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"Founded in 2005 by Kate Bernheimer, Fairy Tale Review is an annual literary journal dedicated to publishing new fairy tales and to helping raise public awareness of fairy tales as a diverse, innovative art form."
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Open for submissions

Deadline

July 15, 2023

Introduction
Vibe

Send us your best but less intimidating

Response Time
3 months / 52 days
Average acceptance rate
0%

Need to know for submitting

Read carefully, it will save from dead rats in the mailbox

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      Simultaneous submissions

      Yes

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      Previously published

      No

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      Payment

      $50

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      Fee

      No

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      Expedited response

      No

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      Available in print

      Yes

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      Provide contributor copies

      yes, 2 copies

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      Examples online

      Yes

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      Active on social media

      Yes

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    Important stuff

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    How to submit 🏗️

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    Cover Letter and Bio 🏗️

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    Awards

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    Demographics & Eligibility

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    Formatting requirements 🏗️

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    Rights for published work 🏗️

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Types of Submissions Accepted

6 genres

A general comment from the editor [coming soon]

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Fiction

Max words: 6000

Max pieces: 1

a single prose piece up to 6,000 words or up to three prose pieces under 1,000 words each.

Flash rules

Max words: 1000

Max pieces: 3

folklore

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Nonfiction

Max words: 6000

Max pieces: 1

a single prose piece up to 6,000 words or up to three prose pieces under 1,000 words each.

Flash rules

Max words: 1000

Max pieces: 3

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Poetry

Max pieces: 4

10 pages max

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Art

Max pieces: 5

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Translations

Writers may submit translations of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Submissions in translation should follow the above guidelines corresponding to the genre of the original work.

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Interview

If you wish to propose a dialogue between yourself and another scholar or author (or someone working in another discipline whose work centers fairy tales), please submit a short letter of inquiry contextualizing the proposed dialogue, including current bios for both participants, and email us directly at ftreditorial@gmail.com.

fiction genre icon

Fiction

Max words: 6000

Max pieces: 1

a single prose piece up to 6,000 words or up to three prose pieces under 1,000 words each.

Flash rules

Max words: 1000

Max pieces: 3

folklore

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Nonfiction

Max words: 6000

Max pieces: 1

a single prose piece up to 6,000 words or up to three prose pieces under 1,000 words each.

Flash rules

Max words: 1000

Max pieces: 3

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Poetry

Max pieces: 4

10 pages max

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Art

Max pieces: 5

Magazine

Founded in 2005 | United States

Masthead

We currently list only main editors, more will be added later! If you are an editor, you can edit your masthead in our admin panel :)

Kate Bernheimer
Editor-in-Chief
Chill Stats (note: this is not exactly accurate...)

Total tracked

47

Average acceptance rate

0% (so far)

Average response time

52 days

Average acceptance/rejection time

-/52 days

Fastest response time

15 days

Slowest response time

83 days

Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 213 days