Morning Shower See Erika Morillo’s work in WTP Vol. V #1 digital photograph Becoming a single mother at a young age proved frightening to me, and not for the obvious reasons. I felt a huge responsibility to create a nurturing childhood for him, different from the dysfunctional one I had lived. With these images I…
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Literary Spotlight: Lisa Stice
From WTP Vol. V #3 Man With Unhealty Complexion Listening to the Sound of the Sea By Lisa Stice he is seated in a chair in his living room with the blinds drawn raises an opalescent hand cups it to his ear and believes it’s a shell when he was a boy he walked the…
Interview: Poetry in a New America
Poetry in a Polarized Era Interview by Jo Ely, Contributing Editor Since the election of Donald Trump, not only the political landscape has changed, but also the way in which that landscape is perceived and addressed by writers, in particular, poets. What follows is a group interview, with poets from diverse backgrounds who contribute often…
Eye on the Indies
A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Reviews Editor Book: Moonbath Dallas: Deep Vellum Publishing, August 15, 2017. 264 pp., $14.95, paperback ISBN 9781941920565, e-book ISBN 9781941920572. Original French edition Bain de lune. Paris: Sabine Wespieser Publisher, September 2014. Author: Yanick Lahens Haitian writer Yanick Lahens is the author of three novels, three short-story collections,…
WTP Roundup: From the Editor
August 2017 By Sandra Tyler, Editor-in-Chief Writing from the woods of New Hampshire in the early morning when the lake is like glass. August is our WTP hiatus, so catching up on my own writing (sort of) and reading of books too long piled by my bedside. July marked a month of interviews with some…
Art Spotlight: Brian Wehrung
The White Whale See Brian Wehrung’s work in WTP Vol. V #2 dye sublimation print on aluminum 20″ x 30″ Color, line, geometry. These are the basis of many of the objects that we experience every day. When we look at, say, a building, or an automobile, we are seeing a complex object constructed from these…
Literary Spotlight: Gwen Grace
From WTP Vol. V #2 Boots and the Infinite Struggle of Attachment Gwen Grace I’m inordinately attached to a pair of boots. It’s been a long, albeit interesting year since I ordered them. Upon arrival, they were cut-out, sexy, black-leather perfection. They were promising. Now, the leather is peeling and the dye has faded on…
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,…
Featured Bookmarks: The Literary
August 2017 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. Dreaming Methods: Digital Fiction / Labs Computer technology spurred experiments with lateral storytelling and hypertext environments some twenty-seven years ago. Robert Coover was an apologist…
Art Spotlight: Eduardo Terranova
Ag-04 See Eduardo Terranova’s work in WTP Vol. V #6 silver-plated plaster on burlap 36″ x 36″ Light, shadows and an infinity of scintillations emerge to become the subject matter of the new relief-like works. The works evoke then an incredible sense of light, space, movement and time. My key elements in art are plaster,…
Literary Spotlight: Heidi Turner
From WTP Vol. V #6 “Night Marchers” By Heidi Turner We waited for the night-marchers. The mountains held legends between their arms; stories flew between the peaks and through the passes like thread, sewing the past to us, and we slept outside in the firelight. Gods flitted past our ears along with the mosquitoes. The…
Site Review: Word Tango
Writing Doesn’t Have to be a Solo Sport by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor One challenge of online communities is creating a warm, welcoming environment in the absence of a physical meeting. Word Tango, which offers remote writing workshops and an online community for fiction and genre writers, is not revolutionary in its concept. Where Word…