“Sick of buying tissues, she started to use / two silver buckets she’d found one day / in a neighbour’s abandoned shed, not knowing / they belonged to a magician (now dead).”

PoetrySubmissionMay 18, 2020poetry, lucy whitehead, poem, women who writeComment

You Never Grow Out of Being a Witch

“Just because my charms did not work didn't mean they were broken.”

Creative Non-FictionSubmissionMay 4, 2020maggie edinger, short story, women who write, creative writing, creative non-fiction, CNFComment

Primal

“Paint your own pictures. Masterpieces. Hang them. Invite him over to see. Watch his jaw hang. So you’re good, he says. Threatens to steal. Your creations. Your life.”

Flash FictionSubmissionApril 27, 2020katie nickas, flash fiction, writing, women who write, women authors, read women, womxn who write, wild women, wild womxnComment

Iconoclastic

It wasn’t supposed to feel like this.

Creative Non-FictionSubmissionApril 20, 2020exodus oktavia brownlow, writing, creative non-fiction, CNF, women who write, witches who write, read women, storytelling, fill in the blank, interactive writingComment

someone else's boyfriend

“but of course / that’s all we do on the / aihland / drink lukewarm rum out of coconuts / that I suction onto my breasts / to let you rip off / & drink / the liquor sweating, glowing”

Poetry, Short StorySubmissionDecember 9, 2019prose, short story, poetry, Latinx art, latinx poetry, writing, creative writing, women who write, womxn who write, laura andreaComment

A Small Contemplation of the First Harvest Season

"Before I knew I was a witch, or understood any specifics about paganism, I was living a somewhat pagan life – because that’s a country upbringing for you (and the word pagan does come from paganus, meaning ‘villager’ or ‘rustic’): whatever the earth is doing, you’re right there with her."