Risa talks with Saleema Nawaz, author of the weirdly prophetic and deeply lovely and hopeful Songs for the End of the World about coming out as a witch in our teens, tapping into the vast ocean of inspiration, living in a world you spent years imagining, and writing as an encounter with fear.

"Astounding. . . . The book is surprisingly reassuring. If someone could have imagined what we're going through in such vivid details, it somehow makes the situation less scary, less predictable, more knowable." — The Globe and Mail

"In these dark days, Saleema Nawaz dares to write of hope. Songs for the End of the World is a loving, vivid, tenderly felt novel about men, women, and a possible apocalypse. I couldn't put it down." — Sean Michaels, author of Us Conductors and The Wagers.

https://www.saleemanawaz.com/About Missing Witches

Amy Torok and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches Podcast. We do

every aspect from research to recording, it is a DIY labour of love and

craft. Missing Witches is entirely member-supported, and getting to know

the members of our Coven has been the most fun, electrifying,

unexpectedly radical part of the project. 

 

These days the Missing Witches Coven gathers in our private, online

coven circle to offer each other collaborative courses in ritual,

weaving, divination, and more; we organize writing groups and witchy

book clubs; and we gather on the Full and New Moon from all over the

world. 

 

Our coven includes solitary practitioners, community leaders, techno

pagans, crones, baby witches, neuroqueers, and folks who hug trees and

have just been looking for their people. 

 

Our coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science,

anti-ableist, and full of love.

 

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. Please know that

we've been missing YOU. 

 

https://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/