Announcing the 2017 Fairy Tale Review Awards

The editors of Fairy Tale Review are pleased to offer more information about this year’s contest, our fourth annual, in both poetry and prose. Each winner will receive $1,000 and publication in The Charcoal Issue of Fairy Tale Review, forthcoming in 2018. All...

Merpeople & the Danger of Men

Mermaid romances with humans are often intense narratives of forbidden love. For a lighter take, the ‘80s romantic comedy Splash is about a mermaid who rescues a man from drowning and comes ashore to spend six days with him in New York City. She becomes endangered...

A Serpent in Human Shape

In the Kashmiri folktale “The Chinese Princess,” a governor is hunting game when he stumbles upon a beautiful Chinese maiden who claims to be a princess. Entranced by her beauty, he takes her as his wife. At first the marriage is blissful, but after not too long the...

Fairy-Tale Files: How Loneliness Hurts

In Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale, “The Snowman,” the eponymous protagonist sees what he believes to be a female stove through a window, and falls head over heels in love. Even though a friendly dog warns the snowman that this love would certainly end in the...