We craft and tell stories because we’ve stood on the uncertain edge between the waking world and our imagination, between enchantment and fear. And we remember other stories that help us build our own stories, scraps of lumber and fragments of narrative we gather together to make stories for ourselves.
Call for Submissions Unsettling Wonder: a Journal of Folk and Fairy Tales Issue 6: Tales of Kismet The word Kismet has been gifted to the English language from the Turkish and Arabic. It has its…Continue Reading
There are good wizards, there are evil wizards, and then, there are bad wizards—the kind that create the vorpal apple corer, the ten-thousand-league piano dolly, the leggings of a hundred insects. They live in the…Continue Reading
Who are they, these women and men who wander through the old tales and take a mortal for a husband or a wife? Cranes and swans and seals who take the form of a woman,…Continue Reading
Update: Submissions for Vol. 1, Issue 2, are now closed. Thanks to everyone who sent us something—we’re very excited to see how this issue is evolving. A story. Just a friendly reminder that the submission…Continue Reading
He tumbles round the Morris Dance and bounds through the Tarot. He finds true love inAndersen and falls in luck in Grimm. He’s a saint and a rabbi, an imam and a lama, a rich…Continue Reading
We are now accepting submissions for Vol. 1 Issue 1, which is themed on the folk motif of Wonder Voyages. There’s a treasure of wonder voyage tales enough to please the greediest buccaneer. But a…Continue Reading
