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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

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...

Elegy for a Child Trapped Underground

From the Archives, Poetry | by Ashley Hudson | Aug 8, 2018

After the failed attempt to crawl up and out
the long neck of the well, I tried telling
forty seven tarnished pennies about you

Monster, a Meaning

Poetry, Web Exclusives | by Maggie Queeney | Aug 1, 2018

Monstrum: a sign, a portent,
From the Latin, monere: to warm, from
the root men to think.

Salamandrine, My Kid

From the Archives, Prose | by Joyelle McSweeney | Jul 25, 2018

The twittering machine lies in its crib, rehabilitating its connections.

Garden

Prose, Web Exclusives | by Matt Morgenstern | Jul 18, 2018

Now that night she said we had to go dancing, but first we had to put on dresses.

‘Sunday Queen’ & ‘Queen’s Mother’ & ‘Queen’s Eulogy for Uncle’

From the Archives, Poetry | by Taisia Kitaiskaia | Jul 11, 2018

Queen is free as a mite
in the Lord’s mystical eyebrow,
growing ears for no reason.

‘Bigfoot Thumbs a Ride’ & ‘Animal Bride’

Poetry, Web Exclusives | by Caylin Capra-Thomas | Jun 27, 2018

Once, there was nowhere to go. Nowhere
to get to. My movement through the slash
pines and saw palms was pure physical
expression.

Small Animal

From the Archives, Prose | by Aurelie Sheehan | Jun 13, 2018

Sara herself did not know the people throwing the party, but she went to the house in the woods anyway.

Coven

Prose, Web Exclusives | by Anna Cabe | Jun 6, 2018

We chant around the grill in our backyard every Friday the 13th to scare the neighbors who told the Homeowners’ Association our violet paint job was garish.

‘No Place (Dorothy Reconsiders)’ & ‘Dorothy in the Desert’

From the Archives, Poetry | by Rochelle Hurt | May 30, 2018

Out here the din of tin on tin hangs
just below an orphaned smudge of cumulus,
threatening fickle weather.

The Lemon Tree

From the Archives, Prose | by Ben Loory | May 23, 2018

A farmer was wandering through his orchard at harvest time, when he saw an apple hanging from one of his lemon trees.

‘A Mouth And Its Name’ & ‘The Hour After Stars’

From the Archives, Poetry | by Mai Der Vang | May 16, 2018

You told me north water
was not built by virga
but from suicide of the moon.

‘Baby Bird’ & ‘The Barren Wife Gives Birth to a Girl’

From the Archives, Prose | by Jaclyn Dwyer | May 9, 2018

I will do the nursing. The suckling and swallowing. He will do the singing.

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