Further Study
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Below are a few examples of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, comics, manga, other image-text hybrids, film, animation, music, music videos, theory, criticism, other nonfiction, literary journals, websites, and organizations that have helped me think about fairy tale themes and motifs in new ways. I've also included here some texts that I would categorize more broadly as "fantastical," meaning they have some element of magic, magical realism, fabulism, surrealism, or supernatural allegory in them. This is far, far from a comprehensive list--these are just some of the things that have influenced me, shaped my thoughts, or inspired me. I am adding to it all the time as I read, watch, listen, study, and learn more! -- Catherine
Poetry
Fiolet & Wing: An Anthology of Domestic Fabulist Poetry edited by Stacey Balkun and Catherine Moore
Apocryphal by Lisa Marie Basile
Soft Science by Franny Choi
tenderling by Emily Corwin
Corinna A-Maying the Apocalypse by Darcie Dennigan
Untitled Film Still Museum by Kara Dorris
Becoming the Villainess by Jeannine Hall Gailey
Even Curses End by Catherine Garbinsky
Ghost Girl by Amy Gerstler
The Hounds of No by Lara Glenum
Poisoned Apples by Christine Heppermann
Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky
Bestiary by Donika Kelly
Banana Palace by Dana Levin
I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl by Karyna McGlynn
blud by Rachel McKibbens
Louder Than Everything You Love by Nichole Rollender
Transformations by Anne Sexton
Crush by Richard Siken
Our Andromeda by Brenda Shaughnessy
The Octopus Museum by Brenda Shaughnessy
Brute by Emily Skaja
Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith
Water for the Cactus Woman by Christine Sloan Stoddard
She Used to be on a Milk Carton by Kailey Tedesco
Fiction
"Tiger Mending" by Aimee Bender
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
"The Excursion" by Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud
"Axolotl" by Julio Cortázar
"Lake Rose" by Janalyn Guo
The Seas by Samantha Hunt
"The Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" by Gabriel García Márquez
The Lunar Chronicles series by Marissa Meyer
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
Beloved by Toni Morrison
"Orange World" by Karen Russell
Creative Nonfiction
"The Crane Wife" by CJ Hauser
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
Happily by Sabrina Orah Mark
Comics, Manga, & Other Image-Text Hybrids
Speak: The Graphic Novel by Laurie Halse Anderson and Emily Carroll
Adorned by Chi by Jacque Aye!, Magus Ato, and Tiana Mone'e
What It Is by Lynda Barry
Through the Woods by Emily Carroll
Stitches by David Small
Sailor Moon by Naoko Takeuchi
The Arrival by Shaun Tan
Film & Animation
Big Fish
Frozen
Frozen II
Howl's Moving Castle
Moana
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Over the Garden Wall
Princess Mononoke
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
Spirited Away
Tangled
Music & Music Videos
"Willows" by Vanessa Carlton (song)
Metropolis: The Chase Suite by Janelle Monáe (album)
"Little Talks" by Of Monsters and Men (video)
"Out of the Woods" by Taylor Swift (video)
"Blown Away" by Carrie Underwood (song)
Video Games
Child of Light
Final Fantasy X
Tales of Vesperia
Visual Artists
Clamp
Frida Kahlo
Alphonse Mucha
Arthur Rackham
Sulamith Wülfing
Criticism, Theory, & Other Nonfiction
"Fairy Tale is Form, Form is Fairy Tale" by Kate Bernheimer
"Becoming the Labyrinth: Negotiating Magical Space and Identity in Puella Magi Madoka Magica" by Sara Cleto and Erin Kathleen Bahl. In Humanities vol. 5, no. 20, 2016
"The Fairy-telling Craft of Princess Tutu: Metacommentary and the Folkloresque" by Bill Ellis. In The Folkloresque: Reframing Folklore in a Popular Culture World, edited by Michael Dylan Foster and Jeffrey A. Tolbert
Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Literary Journals
Fairy Tale Review
Gingerbread House Magazine
Winter Tangerine (in particular, their "Beyond the Breadcrumbs" feature)
Corvid Queen
Websites & Organizations
Poems of the Fantastic and Macabre
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association
Fairy Tale Factory