# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Fairy Tale Salon Night: Radical Retellings
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 13 Dec, 2025 at 07:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Fairy tale writer Kathlene Postma and her band of tale-spinning students from Pacific University take on traditional European fairy tales.

This modern fairy tale salon group will share some surprises hidden in ancient tales and read from their own radical retellings.

Their for-adults stories challenge what we’ve been told about the characters in old favorites like “Little Red Riding Hood,” “Cinderella,” “Snow White,” “The Little Mermaid,” “Beauty in the Beast,” and “Sleeping Beauty.”

What happens if the wolf is hunted by Little Red? Is the stepmother in Snow White truly up to no good? What if Ariel is a stalker? What if Beauty is a boy?

These creative retellings pose questions about gender, humans, animals, love, hate and, of course, magic.

Kathlene “Kat” Postma is a professor at Pacific University where she teaches creative writing and literature, including fairy tale studies, mythology, and folklore. Her work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Los Angeles Review, Hawai’i Review, ZYZZYVA, Willow Springs, Blood Orange Review, Green Mountains Review, and numerous other magazines. She has written a collection of fairy tales for adults entitled The Keys to Her Own Kingdom and is crafting a historical novel that runs wild with the fairy tales of seventeenth-century France. Kathlene is editor of New Ground Books, an imprint of Pacific University Press.

Interested in more radical retellings?

Books that rebel: The Merry Spinster by Mallory Ortberg, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi, Kissing the Witch by Emma Donoghu, The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey, The Witch’s Kiss by Emma Donaghu, The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy.

Arrive at 6:30 p.m. to grab a snack or drink. The event will start at 7:00 p.m.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/portland/fairy-tale-salon-night-radical-retellings/200029336099749
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, contests, workshops, music, trips-adventures, entertainment
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 2

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Portland
- **state**: OR
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 1755 SW Jefferson St., Portland, OR, United States, Oregon 97201
- **lat**: 45.51806
- **long**: -122.69242
- **full address**: 1755 SW Jefferson St., Portland, OR, United States, Oregon 97201

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Fairy Tale Salon Night: Radical Retellings being held?
  - **A:** Fairy Tale Salon Night: Radical Retellings takes place on Sat, 13 Dec, 2025 at 07:00 pm to Sat, 13 Dec, 2025 at 07:00 pm at 1755 SW Jefferson St., Portland, OR, United States, Oregon 97201.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Fairy Tale Salon Night: Radical Retellings?
  - **A:** Fairy Tale Salon Night: Radical Retellings is organized by BOLD Coffee & Books.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Fairy Tale Salon Night: Radical Retellings is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Portland, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Fairy Tale Salon Night: Radical Retellings sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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