Merridawn Duckler is a writer from Portland, Oregon. Her fiction has been published in many literary journals, including FRiGG, Hobart, and New Flash Fiction. Recent stories won first and third place in the 2019 Jewish in Seattle fiction contest. She was a finalist for the Sozopol Fiction Fellowship and named to the Wigleaf 50. Residencies/fellowships include Yaddo,…
Defying Genres
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Include Me Out by María Sonia Cristoff, translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver (Oakland, California: Transit Books, February 4, 2020. 140 pages; $16.95; paperback ISBN 978-1-945492-30-3; ebook ISBN 978-1-945492-33-4). Originally published as Inclúyanme afuera by Editorial…
Aerial Photography as Fine Art
Website Review: Matya Shick By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor “You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, and the people you have loved.” Matya Shick’s website, www.tutishick.com, opens with this quote…
In the WTP Spotlight: Marina Maltezou
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. Marina Maltezou Marina Maletzou was born in Athens and in 2010 moved from interior design to fine…
In the WTP Spotlight: DeWitt Henry
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. DeWitt Henry is the founder of Ploughshares literary magazine; author of Sweet Marjoram: Notes and Essays; The Marriage of Anna Maye…
Sahar Khalkhalian
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. In the WTP Spotlight: Sahar Khalkhalian Sahar Khalkhalian is an Iranian-born artist currently residing in Canada whose work…
Place and Space
Four Distinctive Artists By Emilia Dubicki, WTP Art Correspondent This season, I found myself drawn especially to exhibitions that dealt with place and space. Nature and man-made structures, along with the moods, light, and colors they evoke, are approached distinctively by artists Matthias Meyer, Andro Wekua, Jennifer Bartlett, and Richard Anuszkiewicz, while all of these…
Sculpture En Plein Air and Salvaging Kitchen Waste
The Unusual and Noteworthy By Susan B. Apel, WTP Art Correspondent Fall is New England’s last best chance to enjoy the outdoors without snow boots and ski gloves. Not so curiously, then, land art and sculpture en plein air beckoned throughout the autumn. The white cube galleries will be waiting and cozy during the upcoming…
A Lake Champlain Studio
Inside the Studio with Sandy Sokoloff 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 Sandy Sokoloff’s work in WTP Vol. VII #10. By Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Five years ago, painter Sandy Sokoloff left Boston to live…
In the WTP Spotlight
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. Mary Gilliland Mary Gilliland, whose poetry has been anthologized in Nuclear Impact: Broken Atoms In Our Hands and Strange…
LAST OF HER NAME by Mimi Lok
Eye on the Indies A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Last of Her Name: A Novella & Stories by Mimi Lok (Los Angeles: Kaya Press, October 22, 2019. 200 pages; $16.95; paperback original ISBN 978-1-885030-61-0). “…thereby hangs a tale.” —William Shakespeare (As You Like It, The…
Shape of Shape at MoMA
The Artist’s Choice at MoMA By Emilia Dubicki, WTP Art Correspondent The Shape of Shape, on view through April 20, 2020, at MoMA The newly renovated and reopened Museum of Modern Art in New York City, NY, is expansive, airy, and open. Upon entering one is faced with a choice of going left to the…