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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

"Orpheus Wanders Out of the Wood" and "Eurydice in Woodshop"

Poetry, Web Exclusives | 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 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.

‘Mollie & Lobo Wolf Girl’ & ‘Notes on the Tower’

Poetry, Web Exclusives | by H.R. Webster | Jan 30, 2019

you are always
walking me
into canyons

at dusk…

Of Humankind

Prose, Web Exclusives | by Miriam Bird Greenberg | Jan 16, 2019

On a dirt street, in a one-room shack with a rain-tempered roof, lived a woman who sold sex to the workers of her district, and she did this because of all the ways one made money in the hard-mouthed world, this was the easiest for her.

‘Song for My Daughter,’ ‘Song for My Son,’ & ‘Out of the Wood-‘

Poetry, Web Exclusives | by Emily Pérez | Oct 24, 2018

Because my bridegroom marked the trail
with ash
Because my father pushed me
down the path alone

Winners of the 2018 Fairy Tale Review Awards in Poetry and Prose

Contests | by The Editors | Oct 22, 2018

As always, we were stunned by the high quality of the submissions we received, and so grateful to our esteemed final judges.

Homecoming

Prose, Web Exclusives | by Molly Fessler | Oct 10, 2018

We were always trying to get her attention. ‘Your mother is busy,’ said our father. ‘She is an important woman.’

Three Enter the Dark Wood

From the Archives, Poetry | by Lesley Jenike | Oct 3, 2018

It’s the one about the bears and their blonde:
In their many beds I left many cells,
called my multiple personalities down

‘D’ & ‘G’

Poetry, Web Exclusives | by Claire Wahmanholm | Sep 26, 2018

D is for dragon and damsel, diamond and diadem. For deciduous woods, their dropping leaves.

In Which Hansel Is Gretel and Gretel Is Hansel

From the Archives, Prose | by Brandi Wells | Sep 19, 2018

This hurts a lot, but it’s true. It is astral projection gone wrong.

Planting Petals

Prose, Web Exclusives | by Kristi DeMeester | Sep 12, 2018

My sister puts petals back into the earth.

Winter Father Persimmon Sleep

Poetry, Web Exclusives | by Jaime Zuckerman | Aug 29, 2018

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

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