Expanded Horizons and Rumpled

[keyan_bowes]

The spec-fic magazine, Expanded Horizons, has announced a Fairy-Tale issue and put out a call for submissions. They're thinking of running it as early as September. If you're thinking of contributing, do look at their Mission; they seek stories that fit with that.

They have already accepted my story, The Rumpelstiltskin Retellings, and on their Live Journal, there's a link to Rumpled, the ten-minute movie adaptation by Justin Whitney!

(I should mention that Expanded Horizons will consider reprints and simultaneous submissions. They had no objection to my putting my story on my website prior to their publishing it. I plan to take it down once they do publish it, though.)

ETA: It's been published! In the September issue of Expanded Horizons. And I've taken it off my website. If you want to read it, it's linked above to the magazine publication.

Comments

[csinman.livejournal.com]

Ah, thank you for reminding me! :) I had something for them but it's not cleaned up yet...

[rachel-swirsky.livejournal.com]

That's a disturbingly awesome concept. I say disturbingly because I probably shouldn't stop to write to it.

I've been wanting to do a retelling of Red Riding Hood for a while... I've read a lot of retellings, and people get excited about making the sexual subtext explicit, usually by creating a wolf=pedophile situation. Some of those are pretty good (there's one in the Datlow anthologies that's quite good, for instance), but as with most reinterpretations of fairy tales, I find myself wishing that people wouldn't stop there, but would push one step further. Why do we feel the need to warn young girls of sexual predators disguised as wolves? After much, much repetition, this starts to remind me of the way American culture believes that white girls' sexuality inherently requires suppression and protection. In that context, the violence toward the "wrong" male who comes near her is also suspect. I have some ideas for how to explore those themes, but I suspect it would be the kind of story that would take far too long to write for this.

Come to that, actually, I have a Rapunzel story in mind with LGBT themes, and a Cinderella and a Sleeping Beauty that have to do with class... all pretty long, involved projects.

But maybe something shorter will occur to me in the meantime.

[julieandrews.livejournal.com]

Hrm. I have a Clarion submission story that was inspired by and very loosely based on Beauty and the Beast. I really should go edit that..