Fairy Tale Review Archive
Browse submissions from past editions, web exclusive content, author Q&A, and more.
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
The Eye of the Cyclone
A poplar tree shakes its wet hair
in front of a mental hospital in Ch’ŏngyangni
Maybe the night wind is blowing—
Appleless
It’s unsettling to meet people who don’t eat apples.
Scheherazade
He made his choice. He still speaks, still lives.
Review of The Violet Issue
From a review in Marvels & Tales: The Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies. "This issue presents an exceptionally interesting collection of...
Interview with Fairy Tale Review Founder & Editor
FC2's new podcast is an interview with Fairy Tale Review editor Kate Bernheimer. To hear more about contemporary fairy tales as an innovative art...
Interview with Joy Williams by bookslut.com
Interview with Joy Williams (PDF)
Joy Williams to be Inducted into The American Academy of Arts & Letters
Joy Williams, whose novel The Changeling is forthcoming from Fairy Tale Review Press in May, will be inducted into the American Academy of Arts...
The Changeling
A post by Dwight Garner on the New York Times book blog about The Changeling's sad fate in 1978, and its triumphant reissue this May, at the above...
Contributor Kellie Wells Interviewed in The Kalamazoo Gazette
Here's a wonderful interview about fairy tales and writing with Kellie Wells, whose story "Rabbit Catcher of Kingdom Come" will appear in Fairy Tale...
