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…
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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,…

Learning to Let Go
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. Kirsten Lillegard holds a master’s degree in English / Creative Writing from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. She recently completed two fiction workshops at…

Philip Lawton
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Robert D. Kirvel
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. Robert D. Kirvel is a Pushcart Prize (twice) and Best of the Net nominee for fiction. Awards include…

Grief First Experienced
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. In the WTP Spotlight: Kayla Lutes Originally from Louisville, Kentucky, Kayla Lutes is an MFA candidate in fiction…

Lisa Sinnett
Enjoy our WTP Spotlights, notable selections featuring artists and writers from our Woven Tale Press magazine. To read the issue in full subscribe here. IN THE WTP SPOTLIGHT: Lisa Sinnett lives in Windsor, Ontario, with her family, across the river from her original hometown of Detroit, MI. She works on her writing with author Ariel Gore and…

Beth Kephart
From WTP Vol. VII #2 Fixing Beauty By Beth Kephart It wasn’t like me to startle her, to catch her Elizabeth Taylor eyes in a wistful double take. You, she almost seemed to say. Me. Her first-born daughter. A stranger. I’d pulled my tangled hair from my face. I’d worn something that fit. The boyish…

Sandell Morse
From WTP Vol. VII #1 Hiding By Sandell Morse The year is 1939. Germaine Rousso, twenty years old, walks along a street in Brive, a town four hundred and eighty-two kilometers south of Paris. Afraid of bombs, her family has fled the capital. In Paris, Germaine and her sisters had formed Le Trio Rousso with…

Dean Kostos
From WTP Vol. VI #9 The Ban By Dean Kostos Excerpted from The Boy Who Listened to Paintings, a forthcoming memoir Home was 413 Wayne Drive. My mother said the four stood for our family, but the thirteen was unlucky. Our clapboard house was one among many on a curving street. In the summer, I’d hear the…

Literary Spotlight: Dian Parker
From WTP Vol. VI #6 Otre Vez By Dian Parker There is only one road that runs the full length of the Baja peninsula in Mexico. It’s never more than two lanes wide and it’s an obstacle course of corduroy ridges and potholes. Dangerous if you’re riding a motorcycle. Summer, Baja, Highway 1 and motorcycles definitely…

Literary Spotlight: Cynthia Close
From WTP Vol. V #9 Slip-Sliding Away By Cynthia Close It’s three o’clock and the low, late-winter-afternoon sun streams across my desk. I pick up the phone and dial. It’s the best time to reach Mom in her room, resting in her recliner, after lunch but before dinner. This had been a particularly bad week.…