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Saturday, October 19 • 11:00am - 11:50am
Witches on the Rise

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Publishers of paranormal fiction have started pushing again for stories about witches. This is matched by the return of characters like Sabrina and Buffy, and the popularity of shows like American Horror Story: Coven, A Discovery of Witches and Strange Angel. How do today’s reincarnations of witches stand out? How do they continue to embody ideas of female reclamation of power and more?
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Lynne M MacLean

Lynne M MacLean, is an Ottawa writer and community health researcher whose fabulist and horror short fiction and poetry have been published in Room Magazine, On Spec Magazine, PodCastle, Augur Magazine, Alternate Plains: Stories of Prairie Speculative Fiction, The Cellar Door, A Themed... Read More →

Panelists
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Christian Baines

Christian Baines is an awkward nerd turned slightly less awkward author of weird and dark fiction. His work includes the gay paranormal series The Arcadia Trust, and My Cat's Guidet o Online Dating. Born in Australia, he now travels the world whenever possible, living and writing... Read More →
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David Demchuk

Writer, RED X and The Bone Mother
David Demchuk's debut novel The Bone Mother was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Amazon First Novel Award and a Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel. It won the 2018 Sunburst Award in the Adult Fiction category. RED X was a Rakuten Kobo Top 20 of 2021 selection, a CBC... Read More →
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Kate Heartfield

Kate Heartfield's recent novels include The Embroidered Book, a 2022 bestseller in the UK and Canada, The Valkyrie, a retelling of Norse and Germanic legends, and two tie-in novels in the Assassin's Creed universe. Her 2018 debut novel (republished in 2023 as The Chatelaine) won Canada’s... Read More →
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Maaja Wentz

Maaja writes urban fantasy and mysteries with magic. Feeding Frenzy: Curse of the Necromancer, won a Wattpad award. “Inside of a Dog,” appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. Maaja holds an MA in comparative literature. Double Dead Magic is her latest novel.

Saturday October 19, 2019 11:00am - 11:50am EDT
Salon C - 20 seats 150 Albert St, Ottawa, ON K1P 5G2, Canada
  Literary, Panel

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