The Fairy Tale Magazine

28/04/2025

Mark your calendars! Our Prose and Poetry Contest will be open for submissions May 15-31, 2025. No theme requirement other than each piece must be fairy tale related.

$5.00 Entry Fee per piece (PayPal only)

Poetry Judge: Deborah Sage
Prose Judge: Amy Trent

Prizes in both categories:
1st Prize $50.00
2nd & 3rd Prize each: $25.00

(Visit https://www.fairytalemagazine.com/submissions for guidelines)

17/04/2025

“Fans of the Anne of Green Gables series will enjoy this tale of a magical orphan girl.”

Check out The Fairy Tale Magazine’s review of Heather Fawcett’s The Grace of Wild Things at the link below! And while you are visiting, enjoy our latest issue Briar & Thorn 🌸🌿💖

The Grace of Wild Things by Heather Fawcett is a magical middle grade novel written in the tradition of Anne of Green Gables. The book takes place on Prince Edward Island where a young orphan named Grace has left the orphanage in search of a true home. While the rest of the children on the island av...

15/04/2025

Sleepers wake! "Briar and Thorn, the Sleeping Beauty Issue" Spring/Summer 2025 is here and it's free! You will find it as a downloadable PDF on the blog. We're thrilled to have you read, enjoy and share widely. Follow the link!

We are delighted to present The Sleeping Beauty Issue! Scroll down for a list of featured authors, and first lines for each piece in Briar and Thorn, The Sleeping Beauty Issue. Click on the PDF to download and read the issue for free. Click on the box to download and read our Spring/Summer 2025 issu...

09/04/2025

One week left until The Fairy Tale Magazine’s Briar & Thorn Issue publishes! 🌸🏰💖

Keep calm and read our Sleeping Beauty Book Roundup while you wait!

This year, the Spring/Summer Issue of The Fairy Tale Magazine is all about Sleeping Beauty! Submissions are open January 15th-21st (details found here), and while you work on your stories and poems, you can take inspiration from our roundup of Sleeping Beauty inspired books! These titles are the per...

06/04/2025

Briar & Thorn Authot Spotlight 🌸🏰💖

Angela is the author of the short story "Awaken" in the upcoming edition.

Angela Rega is a Canberra, Australian based writer and teacher in love with folklore, fairy tales and furry creatures. She works as a French and Italian Teacher and Librarian and writes in the hours in-between. She is an Aurealis Awards, Norma K. Hemming and Neilma Sidney finalist and her stories have been published in places including South of the Sun Australian Fairy Tales for the 21st Century, Overland, Corvid Queen, The Dark and The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror.

05/04/2025

Congrats to Tish Black on her upcoming debut short story collection Ebony, Blood, and Snow; New Stories from Old Tales. Watch Author Talks with Kelly Jarvis on our YouTube Channel as Kelly and Tish talk inspiration, blue hair (nothing to do with Bluebeard!) and her witchy aesthetic.

Listen as Tish Black and Kelly Jarvis discuss Tish's inspirations, motivations for writing what she does and how she chose the tales in her collection of sho...

04/04/2025

Briar & Thorn Author Spotlight 🌸🏰💖

Lynden is the author of the short story "A Way Through the Briars" in the upcoming edition.

Lynden Wade neglects her family to spend time in the worlds of folklore and magic. She's had stories published in a range of publications, including BFS Horizons, the journal of the British Fantasy Society. She is still hoping for a house elf. Find her on Instagram

04/04/2025

Briar & Thorn Author Spotlight 🌸🏰💖

Laura is the author of the short story "Sleeping Girl" in the upcoming edition.

Laura Matney is a fiction writer, ghostwriter, and Author Accelerator certified book coach. By day, she runs The Writer's Life, LLC, helping people get the story in their heart ready to be seen in the world and writing her own fantasy stories using folklore and mythology to shine a light on modern day issues. The rest of the time, she is a captain of chaos, managing one small child, two giant dogs, and, occasionally, her husband.

04/04/2025

Briar & Thorn Author Spotlight 🌸🏰💖

Caitlin Gemmell is a widely published poet who dreams of life as a Fairy Godmother in a seaside cottage. Besides crafting poems, Caitlin is working towards a MLIS degree through University at Buffalo with the goal of becoming a research librarian. You can read her poems through her Substack publication, Ink-Stained Compass.

03/04/2025

“If you love books, plants, folklore, and magic, Enchanted Plants, by Varla A. Ventura, is for you!”

Don’t miss our review of Enchanted Plants at The Fairy Tale Magazine today! 🪴🌱🍎🌸

If you love books, plants, folklore, and magic, Enchanted Plants, by Varla A. Ventura, is for you! I fell in love with the book’s gorgeous cover and gilded pages the moment I laid eyes on it, and what awaited me when I opened the cover was anything but a disappointment. Varla A. Ventura begins by ...

03/04/2025

Briar & Thorn Author Spotlight 🌸🏰💖

Yukti is the author of "I Woke Up One Day and Found Me" in the upcoming edition.

Yukti Narang is an emerging Indian creative writer, screenwriter, and dramatist. Her work spans poetry, prose, feature films, and theatre, with publications in literary magazines like Room, Aniko Press, Oh Reader, Chiron Review, Ekstasis, and more. Her short fiction has been featured with Rupa Publications India, The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF, The Ex-Puritan, Asian American Writers' Workshop, and elsewhere. Yukti's debut poetry collection is 'There Is A Home In All Of Us' (2023). She has been shortlisted for the Building Bridges Poetry Competition by Renard Press and longlisted for the Toto Awards 2025. Yukti is working to make it big in literature and cinema.

03/04/2025

Briar & Thorn Author Spotlight 🌸🏰💖

Sergej is the author of the short story "Steadfastly Waiting" in the upcoming edition.

Sergej Pavlovic is a writer from Montenegro. Fairy tales and folklore fascinate him both creatively and academically. He has been a fan of moody and gothic writing since forever, and dreams of causing the same obsession in others. In the danger of wandering off in the Fairyland even though he is supposed to know better.

02/04/2025

Briar & Thorn Author Spotlight 🌸🏰💖

R. Haven is the author of the poem "Let Me Sleep" in the upcoming edition.

R. Haven hails from Toronto, Canada. His short stories have been published by Canthius, Soitera Press, TL;DR Press, among others. Last Stanza Poetry Journal and Old Moon Press have published his poetry. He also signed a contract with Renaissance Press for a standalone horror novel, and is represented by Kaitlyn Katsoupis of Belcastro Literary Agency. His website is theirritablequeer.com.

02/04/2025

Briar & Thorn Author Spotlight 🌸🏰💖

KT Wagner is the author of the short story "Hobo Queen" in the upcoming edition.

KT Wagner writes speculative fiction in the garden of her home on the west coast of Canada. She's a collector of strange plants, weird trivia, and obscure tomes. KT graduated from Simon Fraser University's Writers Studio in 2015 (Southbank 2013). She organizes writer events and works to create literary community.

01/04/2025

Briar & Thorn Author Spotlight 🌸🏰💖

Kim is the author of the poem "The Truth that Sleeps."

Kim Whysall-Hammond is a Londoner who now lives deep in the English countryside. She has worked in both Climate Research and Telecommunications. Her speculative poetry has appeared in Andromeda Spaceways, Dreams and Nightmares, Eternal Haunted Summer, Frozen Wavelets, Kaleidotrope, On Spec, Silver Blade and Star*line. She also has poems in anthologies from Palewell Press, Wild Pressed Books, Milk and Cake Press, Experiments in Fiction and Brigids Gate Press. She won Third in the 2023 Dwarf Star Award. Her first pamphlet, Messages from the Road, was published by Palewell Press in late 2024.

01/04/2025

Briar and Thorn Author Spotlight 🌸🏰💖

Deborah Sage is the author of the poem "Briar-Rose Reflects on Her Life."

Deborah Sage lives in Louisville, Kentucky. She has been published in Eternal Haunted Summer, Fairy Tale Magazine, the 2022 Dwarf Stars Anthology, Amethyst Press "All Shall Be Well" anthology for Julian of Norwich, Eye to the Telescope, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, and Ephemeral Elegies among others.