Call for Submissions: Boondock Witch

I am inviting works from specifically Southern Kitchen Witches that explore our craft and our heritage to take part in a collection called Boondock Witch.  The South has a definitively slow, syrupy voice in which to tell our stories, leave our legacies and create our magic.  This collection will celebrate that tradition.

This collection will be edited by Camanae DeWelles and Seba O’Kiley and will include recipes, memories and essays that echo our heritage as kitchen witches below the Mason Dixon line.  We can only accept up to ten this round, but hope to eventually create a series.  Boondock Witch will be published by Pagan Writers Press, a young but promising press out of Texas.

Submission guidelines:

Must have grown up in the South or spent the last ten years somewhere below the Mason Dixon line and consider it home.

Authors should be Kitchen Witches of some considerable form (i.e. magic plus cooking). All forms of Pagan are welcome, as long as the focus remains upon kitchen witchcraft.

Each piece requires one tried and true recipe.  Recipes must be accompanied by an essay, a memory, or a piece on heritage cooking.

Essays should be a minimum of 1500 – 2000 words in Times New Roman format, 12  point font, black type.  All submissions should be formatted into a Word doc. rather than doc.x.

Southern slang is acceptable but must be accompanied by a footnote denoting connoctation as well as regionality.  (We intend to make an audacious index at the back of the book.)

Authors should submit a short (around 300 word) biography.  Include blog address if desired as well as profile pics.

Please contact me at sebaokiley@gmail.com for further information or to submit your work.  Include a brief email message with your contact information: email address, home address, and phone number.