Beauty is a collection of twelve stories arising out of the Magical journeys writing workshops. They are contemporary fairy tales, re-telling, re-imagining and rediscovering what it is to be human. These are stories for adults and children, which offer powerful re-tellings of the familiar tales of our childhood and also new fairy stories in which the idea of magic is revised and explored in the modern world. Here are wicked tales and tales of beauty. Here is what the world might look like if women didn’t need to be rescued, or if we acknowledged the things that are truly monstrous: exploitation, envy, poverty, greed. These are tales shot through with desire and darkness, light and redemption. Fairytales are amongst the first stories we learn about our society and in this collection are twelve new interpretations of what those stories might mean today
Beauty is a collection of twelve stories arising out of the Magical journeys writing workshops. They are contemporary fairy tales, re-telling, re-imagining and rediscovering what it is to be human. These are stories for adults and children, which offer powerful re-tellings of the familiar tales of our childhood and also new fairy stories in which the idea of magic is revised and explored in the modern world. Here are wicked tales and tales of beauty. Here is what the world might look like if women didn’t need to be rescued, or if we acknowledged the things that are truly monstrous: exploitation, envy, poverty, greed. These are tales shot through with desire and darkness, light and redemption. Fairytales are amongst the first stories we learn about our society and in this collection are twelve new interpretations of what those stories might mean today