A Birth Primer

A Birth Primer

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. Gary Fincke’s latest collection of essays, The Darkness Call, won the Robert C. Jones Prize (Pleaides Press, 2018). Earlier nonfiction books are published by…

Photographing Life Authentically

Photographing Life Authentically

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. Paula Rae Gibson is a fine-art photographer from London. She has had solo shows in Los Angeles, Tokyo, Zurich, Rotterdam, Budapest, and London. Diary…

Experimenting with Methods and Gunpowder

Experimenting with Methods and Gunpowder

For over forty years, Lia Rothstein has been a professional photographer and artist. She has taught digital photography and imaging in colleges and art centers throughout New England, as well as workshops in cold wax painting and encaustics. She directed the award-winning PhotoStop Gallery in White River Junction, VT. Her photographic and mixed media work…

Writing Dialogue: Errors to Steer Clear of

Writing Dialogue: Errors to Steer Clear of

(and Some Principles to Bear in Mind) By WTP Writer Richard Wertime Woven Tale Press writer Richard Wertime reflects on the craft of fiction in an ongoing series of craft notes Let’s begin by remembering— Effective dialogue in fiction is a created artifact; it is not a mere transcription of “things actually said.”  Our “go-to”…

Making Your Own Feathers in Mexico

Making Your Own Feathers in Mexico

Inside the Studio with Deborah Kruger 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 Deborah Kruger’s work in WTP Vol. IX #10. By Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Deborah Kruger raves about the benefits of a home-based studio…

Microscopic Inspiration: The Artist as Scientist

Microscopic Inspiration: The Artist as Scientist

Michal Gavish is a multi-media artist and art writer based in New York City and Washington, DC.She received her MFA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute and her PhD in Physical Chemistry from the City University of New York. She creates painting installations and videos inspired by her ongoing collaborations with biologists and…