Australian Fairy Tale Society

Once Upon A Time…

Skip to content

Home
Activities
Membership
Shop
Blog
Contact
- Contact form
- Privacy & Terms of Use

Search

Search for:

Protected: Ezine: Issue No. 8 – Mermaids & Selkies

This content is password protected. To view it please enter your password below:

Password:

Search for:

AFTS on Facebook

AFTS on Facebook

Instagram

The Australian Fairy Tale Society’s 2023 conference Cottage, Cauldron, Castle: Power and Place in Fairy Tales, is June 24-25 in Sydney. Applications to present are open til March 11, so submit your proposal for a talk, performance, panel discussion, display, workshop etc at australianfairytalesociety.org/2023/02/08/call-for-submissions-2023-AFTS-conference 💜🐸 xx

Posted @withrepost • @sereneconneeley One of my favourite things about being part of the Australian Fairy Tale Society is the wonderful, talented members and their gorgeous co-creations – which is one of the aims of the Society, to spark magical new projects and collaborations inspired by the stories we investigate. Author Sophie Masson and illustrator and artist Lorena Carrington created the gorgeous book French Fairy Tales, and this year they started Pardalote Press, a tiny press making small surprising things. It was a pleasure to help crowdfund their first two releases, the book Bird’s Eye View and the sweet Wayfarer card deck, which can inspire your own creations.

It’s only three weeks until Book Fair Australia, a new festival celebrating books of all genres as well as storytelling, art and diversity. There are workshops, panels, talks, readings, storytelling and more!

While D'Aulnoy was the one to coin the term 'fairy tales' in 1690 and Straparola included 13 fairy tales in his book 'Pleasant Nights' in 1555, it was Giambattista Basile (pronounced Bah-seal-ay) who wrote the first book of fairy tales, The Tale of Tales, or The Pentamerone, published posthumously in 1634-6. This book contains some of the earliest printed versions of well-loved stories such as Puss In Boots and Sleeping Beauty...but our November fairy tale is a little more obscure - Verde Prato (Green Meadow), or The Three Sisters.

At #afts2022brisbane Jo Henwood inspired in 'A history of Australian fairy tales' and our keynote panel: "Australian Fairy Tales: Flesh or Fossil?" Stay tuned for 'Salonline' - a web series about the 17th Century French Fairy Tale Salons, with Jo, Eliane Morel and Alyssa Curtayne.

Welcome Bernard to #afts2022brisbane. Keen to hear how your travels (and the kitty piano) influence your sound design and illustration. Thanks too to GU Film School for supporting the conference.

Follow us on social media

View austfairytales’s profile on Facebook
View AusFairyTaleSoc’s profile on Twitter
Instagram

Follow Blog via Email

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Email Address:

Recent Posts

Welcome, Dr Michelle Smith – our 2023 keynote!
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS, 2023 AFTS Conference
Announcing Salonline!
AFTS eZine Issue 11: Magical Transformations
Voting closing for the 2022 AFTS Award

Archives

(c) 2014-2022 Australian Fairy Tale Society ABN 76 882 082 385 - All Rights Reserved

Follow Following
- Australian Fairy Tale Society
- Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.