The Woven Tale Press, the web’s premier online literary and fine art magazine, brings together notable artists and writers seeking to share their work more broadly with communities actively in quest of unique voices and compelling perspectives.
Pamela Caughey presents a two-part series on underpainting and taking risks, featuring R&F Pigment Sticks.
Richard Dokey speaks to technology and writing in the modern era and about his new short story collection in our interview with this philosophical writer.
Denitza: Painting “Red Ochre”
Denitza paints her work, “Red Ochre,” on black background in her unique painting style using gloss enamel, acrylic paint, and a favorite brush.
Sara London and Cherene Sherrard discuss her new collection, Grimoire; inherited trauma; recent events; and more.
Rose Masterpol oscillates between a drawn line, animated by color and its own flagellating trail, and a more painterly stroke that provides texture and hue.
Through a single window in her home-based studio in western Maine, Maya Kuvaja gazes out on acres of pine and oak forests and visiting animals.
David Loret de Mola speaks on performance poetry, guerrilla poetry, & how his video Bi-Planetary Culture comes from alien origins.
Jean Edwards spends the day sketching on Moleskine with Urban Sketchers in London.
Susan Cantrick creates digital montages from photographs of her completed paintings to create studies for new works. Behind her work, a fascinating hybrid of the tactile of painting and then the digital.
Based on a poem by Cynthia Manick, the video is an abstract meditation on the body, the feminine, the everyday realities of being young and black, and the fragile relationship between the manmade and the natural.
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The idea for Voice & Vision evolved in our Woven Tale Forum, where members are actively conversing on ways to support one another as writers and artists. These collaborations, where the literary meets the arts, we hope serve as enhancements of these already resonate individual works.
Featured From our Magazine
Cosmos Light from the Void
acrylic, enamel
28” x 28”
By Lynda Stevens
“In my work, I like to explore the tensions between chaos and form—and how chaos can break up stagnant forms into something dynamic, and form can derive beauty from the inchoate.”
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“The Woven Tale Press is quickly becoming a mecca for writers and artists and those who understand the essential middle ground between the two.”
— Beth Kephart, author of Tell The Truth. Make it Matter.
“Discovering The Woven Tale Press was like finding a sparkling gem in the ‘cybershere sandbox.’ It’s presentation of visual and literary arts is a treasure trove of creativity. It is such a wonderful opportunity for those of us looking to join the creative conversation, and to learn from others.”
— Carolyn Land, multi-medium artist
“Even more compelling than its gorgeous layout and sumptuous production quality, is the editorial aesthetic of The Woven Tale Press. Brilliant visual and literary art is presented with exquisite sensitivity. These pages are saturated with color and filled with intoxicating stories and poems. The Woven Tale Press offers genuine art: original, provocative, raw.“
— Sari Friedman, author
“You know that bad feeling you have when you think of all of the great art and writing that are bypassing your attention, escaping your notice? Now we have The Woven Tale Press, one last Hail Mary Pass to catch, one last chance to get the best of what’s about to be missed, and I’m grateful.”
— Beth Ann Fennelly, Mississippi Poet Laureate
“I love The Woven Tale Press. It’s a neat little journal curating the best of contemporary art and literature.”
— Claire Meadows, poet and Editor-in-Chief/Founder of After Nyne Magazine
“What strikes me about The Woven Tale Press is the way themes appear in each issue, without ever being named. The editors are clever and subtle with their juxtapositions of written and visual imagery, so that you have no choice but to make new connections between the works.”