The Winners of the 2016 Fairy Tale Review Awards

The editors of Fairy Tale Review are pleased to announce the winners and finalists of our third annual contests in both prose and poetry. Each winner will receive $1,000 and publication in The Translucent Issue of Fairy Tale Review. In the prose category, guest judge...

Fairy-Tale Files: Talking Wooden Dolls

In the Slavic fairy tale “Vasilisa the Beautiful,” a dying mother gives her young daughter Vasilisa a wooden doll. The mother tells Vasilisa: “When you need help, go somewhere quiet and give it something to eat and drink and it will tell you what to do.” After her...

Fairy-Tale Files: Bald Boy

In many a Turkish tale, Keloğlan, or Bald Boy, is a follicly-challenged country boy, who either bumbles or connives his way to good fortune. In some tales he is the wise fool and in others simply wise; but, he is always underestimated because of his country...

Fairy-Tale Files: Swan Masquerade

When Bjork came to the Academy Awards in 2001 and walked down the red carpet dressed in a swan costume, cameras flashed, people gasped. Swan trickery and transformation have preoccupied writers and artists for centuries. From Greek mythology—Zeus, in swan guise,...