Beverly Kedzior is an American painter in Chicago whose works have been exhibited in numerous solo and group events in the United States. She translates her love of cartoons into abstract works through bulbous images that invade backgrounds, as well as medical illustrations. Kedzior’s artistic process has a lot in common with printmaking, as she…
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A Healing Game
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 Wertime is the author of Citadel on the Mountain: A Memoir of Father and Son (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), 2001 recipient of the…
Glosa on Migration
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. Adrienne Su is the author of the new poetry collection Peach State (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021). Her other books include Living Quarters,…
Writing for the Long Haul
Creative Longevity as a Desire for the Unobtainable By Ronald J. Pelias, WTP Guest Writer With a wrinkled wave of years washing over me, I wonder why I am still trying to create, still trying to make words do what I would like them to do. You’d think that after all these years of effort…
Reflective Grief
A Search for Meaning in Grief By DeWitt Henry, Prose Editor Little Matches: A Memoir of Grief and Light by Maryanne O’Hara (New York: Harper One, April 20, 2021; $26.99; 351 pages; ISBN 978-0-06-302776-3). Maryanne O’Hara’s affecting memoir is both a work of life, and of art. The author tells us flatly from the outset…
Visual Storytelling and Grief
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Red Rock Baby Candy by Shira Spector (Seattle: Fantagraphics, March 23, 2021; 216 pages; $29.99; ISBN 9781683964049 hardback). “To be, or not to be: that is the question….” —William Shakespeare, Hamlet (Act III, Scene I) Artist…
Poems on Food, Race, and Identity
Adrienne Su, Professor of Creative Writing and Poet-in-Residence at Dickinson College, Pennsylvania, is the author of the newly released collection Peach State (University of Pittsburgh Press). Her previous books include Living Quarters, Having None of It, Sanctuary, and Middle Kingdom. In addition to appearing in five volumes of Best American Poetry, her work has been widely published in…
WTP Vol. IX #3
This month, junk mail art, an invented alphabet, epidemiology, cut-map art and more. To view more extraordinary issues, visit our WTP Magazine page. click on cover to go to issue Print copy available here.
Everyday Materials as Art
Jaynie Crimmins, a New York City-based artist, creates alternative narratives from quotidian materials. Her work has been shown at Art on Paper, New York City and exhibited at the Sharjah Museum of Art in the United Arab Emirates; SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York; Governor’s Island Art Fair, New York; the National Museum of Romanian Literature…
Outsider Art
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 Cole is the author of two books of poetry, The Glass Children (University of Georgia Press) and Success Stories (Limestone Books). He is…
A COVID Holiday
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. Karen Strumpolis is an artist, art instructor, and writer living and working on Long Island, New York. She has an MFA in Fine Art…
Writing Jerks
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…