Welcome to the latest installment of the Witches Save the World Micro-Interviews! In honor of the upcoming Halloween/Samhain holiday, and in celebration of the release of Witches Save the World, Forests Haunted By Holiness will be featuring a series of interviews with the contributors throughout October.
Witches Save the World was a labor of love. Across these two volumes you will find poems, short stories, and essays celebrating the witch and their role as wisdom keeper, protector of nature, avenger of the forgotten, and defender of the oppressed. Individual poems and stories range from historical fantasy to contemporary horror to science fiction, with many questioning the nature and cost of honor, integrity, and freedom.
In concert with these interviews, one physical copy of Witches Save the World — either Hags, Harridans, and Hexes Gone Right or Covens, Cauldrons, and Curses Gone Right— will be given away at the end of the month! Two books, two winners! To enter the drawing, just comment below and share the interview on your favorite social media platform.
Ready? Let’s get started!
Forests Haunted By Holiness: What is the title of your story and can you give us a spoiler-free summary?
Tannar Miller: The title of my story is “The Weaver’s Song” It’s a quick little look into the life of a witch-in-training as she discovers her abilities as a witch and realizes what it means to have power in a world that fears you.
FHBH: How did you go about writing your story? Lot of research? Or did you just wing it?
TM: For this particular story I mostly just winged it. I generally challenge myself to write a flash fiction every day of October, a personal challenge that sometimes goes right and sometimes goes off the rails. The prompt for this story was “weave” and it really just sprouted out of the first scene into what it then became.
FHBH: What draws you to the character and theme of “the witch”? What do you find so compelling about it?
TM: I think it’s easy to compare the idea of a witch with that of an outsider, a person who sees and experiences the world in a way so different from most everyone else that the world itself responds to them differently. I think this idea is part of what draws me in. “The Witch” as a character is something I find compelling because they tend to be those who use their own will, their own efforts, and their own power to exert themselves on the world around them. So many characters are gifted power or use some other higher power to achieve their goals. A witch gets to work and makes things happen with their own blood, sweat, and tears. Also my wife is a witch!
