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Story-telling
One of the interesting things about fairy tales is the way they reinvent themselves. A story can be told over and over again, changing as it moves from place to place, from storyteller to storyteller. Although it is easy to connect Carter L...
Interview: CL Sidell
The Orange & Bee are delighted to publish CL Sydell’s flash fiction narrative, ‘Web of sorrows’ (Issue ten).
CL Sidell grew up playing with toads in the rain and indulging in speculative fiction. She holds a master of arts in both English...
Web of sorrows
We’re delighted to bring you this small tale, a reimagining of one of the less well-known pieces collected and published by the Grimm brothers. The Grimm tale, Das Totenhemdchen (The shroud) is an example of tale type ATU769 The death of a...
Interview: Laurel Benjamin
The Orange & Bee are delighted to publish Laurel Benjamin’s poem, ‘Woman of the sleeping mountain’ (Issue ten).
Laurel Benjamin aligns fairy tales with family traditions, ghosts of relatives, as well as mirror poems that bring back what ha...
Woman of the sleeping mountain
When we first read Laurel Benjamin’s tender, wrenching poem ‘Woman of the sleeping mountain’, our hearts broke a little. This is a powerful, quiet poem about mothers and daughters, heritage and connection, belonging and loss. We’re so pleas...
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This is the shared email account for The Orange & Bee, edited by Carina Bissett and Nike Sulway
Escritor de novelas y relatos cortos. Profesor de escritura creativa. Editor. Adicto irremediable a youtube. Padre del sol y la luna infinitos. Su madre es samurai y su padre calçot. Creo en el poder de las historias.
Writer, reader, teacher, eternal student. Lost child. Hopeless romantic.
Carina Bissett is an award-winning editor, writer, and poet working primarily in the fields of dark fiction and fabulism.
I am a poet, writer, and composer. I have a Master of Music, and compose for film and concerts. My music has premiered across the U.S. and Berlin. Find my poems in Fairy Tale Magazine, Menacing Hedge, The Muleskinner, and Blue Heron Review.
Playing with the intermateriality of storytelling. Writer, fairy-tale scholar, metalsmith, farmer, knitter \ud83d\udeabAI
Laurel Benjamin is the author of Written into the Curve of the Sea's Open Throat (Shanti Arts, 2026), and Flowers on a Train (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, 2025). She invented a secret language with her brother. Read her work at: laurelbenjamin.com
Gemma Church is a sci-fi and fantasy writer. With two physics degrees, she also works as a science writer, mainly telling people about quantum computing. She also has a diploma in creative writing from Cambridge University and a Countdown teapot.
Writer, reader, housing advocate Hammock napper with 30+ years of experience
Monica Louzon (she/her) is a queer USian writer, editor and translator. Her stories, poems, translations, and essays have appeared in over 50 publications. Her story "9 Dystopias" was a Best Microfiction 2023 winner.
Reader & writer of fantasy and science fiction. \ud83d\udcda Words in Clarkesworld, Nature Futures, Factor Four, DSF, & other lovely places. Find me (and my monthly newsletter) at victoriabrun.com.
Tampa Bay native C. L. Sidell grew up playing with toads in the rain and indulging in speculative fiction. A Pushcart, Best of the Net, Dwarf Star Nominee and Rhysling Finalist, her work appears in 34 Orchard, Apparition Lit, Baffling, & others.
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