Moonbeaming Writing as Oracle, Ancestral Gifts and Grief, and the Magic of Language with Sarah Shin
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What does it mean to follow creativity as a path of inquiry?
In this episode, Sarah sits down with writer, curator, and founder of Silver Press, Sarah Shin, for a thoughtful conversation about creativity, intuition, and the role of language in shaping how we understand the world.
Sarah Shin shares her path as the founder of Silver Press, a feminist publishing house dedicated to formally inventive writing, and Spiral House, an imprint exploring art, poetry, transformation, and alternative ways of knowing. Through publishing, curation, and collaboration, her work creates spaces for ideas that exist at the intersection of literature, philosophy, and the esoteric.
Together, Sarah and Sarah explore how creative practice can become a way of thinking — and how poetry, myth, and symbolic language can help us understand experiences that don’t always fit into conventional frameworks.
In this episode, you’ll hear:
- Sarah Shin’s journey founding Silver Press and building a feminist publishing house
- How poetry, myth, and symbolic language expand the way we understand reality
- Writing as an intuitive practice and a tool for exploring imagination
- The relationship between creativity, grief, and ancestral memory
- How inherited histories and ancestral stories influence the present
- The role of dreams, archetypes, and imagination in creative practice
Meet Sarah:
Sarah Shin works with transformation, dreams, myth, and poetic cosmologies. Through writing, research, publishing, curation and performance, she engages expansive, interdisciplinary ways of knowing.
Silver Press and Spiral House Editions: https://www.silverpress.org/
Concrete Poetry (coming soon): https://concretepoetry.xyz/
The Word for World: https://www.aaschool.ac.uk/public/exhibitions/the-word-for-world [this site needs updating with the credits!]
https://www.instagram.com/sarah_shin_/
https://www.instagram.com/silver.press/
https://www.instagram.com/spiralhouseeditions/
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Writing as Inquiry: Creativity, Myth, and Language with Sarah Shin
What does it mean to follow creativity as a path of inquiry?
Many of us feel the pull to explore ideas that don’t fit neatly into one category — creativity, intuition, philosophy, spirituality, scholarship. You might wonder: Is it possible to treat creativity not just as expression, but as a way of understanding the world?
The truth is, many artists, writers, and thinkers are already doing exactly that. Creative practice can become a way of asking deeper questions about reality, memory, and meaning.
In this episode of Moonbeaming, Sarah sits down with writer, curator, and founder of Silver Press, Sarah Shin, to explore how poetry, myth, and symbolic language can open new ways of knowing.
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In this episode, you’ll hear:
- Sarah Shin’s journey founding Silver Press and building a feminist publishing house
- What it means to be a “serial collaborator” and why creative work thrives in relationship
- How poetry, myth, and symbolic language expand the way we understand reality
- Writing as an intuitive practice and a tool for exploring imagination
- The relationship between creativity, grief, and ancestral memory
- How inherited histories and ancestral stories influence the present
- The role of dreams, archetypes, and imagination in creative practice
- Why meaning emerges through the encounter between a work and its reader
- How myth and poetry help us sense what rational language cannot fully explain
- The possibilities that open when creativity, spirituality, and intellectual inquiry meet
At its heart, this conversation reminds us that language is not just a tool for describing reality — it’s also a way of shaping it.