Emotional Exorcism

Some wounds are inherited. Some we have to learn to exorcise ourselves.

In their debut collection, August Willoughby turns poetry into ritual—a reckoning with familial trauma, betrayal, and the slow, sacred work of becoming whole. Drawing on mythology, theology, and the quiet cruelties of the natural world, EMOTIONAL EXORCISM unfolds in acts, each one tracing a different season of a life spent learning to name its own grief.

By turns whimsical and harrowing, folkloric and unflinching, these poems sit with the people who hurt us and the love we can't quite put down. But this is not only a chronicle of sorrow — it's a hymn to hope, to forgiveness, and to the hardest lesson of all: that no matter how deeply we love those who wound us, we must learn to love ourselves more.

Of Beast and Burden, Hollow and Hill #1

A fae girl with a human heart.

A Seelie Queen with a penchant for stealing mortals.

And an Unseelie King who will have to give up his throne.

On the coast of Georgia rests a small southern town where faeries still take changelings. Faye lost her mother to the Folk, but has she spent her whole life longing for a glimpse—however brief—behind the veil.

When Faye finds her way in, she also finds the truth of why the dark and alluring world of the Folk has always called to her: She's half-faerie, and heiress to the Dark Court's throne.

When the rival court steals her best friend, she'll have to claim her crown to get her back. But that means learning how to use her glamour so she can face three deadly trials—and not falling for the dark and brooding king she's meant to be replacing, or the nymph-turned-knight teaching her to fight.

Bell Hollow's Beldam

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