A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Reviews Editor AMBIGUITY MACHINES AND OTHER STORIES by Vandana Singh (Small Beer Press, 2018). 320pp, paper, $16.00. “Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society…
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Featured Bookmarks: The Arts
February 2018 By Donald Kolberg, Art Bookmarks Editor Monthly highlights of online resources and websites informative and inspiring for artists or art enthusiasts. Most are free. Suggestions are welcomed.[gap height=”20″] The Ultimate 2018 Art Fair List Caroline Goldstein from Artnet News has put together their definitive list of fairs for the entire year, covering the entire world!…
Featured Bookmarks: The Arts
August 2017 By Donald Kolberg, Art Bookmarks Editor Monthly link highlights to online resources and websites that seem informative and inspiring for artists or art enthusiasts. Most are free. Suggestions are welcomed. As August ends and the heat starts to dissipate, it’s time to refocus on goals and projects lost to the summer. Though not quite a summer of…
WTP Writer: Vic Sizemore
“I try to observe like Chaucer, not judge like Dante” by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Vic Sizemore is the author of three novels, The Calling, Seekers, and She Rises Crying. His fiction has won the New Millennium Writings Award. Sizemore’s short fiction and nonfiction is published or forthcoming in StoryQuarterly, Southern Humanities Review, Connecticut Review,…
WTP Artist: Barbara Milman
“It seems almost impossible that our actions can affect anything as vast as the oceans.” by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Barbara Milman is an artist living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area specializing in prints. Her work has been exhibited in many solo and group shows, both nationally and internationally, and is included…
Site Review: Wally Swist
“Living in a farming area and observing nature…has been my own version of living a Thoreauvian or Franciscan kind of life” By Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Submit your website for review by WTP Wally Swist’s works range the gamut—as the author of over twenty collections of poetry, on his website you will find his complete bibliography,…
J.D. Scrimgeour: Finding Inspiration in the Classroom
“Classrooms can be some of the most intimate public spaces.” by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor J. D. Scrimgeour is the author of Themes For English B: A Professor’s Education In and Out of Class, which won the AWP Award for Nonfiction. Recent nonfiction has appeared in African American Review, biostories, Brilliant Corners, Pangyrus, The Quotable…
Leah Oates: Multiple Exposures
“Time is layered and not frozen into one single moment” by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Leah Oates studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, the Art Institute of Chicago and is a Fulbright Fellow for Printmaking at Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland. In 2016 her series Transitory Spaces was featured in the MTA Arts and…
Site Review: SFK Press
Southern Fried Karma by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor SFK Press, a.k.a. Southern Fried Karma, is an independent press founded by Steve McCondichie devoted to publishing Southern authors. Based in Metro Atlanta, McCondichie is after works that expand the definition of Southern literature, from “the bespectacled Flannery O’Connor” to authors who “have dumped the askew pastorals…
Site Review: LitReactor
Gaming the Workshop by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor The team behind LitReactor, a literary website that offers online classes and writers’ workshops, a features magazine, a podcast, and a Reddit-esque community chatroom, doesn’t shy away from bold claims. On their about page, they boast: “If you’re passionate about reading and/or writing, this is the only website…
WTP Writer: Stephen Davenport
“I’m in a hurry—which is a great way to live.” Interview by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Stephen Davenport has taught and coached in both day and boarding schools and has been the head of The Country School in Madison, Connecticut and of The Athenian School in Danville, California. Davenport draws on his long experience of working…
Site Review: Trish Hopkinson
The Un-“Selfish Poet” by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Blogger and poet Trish Hopkinson immediately sets the spunky and erudite tone for her site with the subheading: “The Selfish Poet.” This head-on foray into the world of semi-promotional, semi-informational poet websites is both witty and refreshing in its honesty. Hopkinson does devote half of her site (2/4…