Announcing the Long-list for Heroines Anthology Volume 6 - Witchcraft

We are delighted to announce our poetry and short fiction long-lists for both Heroines Anthology Volume 6 and the Heroines Women’s Writing Prize.

When the submission portal closed, we were both thrilled and overwhelmed to have received over 450 entries. Works had come from all over the globe, and they were wonderful. That has made sorting through to a long-list a very challenging and indeed, bitter-sweet process. The more entries we receive, the more competitive the process becomes. There were many beautiful, highly publishable pieces that we simply could not accommodate on the list. One criterion that we had to become very strict about enforcing was on the theme: works had to be written directly on a topic of witchcraft, rather than about women in mythology more generally. We’ve returned to mythology for our next edition to try to accommodate that overflow; read more about Volume 7 submissions here.

Next up comes the challenging task of culling to our final publication short-list; stay tuned for that!

Short Fiction Long-List

Jo Neels – Bird Nest

Denise Howell - Hecate's Novice

Ebba Strutzenbladh – The Lady Elphen

Priscilla Hocking - Mushrooms, Gingerbread, and a Goose

Michelle Kelly – Beltane

Emily Theo – We were no better than crows pecking roadkill

Janine Harris -Three Wrongs, One Flame

Madeline Sanguedolce – A Bowl of Oil and Water

Joanna Drot Troha – Moon Dog

Jamie Ramjan – House of Hunger

Sarah Hall – Blowstock

Irene May Pearce – The Bone Mother

Dominique Richards – Witching

Elizabeth Blackwood – After the burning

Tiffany Hastie - Mother, Maid, Monster, Crone

Stephanie O’Connor – Let Them Call Me Witch

Terri Clifton – Amelie’s Choice

Arianne James – The Two Sisters

Madeline Byrne – Galinthias

Maja Ulasik – How to check a nettle leaf

Frances Ridley – Grandma and the Elder Witch

Marie Low – Wednesdays

Skye Ayla Mallac – Moon Woman

Meaghan Menzel - Enid and Midnight Pay Sylvia Little a Visit

Josephine Sarvaas – Flowers and Weeds

Iman Mahboob – The Ash Woman

RT Wenzel – The Gleaner

KT Major - By the hand of Ali Silver

Alicia Gilmore – Agnes, Anne and Agnes Again

Linda Atkins – As green as thorn

Rebecca Sharley – Fresh Ground

Vicki Kyriakakis – The Menopause witches

Katherine Royce – The Witch

Helena Cormack – Anno Domine

Poetry Long-List

·      Amanda Searle - Song of Myself

·      Christina Henneman - Untitled : First Woman, Witches' Triangle

·      Maggie Veness - The Cauldron Collection Cookbook - Recipe # 7

·      Anna Kerdijk Nicholson - Riding the Stang

·      AC Clarke – Witch-wife, Hunting the Hare

·      Toni Brisland – Layering Destiny

·      Victoria Neal – Four Sisters

·      Jeany Bee - Kindling

·      Anne Casey - Mal at Moher, Shift

·      Gail Willems - The Craft

·      Fawnia Mountford - The Bone-Walled Witch, Requiem for Rosaleen, Elegy for the Burning Times

·      Marian Griffin – A Glimmer of Witches

·      Wes Lee - The Drowned Witch

·      Lucy Heuschen – A Recipe for Misfortune

·      Aloma Davis - Burial

·      Suzi Mezei – Her Infamous Progeny

·      Lauren Anne Cassidy – Living Deliciously

·      Karen Throssell – Elder

·      Di Slaney - Mazey Ball, Rosemary Thrives, Three Witches

·      Helen Patrice – Feeding Their Daughters, A Famous Hat

·      Kerrie Penney - Simple Salt Spell

·      Mari Dunning - Ceridwen, Gwen Ellis

·      Saskia Sassen – Waka Atua wahine

·      Eithne Lannon - Sliabh na Caillí

·      Alex Toms - Medea Briefs her PR Officer

·      Anne Walsh Miller - Iconoclast, The Poet of Bad Dürrenberg

·      Rachael Mead - Circe

·      Leila Gherabli - Black Annis

·      Cedar Whelan - Ostara Equinox

·      Judith Rawnsley - An Invocation of Lilias Adie

·      Marina Lathouraki - Letter from Circe to Odysseus

·      Louise Kerr - Brigid, Goddess of the Flame

·      Morag Anderson - If the Pricker Cannot Find a Mark, He Will Make One.

·      Willurai Kirkbright - Obsidian

·      Aimee Cameron - Cailleach's Mirror, Bridgit's Cast

·      JV Birch – The Femicides, When Your Best Friend Is A Vampire Slayer

·      Bex Hainsworth - Black Annis, Mother Shipton

·      Siobhan Harvey – Broom

·      Jill Taylor Neal – Memorial

·      Fiona Wilkes - Lone Witch / Lone Woman

·      Sue Burge – When I was a Witch

·      Anne M Carson – In another time, Witch

·      Elizabeth Oxley- My Aunt Posts Food Pictures on Instagram