Land's Sake
A world of deconstructed fairytales, folktales, and terrors
Deconstructed Fairytales and Folklore
Trespass on a land where trees are haunted and an anxious boy stacks wood until his hands bleed. Visit a time and a place where grandmothers are powerful and children learn to wield magic. Where a woman finds a delicious recipe to thwart misogynists, inhabitants of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch dream of ice and snow, and honey is indistinguishable from ectoplasm.
Where salmon appear in thin air backlit by the aurora, a child-stealing monster creeps out from the sea, and a robotic polar bear terrorizes a post-apocalyptic Arctic wasteland. Where a gay raven does crimes, and a witch finds a way for her city to be returned to the people and animals from which it was stolen. Fairytales, folklores, and terrors intertwine in a world of deconstructed fairytales, folktales, and terrors.
Releases Winter 2027
Land's Sake
Genre: Folklore and Fairytale Short Story Collection
Pages: TBD
ISBN Paperback: TBD
ISBN Ebook: TBD
Release Date: Winter 2027
About Shantell Powell
Raised on the land and off the grid in rural and remote areas across Canada, Shantell Powell is a swamp hag and elder goth who grew up in an apocalyptic cult but got better. She’s a graduate of The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity’s horror residency, The Writers’ Studio at Simon Fraser University (speculative fiction and poetry), LET(s) Lead Academy at Yale University, the LGBTQ+ Novel Immersive and Short Story Collection Builder courses at GrubStreet, the Vancouver Manuscript Intensive, and is a 2026 McCormack Writing Center (formerly Tin House) scholar. She’s an Aurora finalist, a Best of the Net, Pushcart, Rhysling, and Journey prize nominee, and a winner of Brave New Weird. Her writing appears in Augur, The Deadlands, The Malahat Review, Nightmare, and dozens more magazines and anthologies. She has a reverent approach to nature and an irreverent approach to religion. When she’s not writing, she wrangles chinchillas and gets filthy in the woods.