“Witches Save the World: Hags, Harridans, and Hexes Gone Right” is seeking outsider witch tales for an anthology to be edited by Rebecca Buchanan and published by Gorgon’s Gaze Press.

What do we mean by “outsider”? We want stories of witches as marginalized folk who rise up and burn it all down. Oppressed witches working to make the world better for those like them, and, hopefully, everyone else. Persecuted witches doing Whatever Is Necessary to save the day because their personal honor and ethics demands nothing less. The outcast doing the right thing when no one else will. For example:

— a demoted and ostracized witch detective is called in to solve an impossible murder;

— an enslaved king’s witch secretly helps the rebels trying to overthrow the monarchy;

— a thief witch steals potion medicines for the poor, risking imprisonment or worse;

— a fortune teller witch lies to create fear among the powerful and hope among the powerless, and thereby potentially remake the future;

— a witch who can communicate with the dead is called in to clear hostile ghosts from an old castle … except the ghosts are her family, killed during a failed revolt;

— a witch with an affinity for insects sends a plague of locusts after those who have abused and oppressed farmers and the poor; but when the insects cause harm to the very people the witch was trying to help, amends must be made;

— a devotee of Hekate smuggles children to safety outside a war zone;

— a witch cons a dragon out of its gold to help an impoverished village;

— and more.