Pins & Needles No. 22: Kat Meads

by | Feb 3, 2015 | Pins & Needles

No. 22: Kat MeadsQ. I’m curious about the process here—how did you come into this piece? Did you have it already written before The Emerald Issue theme was announced, or did you write it with the Oz theme in mind?I didn’t have it written. But when I saw the submission...

Fairy-Tale Files: Silent Skin

by | Jan 23, 2015 | Fairy-Tale Files

Several fairy tales have used the theme of hiding in another creature’s skin—usually a donkey’s or cat’s—in order to escape a dysfunctional home, the dysfunction often incest-related. T.S. Eliot reimagines the animal skin disguise in this excerpt from his 1925 poem...

Pins & Needles No. 21: Carrie Bennett

by | Jan 20, 2015 | Pins & Needles

No. 21: Carrie BennettQ. The withholding of the journey itself is interesting, in that the story is what comes before the journey. What compelled you to this structure, to examining the anxieties and the logistics?At the time I wrote Ghost Plants, I had been writing...

Fairy-Tale Files: When One Isn’t Enough

by | Jan 16, 2015 | 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.Fairy tales seem to be undergoing a modern-day revival, but with a twist: they’re almost never alone, but rather crossed-over and re-mixed...