I welcome submissions to Gothic Faery Tales.
I accept short stories, poetry, visual art, fashion, videos, podcasts as long as they have a Gothic feel and are based on at least one of the vast selection of fairy tales that have been passed down to us from before we were born.
Themes from folklore are also included in that category, so traditional Gothic loves like vampires and werewolves are also welcome here if they have some new blood in them.
Essays, Interviews, Reviews, Press Releases
Got something interesting to say on the subject, or a book coming out? Please find space here!
Here are some Guidelines:
Stories: Please keep to 10,000 words or less. If a story is very long, it will have to serialized. Send me a note in YOUR PAGES at the top of the blog. That way it won’t get lost in the email. Leave your email address and a little blurb about your story. I will get back to you ASAP.
I Believe in the Oral Tradition
If you want a podcast of your story, you can make it yourself, and I will publish it. If you want me to do it — we’ll talk. If you want someone else to read your podcast for you, that is between you and them. If its good, I will publish it.
Video
If video is your forte, that’s great! I will want to watch it on Youtube, or similar, first to make sure it suits this blog.
Visual Art
As a die hard image junkie, I welcome art and photography if it is Gothic or Faery Tale based. Leave your link under YOUR PAGES found at the top of the blog and I will take a look.
Fashion
From Cinderella, to Puss n’ Boots, we love fashion. Goth fashion is best, or anything Baroque and over the top! Want to show off your original designs with links back to your website? Drop a line under YOUR PAGES at the top of the blog.
There is no pay.
Not yet anyway. This is another place to get exposure, as a result you can expose yourself everywhere else for all I care. Just a link back would be nice so we can all grow as artists in the community together.
Questions?
Leave me a note in YOUR PAGES at the top of the blog.
Let’s have fun!
if posible for you to accept,we’d be able send acquisition of our faery tales gfx novels that have a bohemian,ethnic, gothic flavour.thanking you.best regards.
What have you got? I would be very interested in seeing what you have and posting shorter pieces if I like them for the blog. For novels, I can advertise them on this blog and maybe JV with you on selling them?
Please show me a list for starters and maybe a sample of a short story to get the ball rolling.
Thanks for the offer,
Arlene
Hola, mi nombre es Sabrina y estube buscando por internet, fue entonces que encontre tu blog, el cual me gusto mucho, el cual es bastante agradable para leer. Regreso la proxima semana para leerte de nuevo. Saludos Sabrina
Greetings Gretchen,
Thanks for visiting and bookmarking Nidlongdir! I am glad you enjoy my stories!
It’s so nice to hear from people who visit my web site!
I have also bookmarked Gothic Fairy Tales
and I was wondering if I could submit a story to your site?
This is a short story from the Whispering Library, and you are welcome to use it on Gothic Fairy Tales, or you can go to the Whispering Library and choose a fairy tale you like
The Seeds from Idunn’s Apples
It so happened that the day Idunn was abducted by Loki, she accidently dropped one of her apples out side the gate of AAsgard. Loki wanted to turn her over to the Storm Giant Thiassi, who wanted to obtain possession of her, and of the magic fruit that would give the Gods eternal youth.
A little later a mischievously fairy by the name Blue Fungi Nose picked up the apple simply because it was there, and he was hungry. He had just been thrown out of Alfhiem (now known as Alfenheim) by the God Freyr, for stealing seeds from Freyr’s sunflowers, assaulting a fairy maiden while she was taking a bath, and drinking to much blue fungi brew. He looked at the apple, and decided to cross the rainbow bridge called Bifrost, to go to Midgard for some adventures. On the top of Bifrost he could see a nice spot to eat the apple- If he turned left just after the bridge, there was a nice hill overlooking the sea, so he went there to sit down, and he took his knife to cut the apple into slices, so that he could eat it. The apple was very tasty, but he couldn’t eat all of it, and he could feel a change in his body. He started to age, and in a few hours he was so old that the moss had started to grow on him. He had no idea that it was one of Idunn’s apples he had been eating, and he didn’t know that eating her apples after crossing the Rainbow Bridge Bifrost would cause him his death.
The seeds from the apple started germinating. Some years went by! The seeds had grown into big strong apple trees there on the hill, and one day the apple trees started to bear apples. At the time the apples was ripe and sweet an old woman went by the trees, and sat down to rest in the shadow. She picked an apple from the tree she was resting under, and cut the apple in two half. Much to her surprise she found two small fairy babies inside the apple. It had been her misfortune in life never to get any children, so she started to cry of happiness when she saw the babies. She picked all the apples from the apple trees and carefully cut them into half, to see if she could find more babies. When she was done she had 12 small fairies all wrapped in apple leaves, and put in small cradles she created from tiny twigs. She gathered the apples and carried them back home to her cottage, where she made a lovely sweet apple juice so that she could feed the fairy babies.
The babies grew fast, and became beautiful and strong fairy knights and maidens. They build a castle in the apple tree that they named Apple Hold. The old woman died of old age and happiness, and was laid to rest under the apple tree by her mourning children. For every teardrop they fell a new flower would bloom, and an enchanted garden grew under the apple tree. Apple Hold was built on love and it is said that; inside the Rainbow Tower you will find a bowel of apple seeds. The seeds are placed there so those who are in despair can have a seed to grow their own apple tree of love. If the tree is looked after with tender love, it will bear the apples with fairy babies inside, for you to love!
Have a magic day!
Marianne
PS I am Danish so I apologise for any miss spelling, or if I have put the words in wrong way!
Marianne,
This is beautiful story! Let me keep it for a while. I am going to have a make series for traditional fairy tales collections on here.
Thanks for submitting it. It is very unusual.
I’ll check out you whispering library as well.
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My city newspaper mentioned in a story today that, as a result of the recession, almost everyone is growing fresh produce. Do you think that many families are really growing their own food?
I wish i could but I can’t in my apartment. I really don’t want to live the city any more either. how about you?
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Sorry about the RSS. I used to have an email list but I’m going through changes. The blog is a bit dormant at the moment.
Use the Greet Box- that should work. Thanks for the feedback.