EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION.....................................................

Batya Weinbaum

CRITICAL ARTICLES................................................................. 

Reading Wide Awake: Jean E. Karl, Atheneum Books, and

Mythopoeic Fiction

       Sophia Arts........................................................................... 

Witchcraft and Warfare: Female Power, Violence, and

Conditional Citizenship in Motherland: Fort Salem

      Judith Rauscher.................................................................... 

BEHIND THE SCENES

       Barbara Bennett..................................................................

EVENT COVERAGE...................................................................

Why Femspec Makes the Rounds: 7 events Aug-Sep, 2025

Batya Weinbaum

REVIEWS

NARRATIVE FILM AND FICTION...............................................

Creature Feature Films of 2025

Merry Byrd......................................................................

Wicked: For Good, directed by Jon M. Chu

Nolan Boyd.................................................................... 

Miami in Virgo: The Secret Worlds of Adulthood

Michelle Nussey.............................................................

The Fox Wife

Barbara Bennett............................................................. 

Two Tales of Witches: There’s Nothing More Potent Than The

Archetype of A Witch

Kristin Alder.................................................................... 

NON-FICTION AND THEORY..................................................... 

Ceres in Astrology: Nourishment, Power, and the Rebirth of the

Feminine

Merry Byrd.......................................................................

Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American

Horror Fiction

Merry Byrd.......................................................................

Kinship in Nora Keita Jemisin’s Fiction

Tajanae Barnes............................................................... 

BOOKS AND MEDIA RECEIVED………………………….………

CONTRIBUTORS.......................................................................