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

We are delighted to announce our poetry long-list 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 almost 300 poems. Poems 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 poems we receive, the more competitive the process becomes. There were many beautiful, highly publishable, poems that we simply could not accommodate on the list. One criterion that we had to become very strict about enforcing was on the theme: poems 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 is the challenging task of whittling down hundreds of short fiction entries for our Volume 6 Short Fiction long-list. This will be announced next month and following this, the short-lists for both poetry and short fiction. Stay tuned!

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