Fairy Tale Review

  • Fairy Tale Review: The Blue Issue
    By Francine Prose, Kim Addonizio, Wendy Weitman

    Golden apple for king's kingdom, princess-bride, etc. The taste of ashes in his mouth, the hero travels into middle-age. Meanwhile, deep in the woods of his awakened imagination, the cat-queen who can offer no material reward or even a ...

  • Fairy Tale Review: The Red Issue #6
    By Kate Bernheimer

    KELLIE WELLS is the author of a collection of short fiction, Compression Scars. which won the Flannery O'Connor Award in 2001, and a novel, Skin. I am a lover of crones, particularly those who wallow in their cronehood (and spit ...

  • Fairy Tale Review: The Brown Issue #7
    By Kate Bernheimer

    You my dear are free to leave the dead hair to the dying, and rest assured that at the sight of this braid, my mother will likely live another ten years.” With that she coiled the braid on top of a chair and it sat there like the skin ...

  • Fairy Tale Review: The Violet Issue #3
    By Kate Bernheimer

    This issue of Fairy Tale Review focuses on fairy tales for adults.

  • Fairy Tale Review: The Blue Issue #1
    By Kate Bernheimer

    The writing selected for the debut issue of Fairy Tale Review reflects this quality in a multitude of ways. The work in here is not beholden to any particular school of writing.

  • Fairy Tale Review: The Green Issue #2
    By Kate Bernheimer

    Fairy Tale Review The Green Issue Editor Kate Bernheimer Assistant Editors Alissa Nutting Nick Pincumbe Jenn Ridgeway Designer J. Johnson Cover Art Kiki Smith, “Born,” reproduced by permission of the artist.

  • Fairy Tale Review: The Aquamarine Issue #5
    By Kate Bernheimer

    So cunningly made: of jewels and. Precious metals. You've been told. How its eyes glint in the firelight. How the sultan caresses its sleek body, winds it up with a golden key. Sometimes, you think you can hear.

  • Fairy Tale Review: The Grey Issue #8
    By Kate Bernheimer

    ... The Complete Collection of people, places & things, and has a collection of comics forthcoming from Awesome Machine Press. He edits arts quarterly Action, Yes! and is a professor of English at SUNY Nassau Community College. As a child ...

  • Fairy Tale Review: The Emerald Issue #10
    By Kate Bernheimer

    In the Emerald Issue, new stories, poems, essays, and artwork is inspired by the themes of "emeralds" and "Oz". In Frank L. Baum's introduction to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the author indicates that his story "aspires to being a ...