'A bulging-eyed, forest-green frog perches on the branch of a gumtree with an azure sky behind him, a jaunty golden crown atop his head, and four letters resting at his webbed feet: AFTS. This stunning logo by fantasy artist Regan Kubecek belongs to the Australian Fairy Tale Society, established in 2013, by a passionate group of readers, storytellers, performers, academics, writers, poets, artists, musicians, teachers, and librarians dedicated to exploring fairy tales in the Australian context. The society’s ambitious objectives include collecting original Australian fairy tales, adaptations, and criticism; facilitating new fairy-tale works (literary, visual, musical, and performative); and increasing public awareness of the value of fairy tales in or about Australia (“About the AFTS”). Despite its status as a national not-for-profit organization, however, the story of how the AFTS came to fruition, and the numerous contributions it has made to Australian literary studies over the past eight years, is little known outside fey circles.' (Introduction)
