Snow White Learns Witchcraft

A young woman hunts for her wayward shadow at the school where she first learned magic—while another faces a test she never studied for as ice envelopes the world. The tasks assigned a bookish boy lead him to fateful encounters with lizards, owls, trolls and a feisty, sarcastic cat. A bear wedding is cause for celebration, the spinning wheel and the tower in the briar hedge get to tell their own stories, and a kitchenmaid finds out that a lost princess is more than she seems. The sea witch reveals what she hoped to gain when she took the mermaid’s voice. A wiser Snow White sets out to craft herself a new tale. In these eight stories and twenty-three poems, World Fantasy Award winner Theodora Goss retells and recasts fairy tales by Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, and Oscar Wilde. Sometimes harrowing, sometimes hilarious, always lyrical, the works gathered in SNOW WHITE LEARNS WITCHCRAFT re-center and empower the women at the heart of these timeless narratives. Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Grand Master Jane Yolen, in her introduction, proclaims that Goss “transposes, transforms, and transcends times, eras, and old tales with ease. But also there is a core of tough magic that runs through all her pieces like a river through Faerie . . . I am ready to reread some of my new favorites.”

Theodora Goss is the World Fantasy and Locus Award-winning author of the short story collection IN THE FOREST OF FORGETTING (2006); INTERFICTIONS (2007), a short story anthology coedited with Delia Sherman; VOICES FROM FAIRYLAND (2008), a poetry anthology with critical essays and a selection of her own poems; THE THORN AND THE BLOSSOM (2012), a novella in a two-sided accordion format; the poetry collection SONGS FOR OPHELIA (2014); debut novel THE STRANGE CASE OF THE ALCHEMIST’S DAUGHTER (2017), and sequel EUROPEAN TRAVEL FOR THE MONSTROUS GENTLEWOMAN (2018). She has been a finalist for the Nebula, Crawford, Seiun, and Mythopoeic Awards, as well as on the Tiptree Award Honor List. Her work has been translated into twelve languages. She teaches literature and writing at Boston University and in the Stonecoast MFA Program.

SNOW WHITE LEARNS WITCHCRAFT will also be available in February 2019 as a $5.99 e-book on Amazon, iBooks, Barnes & Noble, Google Play, Kobo and other e-book vendors.