Here’s a list of all the events and publications that we can link you to in the coming weeks.

Events

July 3 at 7:00 PM ET

Fairy Tale Salon – Here is the info for our July Fairy-Tale Salon.

Prompt: Movie Night: THE MUMMY!

Quest: It’s time for another salonnières movie night, and we’re doing a SUMMER BLOCKBUSTER (but folklore style!) We’re coming together to watch the 1990s classic, The Mummy, starring Brendan Fraser at the peak of his heartthrob era and Rachel Weisz as the librarian we all secretly aspire to be. We know it’s not perfect, but we still love it (and we will die on the hill that this movie is, for Evie at least, a feminist triumph… from the 90s no less! We don’t have a lot of those.)

To join us, you’ll log on to the Zoom link the same as usual, we’ll all mute and start the film, then we’ll use the chat there to talk throughout the movie. Please note that we do expect everyone to shout “I… AM A LIBRARIAN!” at the appropriate moment ;).

If you’d like to participate, just make sure that you’re on the Salonnières tier or higher on our Patreon for July!

July 10 at 7:00 PM ET

Book Club – Buckle up for book club this month because we’re reading Hache Pueyo’s novella But Not Too Bold. 

But Not Too Bold is the sapphic Bluebeard retelling that happens when you throw Angela Carter, Mexican Gothic, Gaudi, and a bunch of spiders into a blender. It was originally written in Brazilian Portuguese and translated into English by Pueyo.

We cannot emphasize enough: content warning for spiders. If you cannot do spiders, skip this one!

Here’s the official writeup:

“The Shape of Water meets Mexican Gothic in this sapphic monster romance novella wrapped in gothic fantasy trappings.

The old keeper of the keys is dead, and the creature who ate her is the volatile Lady of the Capricious House⁠—Anatema, an enormous humanoid spider with a taste for laudanum and human brides. Dália, the old keeper’s protégée, must take up her duties, locking and unlocking the little drawers in which Anatema keeps her memories. And if she can unravel the crime that led to her predecessor’s execution, Dália might just be able to survive long enough to grow into her new role.

But there’s a gaping hole in Dália’s plan that she refuses to see: Anatema cannot resist a beautiful woman, and she eventually devours every single bride that crosses her path.”

Here are some of the reviews:

“An intoxicating feast for anyone who has found beauty in the monstrous.”―Cassandra Khaw

“Pueyo weaves an exquisite web of a tale, full of enigmatic characters, eerie atmosphere and all-consuming passion.”―Laura Pohl

“Pueyo knows exactly how to blend darkness and evil with cuteness and gorgeous prose. . . . A master of Latin American dark fiction.”―Renan Bernardo

We will not lie to you, 90% of why we’re reading this one is because Sara read it over the weekend and needs to talk about it. The writing is stunning, the setting is ridiculously amazing Spanish Gothic, and it’s wildly creative. Do we buy the romance? NOPE. Do we care? NOPE. Let’s get into this truly bizarre, lush, fascinating little novella!

If you would like to join us, make sure you’re on the $7+ tier on our Patreon for July!

Current Courses Available

Find Your Fairy Tale Mini-Course ($17) – Find Your Fairy Tale is a bite-sized mini course made to help you connect genuinely with the world of fairy tales and tap into the personal stories that underpin your life – so that you can harness their power or even start to change them. We guarantee academic excellence, dedication to whimsy, and an avenue right into a real sense of everyday enchantment. 

Some people swear by their Enneagram (we’re both 3s) or their Zodiac sign (*waves in Virgo and Scorpio*). We’re all about fairy tales and the insights they reveal.

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Press

We did a delightful interview with Addie Hirschten for the Studio Alchemy podcast! Click here to read about it and listen.

Publications

Our poem “Our Glass Hearts,” based on an obscure but truly magical fairy tale called “The Three Sisters and Their Glass Hearts,” won the 2025 Fairy Tale Magazine poetry contest, and we are still screaming.

We had two poems published last week by two editors that we adore. You can read “A Choir in Gray” (written for our student Melinda) in Eternal Haunted Summer, edited by Rebecca Buchanan, right here. And you can find “Reliable Girls” (a joyful twist on “Diamonds and Toads”) in Worlds of Possibility, edited by Julia Rios, here.

Sara has a new poem, “The Girl Who Wouldn’t Die” in Fairy Tale Review’s Arsenic Issue! You can read more here.

We have a new poem in the Sleeping Beauty issue of Fairy Tale Magazine. You can read our poem “Gifts for Girls” online for free!

We have two poems in Issue #4 of Clarion Poetry Magazine, “A Dress of Paper” and “Snow White and Rose Red II.”