How To Write Mythology Retellings with Alicia King Anderson, Ph.D., Begins August 19
8-week class taught live, online via Zoom
Tuesdays, August 19 – October 7, 2025
7:30 - 9:00 pm ET (NYC Time)
$115 Paid Patreon Members / $145 General Admission
All classes will be recorded for students who cannot attend
Folk and fairy tales have been a form of entertainment, instruction, and healing since before recorded history, and they continue to shape cultures. Prior to the solidifying of fairy tales in written and cinematic form, fairy tales were part of an oral tradition, regularly updated and changed in response to the instincts of the storyteller or the world around it.
The power of folk tales and fairy tales still resides within us. Telling and re-telling fairy tales can lead to our own self-discovery. They can also serve as commentary on shifting social mores, and express complicated emotional information about our current realities and challenges.
In this class, we will define what makes a fairy tale a fairy tale, and the elements that bring them to life (and why they sometimes fall flat). Using the key rules and responsibilities shared by storytellers across many traditions, we will learn how to deconstruct a tale in order to retell it, and to make it our own. Resources, materials, and tools will provided to empower students to continue writing fairy tales after the course is over.
After laying the theoretical groundwork, classes will get more hands-on. We will workshop ideas together in real-time, so students can see the process in action and ask questions throughout. The class will offer a space to workshop and discuss drafts of students’ own fairy tales, with the final session dedicated to sharing more polished work.
Students will have access to a virtual classroom that will include an archive of all videos, additional resources for homework between sessions, as well as links and downloads of supporting materials and suggested reading.
Alicia King Anderson has a Ph.D. in Mythological Studies and Depth Psychology. Her dissertation on The Storyteller Archetype explores the responsibilities of storytellers. She is a mythologist and instructor based in the Land of Enchantment. Alicia’s fictional works and fairy tale retellings have been published in seven anthologies.
Images: Pallas Athene, Gustav Klimt, 1898; Oedipus and the Sphinx, Gustave Moreau, 1864 (detail)
8-week class taught live, online via Zoom
Tuesdays, August 19 – October 7, 2025
7:30 - 9:00 pm ET (NYC Time)
$115 Paid Patreon Members / $145 General Admission
All classes will be recorded for students who cannot attend
Folk and fairy tales have been a form of entertainment, instruction, and healing since before recorded history, and they continue to shape cultures. Prior to the solidifying of fairy tales in written and cinematic form, fairy tales were part of an oral tradition, regularly updated and changed in response to the instincts of the storyteller or the world around it.
The power of folk tales and fairy tales still resides within us. Telling and re-telling fairy tales can lead to our own self-discovery. They can also serve as commentary on shifting social mores, and express complicated emotional information about our current realities and challenges.
In this class, we will define what makes a fairy tale a fairy tale, and the elements that bring them to life (and why they sometimes fall flat). Using the key rules and responsibilities shared by storytellers across many traditions, we will learn how to deconstruct a tale in order to retell it, and to make it our own. Resources, materials, and tools will provided to empower students to continue writing fairy tales after the course is over.
After laying the theoretical groundwork, classes will get more hands-on. We will workshop ideas together in real-time, so students can see the process in action and ask questions throughout. The class will offer a space to workshop and discuss drafts of students’ own fairy tales, with the final session dedicated to sharing more polished work.
Students will have access to a virtual classroom that will include an archive of all videos, additional resources for homework between sessions, as well as links and downloads of supporting materials and suggested reading.
Alicia King Anderson has a Ph.D. in Mythological Studies and Depth Psychology. Her dissertation on The Storyteller Archetype explores the responsibilities of storytellers. She is a mythologist and instructor based in the Land of Enchantment. Alicia’s fictional works and fairy tale retellings have been published in seven anthologies.
Images: Pallas Athene, Gustav Klimt, 1898; Oedipus and the Sphinx, Gustave Moreau, 1864 (detail)
8-week class taught live, online via Zoom
Tuesdays, August 19 – October 7, 2025
7:30 - 9:00 pm ET (NYC Time)
$115 Paid Patreon Members / $145 General Admission
All classes will be recorded for students who cannot attend
Folk and fairy tales have been a form of entertainment, instruction, and healing since before recorded history, and they continue to shape cultures. Prior to the solidifying of fairy tales in written and cinematic form, fairy tales were part of an oral tradition, regularly updated and changed in response to the instincts of the storyteller or the world around it.
The power of folk tales and fairy tales still resides within us. Telling and re-telling fairy tales can lead to our own self-discovery. They can also serve as commentary on shifting social mores, and express complicated emotional information about our current realities and challenges.
In this class, we will define what makes a fairy tale a fairy tale, and the elements that bring them to life (and why they sometimes fall flat). Using the key rules and responsibilities shared by storytellers across many traditions, we will learn how to deconstruct a tale in order to retell it, and to make it our own. Resources, materials, and tools will provided to empower students to continue writing fairy tales after the course is over.
After laying the theoretical groundwork, classes will get more hands-on. We will workshop ideas together in real-time, so students can see the process in action and ask questions throughout. The class will offer a space to workshop and discuss drafts of students’ own fairy tales, with the final session dedicated to sharing more polished work.
Students will have access to a virtual classroom that will include an archive of all videos, additional resources for homework between sessions, as well as links and downloads of supporting materials and suggested reading.
Alicia King Anderson has a Ph.D. in Mythological Studies and Depth Psychology. Her dissertation on The Storyteller Archetype explores the responsibilities of storytellers. She is a mythologist and instructor based in the Land of Enchantment. Alicia’s fictional works and fairy tale retellings have been published in seven anthologies.
Images: Pallas Athene, Gustav Klimt, 1898; Oedipus and the Sphinx, Gustave Moreau, 1864 (detail)