Submissions are open for the 6th Heroines Anthology and the 2025 Heroines Women’s writing prize. Volume 6 is a special witchcraft-themed edition. We are accepting poems and short fiction from women across the globe.
The theme for this edition is witchcraft: from the history of witches and witch trials, to medicine women, mystics and herbalists, spells and enchantments, shapeshifters and familiars, covens, hags, crones and sabbats. They welcome writing on witchcraft as the old religion, remembered or imagined, and the depiction of witches in fairytale, folklore, literature and film (both good and bad) across cultures.
All submissions will be considered for the Heroines Women’s Writing Prize.
First prize winner receives $500.
The first prize may be won by either a poem or a piece of short fiction.
All short-listed entries are published in Volume 6 of the Anthology
Submissions close 30 June 2025.
For more information, visit Writing the Heroine website here.