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Keeping Company
On Loneliness and Love By Max Blue, WTP Guest Writer One speaks often of the feeling of being alone in a crowd, but rarely of keeping company in solitude. Sometimes, I think my whole life has been a slow adjustment to an acute sense of alienation toward the world around me, an experience of having…

Cultural and Personal Memory
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor The Age of Goodbyes, by Li Zi Shu, translated from Chinese by YZ Chin (New York: Feminist Press at CUNY, November 8, 2022; 379 pp.; ISBN 9781952177699; $17.95 paper; also available as ebook). First published as…

Assemble the Gang!
Guiding Your Reader’s Eye: The Choreography of Perception, Part Three By WTP Writer Richard Wertime Woven Tale Press writer Richard Wertime reflects on the craft of fiction in an ongoing series of craft notes Read Part One and Part Two ~ An especially enticing expository challenge occurs for us as writers when we open a story…

Decayed Textural Layers and Subtle Colors
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. Chao Ding is a Beijing native perceptual painter, having learned classical painting from his father as a child. He originally studied Fashion Design and…

A Game of &s
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. Elizabeth Kirkpatrick-Vrenios lives in Mendocino, California. Twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize, her poetry has been featured in venues including The Ekphrastic Review, Abyss…

Merging the Outdoors and Creative Expression
Coralie Huon is a multidisciplinary artist and illustrator who takes inspiration from nature and landscapes. Huon, who lives and works in Grenoble, France, uses landscapes as metaphors to express emotional and spiritual journeys. She highlights the beauty of the outdoor world and the interaction of people with these places and themselves. She spent a decade studying and working as an…

On Viruses and Angels
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. Richard Hoffman has published four volumes of poetry, Without Paradise; Gold Star Road; Emblem; and Noon until Night. His other books include the memoirs…

WTP Vol. X #7
Literary and Fine Art Magazine: this month, microorganism drawings, contemporary African themes, collage, fiction, poetry, and more! click on cover to go to issue Print copy available here. To view more extraordinary issues, visit our WTP Magazine page

Decolonization in Tahiti
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Pina by Titaua Peu, translated from the French by Jeffrey Zuckerman, introduction by Rajiv Mohabir (Brooklyn, NY: Restless Books, August 16, 2022; 320 pp.; ISBN 978163206155; $18.00 paper; also available as ebook). First published as Pina…

Guiding Your Reader’s Eye: The Choreography of Perception, Part Two
Doing More with Less By WTP Writer Richard Wertime Woven Tale Press writer Richard Wertime reflects on the craft of fiction in an ongoing series of craft notes Read Part One here ~ When we’re writing synoptically—“sketchily,” that is—and wish to move on to parts of a story we intend to treat more fully, we…

Oh You Can’t Get To Heaven
Bruce Murphy is an award-winning journalist, longtime editor of Narrative magazine features, published poet, and produced playwright based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Oh You Can’t Get To Heaven (Excerpts from a Memoir in Progress) From WTP Vol. X #6 Every memory is a piece of time, but I always find myself first recalling the where, not…