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Tag: Retellings
Shakespeare, but Make it Queer!: Retelling a Classic Play and My Love/Hate Relationship with William Shakespeare, a guest post by Emma K. Ohland
Shakespeare’s greatness can live on, but we can also give space to new voices - and both can happen at the exact same time with the power of a retelling.
Book Review: The Song of the Swan by Karah Sutton, Pauliina Hannuniemi (Illustrator)
Readers who love fairy tales and retellings and those with no knowledge of the source material alike will enjoy this look at wishes, deceptions, and true treasures.
Subverting Fairy Tale Tropes in Traditional Folktales, a guest post by Clar Angkasa
The narrative you’re exposed to doesn’t have to dictate how you live your life. If you don’t like it, you can change it. If there’s something missing, fill in the gaps.
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What Makes a Story a Fairy Tale? A guest post by Emma Steinkellner
There might not be one answer, and that’s okay! I think fairy tales are about the questions and the exploration.
Strange Unearthly Things: Jane Eyre Revisited, Reimagined—Reborn, a guest post by Kelly Creagh
I wanted to accomplish many things with my retelling of Jane Eyre, which would include recasting Jane herself—the character who taught me as a teen that, no matter who you are or where you come from, your worth is not assigned by anyone outside of you.
“Do I Need to Read Jane Austen Before I Read Your Books?” A guest post by Tirzah Price
Reading the classics is hard for some people. For a lot of people. And a lot of people simply won’t pick them up. That’s okay.
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We Have Always Been Here; We Always Will Be, a guest post by Kate Fussner
Growing up, I loved fairy tales and Greek myths. As a young queer person, I was keenly aware of how LGBTQIA+ characters never appeared in these stories.
Sister Acts, a guest post by Amanda Sellet
Instead of retelling the plot of Louisa May Alcott’s iconic novel, this chaotic homage takes a sideways approach, evoking (and poking fun at) the original while meditating on the power of stories – the ones we tell ourselves, and those imposed on us by others.
In the Haunted Glen: Finding the Middle Grade in “Goblin Market,” a guest post by Diane Zahler
I struggled for several years to find a way to do “Goblin Market” justice, while still respecting my audience.
The Ghost of the Pied Piper, a guest post by S. A. Patrick
There are things from our earliest childhood that haunt us. For me, there’s always been one particular bogeyman, a ghost I’ve never quite put to rest – the Pied Piper of Hamelin. We all know the story: the town of Hamelin is overrun by rats, and who should come along but a stranger dressed in […]
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