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Very Inspiring Blog Award

April 29, 2014 by Icy Sedgwick Leave a Comment

Amanda from Gift Frippery nominated me for the Very Inspiring Blog Award. I’m surprised because ‘inspiring’ is not an adjective I’d normally apply to myself, but I’m clearly pleased as well! So thank you, Amanda. So here are the rules. 1.       You thank the person who nominated you and provide a link to their blog […]

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Liebster Award

February 19, 2014 by Icy Sedgwick 2 Comments

I was granted the Liebster Award by bloggers and fellow writers Katherine Hajer and David Shrock. The basic principle is that you receive the award, answer the questions posed by whoever nominated you, then nominate your own chaps and ask questions of your own. I usually forget to actually write these posts after I get […]

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Seven Random Facts About Icy

July 27, 2011 by Icy Sedgwick 10 Comments

I’ve been tagged for another Versatile Blogger award. This is the third time I’ve had it, after both Danielle LaPaglia and Grace Motley handed it out, but now the awesome Tony Noland has bestowed it too. So here you go. Seven More Things About Icy 1. My favourite Disney character is Sleeping Beauty’s Maleficent. 2. […]

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Fabulous Flash Award

July 26, 2010 by Icy Sedgwick 3 Comments

Jon Strother, founding father of FridayFlash said recently: “I have decided to start the Fabulous Flash Award to spotlight some folks I feel deserve recognition for their, well… fabulous flash fiction.”  Well I was given the award by the very lovely and super awesome Sam of Future;Nostalgic, a fellow Northerner and wonderful writer. I love reading […]

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Blog Awards

July 20, 2010 by Icy Sedgwick 9 Comments

The very super Gracie Motley has been kind enough to give me these two awards, and it’s now my duty to follow the rules and pass them on to others! Unfortunately I can’t give them back to her, which is a shame as she’s lovely, but I shall endeavour to do my best. The Versatile Blogger […]

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And the Oscar goes to…

February 27, 2010 by Icy Sedgwick Leave a Comment

I’ll be honest, I never intended to write anything about the Oscars, but I find that I can’t help posting at least once on the subject since films I actually enjoyed have been nominated this year (I won’t gripe about the absence of Moon…not in this post, at least). I read a rather interesting article […]

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Icy is a folklore blogger and host of the Fabulous Folklore podcast. She is based in the north east of England, where she was born and raised amid the folk tales and legends of Tyneside and Northumberland. Icy is fascinated by history, cinema, art, and the occult, and griffins will always be her favourite mythical beast. She also writes dark fantasy novellas, Gothic short stories and the occasional weird Western, and she holds a PhD in Film Studies!

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