ENCHANTED CONVERSATION HAS A NEW SITE: WWW.FAIRYTALEMAGA ZINE.COM

Our new site is under construction, but you should look there for all submission information. This site will be retained as an archive of volume one.This year will be very exciting. We are paying...

Enchanted Conversation Will Soon Have new Web Address

www.fairytalemagazine.com will be the new address for Enchanted Conversation. The name on the actual site will be Enchanted Conversation: A Fairy Tale Magazine. Submissions will be open starting...

EC It Is A Changin!

The small change is that we are working on a Facebook page.The big one is that we have found fairy godparents for 2011. These good fairies are our co-publishers, Julia and Gilbert Caroff. Thanks to...

We Have Our Winners For The Hansel and Gretel Contest!

Thanks to all who entered. Youll find a poem by Amanda C. Davis and a story by John Pazdziora below. As usual, the competition was stiff and deciding on winners was tough. We also have a bonus...

Hansel and Gretel Recipes -- The Kids Are Not For Dinner! By Cecelia Myers

oor Hansel and Gretel. If not for their ingenuity and quick-thinking it may have been them in that oven. This issues recipes are simple, kid-friendly and tasty to the pickiest palate. Hansel and...

Contest Winner: Duck, By Amanda C. Davis

quack quackdis lake sure is nice, jaoh look, a little fräuleinthink Ill schvim on over andHOLY QUACKvot she jump on my back forvell okayguess Ill just schvim to de other sideshes a skinny thing...

Contest Winner: Outcasts Tale, By John P. Pazdziora

Editors Note: Johns tale is complex, and if I am guessing right, mixes a touch of Andersens "The Ugly Duckling," with the "duck" from "Hansel and Gretel." I liked the community setting of the ducks...

Dont Forget, We Have A Writing Contest Going On!

Here are the details for the current contest: Prizes of $25 Amazon gift certificates will be awarded to two writers or poets -- so either kind of work is welcome. Two prizes total will be awarded....

Enchanted Conversation: The Hansel And Gretel Issue

Hooray! The issue is finally up! It took many a long hour and overcoming a sisters health crisis (shes much better!), but here are the stories. They are dark, funny, thought provoking, enigmatic --...

Little Hans, By Erika Tracy

y the time Little Hans came along, Greta’s mother was “just about babied out.” Greta wasn’t. She was perfectly happy to be the big sister for a change, and liked being the ninth of ten much better...

The White Bird, By Eric Pazdziora

Nobody saw when the white bird first came to the cottage by the forest. The father heard it first as it sat by the chimney like a ray of sun and sang with words he couldn’t quite understand....

A Fathers Weakness, By Olivia Arieti

Perhaps, the woodcutter belonged to a fairy tale, but his actions were selfishly human. As a matter of fact, he was desperate and full of remorse for he had purposely led his children, Hansel and...

About Roses, Alexandra Seidel

Come, dear brother mine they say in the woods, there grow roses let’s go into the woods, oh brother with wide eyes that are thirsting for a scarlet that doesn’t fade to purpled flesh let us go...

Two Sides to Every Story, By Janet Bucklew

This morning, as I washed my dirty clothing, a voice rang out though the clearing around my cottage. I looked up, and there stood my two children. They were covered in dirt and a substance that...

A Girls Liberation, By Paula Jones

"Water," Hansel said as he plopped down at the kitchen table, all sweaty and smelly from helping Father chop firewood since the break of dawn. His muddy shoes dripped onto the floor that had taken...

Sugarcoated, By Tahlia Merrill

"Megs?” Shawn’s voice drifted down the basement stairs. “I got the peanut butter!” Megan wrenched out the duffle bag she’d been searching for and hefted it over her shoulder. Her spirits sank. How...

Broken, By Gerri Leen

Father has changed. I dont just mean the way he looks, all dressed in finery, paid for by the jewels we stole from the witchs house. I mean inside, something is...broken.Hansel says Father feels...

The Blacksmiths Children, By Ben Langhinrichs

In a small village alongside a great forest there lived a blacksmith and his wife. Although the years had passed, they had no children. They lived a quiet life, but the woman often sighed deeply,...

Into The Forest and Through The Woods (The Song of Hansel), By Wynne Huddleston

Into the forest and through the woods,mother makes us go.But I drop bread crumbs,because I’m not dumb,and soon we’ll be back home.Into the forest and through the woods,we cannot find the trail.The...

Cooking Children! With Witch Wanda, By Samuel Valentino

“Is it on yet?” asked the Witch, scurrying in the hovel door.“You’re just in time!” said the other. “The crystal ball is warming up now!”The two excitedly sat down around the glowing orb.“Did you...

Sugar Coated Dreams, By Loralie Hall

he cloying smell of sickly-sweet gingerbread permeates my senses andcoats my tongue. Traces of cinnamon crawl across my skin, the oncewelcome flavor burning the back of my throat each time I...

The Schwarzwald Incident, By Laura Garrison

Several months ago, deep in the heart of the Black Forest, a party of hunters discovered a crumbling cottage that had been constructed almost exclusively from edible materials. Upon exploring the...

The Trouble With Candy Houses, By Heather Talty

This is the thing people do not seem to understand: it is never okay to eat someone else’s house. There is just no excuse for it, okay? I mean, I don’t go around gnawing on bricks or vinyl siding,...

Things That Cannot Be Eaten, By Jazz Sexton

The first thing to dowas clear out the pearlsand rubies, sapphires, and diamondsshe left behind a decade ago.Gretel swept the treasuresinto piles according to weight.She sorted them into boxesand...

Whats Up With Issue?

Besides the fact the this sight has so many problems now that I can barely post this, one of my sisters had a heart attack on Friday. I am not even at home. She is doing better, thank you. I will...

Working On Issue Four

We are putting Issue Four together for EC, but because we are so very busy with our "real" jobs, we are not doing it as fast as we hoped. Fear not, it will be published in October.Next year,...

Hansel and Gretel -- Italian Style

Nennillo and Nennella By Giambattista Basile "Hansel and Gretel" is one of the many well-known fairy tales with numerous variations. This particular version has no gingerbread House, but it does...

Selections For the Hansel and Gretel Issue Have Been Made

Wow! Was that ever hard. I mean, of course, the selection process for the "Hansel and Gretel" issue. Remember, we could only pick 15 submissions. We turned away submissions that would have made it...

About Hansel and Gretel Issue Submissions

We are hard at work reading the many submissions we received for the "Hansel and Gretel" edition. We are diligently trying to provide a balance in content and perspective.We can only pick 15...

Winner For Writing Contest Promotion IS: