You are invited to join Remembering the Accused Witches of Scotland's first online book club. This will be an informal event with opportunities to discuss, chat and ask questions.

Who needs a good book to curl up with, wrapped in your cosy blanket, on your most comfy chair, sipping some hot chocolate?

Who would like the chance to chat with the author of said good book along with others who have spent the past few weeks doing the same as you?

Distinguished award-winning author Dr Claire Askew will talk about her most recent book How to Burn a Woman which tells the stories of the women who didn't fit into everyday society, who were accused of being witches in Scotland.

About the Author

Dr Claire Askew, born in 1986, grew up in the Scottish Borders moving to Edinburgh in 2004. She is a poet, novelist and the current Writer in Residence at the University of Edinburgh from where she gained a PhD in Creative Writing.

Claire runs the One Night Stanza blog and collects old typewriters (she currently has around 30). Claire is the author of books including This Changes Things, Luminous Defiant, A Matter of Time and many more. She won the Scottish Debut Crime Award with her debut All the Hidden Truths.

About the Book

How to Burn a Woman throngs with witches, outsiders, and women who do not fit the ordinary moulds of the world. It is a collection which traces historic atrocities and celebrates the lives of those accused of witchcraft with empathy, tenderness and rage. It lifts a mirror up to contemporary systems of oppression and, in language that is both vivid and accessible, asks hard questions of our current world. These poems also delve deep into love in all its forms: from infatuations to the bitter ending of relationships. They ask what it is we want, how we might go about getting it, and what its cost might be.

How to Burn a Woman sweeps the world up in its arms and presents it: a rough bonfire of London buses, Salem streets, Edinburgh closes. Askew’s astute, incisive language lifts from every page, throwing sparks.

About RAWS

RAWS is raising awareness of the forgotten women & men who were accused of witchcraft in Scotland. Together we remember them through research, education and commemoration. We are campaigning for a national monument.

We are a registered Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO), no. SCO51010.