Magical Paintings Between Sleep and Awakening By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Kathy Ferguson is a mixed-media abstract painter living in Colorado and New York. On her website www.kathyfergusonart.com you’ll find several series of whimsical, colorful, and organic compositions of surreal and imaginary worlds that she describes as “[m]ore illusionary than authentic; places more commonly found in dreams than…

Installation by Sophia Latysheva
[tm_pb_section admin_label=”section”][tm_pb_row admin_label=”row”][tm_pb_column type=”4_4″][tm_pb_image admin_label=”Image” src=”https://www.thewoventalepress.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/horzontal.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”left” sticky=”off” align=”left” max_width=”1500px” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] [/tm_pb_image][tm_pb_text admin_label=”Text” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] Horizontal Column, steal strip , 200′ x 16′ x28.5′ See more of her work in The Woven Tale Press Vol. VI #10 [/tm_pb_text][/tm_pb_column][/tm_pb_row][/tm_pb_section]

AYA DANE by Mhani Alaoui
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor AYA DANE by Mhani Alaoui (Northampton, MA: Interlink Books, 2019). 256 pp, $15.00; paperback ISBN 9781623719685. Aya Dane is an elegant exploration of invisible cultural memories, creatively rendered on a canvas of migration. Here in her…
Margaret Swan
Inside the Studio See Swan’s work in WTP Vol. VI #10 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. By Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Thirty years ago, sculptor Margaret Swan converted a garage at her home into…

Art Roundup: Brooklyn
Fall 2018 Highlights By John S. Berman, WTP Art Correspondent Four times a year, WTP art correspondents from around the country will report back on the previous season, with images from exhibitions you otherwise might have missed, and their own insights into these varied venues. Contemporary artists mining historical subjects and themes for inspiration and…

Art Roundup: New York City
Fall 2018 Highlights By Emilia Dubicki, WTP Art Correspondent Four times a year, WTP art correspondents from around the country will report back on the previous season, with images from exhibitions you otherwise might have missed, and their own insights into these varied venues. The fall art season in New York overflows with exhibits and…

Art Roundup: Los Angeles
Fall 2018 Highlights By Emily Nimptsch, WTP Art Correspondent Four times a year, WTP art correspondents from around the country will report back on the previous season, with images from exhibitions you otherwise might have missed, and their own insights into these varied venues. This season, Los Angeles boldly presented a wide variety of gallery…

Art Roundup: New Hampshire/Vermont
Fall 2018 Highlights By Susan B. Apel, WTP Art Correspondent Four times a year, WTP art correspondents from around the country will report back on the previous season, with images from exhibitions you otherwise might have missed, and their own insights into these varied venues. In these northern climes, autumn is a season that offers…

White Dancing Elephants
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Reviews Editor WHITE DANCING ELEPHANTS: STORIES by Chaya Bhuvaneswar (Durham, NC: Dzanc Books, October 9, 2018). 208 pp, $16.95; paperback ISBN 9781945814617. “Ebb and flow, ebb and flow, our lives.” —Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Before We Visit the Goddess (p. 68) Chaya Bhuvaneswar’s…

WTP Artist: Rebecca Giles
“I am a realist painter, but we can never paint exactly what we see …” Interview with Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Rebecca Giles is a still life painter who was born in Media, PA, but grew up in Europe and the Middle East. At the age of twelve, Rebecca discovered oil paints when she befriended an Uzbekistani…

Featured Bookmarks: The Literary
December 2018 By DeWitt Henry, Literary Bookmarks Editor Monthly link highlights to online resources, magazines, and author sites that seem informative and inspiring for working writers. Most are free. Suggestions are welcomed. The Best of the Net An online annual, The Best of the Net was begun by Erin Elizabeth Smith in 2006 to recognize and promote the…

2018 Pushcart Nominations
Congratulations to our 2018 Nominees! David Wheldon for “The Admiral Intercedes” (fiction) Robert Klose for “Sisters” (fiction) Cynthia Manick for “Mind the Gap” (poetry) Dian Parker for “Otre Vez” (nonfiction) Alan Elyshevitz for “Mama Has Claws” (nonfiction) DeWitt Henry “On Color” (nonfiction)