Thank you again to everyone who submitted work to the open reading period for The Book of Witches. My apologies for taking so long to respond to everyone. I have now written to all of the writers whose stories sadly did not make the book. There were so many of them, and they were all great, but now have a final shortlist.

I will be spending the weekend cutting the final shortlist down to the final group of three or so stories, and those writers will hear from me by Monday. I can tell you that the stories on the shortlist are terrific and I’m confident The Book of Witches is going to be fantastic.