Part Two By WTP Writer Richard Wertime Woven Tale Press writer Richard Wertime reflects on the craft of fiction in an ongoing series of craft notes Read Part 1, “What Can Metaphor Do For Us?“ ~ On what basis does Proust argue that “metaphor alone can give a sort of eternity to style”? Let’s…
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What Can Metaphor Do for Us?
Part One By WTP Writer Richard Wertime Woven Tale Press writer Richard Wertime reflects on the craft of fiction in an ongoing series of craft notes “I believe that metaphor alone can give a sort of eternity to style.” —Marcel Proust, Chroniques What can metaphor do for us? We should ask, in the same breath,…
Strategic Clutter and Decoys
And Other Fictional Strategies By WTP Writer Richard Wertime Richard Wertime reflects on the Crafting of his story “Soccer,” published in WTP Vol. IX #3 “Setting in fiction ought always veer toward metonymy.” —Novelist Richard Bausch In my short story, “Soccer,” published in April’s WTP, a mid-life father joins his teen son, Kevin, in an…
Magical Realism for the Current Reality
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Prayer for the Living: Stories by Ben Okri (Brooklyn, NY: Akashic Books, February 2, 2021; 216 pages; $24.95; ISBNs: 978-1-61775-863-8 hardcover, 978-1-61775-874-4 ebook). Originally published by Head of Zeus in London, October 2019. “We live in…
The Town of Whispering Dolls
Finding Reality in Fiction By Dan Wakefield, WTP Guest Writer The Town of Whispering Dolls by Susan Neville (Tuscalossa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, March 2020; 216 pages; $17.95). Winner of FC2’s Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize. We always hear that “truth is stranger than fiction.” Sometimes fiction conveys a deeper truth. That’s what happens…
Characters are All Around Us
Merridawn Duckler is a writer from Portland, Oregon. Her fiction has been published in many literary journals, including FRiGG, Hobart, and New Flash Fiction. Recent stories won first and third place in the 2019 Jewish in Seattle fiction contest. She was a finalist for the Sozopol Fiction Fellowship and named to the Wigleaf 50. Residencies/fellowships include Yaddo,…
LAST OF HER NAME by Mimi Lok
Eye on the Indies A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Last of Her Name: A Novella & Stories by Mimi Lok (Los Angeles: Kaya Press, October 22, 2019. 200 pages; $16.95; paperback original ISBN 978-1-885030-61-0). “…thereby hangs a tale.” —William Shakespeare (As You Like It, The…
Technology and Writing: One Writer's Perspective
Interview with Richard Dokey By Heidi Stauff, WTP Video Producer Richard Dokey’s stories have won awards and prizes and have been reprinted frequently in both regional and national anthologies and texts. He has novels and story collections to his credit. August Heat, an early collection, published by Story Press, Chicago, received a dust jacket endorsement…
Give me That Old Time Religion — Made Brand New
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Literary Spotlight: Dewitt Henry
What is a Jerk? “Maybe you, citizen, should be a jerk. Jerks get where they are going.” –By Dewitt Henry this appears in Vol. IV #7 A jerk is a chisler in the traffic jam, say on the Long Island expressway. Three lanes immobile, motors revving, heat shimmering, the cars barely rolling, and the line stretching out…