“We gays cast our nets out into the mythic sea, searching for our own lost archetypes…those symbols of the human psyche which we may claim as...
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The Lilac Issue Editor’s Note | Kate Bernheimer
This Editor’s Note has three parts. As with all of my Editor’s Notes, I ask that you daydream while you read it. My students are often delighted...
Insomnia | Dana Curtis
Curled on a couch, wrapped in seaweed and crystalline pastimes, the alkali like so many horses dead in the dry reservoir, I turned the weather away...
Before | Joy Baglio
Let’s talk about the fairy godmother, before. At this point, she is just a woman, still relatively young, approaching her life’s precipice,...
Our 2015 Pushcart Prize Nominations
The editorial staff behind Fairy Tale Review is pleased to announce our nominations for the 2015 Pushcart Prize. All of these works can be found in...
The Emerald Issue of Fairy Tale Review Is Now Available
We’re delighted to announce that our tenth-anniversary issue—The Emerald Issue—is now available for purchase at Wayne State University Press....
Pushcart Nominations from The Yellow Issue
We're thrilled to announce that Fairy Tale Review has nominated the following stories and poems for the 2013 Pushcart Prize. It was extremely...
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
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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...