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. George Franklin is the author of two poetry collections, Traveling for No Good Reason (winner of the Sheila-Na-Gig Editions competition, 2018), and a…
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The Pursuit of Home
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor A Place of Exodus: Home, Memory, and Texas by David Biespiel (Portland, Oregon: Kelson Books, September 30, 2020; 202 pages; $20.00 paperback: ISBN 978-0-9827838-5-6; distributed by SPD). “One is always at home in one’s past….” —Vladimir Nabokov,…
Pandemic Studio Renovation: How One Artist is Coping
Inside the Studio with Joe Hedges 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 Joe Hedges’ work in WTP Vol. VIII #4. By Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer For a few years, Joe Hedges was fortunate to have…
Vol. VIII #6
This month in WTP: feather portraits, human rituals, a snake sculpture, a doctor’s daughter and so much more. To view more extraordinary issues, visit our WTP Magazine page. click on cover to go to issue Print copy available here.
Character Development
Shoptalk: 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 of…
Inspiring Places for Fiber Art
Inside the Studio with Tara Kennedy 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 Tara Kennedy’s work in WTP Vol. VIII #5. By Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer To create her fiber works, Tara Kennedy spreads out in…
Sculpting from Aluminum the Textile Inspired
Christina Massey is a Brooklyn-based abstract and mixed-media artist whose work has been featured in many solo and group exhibitions in the United States. Massey, who was born in 1979, is passionate about the preservation of our environment and our relationship with nature. She is also committed to addressing the equality of women’s rights…
A Bug's Perspective
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 Ives has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Artist Trust, Seattle Arts Commission, and…
An Ekphrastic Exercise
The relation of the verbal to the painted image has preoccupied thinkers since antiquity, and that kind of staying power suggests it is a worthwhile conundrum to wrestle with… A Poem Prompt from Robert B. Shaw, A Poem from Susan Tepper I have a longstanding interest in ekphrastic poetry, and although I’m sure it isn’t…
A Collage of Broken Realms
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Driftwood by Marie Brennan (San Francisco: Tachyon, August 14, 2020; 224 pages; $15.95 trade paperback: ISBN 978-1-61696-346-0; $9.99 digital formats: ISBN 978-1-61696-347-7). “Thus sang Úlfr Uggason: ‘….With old tales the hall was painted.’” —Snorri Sturlson, The…
Meticulously Constructed Collage
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. Gladys Nilsson’s work is featured in the collections of major museums around the world, including: the Art Institute of Chicago; the Los…
Painting for a Robot
Video Generates Abstract “Pre-Paintings” Video by William A. Brown “I amuse myself with many conceits but I have a particular fondness for my importance as an artist with a track record for serious explorations that push the boundaries of what exactly defines painting, video, and sculpture. With painting I’m trying to find new digital solutions…