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. Monica Rowley teaches high school in Brooklyn, NY. Her poetry has appeared in the Irish literary journal The…

OSNABRÜCK STATION TO JERUSALEM by Hélène Cixous
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Osnabrück Station to Jerusalem: A Memoir by Hélène Cixous (New York: Fordham University Press, March 3, 2020; 144 pages; $24.95 hardcover; ISBN 9780823287628). Translated by Peggy Kamuf, foreword by Eva Hoffman. Originally published in French as Gare…

Marsha Balian
Marsha Balian is a self-taught mixed media artist living in the Bay Area. She incorporates found objects and invention in her work and frequently uses intense colors. Stories she hears from people find their way into her art. Her artwork has been shown throughout the Bay Area and in many parts of the country. It…

Vol. VIII #3
This month in WTP: Let there be light in brilliant canvases like the art on our cover, our 2019 Honorable Mentions and so much more. To view more extraordinary issues, visit our WTP Magazine page. click on cover to go to issue Print copy available here.

Vieni
A Dance with a Friend Video by Daniela Lucato Vieni was largely inspired by the poetry of Antonella Sica that address themes of memory, death, and friendship. Daniela Lucato worked with Chiara Franco, a dancer from Padua, Italy. “For every scene we were preparing, I had movements and feelings I wanted to explore. I work…

The Town of Whispering Dolls
Finding Reality in Fiction By Dan Wakefield, WTP Guest Writer The Town of Whispering Dolls by Susan Neville (Tuscalossa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, March 2020; 216 pages; $17.95). Winner of FC2’s Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize. We always hear that “truth is stranger than fiction.” Sometimes fiction conveys a deeper truth. That’s what happens…

Robert D. Kirvel
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. Robert D. Kirvel is a Pushcart Prize (twice) and Best of the Net nominee for fiction. Awards include…

Word by Word, Moon by Moon
“I learned how to love, hate, tease, trick, and warp a word.” A Poem Prompt from Elizabeth Bradfield “Once, when I wanted to jump-start my writing life, I happened to go to a gallery opening. On display was an artist’s 52 paintings of the moon, one each week of the year. Although I didn’t particularly…

Sherry Karver
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. Sherry Karver has had over twenty-five solo exhibitions including at the Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA; The Morris Graves Museum, Eureka,…

An Insane Novel for Insane Times
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Little Constructions: A Novel by Anna Burns (Minneapolis, Minnesota: Graywolf Press, February 18, 2020; 312 pages; $16.00; paperback ISBN 978-1-64445-013-0). First published in Great Britain by Fourth Estate in 2007. “In violence, we forget who we…

WTP Vol. VIII #2
This month in WTP: eye-popping optical art, a bluejay who stole the moon, identity and perceptions, and so much more. To view more extraordinary issues, visit our WTP Magazine page. click on cover to go to issue Print copy available here.

A Classically Schooled Fine Art Photographer
Jasper de Beijer has exhibited in Europe and the United States. His solo exhibitions include The Hague Museum of Photography; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver; Museum Het Domein in Sittard, The Netherlands; the Museum de Hallen Haarlem, The Netherlands; Hamish Morisson Gallery, Berlin; the Empire Project, Istanbul; and Studio d’Arte Cannaviello, Milan. He…