Let's Talk About It: Women's Suffrage: September: Once and Future Witches

The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow

Call Number: PS3608.A783854 O53 2020

ISBN: 9780316422017

Publication Date: 2020-10-13

"In the late 1800s, three sisters use witchcraft to change the course of history in Alix E.  Harrow's powerful novel of magic and the suffragette movement. In 1893, there's  no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and  nursery rhymes. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box. But when the Eastwood sisters -- James Juniper, Agnes Amaranth, and Beatrice Belladonna -- join the suffragists of New Salem, they begin to pursue the  forgotten words and ways that might turn the women's movement into the witch's  movement. Stalked by shadows and sickness, hunted by forces who will not suffer a witch to vote -- and perhaps not even to live -- the sisters will need to delve into the oldest magics, draw new alliances, and heal the bond between them if they want to survive. There's no such thing as witches. But there will be." – from Publisher

Elaine Berg

Elaine Berg is the interim director of library services at Woodward Library and a professor of library administration. She holds an M.A. from the University of South Carolina. Elaine also serves as the Faculty Representative of the APSU Board of Trustees.

Joanna (Joey) Grisham

Joey Grisham is an instructor of English and women's and gender studies at Austin Peay State University. She holds an M.A. in English from APSU, and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Georgia College & State University. Her writing has appeared in The Emerson Review, Gleam, The Write Launch, Construction Literary Magazine, Reunion: The Dallas Review, and elsewhere.