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Once upon a time …

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

The Magic Bangle | Shastri Akella

Fairy Tale Review Issues, Prose | by Shastri Akella | Mar 1, 2023

Kartik makes a decision the day his father strikes him: on workday evenings and weekends he’ll pretend he’s a tourist in his hometown. His real...

Submission Call | Vol. 20

Calls for Submissions, Fairy Tale Review Issues, Fairy Tale Review News | by Fairy Tale Review | Mar 1, 2023

Founding Editor Kate Bernheimer will edit the twentieth annual issue of Fairy Tale Review. Vol. 20 will not have a theme. We are looking for your...

2022 Pushcart Prize Nominees

News, Uncategorized | Jan 1, 2023

As we come to the end of 2022, we’re pleased to announce our Pushcart Prize nominations from The Lilac Issue. They are:

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.

‘My Time With the Angels’ and ‘Administrative Assistant’

Poetry, Web Exclusives | by Taisia Kitaiskaia | Jun 19, 2019

I climbed the beanstalk, up and up, to the realm
Of pendulous curtains.

The Listening Tree

Prose, Web Exclusives | by Micah Dean Hicks | Jun 5, 2019

What made me want him? That supple, brutal kingsnake of a boy, wine-lipped and longhaired.

While Drinking Sangria

Poetry, Web Exclusives | by Benjamin Niespodziany | May 8, 2019

You resemble an angel created in a landfill.

Genie in Pieces

Prose, Web Exclusives | by Claire Hero | Apr 24, 2019

Father is the name for what guards the front door. The world outside is full of noise. A truck, a lawnmower, a dog, and then another.

‘Mus Maximus’ and ‘Venice’

Poetry, Web Exclusives | by Esme Franklin | Apr 10, 2019

In Pompeii we didn’t distinguish rats
from mice.

Avenue

Prose, Web Exclusives | by Sharma Shields | Mar 27, 2019

The doctor delivers the diagnosis. He tells Gulisa, ‘It could be worse.’

graverobber’s ballad

Poetry, Web Exclusives | by Elizabeth Theriot | Mar 13, 2019

bifurcating like a heart would/night scatters into pieces/reassembled like a girl should/be I tug the laces/of my boots and hold the shadows

The Winners of the 2019 Flash Fairy Tale Contest

Contests, Fairy Tale Review News | by The FTR Mice | Mar 6, 2019

On February 26, 2019, we asked our Twitter followers to tell us the biggest and most beautiful stories they could within Twitter's longer, and more...

Diptych: The Bunch, Your Duck/Dog

Prose, Web Exclusives | by Katharine Haake | Feb 13, 2019

One day, we came home from a walk in the woods and found something waiting for us. It wasn’t a this, or a that, or a they; it was a bunch.

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