Inside the Studio offers an inside peek into the work environments of WTP artists, as well as insight into their creative process within these resonate spaces. By Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Renae Barnard is recognized by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) as a Leadership in Energy Accredited Professional (LEED AP) and by…
Author: Press Features
Eye on the Indies
A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Reviews Editor THE LIBRARY: A CATALOGUE OF WONDERS by Stuart Kells (Counterpoint Press, 2018). 224pp, hardcover, $26.00. li · brar · y “What the libraries of the future will be like is something we should be imagining now.” —Neil Gaiman, 2013 Lecture for The…
WTP Roundup: From the Editor
May 2018 By Sandra Tyler, Editor-in-Chief Happy May! And with it we bring you a stunning May issue of The Woven Tale Press. Well, all our issues are stunning, but there are some particularly unique mediums featured this month that you don’t see every day: Karen Fitzgerald’s gilded tondos of astonishing luminosity, and look for…
Art Spotlight: Cynthia Grow
I’ll Wait for You Here See Cynthia Grow’s work in WTP Vol. VI #4 acrylic and gesso on wood panel 24” x 24” I explore the interstices between art and language, engaging themes of memory, desire, and complex interpersonal relationships. I prefer to play on the idea of ambiguity. The liminal, the spaces in between. Of…
Literary Spotlight: Vincent Mannings
From WTP Vol. VI #4 Jedediah Arkansaugh By Vincent Mannings Jedediah Arkansaugh was by now an old and irascible man no longer in possession of wealth. His grandfathers had been cattle ranchers and bear-hunters, his father a superior-court judge, and his mother a silent woman who’d rarely smiled but one day mustered a smirk when…
A Hundred Rejection Letters
“For every piece that is rejected, at least one other person has read it, thought about it…” By Chris Brauer, WTP Guest Writer I read somewhere that, as a writer, I should aim for a hundred rejection letters a year. The theory is that if one submits a flood of work onto the world—enough to…
Featured Bookmarks: The Literary
May 2018 By DeWitt Henry, Literary Bookmarks Editor Monthly link highlights to online resources, magazines, and author sites that seem informative and inspiring for working writers. Most are free. Suggestions are welcomed. McSweeney’s Gen-Xer Dave Eggers began his editing/publishing career at age twenty-four with Might magazine (a satirical print bi-monthly, 1994–97), which he writes about at length in…
Site Review: Ellen Woods
Abstract Painting Reflecting Nature By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Ellen Woods’s lyrical abstract paintings are inspired by her deep respect for the natural environment and the human connection to nature. Living and working at a high altitude in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado allows her to witness seasonal patterns and forms and the evolving topography.…
Art Spotlight: Barry Masteller
1482C Sequence See Barry Masteller’s work in WTP Vol. VI #3 construct photograph on paper on aluminum 30” x 30” Night photography has so many things about it that fit my aesthetic, and is the best time to truly capture light and movement. Since the light is limited, and I’m using a moving hand-held camera, I…
Literary Spotlight: Michele Leavitt
From WTP Vol. VI #3 At Night-Point By Michele Leavitt In recent dreams, I weed the night by touch, yanking limp grasses, tossing amputated limbs into the slop bucket’s shame. Now, a different kind of morning: balancing on the fallen hemlock, running my fingers on an angle of barkridge grown thick, resistant to decay and…
Video: Off Switch
Experimental Image and Percussion Video by Robert Gorman “Off Switch” is a multimedia experimental live sound piece that explores the nonverbal dialogue created between visual imagery and experimental sound. Gorman’s use of the moving image in this video hangs between its movement and unknown, yet familiar landscapes’ changing position, while the viewer is subjected to…
Site Review: Sheila Grabarsky
Vibrant Display of Acrylic Paintings By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Sheila Grabarsky opens her artist’s statement with “I paint because I bleed Alizarin Crimson.” While this may not be literally true, it certainly is metaphorically. There are quite a few other colors also! Her website “Gallery” is a beautiful and vibrant display of this New…