» amy morgan http://www.writefairytales.com/blog Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:26:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= On Happiness http://www.writefairytales.com/blog/2010/03/on-happiness-2/ http://www.writefairytales.com/blog/2010/03/on-happiness-2/#comments Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:54:30 +0000 amyleighmorgan http://www.writefairytales.com/blog/2010/03/eve-ensler-on-happiness/ What makes us happy? How do we find satisfaction in this crazy world? Eve Ensler shares her thoughts about happiness and the power of narrative.

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Excerpt:

FTNH: Why did you start the Fairy Tale Factory? What prompted the idea?

AMY: …I…hope, in my more optimistic moments, that this class will give people some new tools to cope with hard times. I hope to inspire people, to encourage them to trust their own voices, and to help them connect with beauty in the world and in themselves. I especially want to help people find beauty in the parts of themselves that seem dark and scary. Like that Rilke quote about all our dragons really being princesses just waiting for us to be brave.

Read the whole thing.

Thing the second:

Fairy tale fan Lisa Cote sent me a link to the animated version of Oscar Wilde’s story, “The Happy Prince.” Beautiful stuff. Thanks, Lisa!

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You’re welcome.

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Here is the latest call for submissions:

I just wanted to let you know about New Fairy Tales, the online magazine I run, as some of your participants might be interested in submitting their original fairy tales to us. We’re an illustrated magazine with an audio collection as well and we only publish new and original tales rather than retellings.

It’s all run on a voluntary basis, so unfortunately we can’t pay, but we do ask readers to consider making a small donation to my local children’s hospice. It’s a good showcase for the writers’ and illustrators’ work and it helps raise money for a good cause. We’ve published three issues so far and the deadline for submissions to Issue 4 is the 20th October.

There’s lots of info on the site but if you’d like to know anything else feel free to get in touch.

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Check it out. (She even published a photograph of me looking toothy and windswept!)

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All credit for this discovery goes to Noise to Signal.

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