Forever After: Angela Carter and the Reinvention of the Fairy Tale

This event took place on 18 January 2024

Kelly Link, Marina Warner and Terri Windling, with Amal El-Mohtar

The British writer Angela Carter created some of the greatest reworkings of traditional tales, transforming them with subversive ribaldry, extraordinary imagery, eroticism and sly humour in The Bloody Chamber (1979) and other masterpieces.

Our panel explores the nature of the fairy tale tradition and its ongoing power. Two leading experts on myth and storytelling, Marina Warner and Terri Windling, are joined by author Kelly Link, whose recent White Cat, Black Dog was her own take on fairy stories. Chaired by acclaimed writer Amal El-Mohtar, the New York Times's fantasy columnist.