Congratulations for being awarded Honorable Mentions in our 2019 Hampton Competitions! For Fine Art Carolyn DiFiori Hopkins She was born in Philadelphia and grew up mainly in Southern New Jersey. She holds an M.F.A. from the University at Albany, an M.A. from the University at Albany, and a B.A. from Rutgers University. Growing up in…

2019 WTP Third Place Literary Winner
[tm_pb_section admin_label=”section”][tm_pb_row admin_label=”Row”][tm_pb_column type=”1_2″][tm_pb_image admin_label=”Image” alt=”Merridawn Duckler” title_text=”Merridawn Duckler” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”left” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” src=”https://www.thewoventalepress.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Sickelsoptiomze.jpg”] [/tm_pb_image][/tm_pb_column][tm_pb_column type=”1_2″][tm_pb_text admin_label=”Text” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] Noelle Sickels [/tm_pb_text][tm_pb_text admin_label=”Text” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] Congratulations for winning Third Place in the literary category! Sickels is the author of the historical novels Walking West,…

WTP 2019 Third Place Fine Art Winner
[tm_pb_section admin_label=”section”][tm_pb_row admin_label=”Row”][tm_pb_column type=”1_2″][tm_pb_image admin_label=”Image” src=”https://www.thewoventalepress.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/orna.jpg” alt=”Merridawn Duckler” title_text=”Merridawn Duckler” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”left” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” custom_margin=”50px|||”] [/tm_pb_image][/tm_pb_column][tm_pb_column type=”1_2″][tm_pb_text admin_label=”Text” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] Orna Greenberg [/tm_pb_text][tm_pb_text admin_label=”Text” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] Congratulations for winning Third Place in the fine art category! Greenberg has studied and worked as an artist…

WTP 2019 Second Place Fine Art Winner
[tm_pb_section admin_label=”section”][tm_pb_row admin_label=”Row”][tm_pb_column type=”1_2″][tm_pb_image admin_label=”Image” src=”https://www.thewoventalepress.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Whadcock.jpg” alt=”Merridawn Duckler” title_text=”Merridawn Duckler” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”left” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” custom_margin=”50px|||”] [/tm_pb_image][/tm_pb_column][tm_pb_column type=”1_2″][tm_pb_text admin_label=”Text” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] Richard Whadcock [/tm_pb_text][tm_pb_text admin_label=”Text” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] Congratulations for winning Second Place in the fine art category! Whadcock studied general fine art at Bristol Art…

2019 WTP Literary Winner
[tm_pb_section admin_label=”section”][tm_pb_row admin_label=”Row”][tm_pb_column type=”1_2″][tm_pb_image admin_label=”Image” src=”https://www.thewoventalepress.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Duckler-1.jpg” alt=”Merridawn Duckler” title_text=”Merridawn Duckler” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”left” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] [/tm_pb_image][/tm_pb_column][tm_pb_column type=”1_2″][tm_pb_text admin_label=”Text” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] Merridawn Duckler [/tm_pb_text][tm_pb_text admin_label=”Text” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] Congratulations for winning The Elizabeth Sloan Tyler Memorial Award in the Literary category! Duckler is a writer from Portland,…

2019 WTP Fine Art Winner
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2019 WTP Second Place Literary Winner
[tm_pb_section admin_label=”section”][tm_pb_row admin_label=”Row”][tm_pb_column type=”1_2″][tm_pb_image admin_label=”Image” alt=”Merridawn Duckler” title_text=”Merridawn Duckler” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”left” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” src=”https://www.thewoventalepress.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Hunyadioptimized.jpg”] [/tm_pb_image][/tm_pb_column][tm_pb_column type=”1_2″][tm_pb_text admin_label=”Text” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] Marcella Hunyadi [/tm_pb_text][tm_pb_text admin_label=”Text” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] Congratulations for winning Second Place in the literary category! Marcella Hunyadi was born and raised in Budapest, Hungary where…

Vol. VII #9
Digital-Painting Abstracts and Exquisite Trees This month in The Woven Tale Press Vol. VII #9: digital-painting abstracts and exquisite trees both as drawing and painting, expressionistic photography, a memoir of lilacs, poetry, and more. To view more extraordinary issues, visit our WTP Magazine page. click on cover to go to issue…

"Starters" from Ellen Doré Watson
Ellen Doré Watson offers a series of “starters” for generating the raw material for new poems. The following prompts are inspired by “Three Girls, One of Them a Coward Girl” (from Kingdom Animalia) by Aracelis Girmay. Once you’re launched, the aim is to ride those winds of originality. (As always, any remaining “borrowed” bits should…

3D Printed Sculpture
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: Heather Gorham Heather Gorham exhibits her work around the country and is represented by…

A Painter Making Sculpture
For the past twenty-five years, Heather Gorham has been painting and making sculpture—for this artist, the one complements the other. The painter and sculptor uses a variety of mediums including acrylic, wood, resin, and bronze. Gorham’s figurative artwork revolves around the tangible interpretation of the everyday in which she creates—with a twist—a dreamy window into…

An Okra Poem
Enjoy notable selections featuring artists and writers from The Woven Tale Press magazine. To read the issue in full subscribe here. In the WTP Spotlight: Zane DeZeeuw From WTP Vol. VII #8 Zane DeZeeuw grew up in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado and holds an MFA in Fiction from Western Kentucky University.…