Art and Visual Processing By Carolyn Anderson, WTP Guest Writer In 1954 ethologist Niko Tinbergen noticed that herring gull chicks instinctively pecked at red spots on their parents’ bills to beg for food. At the time, the dominant idea in animal behavior was that learning was more important than instinct. Tinbergen argued that animals are…
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Smoothing the Way
Modulating Between Direct and Indirect Discourse By WTP Writer Richard Wertime Woven Tale Press writer Richard Wertime reflects on the craft of fiction in an ongoing series of craft notes In the previous craft note, “Writing Dialogue: The Hidden Art in Plain View,” we explored the tonal qualities separating direct from indirect discourse, and as…
Drawn to the Light
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. Neil Carpathios is the author of six poetry collections, including The Door on Every Tear(2020), Far Out Factoids(2017), Confessions of a Captured Angel (2016),…
Writing Dialogue
The Hidden Art in Plain View By WTP Writer Richard Wertime Woven Tale Press writer Richard Wertime reflects on the craft of fiction in an ongoing series of craft notes “’… Well, what’s to be said?’ the Worm murmured to the Tortoise.” (Source unattributed) Few readers, indeed, will have even the faintest awareness of the…
An Assemblage Artist's Home Studio
Inside the Studio with Gale Rothstein 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 Gale Rothstein’s work in WTP Vol. IX #8. By Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer At first, Gale Rothstein thought her studio in the smaller,…
Anthropomorphizing Nature
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak (New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, November 2, 2021; 368 pp.; $27.00 hardcover, $18.90 ebook; ISBN 9781635578591). First published in Great Britain by Penguin Random House UK, 2021. “Love is…
WTP Vol. IX #9
This month: interactive sculpture, interwoven paintings, pixelated photography, a Twittering machine, and more. click on cover to go to issue Print copy available here. To view more extraordinary issues, visit our WTP Magazine page.
Fine Art Street Photography
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. Daniel Featherstone serves as the Art Director at Polo Ralph Lauren and the Director of Men’s and Women’s Graphics at Nautica. His early photography…
A Journey of Nuns
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. Susannah Lee’s poems were inspired by Carmelite nuns who, in the 1990s, journeyed from Iceland to the Arctic Circle to build a monastery. An…
The Very Last Interview
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. James Franco’s film adaptation of David Shields’ I Think You’re Totally Wrong: A Quarrel, which Shields co-wrote and co-stars in, was released in 2017. Shields wrote,…
The “Journey” of Reading
And the Function of Suspense By WTP Writer Richard Wertime Woven Tale Press writer Richard Wertime reflects on the craft of fiction in an ongoing series of craft notes In “Disorientation and the Experience of Wonder,” we looked at the ways in which “travel” might be likened to our experience while we read—reading constituting a…
Being "Walled to a Stop"
Disorientation and the Experience of Wonder* By WTP Writer Richard Wertime Woven Tale Press writer Richard Wertime reflects on the craft of fiction in an ongoing series of craft notes “We came up over the crest and were walled to a stop.” “Walled to a stop.” So Ivan Doig begins his powerful evocation of that…