The Winners of the 2016 Fairy Tale Review Awards

by | Sep 14, 2016 | Contests

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

by | Sep 9, 2016 | Fairy-Tale Files

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

by | Sep 2, 2016 | Fairy-Tale Files

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

by | Aug 26, 2016 | Fairy-Tale Files

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,...