In January 2017, John Greiner-Ferris returned to being a photographer after a ten-year hiatus in theater. That winter, Greiner-Ferris was working on a play at a residency in Vermont when he picked up a camera and resumed where he’d left off. After all, many years earlier he’d worked as a corporate and freelance photographer and…
Vol. VII #10
3D Graphics, Painted Paradoxes, and Statues This month in The Woven Tale Press Vol. VII #10: Figurative images using 3D graphics, paintings whose images appear and seem not to appear, the poem “On Statues”, and so much more, including our 2019 winners of the Elizabeth Sloan Tyler Memorial Award . To view more extraordinary issues,…
2019 Pushcart Nominations
Congratulations to our 2019 Nominees! Poetry Nathan McClain “They said I was an alternate,” (so I sought to perfect) Sheryl L. White “Muskrats on the Ark” Rooja Mohassessy “Shopping” Memoir Kayla Lutes “Lilacs in Memoriam” Beth Kephart “Fixing Beauty” Fiction Michael Xu Wang “New Work in New China”
Landscape Painting and Near Realism
Eileen Murphy has spent most of her life along the Hudson River, first in Westchester and Columbia Counties, and now in Brooklyn, where she has lived for the past fifteen years. Murphy has shown widely in New York City and in Hudson, NY. She has been awarded residencies to the Vermont Studio Center and Yaddo.…
Architecture and Fine Art
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: George Casprowitz has been exhibited in solo shows in Toronto, New York, London, Seattle, Portland,…
Surrounded by Nature
Inside the Studio with Alex Egan 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 Alex Egan’s work in WTP Vol. VII #9. By Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer No matter what season, artist Alex Egan finds inspiration and…
Laura Foley
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: Laura Foley Laura Foley is the author of seven poetry collections, including Why I Never Finished…
Abstract Watercolors: Unusual Compositions
Website Review: Marcie Jan Bronstein By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor The opening page of Marcie Jan Bronstein’s website, marciejbronstein.com, grabbed my attention with an atypical composition that quietly dominates the page. I found it atypical in that we rarely see abstract watercolors, especially compositions with hard edges and irregular forms. At first glance these forms have…
A Contemporary Spin on the Traditional
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: Ruth Bunnewell Ruth Bunnewell graduated with a BA in Fine Art from Norwich School…
There’s Nothing like The Nothing That Is
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor The Nothing That Is: Essays on Art, Literature and Being by Johanna Skibsrud (Toronto: Book*hug Press, October 1, 2019 (Essais Series No. 9). 128 pages; $20.00; paperback original ISBN 9781771665261). “Nothing will come of nothing: speak again.”—…
A Novel as Riddle
Book Review: Sleepless Night By Lisa Zeiger, WTP Guest Writer SLEEPLESS NIGHT By Margriet de Moor, translated from the Dutch by David Doherty (New Vessel Press, 2019, $15.95, ISBN 9781939931696). Margriet de Moor’s novel, Sleepless Night, has triggered my relapse. When I say I used to read novels, I mean it in the way Proust…
Grief First Experienced
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: Kayla Lutes Originally from Louisville, Kentucky, Kayla Lutes is an MFA candidate in fiction…