Witchy Reads

Kirsty Logan is the author of nine books, and a recipient of Lambda, Polari, Saboteur, Scott and Gavin Wallace awards. Her work has been optioned for TV, adapted for stage, exhibited in galleries and distributed from a Vintage Wurlitzer cigarette machine. She lives in Glasgow with her wife, baby and rescue dog.

Dr Michael Stewart’s debut novel, King Crow, was the winner of the Guardian’s Not-the-Booker Award and has been selected as a recommended read for World Book Night. Other books include Couples (poetry); Café Assassin (novel); Mr Jolly; Four Letter Words (short fiction); The Dogs (poetry); Ill Will: The Untold Story of Heathcliff (novel); Walking the Invisible: following in the Brontës’ Footsteps (hybrid memoir).
He is also the creator of the Brontë Stones project, four monumental stones situated in the landscape between the birthplace and the parsonage, inscribed with poems by Kate Bush, Carol Ann Duffy, Jeannette Winterson and Jackie Kay, which he delivered in collaboration with Bradford Literature Festival.

Molly Aitken is the author of Bright I Burn a New Yorker and BBC Best Books of 2024. Recently shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Encore Prize. Molly’s first novel, The Island Child was longlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award. Molly’s short fiction has been dramatised for BBC Radio 4 and appeared in Ploughshares, for which she won the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction 2023. In 2025, Molly has also been shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Encore Prize. Molly is a PhD student in Creative Writing and History at Sheffield Hallam University.

Jared Shurin is the editor of The Big Book of Cyberpunk, The Djinn Falls in Love, The Best of British Fantasy, and many others. He has spent over twenty years developing communications strategies for governments, global businesses and the third sector. His dedication to literature also includes founding a small press, serving as the director of a literary award, and editing the occasional anthology.