Inside the Studio with Howard Hersh 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 Howard Hersh’s work in WTP Vol. IX #2. By Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer For decades, the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco…
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A Self-Taught Realism Artist
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. As a self-taught artist, Cher Pruys’s dedication and talent has seen her work juried in 127 International exhibits, as well as exhibits in numerous…
The Salvaged
Textile Art Salvaged Video by Rachael Wellisch “This was a collection of salvaged elements presented as an immersive installation. These were materials discarded and pushed aside, now reworked and put together to form a space of wonder to appreciate cycles and connections within our environment.” Soundtrack by Peter Houtmeyers and filmed by Ami Phi. Rachael…
A Modern Parable Explores Prejudice
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Among the Hedges by Sara Mesa, translated by Megan McDowell (Rochester, NY: Open Letter, May 18, 2021; 140 pages; $14.95; ISBN: 978-1-948830-39-3 paperback; also available as ebook, $9.95). Appeared originally in Spanish as Cara de pan…
Collage: One Artist’s Answer to Writers Block
Kim Triedman is a practicing visual artist and an award-winning poet and novelist living in Arlington, MA. She works primarily in collage and mixed media and often uses her own photography in her pieces. Much of her work focuses on issues of gender expectations, historical perceptions of femininity and sexuality, and the weight and challenge…
Trying to Get It Right: The Aftermath of the Skirmish
The Craft of Fiction Writing By WTP Writer Richard Wertime Richard Wertime reflects on the Crafting of his story “Soccer,” published in WTP Vol. IX #3 “He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars.” —William Blake, Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion James Joyce once confided to a friend, while…
Cold Calling
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. Jim Meirose’s short work has appeared in numerous venues, and his published novels include No and Maybe – Maybe and No (Pski’s Porch), Le…
Collage from Found Objects
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. Kim Triedman is a practicing visual artist and the author of three poetry collections: Hadestown (WordTech, 2013);Plum(b) (Main Street Rag Press, 2013), a finalist…
Imagined Lives in Poetry
Mary Gilliland is the author of The Ruined Walled Castle Garden (2020), winner of the Bright Hill Press Chapbook Competition, and Gathering Fire (Ithaca House, 1982). Her poetry has been anthologized in Nuclear Impact: Broken Atoms In Our Hands, Strange Histories, The &Now Awards: The Best Innovative Writing, and Wild Gods. Poems have also appeared in AGNI, Poetry, Chautauqua, Poetry…
On Revision
Craft Notes: A Prose Central Series By DeWitt Henry, Prose Editor I evolved shoptalk or notebook sheets during my teaching of fiction workshops, which proved helpful to me and to students. I asked them to ask themselves about character, plot, setting, dialogue, sensory imagery, sentimentality, translation, simultaneous actions and other aspects of craft. But foremost…
Sharing Stories to Heal
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Begin by Telling: Essais Series No. 11 by Meg Remy, illustrated by Logan T. Sibrel (Toronto: Book*hug Press, April 21, 2021; 96 pages; $20.00; ISBN: 9781771666633 paperback; also available as pdf or epub, $14.99 each). “You…