Dante's Heart: Myth, Fairytale, Folklore & Fantasy

This project is believed to be defunct. (December 2012)

About

Dante's Heart: A Journal of Myth, Fairytale, Folklore, and Fantasy offers an online venue for established and new writers and artists to share creative work that explores how myth and fairy tale define and are defined by the human experience(s). We want to celebrate the shock, wonder, bewilderment, suffering, and enchantment of myth, of the fantastic; we want to hear about rivers running with wine and ghosts jumping the Mississippi on motorcycles. We're concerned with the neglect of myth, with the blindness of a culture determined by myths it hasn't thought about; we demand (beg, entreat, scream) that myths be thought about, made and remade, handled with a delicate & angry/sad/ desperate/joyous exuberance. Dante's Heart has no investment in being either traditional or avant-garde, in genre or trans-genre, academic or popular; our whole commitment is to discovery, to surprise or be surprised.

Country of Publication

United States

Publication Medium & Frequency

Electronic Publication Electronic Publication: Unknown publication frequency

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We are interested in but do not limit submissions to retellings of fairy tales or myths, mythopoeic writing with exquisite prose, ghost tales, magical realism or literary enchantment, fantasy, as well as “mainstream” fiction concerned with myth or with the fantastic.

Audience:

Unknown

Genres:

General Subgenres: Cross-Genre, Magic Realism, Slipstream
Fantasy Subgenres: Cross-Genre, Magic Realism, Slipstream

Lengths:

Flash Fiction: Up to 1,000 words.
Short Story: 1,000 - 4,000 words.

Styles:

Literary, Mainstream, Minimalist.

Topics:

None found.

Payment:

No monetary payment No monetary payment.

Submissions:

Method: Electronic submissions.
Reprints: Reprints are NOT allowed.
Simultaneous submissions: Unknown.
Media: Text.

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No boundaries. We are especially interested in brief and minimalist work, however.

Audience:

Unknown

Genres:

General Subgenres: Cross-Genre, Magic Realism, Slipstream
Fantasy Subgenres: Cross-Genre, Magic Realism, Slipstream

Lengths:

Poem: No line limits known.

Poetry Forms:

Short poetry.

Styles:

Literary, Mainstream, Minimalist.

Topics:

None found.

Payment:

No monetary payment No monetary payment.

Submissions:

Method: Electronic submissions.
Reprints: Reprints are NOT allowed.
Simultaneous submissions: Unknown.
Media: Text.

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Last Updated: 22 May 2026