We Love Fairy Tales...
Learn the history of
The Fairy Tale Magazine below:
Once upon a time not so long ago, a university writing lecturer began to dream of a place where people who love fairy tales could gather to share poems and stories based in the long-standing fairy tale tradition. Soon, she decided that the gathering place would be online so that anyone the world over could stop for a visit, a story, or a poem to refresh the dreamer in themselves.
Welcome to The Fairy Tale Magazine
In 2007, Kate Wolford, that writing lecturer, started a blog called Diamonds and Toads, after one of her favorite fairy tales. It was largely a spot for her writing students to read about and discuss fairy tales they read for her course—as it would be for a number of years. But not long after she started the blog, she decided to hold a fairy tale writing contest, and the seeds for The Fairy Tale Magazine were planted.
No one who participated in that contest was plagued with diamonds or toads falling from their lips with each word they spoke a word. Instead, what sprang forth became a lit mag called Enchanted Conversation, which became a place where fairy tale storytellers from around the world shared stories and poems steeped in the fairy tale tradition.
In 2022, the magazine changed its name to The Fairy Tale Magazine. It continues the legacy begun by its Founder and Resident Fairy Godmother, Kate Wolford, though she has passed her editorial wand to Kristen Baum DeBeasi as its Publisher and Editor-in-Chief. The magazine continues to promote fairy tale stories and poems, shares magical book reviews, roundups, home and hearth tips from Cinderella’s Hearth and special features that include articles about enchanted creators, travelogues with connections to fairy tale, legend and mythology. We welcome you to our hearth. Please stop by often and stay a while to enjoy fairy tale stories and poems.
This is a site for fairy tale lovers, creators, and dreamers...
If you love the imaginative world of Charles Perrault, The Brothers Grimm, Madame D'Aulnoy, and Hans Christian Andersen, this is your place. If you love reimagining classic fairy tales and putting the results into stories, this is your place. If you want to write and read all-new fairy tales, this is your place. If you want reader-friendly analysis of fairy tales, this is your place. If you love art from the Golden Age of Illustration, this is your place.
We hope you'll visit often &
Let the enchantment begin!
About The Enchanted Press
The Fairy Tale Magazine is created and produced by The Enchanted Press, an Indiana nonprofit corporation.
Glass & Feathers by Lissa Sloan was published by The Enchanted Press in March 2024. Look for updates about it at Lissa Sloan's website: https://lissasloan.com/glass-and-feathers!
Wishes are Dangerous
They can bring you a night out, a gown, even a pair of slippers. Or something you never should have wished for in the first place.
After the royal wedding, the girl in the glass slippers has everything she ever wanted: an escape from a life of drudgery, an innate magical gift, and a devoted husband who looks at her like she is the only one in the room. But all wishes come with a price. To the people of the palace, she is an outsider, nothing more. Even her famous shoes cannot help her—the glass slippers no longer fit.
Glass and Feathers is a continuation of the traditional Cinderella tale. It transforms "Happy Ever After" and soars beyond it.