Don’t get
turned
to stone
Find a new way to make sense of this sprawling, straggling, scary moment without being turned to stone by the monstrous.
Kin+Ken is a DIY storytelling community, a return to our roots; a fragment memory of how we used to know the world.
Because, by God, we need these old songs and stories more than ever right now.
Times Long Told
Our first book, Times Long Told, re-tells early Indo-European myths and legends, alongside contemporary tales, to reveal the imprint of our oldest stories on these strange times.
Published as a series of Tear+Share periodicals, it follows the narrative journey arc of the hero, played here by humanity as we grapple with this New Bounded Age:
The Call to Adventure - an awakening. Hello, good day, wouldn’t you say?
Crossing the threshold - the stories that led us to the edge, which should stay and what will fall.
The Trials - finding our way through the troubles ahead.
The Return - where do we long to find ourselves?
For fans of Homer, David Graeber, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Jon Alexander, JRR Tolkien, Iain McGilchrist, Joseph Campbell and Ursula Le Guin.
Publishing via crowdfunder in 2027.
Please tear here
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We love books. Great for immersing yourself in a story, idea or theme.
But we believe they can be more than a one-off read; we want them discussed excitedly and amorously; felt in our hearts, not just known in our heads.
So we publish our books as a series of printed periodicals, with each copy including duplicate chapters to tear out and share with friends, before gathering to put it back together.
Tellings
Tellings are lowkey gatherings, organised by readers, wherever they are, to chew over the old stories in our books, salting them away in the corner of a local coffee shop, cafe or bar.
Not clever book clubs, awkward presentations, or preachy sermons, Tellings are guided by some simple DIY instructions for how to create temporary social spaces, somewhere to belong again.
This is where the magic happens.
Soft testing throughout 2026.