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Snarey/README.md

Hi there, I'm Finbarre. 👋

I'm an arts and culture journalist, interviewer, podcast producer and creative technologist based in Beeston, Nottinghamshire.

I am the founder and host of Tarot Interviews, producer of Tarot DMs, and founder-curator of the British Tarot Archive.

My work uses tarot as a structured prompt system for interviews, creative practice, cultural research and public conversation. Across my projects, I have interviewed writers, artists, musicians, performers and researchers including Joanne Harris, Lauren Beukes, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Julian Simpson, Lucy Rose, C.B. Lee and Sacha Coward.

Current Work

  • Tarot DMs: The world's first epistolary tarot interview series - a messenger-based arts and culture interview format where writers, artists and creative people respond to three tarot prompts in a one-hour digital conversation.

  • Tarot Interviews: The world's first podcast interview format where creative people discuss their work using tarot cards as structured prompts. Listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

  • British Tarot Archive: An independent archive documenting tarot decks, printed matter and tarot culture connected to Britain and the UK.

Research

  • Snarey, F. (2026). Piercing the PR Shield: Aleatory Intervention as a Method for Disrupting Narrative Control in Qualitative Interviewing. Working paper. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18131193

  • Snarey, F. (2026). The Beeston Genesis: Robert William Felkin and the Codification of Modern Tarot Systems. Preprint. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18173951

  • Snarey, F. (2026). Tarot Reading as Living Heritage: Documenting Contemporary Rider-Waite-Smith Practice in the UK. Conference paper presented at Tarot Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London.

Areas of Interest

  • Arts and culture journalism
  • Interview design
  • Podcast production
  • Messenger-based interviewing
  • Epistolary interview formats
  • Tarot culture
  • Rider-Waite-Smith tarot
  • Living heritage
  • Digital publishing
  • Metadata, schema and entity SEO

Tools and Methods

  • Interview formats: Audio interviews, messenger-based interviews, epistolary interviews and structured prompt systems
  • Publishing: Substack, WordPress, Publii, Buzzsprout, Carrd and GitHub Pages
  • Audio: Adobe Audition, Riverside and Shure MV7
  • Research focus: Tarot as a cultural practice, divinatory systems in narrative interviewing and Rider-Waite-Smith tarot heritage

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