Zoe Venditozzi (born 1975) is a novelist and writer living and working in Scotland. Venditozzi was born in Lancashire and grew up in a small village in North East

Fife Fife (, ; gd, Fìobha, ; sco, Fife) is a council area, historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area of Scotland. It is situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland boundaries with Perth and Kinross (i ...

and studied at

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, She won the ''Guardian'' newspaper’s Not the Booker popular prize in 2013 for her first novel 'Anywhere's Better Than Here'. She leads the

Witches of Scotland Witches of Scotland is a campaign for legal pardons and historic justice for the people, primarily women, convicted of witchcraft and executed in Scotland between 1563 and 1736. It aims to obtain a pardon, an apology, and a national memorial for t ...

campaign with Claire Mitchell QC, teaches creative writing workshops and is a teacher of Support for Learning. Despite growing up in Fife Venditozzi admits that she knew very little of the history of witches in the area before launching the campaign. Scotland , and Fife in particular were prone to witch hunts. Historians at University of Edinburgh have created a database survey of Scottish Witchcraft to record the men, women and their trials. Venditozzi gained a high profile as part of the Witches of Scotland campaign and is an invited speaker at Scottish literary events such as the Soutar and Paisley Book festivals

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