by Fairy Tale Review | Mar 9, 2017 | Contests
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...
by Fairy Tale Review | Feb 24, 2017 | Fairy-Tale Files
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...
by Fairy Tale Review | Feb 17, 2017 | Fairy-Tale Files
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...
by Fairy Tale Review | Feb 3, 2017 | Fairy-Tale Files
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...
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