The Fairy Tale Magazine

08/01/2026

“Fairylore: A Compendium of the Fae Folk is a beautifully illustrated encyclopedia of fairy lore that belongs on every library shelf.” 🧚

If you love fairies, don’t miss our review of Fairylore posted at The Fairy Tale Magazine today! 🧚

Fairylore: A Compendium of the Fae Folk is a beautifully illustrated encyclopedia of fairy lore that belongs on every library shelf. Collaboratively written by Dr. Sara Cleto and Dr. Brittany Warman, the professors behind the Carterhaugh School of Folklore and the Fantastic, Fairylore features an in...

06/01/2026

Our next call for submissions for Fairy Tale Magazine Spring/Summer 2026 Issue will be January 15-21, 2026 on the THEME: GREEN MAN/WOMAN—TREE and NATURE SPIRITS from around the world. Please visit the Submission Guidelines page for full details and prompts.)

We look forward to reading your poems!

Kristen Baum DeBeasi
Editor in Chief, Fairy Tale Magazine

01/01/2026

Happy New Year to the Fairy Tale Magazine family!

Why not start 2026 with a gorgeous new book from Sharon Lynn Fisher? 🧡🖤

Sharon Lynn Fisher, the author of Salt & Broom and Grimm Curiosities, returns readers to the lush, romantic 19th century in her latest book Tea & Alchemy. When Mina Penrose, a lonely young woman who spends her days working in a tearoom called The Magpie in 1854 Cornwall, discovers a dead body on the...

20/12/2025

A romantic holiday novella to warm up your weekend!

In this stand-alone sequel to Amy Quick Parish’s novella Highlands Christmas: Wishes Come True, readers are returned to Scotland to revisit Melissa, a recent divorcee who has inherited a home overseas and fallen in love with the Scottish lawyer who handled the dissolution of her marriage. In this ...

20/12/2025

Happy Solstice, everybody! Let's hear it for Dar Williams bringing everyone to the table. (I know! It's a wee bit early, but this is one to enjoy multiple times...) Cheers! Try not to burn any pumpkin pies!

Provided to YouTube by TuneCoreThe Christians and the Pagans · Dar WilliamsMortal City℗ 1996 Dar Williams RecordsReleased on: 1996-01-23Auto-generated by You...

19/12/2025

Friends! This happened... I interviewed our very own Kelly Jarvis, Author about her debut novella, Selkie Moon. Kelly and I talk about selkie stories, inspiration, research, and the Orkney Islands.

This very special interview closes our first season of Fairy Tale Voices; Author Conversations from the Realm of Story. We are incredibly honored by the authors who agreed to speak with us throughout 2025: Amy Trent, Shveta Thakrar, Jack Zipes, Jane Harrington, Kell Woods, Lissa Sloan, Tish Black, and Jeana Jorgensen! Big thank you to everyone who helped us find our way for season 1 of Fairy Tale Voices. Please watch and enjoy! Like and subscribe as we dream up Season 2.

In this episode of Fairy Tale Voices, Fairy Tale Magazine's Editor-in-Chief Kristen Baum DeBeasi is in conversation with Contributing Writer Kelly Jarvis. Th...

18/12/2025

The 13 Yule Lads who visit Iceland during the holiday season include mischief-makers like Spoon Licker, Door Slammer, and Sausage Swiper ✨✨✨

🎨 by Brian Pinkerton

18/12/2025

Our upcoming themed call for poetry and prose will be for Green Man/Woman, Dryads, Tree and Natures spirits from around the world. Please see our Submissions Guidelines for more info, prompts and ideas, and be ready to let your writing go wild! (No erotica! No horror!) We’re open to tales and poems the world over!



https://www.fairytalemagazine.com/submissions

17/12/2025

Dance through the holiday season with “Midnight in Everwood,” a retelling of The Nutcracker.

Find more wintry fairy tales and folklore at our Winter Book Roundup here: https://www.fairytalemagazine.com/post/winter-book-roundup

16/12/2025

Each time a troll bursts into pieces from the sun, his splinters scatter, landing in the eyes of people who look at the world askew 👀

📖 and 🎨 by D’Aulaires’ Book of Trolls

15/12/2025

Celebrate the end of an era with our favorite Fairy Godmother’s FINAL Cinderella’s Hearth Post!

Thank you, Kate, for sharing your stories with us, and we can’t wait to see what you have planned for next year! 💖

For many years, I wrote about home keeping and gardening for a small weekly paper, and I enjoyed it. So I decided to bring some of that experience to The Fairy Tale Magazine through Cinderella’s Hearth. It’s been great fun doing it, but I’ve always prided myself on knowing when to move on. I s...