Prize-winner Jacqueline Kolosov speaks to her winning piece, “Exit, Pursued by Bear,” in an interview with August Smith.
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WTP Artist: Bronwen Hazlett
“Even though there are only two colors used in the Blue Van Dyke photographic process, their interaction with each other is constantly fascinating me.” Bronwen Hazlett talks her photography series, featured in Vol. VI #1.
WTP Writer: Lynn Lipinski
Lynn Lipinski’s short story, “The Dying Kind,” follows a hospice care worker and appears in January’s magazine.
WTP Writer: Dina Elenbogen
“Creating the first draft of a poem often involves gathering sparks,” says Dina Elenbogen, and her poems reflect this statement: flashes of illumination and light, beautiful yet with the potential to start a blaze.
Site Review: Sharon Stepman
“It’s this consistent vision—an appreciation for shape and color and experimentation, all the ways we can play within those boundaries—that one can trace across Sharon Stepman’s artistic work.”
Site Review: Gerasimos Platanas
“Perhaps most striking, however, is the marked variations in theme and style Gerasimos Platanas is able to achieve while working exclusively in black and white.”
WTP 2017 Winner: Henry Plunkett
Henry Plunkett gives additional insight into his winning short story, “Drive-by,” about a both physically and generationally displaced man.
WTP 2017 Winner: Kris Faatz
Second place literary winner Kris Faatz talks her short story “Let Me Take Your Hands,” political writing, and her relationship with writing and music.
WTP Artist: William Crump
“It’s the artist who is in no hurry, who takes the long road, that I admire. The risk takers and those undaunted by money or fame. Those are the ones who are revolutionary.”
WTP Writer: Paul Corrigan
Paul Corrigan and the great influence of nature in his poetry and nonfiction.
WTP Writer: Richard Hoffman
Richard Hoffman talks his poetry and nonfiction as well as advice for young writers.
WTP Writer: John Skoyles
John Skoyles writes between genres, from poetry to prose to nonfiction. He talks his most recent publication The Nut File, excerpted in WTP.