You will meet fearless princesses, a new kind of wolf lurking in the concrete jungle, and an independent Gretel who can bring down monsters on her own.Ĭomplete with beautifully hand-drawn illustrations by Gill herself, Fierce Fairytales is an empowering collection of poems and stories for a new generation. Instead, lines blur between heroes and villains. Gill has published Your Soul Is A River (2016), Wild Embers: Poems of rebellion, fire and. I would rather be my own alone, instead of having a love that is this lonely.' 14.

Her work was rejected 137 times for publication. 'I am tired of loving you in all the ways you choose not to love me. Gill's work was first published when she was 12 years old. In this book, gone are the docile women and male saviors. She has been described as one of the most successful Instapoets, and one of the most exciting young writers working today.

Through her gorgeous reimagining of fairytale classics and spellbinding original tales, she dismantles the old-fashioned tropes that have been ingrained in our minds. Traditional fairytales are rife with cliches and gender stereotypes: beautiful, silent princesses ugly, jealous, and bitter villainesses girls who need rescuing and men who take all the glory.īut in this rousing new prose and poetry collection, Nikita Gill gives Once Upon a Time a much-needed modern makeover. Nikita Gill’s Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul is a book about Once upon a time but in a different way. Poet, writer, and Instagram sensation Nikita Gill returns with a collection of fairytales poetically retold for a new generation of women.

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