by Fairy Tale Review | Jan 26, 2016 | Pins & Needles
No. 43: Elizabeth Gross Q. What drew you to include a fragment by Sappho, the famous Greek poet, who is known for writing about love and eroticism? This particular fragment (“with what eyes?”) has been central to how I think about writing since I first...
by Fairy Tale Review | Jan 22, 2016 | Fairy-Tale Files
Fairy-Tale Files, published once weekly, feature three variations of a fairy tale chosen by one of Fairy Tale Review’s editors. A wailing fairy cast as an Irish death omen, the banshee’s earliest literary appearance can be traced to the prose-driven Cathreim...
by Fairy Tale Review | Jan 19, 2016 | Pins & Needles
No. 42: Claire Cronin Q. Fairy Tale Review is interested in non-Western fairy tales, although many of our entries have their basis in European or Western traditions. It seems to me that “What Haunts” has a connection to the Indian subcontinent and the ghosts of those...
by Fairy Tale Review | Jan 15, 2016 | Fairy-Tale Files
Fairy-Tale Files, published once weekly, feature three variations of a fairy tale chosen by one of Fairy Tale Review’s editors. This illustration, included inside of Andrew Lang’s The Blue Fairy Tale Book collection of fairy tales, depicts a...
by Fairy Tale Review | Jan 12, 2016 | Pins & Needles
No. 41: Elise Winn Q. “After my father left, she’d passed the books down to me. Remember, she said, none of this is true.” How do you see that dynamic working in your story, the mother saying the romance books are untrue amid a child that is reborn into different...
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