Fairy Tale Review, The Mauve Issue

by Kate Bernheimer (Editor), Thomas Mira y Lopez (Contributor), Matt Bell (Contributor)

Fairy Tale Review is an annual literary journal dedicated to publishing new fairy-tale fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. The journal seeks to expand the conversation about fairy tales among practitioners, scholars, and general readers. Contents reflect a diverse spectrum of literary artists working with fairy tales in many languages and styles.

Genres: Short Stories, Fantasy, Fiction

201 pages, Paperback

First published April 8, 2015

About the author

Kate Bernheimer is the author of three novels and the story collection Horse, Flower, Bird, as well as children's books. Among other books, she edited the World Fantasy Award winning My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales and the forthcoming xo Orpheus: 50 New Myths.

Reviews

[René · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some great pieces in this. Especially impressed by Kellie Wells' story 'The Arse End of the World.' If all of Fairy Tale Review's issues are as good as this one, I'd seriously consider subscribing to it.

[Pearse Anderson · Rating 4 out of 5]

For two hundred pages, a lot happened. Again, I like stuff like this. Not only is the entire series themed, but the individual issues are themed! This is like picking up a gothic mag themed around high-society Russia, or an essay collection about bad trips. The latter is a real one, the former should be a real one. Anyway, kinda confused what the Mauve theme is. Still fun! Still four stars. Definitively POETRY poetry, y'know? And I wasn't amazed by the contest winners, or the opening Matt Bell (:( Scrapper will be better probably), or actually quite a few of the stories, but this little book had some winners: Binnoire, The Peach Boy, One of Us Will Be Happy; It's Just a Matter of Which One, All Our Children, the Seeking Rubilio excerpt, and Olive. So that's a lot of them. So I'm happy. Thanks!

[Ruth Martinez · Rating 4 out of 5]

Please note, this review is actually for The Rainbow Issue, but for some reason this issue isn't included in the Goodreads list. The Rainbow Issue is written by LGBTQ+ authors and gives an important safe place for them to voice creativity, authenticity, and show thier talent. I love this!!! This is the first in the series that I've ever bought or read, and I immensely enjoyed it. Of course, as with every journal or anthology, I enjoyed certain pieces more than others. Some were so stunning, some were quirky and fun, some strange...because after all we have entered the land of fairytale. My favorites were If you were red riding hood, A Whale Tale, The Fox Marble, Four Poems from Black Swan Theory, From Her Tulip Bower Tommelise Writes the Swallow, Lipshine #18 Champagne Gold....