WitchLit Podcast

WitchLit Podcast episode card with title and gold sun/moon logo featuring the original cover of Hound of the Baskervilles (gold text and design with inset silhouette of a dog on a hill) and text reading: Hound of the Baskervilles with Anne Renwick. Four glowing paw prints track beneath the text.

After our brief break in January, WitchLit is back with a new episode. Steampunk romance author Anne Renwick joined me to chat about Arthur Conan Doyle’s Hound of the Baskervilles. Available at all fine podcatchers and direct from the source at witchlitpod.com/episode/s10e...

Cover of the Keeper & the Mermaid by Cathy Lynn with a central image of a silhouette of a man in a Panama hat in an arched door shape on a background of blue green waves with another silhouette of a mermaid in the water below him.

1000Volt Press is happy to announce @cathylynnwrites.bsky.social ‘s debut novella. The Keeper & the Mermaid introduces us to a forgotten corner of Key West where a shop full of artifacts keeps the magical world in balance. Available: books2read.com/keeperseries1

Promo card for WitchLit podcaster with the gold sun and moon logo and Podcast title across the bottom, the cover of Cardinal’s Sin by Raymond Buckland featuring the outline of a cross and purple lightning on a purple background. Next to the cover white text on a black background reads Cardinal’s Sin with Thumper Forge with a line art image of a laden altar below.

New episode out today with returning guest Thumper Forge @fivefoldlaw.bsky.social to chat about the wild ride of Raymond Buckland’s fiction and Thumper’s excellent new book The Chaos Apple.

Listeners have definitely heard me talk about working on this book — almost from the beginning of the podcast. It lives! At least in pre-order form.

WitchLit promo card featuring the original cover of The Witchcraft and Folklore of Dartmoor by Ruth E. St. Leger-Gordon with the hare triskadele in red and black as the central image, text that reads “The Witchcraft and Folklore of Dartmoor with Mark Norman” with a red silhouette of a tree and low underbrush against a black background, and the banner logo for WitchLit Podcast with a golden compass logo with a sun and moon motif.

New episode out today with Mark Norman @folklorepod.bsky.social to discuss The Witchcraft and Folklore of Dartmoor and gathering and writing about both historic and current pop-culture folklore. Available at all fine podcast catchers or on tap at the source: witchlitpod.com/episode/s9e0...

Promo card for WitchLit Podcast with the cover of The Master and Margarita from its first American English edition in 1967. The cover features a black cat with a bow tie and a gun and this text: FROM THE RUSSIAN UNDERGROUND THE MASTER AND MARGARTILA A ribald, uproarious epic of modern Moscow MIKHAIL BULGAKOV'S long-suppressed masterpiece THE ONLY COMPLETE, UNEX PURGATED edition of the most sensational literary work since Doctor Zhivago "A CLASSIC OF 20th CENTURY FICTION" The New York Times Book Review. The card also reads next to the cover: The Master and Margarita with Judika Illes, and there is the silhouette of a witch flying on a broom under the text.

New Episode with author Judika Illes to chat about Mikhail Bulgakov’s classic novel in all its glorious weirdness.

WitchLit promo card featuring the original cover of Rachel Pollack’s Seventy-eight Degrees of Wisdom with major arcana cards fanned across a blue background. Next to the cover is text reading Seventy-eight Degrees of Wisdom with Cassandra Snow and the outline of two hands presenting cards surrounding by stars and sparkles.

New episode out today with the multi-talented Cassandra Snow to chat about the new collection of essays they edited, Tarot in Other Words, and Rachel Pollack’s Seventy-eight Degrees of Wisdom.

Promo card for WitchLit podcast with the original cover of Anton LaVey’s The Compleat Witch with red and black text on a bright yellow background with text next to it that reads “the Satanic Witch with Katta Kis” and has a feminine looking little red devil underneath with her arms crossed. The bottom of the image is a black banner with a sun and moon logo in gold and “WitchLit Podcast” in a white serif font.

New episode out today with romance author @kattakis.bsky.social to chat about (and maybe drag) Anton LaVey’s The Satanic Witch, originally published as The Compleat Witch.

WitchLit promo card with the cover of The Oracle Glass by Judith Merkle Riley featuring a young woman in 16th century dress at a table with a glass bowl filled with water against an ornate red backdrop. Text next to the cover reads The Oracle Glass with Charles Harrington. Below the text is line art of a heart-shaped potion bottle and vapor. A banner across the bottom includes the WitchLit sun and moon logo and the words WitchLit Podcast.

New episode out today with Charles Harrington to discuss The Oracle Glass by Judith Merkle Riley set during the Affair of the Poisons in the court of the Sun King, which gave us lots of room to talk about identity and persona and divination tech in fiction. #WitchSky #podcasts #books

Original cover of The Oracle Glass by Judith Merkle Riley featuring artwork of a woman in 16th century dress (ruffs at collar and wrist) with a bowl of water against a red draped background.

Current print, ebook and audio cover of The Oracle Glass by Judith Merkle Riley featuring artwork photography of a woman wearing a dark cloak with her hair down and her back to the viewer against a background of pinkish orange fog and some underbrush at her feet.

Next week Charles Harrington (Tarot and Oracle Card Reading for Dummies) and I will be discussing the The Oracle Glass (1995) by Judith Merkle Riley if you want to give it a read before the episode.

Three novellas in Margaret Killjoy’s Danielle Cain series: The Lamb will Slaughter the Lion, The Barrow Will Send What It May, and The Immortla Choir Holds Every Voice, fanned over a backpatch of Uliksi - the three antlered deer demon from the first book.

It’s Wednesday, so here’s some witch lit* books for this week. These are from the @tangledwilderness.bsky.social kickstarter for @margaret.bsky.social ‘s third book in the Danielle Cain series. Highly recommend. (Witch lit being books I think a number of witches and occult practitioners would like)

Who knows what the world will look like when it’s time to leave for this trip but I’m still planning.

i don't mean to come off as rude but we cannot sustain ourselves on outrage and anger forever. i think it's even more important now to post about other things too. even if it gets less engagement. you never know who will find it cool and interesting.

Promo card for WitchLit podcast with the show name and moon and sun logo on a black banner across the bottom, featuring an image of the original title page of Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches by Charles Godfrey Leland featuring two overgrown Roman columns and the publishing date of 1899. Next to the image text reads “Aradia with Aidan Wachter.” Under the text are three pins with red glass heads in a jumble.

New episode out today with @aidanwachter.bsky.social to discuss one of the foundational texts of modern witchcraft with all its bright spots and flaws. #WitchSky

Five witchy zines - 1 A6 sized and 4 A7 sized - four are totaled Witches’ Brew (issues 1 - 4 shown) and one is titled Bunny Magick - with an anarchist A in magick). The Witches’ Brew zines are on the topics of Mundane Witchcraft, Favourite Herbs, Amulets & Pendants, and Self-Love Potions. All feature soft artwork with anthropomorphic animals or botanical themes. The four A7 sized ones are printed in color.

Now that I have ushered my book out the door and come up for air — back to Tuesday book posts. These are a few witchy zines from Nina at Echo Zines in Ghent, Belgium. I am smitten with the Bunny witch. Available here: echopublishing.wordpress.com

Promo card for WitchLit podcast with a moon and sun logo in gold on a black banner with “WitchLit Podcast” across the bottom of the image. The cover of the book Touch Blue (your wish will come true) compiled by Lillian Morrison with a large blue star and red crescent moon with line drawings of a hand touching the star surrounded by smaller objects is featured. Text next to the book reads “Touch Blue with Via Hedera” with a gold vine graphic underneath.

New episode out today with author and sculptor @via-hedera.bsky.social to discuss Touch Blue (1958) a compendium of rhymes, verbal charms, and spells. Though whimsical on presentation, the bibliography packs a punch.

Cover of Pagan Roots by Yvonne Aburrow featuring an impressionistic painting by Lydia Knox of a tree with exposed roots and a leafy canopy with mountains in the distance.

Tuesday book stuff with some self promo for our micropress.The newest @1000voltpress.bsky.social release is Pagan Roots by Yvonne Aburrow @yaburrow.bsky.social It’s out today in digital and print-on-demand hardcopy whenever you buy books. books2read.com/paganroots

Same! And thank you again for introducing me to Anzaldúa’s work. Truly a gift.

Thank you so much!

Promo card for WitchLit podcast with logo and title banner across the bottom and the cover of Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro by Gloria E. Anzaldúa. And text that reads: “Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro with Reverend Ron Padrón of White Rose Witching” with a white outline of a rose bloom.

New episode out today (with a few tiny hiccups after being off for almost two months) and it is an excellent discussion with Rev. Ron Padrón @wrwitching.bsky.social

Cover of the book Bog Fashion: Recreating Bronze and Iron Age Clothes by Nicole DeRushie featuring a photo of a woman with braided hair facing a bog, wearing a cloak with her arms outstretched with inset images of handsewing with bone needles, a clothed skeleton in a grave, and an Iron Age sewing kit.

It’s Tuesday, so there’s a book post. I participated in the kickstarter for this a while back and it arrived yesterday. I am not a spinner or weaver despite ambitions but I can sew. And now have ideas for my apocalypse fashions. (I wish that was more of a joke.)

And the second picture is the cover of the new book by Yvonne Aburrow our teeny house will be releasing (digital/print on demand) in April. Details forthcoming. I’m really excited for this book. It would make a great companion for The Year of Pagan Prayer, come to think of it. 4/4

The Cyprian and the Anathema Maranatha are for research. I already have a digital copy of A Year of Pagan Prayer but find myself dipping into it almost daily and wanted a three dimensional copy. 3/

Judika Illes is scheduled for an interview later this year and @weiserbooks.bsky.social kindly sent me this copy of one of her latest titles. I met @rysmith.bsky.social at Paganicon and wanted to buy books there but suitcase constraints limited purchases. 2/

A stack of books on a shelf of many books. The stack includes Witches by Judika Illes, Spinning Wyrd and The Way of Fire and Ice both by Ryan Smith, Anathema Maranatha by Martin Duffy, and A Year of Pagan Prayer by Barbara Nolan.

The cover of Pagan Roots: Reclaiming Concepts of the Sacred by Yvonne Aburrow featuring a painting of a tree in leaf with the roots exposed and mountains in the background.

It’s Tuesday, so I post books. A peek at what’s come in this week for research, personal edification, upcoming podcast interviews, and a sneak at a @1000voltpress.bsky.social upcoming release. 1/

The third book was a research book for two different projects I have in the hopper now that I no longer write poetry. I was excited to find this as it helps contextualize Lilly’s work for a 21st cent non-astrologer. I have read the first two & can highly recommend. The Lilly looks good on skim. 3/3

The second book is an anthology of poets who graduated from the undergraduate writing program of the Univ. of TN at Chattanooga which includes me. The cover art is by Karri Harrison Paul. She and both editors are former classmates. I have two poems in the collection. 2/

Three books next to each other: Scott Cunningham: A Path Taken by his sister Christine Cunningham Ashworth and features a black and white sketch of Scott on the cover. Objects in this Mirror: An Anthology of Legacy edited by Danielle Hanson and Julia Beach features a paper collage in tans and oranges n the cover. William Lilly’s History of His Life & Times 1602-1681, introduction and critical annotations by Wade Caves features a horoscope square over a green on green historical drawing of William Lilly.

I’ve been at a loss as to what to post in between our new further apart episodes, but WitchLit is primarily about books and writers, so here’s books I picked up this week. I had purchased the ebook of the Cunningham bio for research but happily bought this one to have the author sign it. 1/

Happy Int’l Women’s Day, witches! Currently reading Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro by Gloria E. Anzaldúa for an upcoming conversation with Ron Padrón @wrwitching.bsky.social that will air April 15 — in case you want to pick it up (locally or from
Bookshop . Org) before then.

Promo card for episode of WitchLit podcast with a black banner across the bottom with the logo and podcast name, a photo of the author, a white person with long dark who uses they/them pronouns wearing a gray paint-smudged apron and black top, showing bare tattooed forearms as they look askance into the camera and an image of their book The Witch’s Workshop with the titled surrounded by natural items and witchy accoutrements.

Wrapping up season eight (!) with an episode with Melissa Jayne Madara. We’re taking a break but will be back in April on a monthly schedule. Listen now at all fine podcast platforms or direct from the source at witchlitpod.com/episode/s8e1...