Scheherezade’s Bequest is a tri-annual, online webzine of fiction and poetry in the fairy tale tradition. We publish both original fairy tales and revision of old favorites, and are particularly interested in the more obscure fairy tales that are often overlooked in our Disney-saturated culture.
It was in the 19th century in Western Europe that the fairy tale was normalized into the form in which we best know it today, but that doesn’t mean we limit ourselves to that time or place, to the stories of the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, or Andrew Lang in our retellings. We refuse to overlook the wealth of stories that have their origins elsewhere, and are proud to follow in the footsteps of collectors and anthologists like Angela Carter, Jane Yolen, and Terri Windling in publishing tales inspired by far-flung cultures and diverse sources.
If you are interested in submitting fiction to Scheherezade’s Bequest, you can find our guidelines here.
Image: Scheherazade, Kay Nielsen (1922)