Ordering Information

We would like to apologize for any difficulties you may be experiencing trying to order Fairy Tale Review through our website. The website will be updated soon to reflect new ordering information. In the meantime, if you would like to order a copy of Fairy Tale Review, please call:

The University of Alabama Press
(205) 348-5180

Thank you for your patience with our changing means of distribution. The Editor no longer sits in her office and hand-writes your addresses on manila envelopes, though she loved doing so for years. Honestly, she really did.

Addressing those envelopes reminded her of her long-lost pen pals from "Big Blue Marble." Those of you born before 1980 might remember the show . . . if The Editor remembers correctly, during the program an image of earth seen from space sang or spun or spoke in true fairy-tale fashion, entreating the watcher to write to some friends in distant lands . . . and The Editor did.

The Violet Issue

Fairy Tale Review’s third volume, The Violet Issue, is now in production and will be on sale sometime in December.

The Violet Issue
dedicated to the memory of beloved poet
Sarah Hannah (1966 – 2007)
contains new work by:

Kim Addonizio
Don Mee Choi
Lucy Corin
Tracy Daugherty
Espido Freire
Toshiya Kamei
Espido Freire
Sarah Hannah
Lily Hoang
Anna Maria Hong
Kim Hyesoon
Jeffrey Levine
Lisa Olstein
David Petruzelli
Natania Rosenfeld
Aurelie Sheehan
Richard Siken
Kieran Suckling
Lee Upton
Julie Marie Wade

Praise for Fairy Tale Review

“Charming and adventurous, this new annual journal displays impressive wit and eclecticism. Right away you know Fairy Tale Review will be a different sort of literary magazine . . . everything is stunning.”—Jeannine Hall, New Pages

“Fairy Tale Review is a high quality, beautifully produced book that anyone interested in fairy tales, folklore, and mythology ought to look up.”—Kara Bell, The New Review

“If the Blue Issue is representative of the annual volumes to come, those of us who are interested in the ways in which fairy tales continue to insert and assert themselves in contemporary cultural production have something to look forward to. . . . The Fairy Tale Review promises to be a forum for wide-ranging, thought-provoking work essential to the continuing transformation of the genre.”—Jennifer Orme, Marvels & Tales: The Journal of Fairy Tale Studies

Fairy Tale Review's first two volumes (The Blue Issue, 2005, and The Green Issue, 2006) contain contributions from authors such as Donna Tartt, Francine Prose, Lydia Millet, Marina Warner, Jack Zipes, Aimee Bender, and Rikki Ducornet. Stories from the first two issues have been praised as notable, or chosen for republication, in Best New American Writers 2006, Best American Short Stories 2005, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2005, and Best American Fantasy 2006. Seven stories and seven poems from Fairy Tale Review been nominated for the Pushcart Prize by outside editors.

FTR Website

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Fairy Tale Review Press

Fairy Tale Review is thrilled to announce the inception of a book imprint called Fairy Tale Review Press. Fairy Tale Review Press books will be distributed by Small Press Distribution in Berkeley, California. We will post ordering information here, and on the Fairy Tale Review website, closer to the time of publication.

Our first two titles will be released in Spring 2008. Advance Reader Copies will be on display, and available to reviewers, at the 2008 AWP Convention in New York City at the Fairy Tale Review table. Please come take a look!


FICTION
The Changeling by Joy Williams.

This 3oth Anniversary Edition of The Changeling by Joy Williams will include a Foreword by Rick Moody. An overlooked and spectacular novel, The Changeling is a visionary fairy tale, a work of mythic genius. Terrifying, poetic, revelations follow The Changeling’s abandoned heroine Pearl everywhere she goes, whether by air, land, or sea.

Joy Williams has won the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Harold and Mildred Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, among other prizes. Her first novel, State of Grace, was a National Book Award Finalist. “An inverse odyssey of a 20th-century feminine sensibility—our simpleton heroine ends a depraved alcoholic—the witty and horrifying Changeling establishes Williams as a major contemporary novelist.” (Virginia Quarterly Review, 1978). The 3oth Anniversary Edition seeks to reintroduce this novel to contemporary readers as one of the most original and alarming fairy-tale books ever written.

POETRY
Pilot (“Johann the Carousel Horse”) by Jöhannes Goransson.

Pilot ("Johann the Carousel Horse") is television shot through Artaud’s Momo-body. It is the fairy tale of Deleuze's Body without Organs. Hugo Ball restaged in Los Angeles. And, without end, Pilot is an assemblage, a book of nursery rhymes gone wrong in translation. Its strange characters, abandoned from other texts, include Lilja, the Pearls of Stockholm and assorted imperiled girls. Here, in Johannes Göransson's glittering exocity, they find a new and beautifully stitched home. Göransson was born and raised in Skåne, Sweden, but has lived in the US for many years. He is co-editor of Action Books and has translated the work of Aase Berg, Henry Parland, Ann Jäderlund and other Swedish and Finland Swedish poets.

Of Course, She Was Meg

Madeline L'Engle passed away today. She died of natural causes at the age of 88. FTR invites anyone to post their remembrances of Ms. L'Engle here.

Fairy Tale Review

We once lived in Morgan Hall, above the main Department of English office on the University of Alabama campus. We’re still on campus, but in true fairy-tale spirit, we’ve been banished: we now live across the street in Rowand-Johnson Hall. But we couldn’t be more delighted, for R-J also houses the Theatre and Dance Department. Every theatre is haunted; we feel right at home.

Kate Bernheimer, Editor of Fairy Tale Review, would like me to tell you she is thrilled to welcome the new academic year’s editorial staff. The new Assistant Editors are Christopher and myself, Andy. Rumor has it that we are getting an office elf, by the name of Amanda.

The Violet Issue has just gone to the designer and will be in print by December. Contributors include Kim Addonizio, Sarah Hannah, Lily Hoang, Lisa Olstein, Richard Siken, Kieran Suckling, Lee Upton, and many others. We are still reading for the next issue of Fairy Tale Review, The White Issue, so please send your best work to us by the end of September. We love reading new tales. If we haven’t yet responded to your submission to The White Issue, never fear; we’ve been shifting to a new production schedule and you will hear from us by mid-September. We promise. If you don’t, may snakes and toads crawl out when we speak.

Watch this space for news, spells, and more.