A history of witch librarians and the magic of libraries and books, "A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies” is a Hugo Award-winning short story (for best fantasy and science fiction) and finalist current for an Ignotus Award in Spain. He is associated with a troubled teenager and the witch-librarian who wishes to save him. It's about the special books. Above all, it is about the power of a book to change a life. It's a perfect story for The Season of the Witch.
The event will be English en for adults, by Zoom. We have Katy Dycus, writer and teacher, as moderator who will give a short introduction, ask questions and encourage the conversation. You can read the story English en or a translation to Spanish in blog Tales for Algernon.
American Witch Story Reading Guide
A week later of the book club, the author of the story, Alix E. Harrow, will talk about witchcraft and the female vote, main themes of her new novel, in a virtual meeting. his novel, The Once and Future Witches, presents an alternative history in which three XNUMXth-century sisters bring the fight for witches' rights closer to the suffrage movement. The meeting with the author will be English en for teens and adults.
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Alix E Harrow is an American writer living in Kentucky with her husband and two children. She is a former historian and Hugo Award winner with her story “A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies “. He has been a finalist for the Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy awards. The Spanish translation is currently finalist of the Ingotus award in Spain. The Spanish translation of his first novel, The Ten Thousand Doors of January, will be published by Roca Editorial in January.
Originally from Fort Worth, Texas, Katy Dycus now teaches language and literature in Madrid. Prior to this, she studied a Master of Letters in British literature at the University of Glasgow and taught at Texas Christian University in her hometown of her. Katy also writes for the anthropology research journal Mammoth Trumpet and contributes literary essays and reviews to publications like The Wild Detectives and Hektoen International.