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WitchLit Podcast
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A place to talk about the craft of writing and writing the craft. Weekly conversations with witchcraft and occult authors. Main account: @vvitchtoria.bsky.social
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New Episode with author Judika Illes to chat about Mikhail Bulgakov’s classic novel in all its glorious weirdness.
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.
October 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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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.
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.
September 17, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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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.
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.
August 20, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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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
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.
July 16, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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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.
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.
July 9, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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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)
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.
July 9, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Who knows what the world will look like when it’s time to leave for this trip but I’m still planning.
June 24, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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inmywoodshop.bsky.social sarah @inmywoodshop.bsky.social · Jun 21
It’s a real mindfuck when most ppl wanna post about their latest failures/successes, or weird shit they saw in the wild or cool stuff they made…but the country is a cesspool so cool/weird shit seems trite.
June 21, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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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
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.
June 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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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
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.
June 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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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.
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.
May 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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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
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.
April 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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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
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.
April 15, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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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.)
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.
April 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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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/
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.
April 1, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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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/
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.
March 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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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.
March 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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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...
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.
February 19, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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This week’s guest @davezilla.bsky.social on creating a tarot deck and the unexpected things it stirred up. Available now wherever you podcast or direct from the WitchLit font: witchlitpod.com/episode/s8e1...
February 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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New episode out today with Weiser author @davezilla.bsky.social to talk about his Tarot of the Unexplained, making art, and what AI means for that. Available wherever you listen to podcasts (1000Volt Press on YT) or straight from the source: witchlitpod.com/episode/s8e1...
Promo card for WitchLit podcast with a black banner at the bottom with the gold compass rose logo with a moon and sun and the title in white. Above the banner is the cover of the tarot of the Unexplained deck showing a silhouette of Mothman on a bridge with lightening behind. And an enhanced photo of creator Davezilla a white man with short hair and a long beard wearing a suit and tie.
February 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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This week’s guest Alice Markham-Cantor on including narrative in nonfiction and the power of story. Episode is out now wherever you listen to podcasts (1000Volt Press on YouTube) and direct from the font at witchlitpod.com/episode/s8e1...
January 29, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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New episode out tomorrow (Jan 29) with Alice Markham-Cantor to discuss her book The Once & Future Witch Hunt, Salem, and the “witches” who are being hunted now.
Promo card for WitchLit podcast with a black banner at the bottom with the podcast name and logo which is a gold compass rose with sun, moon, cloud, and wave motifs. The cover of the book The Once & Future Witch Hunts which is red with a black silhouette of the profile of a woman in a bonnet. And a picture of the author a woman with long curly blond hair wearing a white shirt and leather jacket looking into the camera with her head slightly cocked and a knowing, half smile expression.
January 28, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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New episode out today with Llewellyn author Awyn Dawn. Available on all fine podcast platform (1000Volt Press on YouTube) or direct from the source at: witchlitpod.com/episode/s8e0...
Promo card for WitchLit podcast with a black and white photo of the author chin on hand looking into the camera and the cover of her book 111 Magic which is purple with yellow roses on the boarder with text in yellow.
January 22, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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This week’s guest @davegaddy.bsky.social on reigniting the spark after a lull in our practice — applies to magic and writing.
January 15, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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New episode out tomorrow with author Dave Gaddy. The Simple Magic of Wild Things is part Appalachian magic and animism and part memoir.
Promo card for WitchLit podcast with logo and banner at the bottom. Photo on the left of the author sitting on steps, elbows resting on his knees and clasping his hands. He is wearing black pants, vest and hat and looking into the camera. Cover of the book The Simple Magic of Wild Things on the Right with a mouse on a limb with a full moon in the night sky above.
January 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM