A literary journal of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.
Innovation and art through fairy tales since 2005.
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Current Issue: The Gold Issue
The Gold Issue
A new full volume of Fairy Tale Review.
Features Work From:
Emma Aylor, Taneum Bambrick, Clayre Benzadón, Susan Briante, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Julie Cadman-Kim, Robert Clinton, Caroline Crew, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Lauren Groff, Laird Hunt, Perry Janes, Elspeth Jensen, Zeyn Joukhadar, Steph Kwiatkowsi, T Kira Madden, Yasmina Din Madden, Ilana Masad, Sarah Minor, Ander Monson, Sabina Murray, Nikoletta Nousiopoulos, Paige Quiñones, M. B. Smith, Ira Sukrungruang, Natalie Louise Tombasco, Erika Veurink, Marina Warner, Hannah V Warren, Kim Welliver, Tara Stillions Whitehead, Charles Yu, M Jaime Zukerman.
WEB EXCLUSIVE | PROSE ~ NEW
Wendy Dinwiddie
The first time that the trees began to walk, Mae wore pink onesies and couldn’t yet talk. She lived with her mother at the end of the road, and they had two trees that lived with them.
One was a big gray maple called Old Mother. She had a scratchy beard of moss that grew on the side of her head. The other was Long Branch, but he was young and thin and angry dropping prickle-pods to hurt her toes.
WEB EXCLUSIVE | POETRY ~ NEW
Kegan Swyers
i
decayed to a voice a vowel a stressed
syllable. trapped in the glass of my
childhood jar. i used to stab stars in
the top. insects crawled on
the bottom.
WEB EXCLUSIVE | POETRY ~ NEW
Karthik Sethuraman
Two Poems
you don’t know the first thing
about a crow
where to trace its roots
when to call the doctor
Submissions
“There is no ‘as-if’ in the dream.” –Erich Fromm, The Forgotten Language
Fairy Tale Review will be accepting submissions for The Lilac Issue (Vol. 18, 2022) between March 6, 2021–July 6, 2021. The Lilac Issue is themed around sleep and dreams: the forgotten language of fairy tales.
Image: Samantha Sweeting, film still from “He Loved Her, and Sometimes She Loved Him Too,” a performance-based sound installation for two participants (2011).
