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Modern Grimmoire: Contemporary Fairy Tales, Fables & Folklore
Anthology featuring 36 writers and artists, including literary prize-winner Michael Harris Cohen, author of The Ex-Court Painter, Goya, and the Princess, and artistic prize-winner Mandy Altimus Pond, for her photograph, Not Even the Woodsmen Could Save Her.
Two hundred years ago, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm—better known as The Brothers Grimm—published their collection to ensure that the various German fables, tales and folklore of their age and before would not die out. Modern Grimmoire: Contemporary Fairy Tales, Fables & Folklore is a literary anthology in the Grimm persuasion.
Awaiting you inside are the collected works of thirty-six emerging authors and artists from around the world. Through short fiction, poetry and artwork, you’ll meet a talking cat-girl and a girl that talks to cats; librarians like you’ve never imagined and royalty like you always have; an ex-court painter, an all too persuasive frog, and an out-of-work wolfman.
Some twist and twine their happily-ever-after predecessors in inventive ways; others craft entirely new magical faces and places. All collected, the anthology is ripe with sticky sweet revenge, altogether timely fates, and all-conquering (and conquesting) love.
“The king summoned the ex-court painter at dawn: Come to the palace straight away with clothes for a fortnight. Leave brushes, paints and easel. Everything will be arranged later.”
Thus begins The Ex-Court Painter, Goya, and The Princess, an exquisite tale of unexpected love from anthology literary prize recipient Michael Harris Cohen. Together with his thirty-five cohorts, Modern Grimmoire has all of the makings of your favorite tales, Grimm and otherwise: the magic and mischief; the savagery and anticipation; the romance and cruelty; the heroism and symbolism; and the entertainment and enlightenment.
Mona Awad (Providence, RI)
The Wolfman’s New Gig
Catee Baugh (Alexandria, VA)
The Wished-For
Tim Belden (Canton, OH)
Once, I was Avedon
Danielle Bellone (Austin, TX)
Post-Ridinghood Red
Amanda Block (Edinburgh, U.K.)
The Mirror Child
Angela Buck (Denver, CO)
Bring It, Bernadette
Simon P. Clark (Old Bridge, NJ)
The Storyteller’s Jig
Michael Harris Cohen (Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria)
♥ Anthology Literary Prize Recipient ♥
The Ex-Court Painter, Goya, and The Princess
Paul Crenshaw (Greensboro, NC)
The Library
Kimberly Duede (Chicago, IL)
Through the Diamond Blues
Steven Ehret (Cuyahoga Falls, OH)
They Say Once the Trees Begin To Tremble It Is Too Late
Danielle Fontaine (Jarrell, TX)
Bottle
J. M. R. Harrison (Harpers Ferry, WV)
Shelter for the Moon
Joyce Winters Henderson (Memphis, TN)
Misery and Blue
John Kiste (New Philadelphia, OH)
Henry’s Tale
David Kolinski-Schultz (Canton, OH)
The Music Box
Maude Larke (Dijon, France)
Persuasion
Clayton Lister (Hexham, Northumberland, U.K.)
The Black Widow
Carlos F. Mason Wehby (South Hadley, MA)
Arowana
Colleen Michaels (Beverly, MA)
The Pea Defends His Position
Erin T. Mulligan (Canton, OH)
The Persistence of Uala
Jason Daniel Myers (Bath, OH)
Catspaw
Joann Oh (Colorado Springs, CO)
Bury Me in Faerie
Elodie Olson-Coons (Rodemack, France)
Fish
Julia Patt (Chestertown, MD)
Night People, In Summer
Mandy Altimus Pond (Massillon, OH)
♥ Anthology Art Prize Recipient ♥
Not Even the Woodsmen Could Save Her
Ariana Quiñónez (Bakersfield, CA)
Josef Koudelka’s Unicycle
Tay Sanchez (Cary, NC)
Something Gold
Sarah Elizabeth Schantz (Boulder, CO)
Detours: A Suburban Fairy Tale
Alex Stein (Boulder, CO)
Starlight!
Michael Wasteneys Stephens (Athens, GA)
Not One But Many
Cheryl Stiles (Marietta, GA)
Gourmaundeth
Samuel Valentino (Westwood, MA)
Hans My Hedgehog and Sleeping Beauty’s Mother-in-Law
Erin Virgil (Goldon, CO)
Four Grimm Tales, Revisited
Jennifer Whitaker (Greensboro, NC)
Aubade
Sarah Wilson (Anchorage, AK)
Isle in Man
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