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The practice of retelling fairy tales in the form of literary fiction is, if not quite hallowed, certainly established. The great Angela Carter’s revelatory 1979 story collection, “The Bloody Chamber” — a brocaded work of heady sensuality, intelligence and violence — remains the benchmark, but Kate Bernheimer’s Fairy Tale Review and the several excellent Bernheimer-edited anthologies spun off from it carry the standard forward. Those are just some of the more overt homages; Western literature owes as much to fairy tales as it does to Greek myth and the Bible. 

 

-The New York Times

Submission Call | The Rainbow Issue

Calls for Submissions, Fairy Tale Review Issues, Fairy Tale Review News | by Fairy Tale Review | Mar 21, 2022

“We gays cast our nets out into the mythic sea, searching for our own lost archetypes…those symbols of the human psyche which we may claim as...

The Lilac Issue Editor’s Note | Kate Bernheimer

Fairy Tale Review Contributor News, Fairy Tale Review Issues, Prose | by Kate Bernheimer | Mar 16, 2022

This Editor’s Note has three parts. As with all of my Editor’s Notes, I ask that you daydream while you read it. My students are often delighted...

Insomnia | Dana Curtis

Fairy Tale Review Contributor News, Fairy Tale Review Issues, Poetry | by Dana Curtis | Mar 16, 2022

Curled on a couch, wrapped in seaweed and crystalline pastimes, the alkali like so many horses dead in the dry reservoir, I turned the weather away...

Submission Call | The Rainbow Issue

Calls for Submissions, Fairy Tale Review Issues, Fairy Tale Review News | by Fairy Tale Review | Mar 21, 2022

“We gays cast our nets out into the mythic sea, searching for our own lost archetypes…those symbols of the human psyche which we may claim as...

The Lilac Issue Editor’s Note | Kate Bernheimer

Fairy Tale Review Contributor News, Fairy Tale Review Issues, Prose | by Kate Bernheimer | Mar 16, 2022

This Editor’s Note has three parts. As with all of my Editor’s Notes, I ask that you daydream while you read it. My students are often delighted...

Insomnia | Dana Curtis

Fairy Tale Review Contributor News, Fairy Tale Review Issues, Poetry | by Dana Curtis | Mar 16, 2022

Curled on a couch, wrapped in seaweed and crystalline pastimes, the alkali like so many horses dead in the dry reservoir, I turned the weather away...

Before | Joy Baglio

Fairy Tale Review Contributor News, Fairy Tale Review Issues, Prose | by Joy Baglio | Mar 16, 2022

Let’s talk about the fairy godmother, before. At this point, she is just a woman, still relatively young, approaching her life’s precipice,...

Sibyl | Kegan Swyers

Poetry, Web Exclusives | by Kegan Swyers | Mar 15, 2022

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...

The First Time that the Trees Began to Walk | Wendy Dinwiddie

Prose, Web Exclusives | by Wendy Dinwiddie | Mar 15, 2022

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...

Two Poems | Karthik Sethuraman

Poetry, Web Exclusives | by Karthik Sethuraman | Mar 15, 2022

man in the land of Uz   you don’t know the first thing about a crow where to trace its roots when to call the doctor in the summer what words...

Because A Sharp Girl Must Be A Changeling

Poetry, Web Exclusives | by Sara Moore Wagner | Nov 8, 2019

And the men say put her over
the fire just to see, and the women
say bake her a cake in a thimble,
just to see

"Queen of Hearts" and "Libra Season"

Poetry, Web Exclusives | by Ambalila Hemsell | Oct 11, 2019

Everyone
has a story about human greed and a flood. The Queen
licks the blood from her blade.

Baby Picture

Poetry, Web Exclusives | by Suzannah Russ Spaar | Aug 28, 2019

We burn his photo under the tree. My friend, I trust her witchcraft.

Two Poems | Brett Shaw

Poetry, Web Exclusives | by Brett Shaw | Jul 24, 2019

No wonder songs are so full of denial. And what
did you do about that?

Jacinda Speaks

Web Exclusives | by Jody Kennedy | Jul 5, 2019

My fifteenth summer, I poured tears from two earthen pitchers and half the tears fell on dry ground and the other half spilled into the lake where the ripples spread like whispers in empty echo chambers.

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