A Wintry Morning Drive

A Wintry Morning Drive

Enjoy our WTP Spotlights, notable selections featuring artists and writers from our Woven Tale Press magazine. To read the issue in full subscribe and you can also register on our site to enjoy our archive. Joseph Hurka attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and has published his fiction in numerous literary quarterlies. His memoir, Fields of Light: A Son Remembers…

Exploration of Color

Exploration of Color

Enjoy our WTP Spotlights, notable selections featuring artists and writers from our Woven Tale Press magazine. To read the issue in full subscribe and you can also register on our site to enjoy our archive. Alayne Spafford received a Bachelor of Fine Arts with honors from the University of Saskatchewan. After studying textiles at Concordia University and the…

Sag Harbor Studio: A Sculptor and Cabinet Maker

Sag Harbor Studio: A Sculptor and Cabinet Maker

Inside the Studio with Mark Webber Inside the Studio offers a behind-the-scenes peek into the work environments of WTP artists, as well as insight into their creative process within these resonate spaces. See Mark Webber’s work in WTP Vol. VIII #6. By Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer More than twenty years ago, sculptor Mark Webber and his…

The Pursuit of Home

The Pursuit of Home

Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor A Place of Exodus: Home, Memory, and Texas by David Biespiel (Portland, Oregon: Kelson Books, September 30, 2020; 202 pages; $20.00 paperback: ISBN 978-0-9827838-5-6; distributed by SPD). “One is always at home in one’s past….” —Vladimir Nabokov,…

Pandemic Studio Renovation: How One Artist is Coping

Pandemic Studio Renovation: How One Artist is Coping

Inside the Studio with Joe Hedges Inside the Studio offers a behind-the-scenes peek into the work environments of WTP artists, as well as insight into their creative process within these resonate spaces. See Joe Hedges’ work in WTP Vol. VIII #4. By Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer For a few years, Joe Hedges was fortunate to have…

Character Development

Character Development

Shoptalk: A Prose Central Series By DeWitt Henry, Prose Editor I evolved shoptalk or notebook sheets during my teaching of fiction workshops, which proved helpful to me and to students.  I asked them to ask themselves about character, plot, setting, dialogue, sensory imagery, sentimentality, translation, simultaneous actions and other aspects of craft.  But foremost of…