 2023
Short Story
My "Pagan Prompts" (exploratory journal prompts for pagans, witches, and the spiritually-minded) can be found at PaganPages.org.
Freebies
Coming 2025
Two debut books from Elyse Welles
Poetry
Transients Magazine, Issue II - Growing Up - February 2024
Yellow Arrow Journal, 2023 Vignette: SPARK - July 2023
Coals in the Rain (pg. 34) (link opens a PDF)
Free Verse Revolution, Issue VII: Tahmina (love & loss) - September 2022
Tuesday Twilight (pg. 26-27)
Gypsophila Magazine - August 2022
Yellow Arrow Journal, UpSpring (Vol. II No. I) - May 2022
Bottled (performance)
Poetry Archive - August 2022
Magazines I Contribute To
Two articles per monthly edition. Past and upcoming articles include Aphrodite's True Power, Ancient Ritual in Modern Greece, Calling on the Muses, Beetroot & Rosemary: Kitchen Witchery to Heal Painful Nostalgia & Memories, Personalizing Your Spellwork, and more.
I'm the Greece/Europe correspondent for the Wild Hunt News. Past articles include covering the 2024 Olympics, Eleusinian Mysteries, the Dionysian Falliforia Parade, Piligrmage: Brigid's Well, Malta's Prehistoric Goddesses, Bulgaria's Rose Festival, and more. Read all my articles for free here at the wildhunt.org.
In this quarterly publication, I contribute 1-2 articles connecting my work on the Sacred Wild to the relevant themes, including Ancestral Veneration, Liminal Land, and Kharis: Ancient Greek Reciprocity.
Published In
The Witches' Diary - Vol. 4 an anthology curated by Greek witch Alexa Merian and featuring many Greek poyltheists, pagans, and witches.
Serpents of Circe: A Manual to Magical Resilience an anthology curated by Laura Tempest Zakroff & Ron Padrón, featured alongside Mat Auryn, Ivo Dominguez, Jr. + more.
The poem "Sadhu" in Truthtellers: An Anthology of the Best Poetry of 2022 from Free Verse Revolution.
2 of my sacred poems, Drawing Down, and Meeting the Goddess (excerpt), were accepted to the 44th edition of this incredible yearly planner.
Myth & Lore, Issue 5: Monuments, Stones & Haunted Homes - June 2023
Equinox
"Neo Pagans and the Ainur Pantheon: Real World Practice of Tolkien's Elven Religion" appearing in Follow Me: Religion in Fantasy & Science Fiction from Luna Press Publishing.
Short Story
Flash Fiction Podcast - May 18th, 2023
Freebies
My "Pagan Prompts" (exploratory journal prompts for pagans, witches, and the spiritually-minded) can be found at PaganPages.org.
What the Water Remembers
Elyse's debut novel from Running Wild Press.
Charmed meets Nancy Drew when modern witch Kendra Hill sets out to uncover the connections between three ghosts and the Flood of 1889, an abandoned cemetery, and a jar of teeth - before the hauntings push her out of her home.
After 4 years of painstaking work, it will finally be available in autumn of 2025!
Connecting with Land Spirits
My first book, a deep dive into working with land spirits, arrives with Llewellyn Worldwide in summer of 2025.