Selecting short stories from our submissions to Feisty Deeds III
I am very excited to be a co-editor of the Feisty Deeds anthologies dedicated to women’s fiction and historical fiction.
We have published Feisty Deeds: Historical Fictions of Daring Women and Feisty Deeds II: Historical Tales of Batches and Brews. Both collections are well worth exploring – historical fictions by a wide range of authors spanning the globe and centuries. And beter yet, all proceeds are destined to the Women’s Fiction Writers Association Scholarship Fund, destined to support emerging authors facing financial constraints. So, your purchase could be supporting your new favorite author!
My co-editors and I are now gearing up for Feisty Deeds III. The theme of this newest collection will be centered around departures and change, and the editorial committee is currently reviewing the submissions we have received. We’re excited to review, select and begin the editorial and publishing process – with the plans to have this anthology out to you in 2027!
Feisty Deeds: Historical Fictions of Daring Women
Feisty women spanning six centuries …
The twenty-three stories in this collection depict ordinary women—from the 1470s to the 1970s—who meet life’s challenges with fierce determination.
An unhappy housewife in 1950s California gathers the courage to escape an abusive marriage. When local men are shipped off to WWI, a young Yorkshire woman joins others to keep a munitions factory at peak operation. As her land and way of life are threatened, a nineteenth century Chickasaw wife and mother rekindles the strength of her ancestors. A midwife strives to protect mothers from accusations of witchcraft. A Victorian portrait artist possesses a rare, sought-after talent that dispatches unwanted relatives.
Foreign invaders, rigid domestic authorities, strictures of society and religion, the supernatural, and love and family bonds all serve as catalysts for the feisty women in these tales.
Feisty Deeds II: Historical Tales of Batches and Brews
Concoctions, treats, brews, and potions from another batch of feisty characters
Whether cooking for solace, scrounging for food, concocting medicine, or brewing poisons, the feisty women in these stories will keep you thirsting for more. Twenty-five tales will transport you far afield in time and place: third century Ireland, medieval Europe, twentieth-century Australia.
Read your way from a hippie commune to a WW II internment camp in the Philippines; from a Renaissance palace to a Polish village wracked by war, the hills of Appalachia, and a sleepy Ontario town.
Mixtures to soothe, heal, and thrall are prepared in these pages, where lovers take revenge, mothers protect their children, and feisty women make choices in a challenging world.
