Third Place for the Literary Drive-by By Henry Plunkett See all the winners in the 2017 Special Winners Edition So, I get in from work, banjaxed, and kick off the boots. Like any hallway, we’ve a row of coat hooks and a shoe rack, but that’s where the normality ends. In the kitchen, Rita is…
Art Roundup: New Hampshire/Vermont
Fall 2017 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. For my first dispatch about the arts in Vermont and…
WTP 2017 Winner: Henry Plunkett
Third Place for the Literary Interview by August Smith, WTP Feature Writer Henry Plunkett is the recipient of the 2017 WTP Third Place Literary Award for his short story “Drive-by.” He was born and grew up in rural Ireland. He lives now with his wife and child and a menagerie of small animals in the…
WTP 2017 Winner: Catherine Spencer
Third Place for Fine Art Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Catherine Spencer is a Cleveland-based artist originally from the Finger Lakes region in upstate New York. She spent a year at Santa Reparata International School of Art (SRISA) in Florence, Italy, before completing her BFA at New York State College of Ceramics (NYSCC)…
Eye on the Indies
A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Reviews Editor Book: The End We Start From New York: Grove Press, November 7, 2017. 136 pp., $22.00 cloth, ISBN: 97808021268940. Author: Megan Hunter British writer Megan Hunter, a Manchester native, lives in Cambridge. She holds a BA from Sussex University and an MPhil from…
WTP Roundup: From the Editor
December 2017 By Sandra Tyler, Editor-in-Chief November was an exciting month, as we announced the winners of our first annual art and literary competitions. To see and read the works of these standout talents, you can access the winners issue here. We are already beginning to formulate next year’s competition, and right now looks like it might…
Art Spotlight: Bart O'Reilly
My Lost Summer Bird Second Place for Fine Art See Bart O’Reilly’s work in the 2017 Special Winners Edition acrylic on raw canvas 24″ x 24″ My work is concerned with light, shadow, color, material, and perception. Using drawing, painting, video, poetry, and installation I ask questions like what do we see when we pay…
Literary Spotlight: Kris Faatz
Second Place for the Literary Let Me Take Your Hands By Kris Faatz See all the winners in the 2017 Special Winners Edition On the summer night when the police took his housekeeper Consuelo away, Antonio Guerrera felt helpless for many reasons. One was that he himself had paid Consuelo’s wages in cash for years,…
Exhibition Review: The Other Art Fair
A Brooklyn Debut By John S. Berman, WTP Art Correspondent Since its launch in 2011, Saatchi has promoted The Other Art Fair as an international exposition to showcase the work of emerging but often “under-the radar” artists. From November 9–12, Brooklyn joined the ranks of London and Bristol in the United Kingdom and Sydney and…
WTP 2017 Winner: Kris Faatz
Second Place for the Literary Interview by August Smith, WTP Feature Writer Kris Faatz (rhymes with skates) is a fiction writer and musician. Her first novel, To Love a Stranger, was a finalist for the 2016 Schaffner Press Music in Literature Award and was released May 2017 by Blue Moon Publishers (Toronto, ON). Kris’s short fiction has…
WTP 2017 Winner: Bart O'Reilly
Second Place for Fine Art Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer A native of Ireland, Bart O’Reilly is an artist and instructor currently based in Baltimore. His interdisciplinary work includes painting, drawing, poetry, and video. His work addresses questions related to places and their objects. He earned an MFA from Maryland Institute College of…
WTP 2017 Winner: Ellen Koment
Elizabeth Sloan Tyler Memorial Award First Place for Fine Art Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer A native New Yorker, Ellen Koment earned an MA in painting from UC Berkeley and a BFA from Cooper Union Art School. She taught and exhibited her work in museums and galleries in the Bay Area for twenty-five…