Fairy Tale Review Archive
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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
In Which Hansel Is Gretel and Gretel Is Hansel
This hurts a lot, but it’s true. It is astral projection gone wrong.
Planting Petals
My sister puts petals back into the earth.
Winter Father Persimmon Sleep
as a child I couldn’t sleep
my parents tried ignoring me holding me
stroking fingers down my back
but still I cried into the winter nights
Fairy-Tale Files: The Lasting Popularity of the Yeti
Fairy-Tale Files, published once weekly, feature three variations of a fairy tale chosen by one of Fairy Tale Review’s editors, readers, editorial...
Fairy-Tale Files: Princess Moonlight
Fairy-Tale Files, published once weekly, feature three variations of a fairy tale chosen by one of Fairy Tale Review’s editors, readers, editorial...
Fairy-Tale Files: Voodoo Zombies
Fairy-Tale Files, published once weekly, feature three variations of a fairy tale chosen by one of Fairy Tale Review’s editors, readers, editorial...
A Brief Interview with Traci Brimhall
In her poem “Sibylline Translation,” Translucent Issue poetry contest judge and past contributor Traci Brimhall tells us: Fiction is one way of...
Fairy-Tale Files: Wendigo Vortex
Fairy-Tale Files, published once weekly, feature three variations of a fairy tale chosen by one of Fairy Tale Review’s editors, readers, editorial...
A Brief Interview with Kelly Link
Kelly Link's short stories have been dazzling readers for more than a decade now—her first collection Stranger Things Happen was published in 2001...
Fairy-Tale Files: Leap, Follow or Hulk Out of the Way
Fairy-Tale Files, published once weekly, feature three variations of a fairy tale chosen by one of Fairy Tale Review’s editors, readers, editorial...
Fairy-Tale Files: Timeless Jinn
Fairy-Tale Files, published once weekly, feature three variations of a fairy tale chosen by one of Fairy Tale Review’s editors, readers, editorial...
Fairy-Tale Files: Also-Ran Giants
Fairy-Tale Files, published once weekly, feature three variations of a fairy tale chosen by one of Fairy Tale Review’s editors, readers, editorial...
Fairy-Tale Files: Power to the Pepper
Fairy-Tale Files, published once weekly, feature three variations of a fairy tale chosen by one of Fairy Tale Review’s editors, readers, editorial...
Pins & Needles No. 52: Joel Hans
Magic mirrors have nothing on smartphones, after all.
Fairy-Tale Files: Meditations on Orpheus
Fairy-Tale Files, published once weekly, feature three variations of a fairy tale chosen by one of Fairy Tale Review’s editors, readers, editorial...
