Feathertale Review, still online, now on paper

The quirky, sometimes hilarious virtual magazine Feathertale Review has taken corporeal form as the premier issue of its print annual is now on sale. The 68-page annual is a collection of original humour from Graham Roumieu (Me Write Book), Robert Munsch (Love You Forever) and two-dozen writers, poets, and illustrators. The magazine specializes in short fiction, cartoons and poetry.

Feathertale describes itself as "a high- and low-brow magazine that sits well on your coffee table or next to your toilet to be enjoyed daily or weekly, depending on the frequency with which you drink coffee or tend to your internal plumbing." It's for sale from the magazine's online store or (in Toronto) from Pages or Swipe.

The articles include A Dip in Hemingway’s Pool, by Richard Taylor, A Select Bibliography of William Shakespeare’s Plays in a Series of Haiku, poet Lisa Xing’s imagination at its best, (King Lear: I was dumb, gave land / to two daughters. They in turn / turned on me. Bitches…) plus writing and cartoons by familiar feathertale.com contributors such as Iain Marlow, Ernie Scott, Matt Goerzen, Kamila Mlynarczyk.

Feathertale comes from the agitated imaginations of Brett Popplewell (editor) and Lee Wilson (art director). Popplewell does his end from London (Eng.) and Wilson works in Toronto.