Anna Chorlton

Author

Anna Chorlton writes in the Cornish wilds. She is inspired by nature, folklore, history,
people, and places. The Silver Ball, an audio drama about The Hurlers stone circle on Bodmin
Moor was produced by Alternative Stories (spring, 2021) and performed at the Prim-Raf
Theatre as part of the Cornish Gorsedh 2024.

She wrote the animation scripts and tales for Cornish folklore project Mazed which retells the traditional tales in ways old and new and two books linked to the project. Mazed was nominated for a Celtic Media Award for Innovation and a Holyer an Gof. Her poetry is internationally published in journals including Ice Floe Press (2022), Atlanta Review, (2020), Wild Court, (2021, 2024), and Skylight47, (2022). Her first book in the Cornish Folk Tales of Place series was published by The History Press in 2019, the second in April 2025.

Genre: Folklore, History,, Poetry
External links: Website
Internal links: Cornish Folk Tales of Place , Cornish Folk Tales of Place 2