Fairy Tale Review Archive
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 Story of the Moon
Once, night, unchallenged, extended its dark grace
across the sky. To the credit of the town, the stars
at night had been enough, though sometimes
the townspeople went about bumping their heads
in sleep.
"Short Cuts" and other poems
I didn’t know that girl was in my belly until the heartburn set in, acid foaming into my esophagus and escaping in a huff of steam wafting silver moonward.
The Peach Boy
Each birth came too early, the samurai’s daughter producing a peach pit with the face of a crying boy or girl.
The Yellow Issue
“…[F]or me, the fairy tale begins when the yellow light magically appears, the same pale yellow light that magically appears with the quick flick of electricity. Its effects are–incandescent, illuminating, a nested home.” ~ Lily Hoang
The Grey Issue SUBMISSIONS OPEN
Call for Submissions Fairy Tale Review (The Grey Issue) Themed Issue on Lost Girls & Boys SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN UNTIL CLOSED. OPEN AS OF February...
Letter from Guest Editor Timothy Schaffert
I approached The Brown Issue meditating on the drab suggestion of the hue assigned to me by Fairy Tale Review’s founder and editor Kate Bernheimer....
Sold Out
Hard to believe the day has come, but copies of back issues of Fairy Tale Review are now sold out. The current issue (The Red Issue) is still...
NPR/Weekend Edition and Fairy Tales
Lynn Neary speaks to writers Kate Bernheimer and Neil LaBute about fairy tales.
The Changeling by Joy Williams
We are delighted to announce that you can now read Fairy Tale Review Press's 30th Anniversary Edition of The Changeling by Joy Williams as an ebook,...
Petition to the National Book Foundation
OCTOBER 24, 2010 Petition to the National Book Foundation: Maria Tatar and Kate Bernheimer Are on a Mission To the National Book Foundation, We...
How Nazis Used Fairy Tales
Interesting article from the Telegraph on how Nazis "injected" re-fashioned fairy tales with propaganda. The result? Little Red Riding Hood's cloak...
Fairy-Tale Book Repository
Fairy Tale Review announces its newest program, a Fairy-Tale Book Repository. We seek to collect as many fairy-tale books as possible, books known...
Fairy Tale Review Congratulates Lily Hoang
Fairy Tale Review congratulates Lily Hoang, author of Changing, which has just received a 2009 PEN/Beyond Margins Award.
Review of The Violet Issue
From a review in Marvels & Tales: The Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies. "This issue presents an exceptionally interesting collection of...
Interview with Fairy Tale Review Founder & Editor
FC2's new podcast is an interview with Fairy Tale Review editor Kate Bernheimer. To hear more about contemporary fairy tales as an innovative art...
