The Fairy Tale Magazine has a vibrant membership club. Fondly dubbed The Fairy Godparents Club, this is a virtual space where storytellers, fairy tale lovers and nature lovers meet regularly. Led by our Fairy Godmother in Residence, Kate Wolford, we share seasonally-inspired poems and prose, personal accomplishments and celebrations. Members arrive to our Socials (Zoom) bedecked in seasonal hats and flower crowns. Each social has great giveaways. Our Fairy Godmother in Residence finds the best themed giveaway for each meeting. (Must be present to win!) 

 

We host one workshop annually. In addition, we invite well-known authors for conversation about their forthcoming or recently-released fairy tale / fantasy genre books. ⭐️ Authors for 2025 to be announced soon!

 

Club membership supports the lit mag, The Fairy Tale Magazine, making it possible to pay our writers, and to produce two regular issues and a bonus issue for our writing contest. The issues will be PDFs again in 2025, and will also be available for online enjoyment.

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The Fairy Tale Magazine Themes and Issue Release Dates:

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🌸😎 spring/summer theme: Sleeping Beauty (April 15) 

📖 Bonus mini issue showcasing winners of the writing contest (July 15)

🍂❄️ fall/winter theme: Trolls (November 1) 🪄

(Double check submissions windows! They have changed!)

 

 

Our 2025 calendar includes four seasonal (Zoom) socials: 
 

🌸 May 3, 2025 (Saturday) at 1pm EST

😎 June 14, 2025 (Saturday) at 1pm EST 

🍂 Oct. 11, 2025 (Saturday) at 1pm EST 

❄️ Dec. 6, 2025 (Saturday) at 1pm EST

 

Our 2025 calendar includes one 2-hour (Zoom) writing workshop:

 

📖 February 22, 2025 (Saturday) 1:00-3:00pm EST ​

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The Workshop: "Spindles and Thorny Towers: Rewriting Briar Rose" led by poet Sally Rosen Kindred: 

 

In this workshop, we’ll look together at some magic moments from Sleeping Beauty retellings in both poems and prose, talking a bit about their methods for rethinking a dear old tale. Thus inspired, we’ll approach that briared tower in new ways. In a set of fun, short exercises with attached free-writing times, we’ll ask ourselves some strange and enchanting questions about fairies and curses, spindles and dreams, finding new ways through the tale through fresh imagistic and narrative moves. There will be time for any who want to share their work for encouraging feedback. Fairy Godparents, bring your pens and spindles, your notebooks and your spells–it’s going to be an enchanting time!