Are you tired of only reading about the “good guys”? Well, here is your chance to turn the spotlight on the villains of fairy tales and folk tales.
Fairytalez wants to hear the other side of the story, the villains behind a so-called “happily ever after”! After all, as they say, even the villain is the hero in their own story. Let’s hear it for the “bad” guys! You may either write a new fairy tale or folk tale with a new original villain character or take one of the classics and write the untold story from the villain’s point of view.
What if Snow White got the evil queen all wrong? Were the “wicked” stepsisters in Cinderella really all that bad, or was Cinderella just obnoxious? Were the bears menaced by Goldilocks or was it the other way around? Join the dark side – and embrace your inner villain/villainess within you!
This writing competition ran from November 22, 2017 to January 3, 2018. The winner was The Lone Wolf by Antonia Tomaszewski, a fresh take on the classic tale The Little Pigs, giving readers a look at the why behind all of that “huffing and puffing,” complete with personalities for each Pig. The runners-up were the following stories:
The Three Starving Bears
Poisoned Fruit is a Terrible Way to Die
Tick Tock Goes the Croc
The First Case: Rapunzel
The Winner received:
- Active promotion across all Fairytalez’s social networks
- A digital winner badge published with your story and on your profile page
- A digital winner badge for your blog or website
- A $200 gift certificate to Amazon.com
The Four finalists received:
- Active promotion across all of Fairytalez’s social networks
- A digital runner-up badge published with your story and on your profile page
- A digital runner-up badge for your blog or website
How to Get Started with Fairytalez’ Writing Competitions
- Register: First, create a profile at Fairytalez.com. Don’t forget to customize it with images, website links and more. There are no fees associated with creating an account nor is there a fee to enter the competitions.
- Upload: Upload your story and put it in the appropriate category.
- Submit: Submit your story (or stories) below for consideration in the writing competition. Stories must be a minimum of 300 words and a maximum of 5000 words. You may submit up to 3 stories.
- Share: Share your story link with all of your friends and family! Stories are eligible once they’ve received 5 likes.
Find even more fairy tales when you read about our previous writing competitions.
Enter the Competition
Submit your story, once uploaded, here. Paste the story URL in the box below.
Entries in Competition
- Evanora , Ruchi Acharya
- Pale White , Hylah Daly
- The Celebrity of Broadway Atlantica , LM Juntarciego
- Ursula's Side of the Story , Naomi Brode
- I, Pandora , Madeline G Hourigan
- Interview at the Gingerbread House , MFC Feeley
- Tick Tock Goes The Croc , Thomas Woodland
- The Tale of the Two Sisters , Ursula Gerhard
- Rapunzel and Alice Gothel , Catherine Assheton-Stones
- The Heart of the Princess of the Forest , Folasade Adegbenro
- The Power of a Daughter's Love , Maria Lightfoot-Boston
- Celindre , Guy Russell
- Poisoned Fruit is a Terrible Way to Die , Rae Leigh
- No One Cooks Like Gaston , Ryan Gannon
- An Unlikely History , Lara Boyce
- Villian is my hero. , Chirayu Writer
- Bedtime story , Sarah Roberts
- The First Case: Rapunzel , Kiara Maharaj
- To Be Deserving , L. T. Forrester
- The wolf, his tummy and the seven little kids , Nicholas Chiu
- Those pesky pigs , Lucia Alesiani
- Scars left open , Ada Pelonia
- Miss Appropriate , Tuere T. S. Ganges
- Do What You Must , Blake Lonero
- Giant Lies: An Ogre's Tale , Mark Simpson
- Losing my Rapunzel , C.K. Gemmell
- Gothel's Odyssey , Cindy Ubah
- The true story of Cinderella , Susanna Bellini
- A Good Night's Sleep , Anne Howkins
- Tinker Bell , Thalia Bell
- Diary entry in a bottle , Shonchari subha
- Off With Their Heads , Maple Skylark
- The Witch and the Horse Thieves , Meg A. Mars
- The Three Starving Bears , Charlotte Williams
- A Bad Day , Radu 'The Ferridge' Diaconescu
- Beanstalk Jack , Jane Dougherty
- Who's Afraid , Jeanette Stampone
- The Sweet House , Alexandra VanHorn
- Shadows Lie , Julieta Ninno
- Fee Fie Fo Phooey! , Tammye Brown
- The Broken King , James Horscroft
- Home Sweet Home , Anon Writer
- The Lone Wolf , Anon Writer
- The Snow Queen , Jane Dougherty
- The Stories of the Passersby , Ionela Cojocaru
- The Goats and Gobbin Saor , Morna Sullivan
- Rapunzel , Reut Barak
- Miss Saint: A Call Sign from Your Personal Demons , Wendell John Ramos
- Pebbles , Geertje Hoogenboom
- The Bodies of Fools , Makua Ifediora
- Impossible , Fran Laniado
- Sweet, little Red , Safa Ali
- Drowned Sorrows , George Smith
- The Fox and the Jay , Madison Lucas
- Bread and Wine , Tristan Deeley
- The Wicked Queen Grimhilde , Victoria Morris
- Dust and Glass. , Bryony Reid
- Horrible, Hideous, Hiding Hood , Shonchari subha
- The Three Bears and not so Goldilocks , Hayley Patterson
- Sweet Intentions , Justin Chung
- Poor Unfortunate Soul , Bethany Brociek
- The Demon in the Stepmother , Maddie Myers
- The "Seven" Dwarfs , Shea Brewer
- Secretes revealed: Sleeping Beauty , Shonchari subha
- Gem's Adventure , Rylee Bunner
- Becoming , Rey Balor
- Justifiable , Jack Stark
- Why I left her in the tower , Diana Beltran
- Misstep Mother , molly cardenas
- Green Woman , Megan Nair
- Elle and the Ribbon , Ryan Moriarty
- Philip and His Good Deeds , Marjorie Ayen
- The Knot in the Thread , Alice Nuttall
- Served Cold , Kathy Wood
- The Beanstalk , Chris Leaver
- Misunderstood: The Truth Revealed , Devyn Hightower
- Charm Bracelet , Sydni Uplinger
- The Beast Within , Claire Harding