A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Reviews Editor Book: Graveyard of the Gods St. Louis, MO: Blank Slate Press (Amphorae Publishing Group), September 20, 2016 (210 pp; $12.95 paperback, $6.99 eBook), ISBN 9781943075201. Author: Richard Newman Established poet Richard Newman is a liberal arts instructor at the College of the Marshall…
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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…
Art Spotlight: Nathan Madrid
Evan (of Mixed Race) See Nathan Madrid’s work in WTP Vol. V #2 This series investigates our culture’s perception of ‘the other and otherness’ and how prescribed labels determine society’s behavior toward a social group because of race, gender, sex, class, and religion. When someone is perceived to challenge the dominant group’s values and beliefs,…
Literary Spotlight: Jennifer G. Peper
From WTP Vol. V #2 The Harpy By Jennifer G. Peper Once upon a time, there was a Harpy who lived on a hill in a beautiful circa-1882 Victorian nest in the suburbs. She was mean and drank too much. A quick word on Harpies: They are vain, cruel, and self-involved creatures. It’s best if…
Who are the Southern Authors of the New Millennium?
Contemporary Southern Authors and Their Subjects By Steve McCondichie, SFK Press Bless their hearts. Agents, editors, and publishers love their categories. It’s part of their tribal language. They are trained to promptly stuff readers and authors into the proper box. They call it a genre as if giving it a short French rolling sound makes…
Site Review: ArtistsNetwork.com
A Holy Grail for Artists By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Submit your website for review by WTP Artists are constantly networking in search of information regarding new publications, technical tips, resources, and much more. For some, ArtistsNetwork.com may be the Holy Grail. ArtistsNetwork.com is a division of the F+W Media, Inc. Art Community, which offers art contests,…
Site Review: Ken Berman
Art and Architecture Intersect By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Submit your website for review by WTP On California artist Ken Berman’s homepage, his work is referred to as “the nexus of urban art and design.” He describes his designs as combining the energy of the urban environment with the mechanics of our modern age. Berman’s…
WTP Artist: Yasuaki Okamoto
“In each place I visited, I studied the local flora and fauna.” Interview by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Yasuaki Okamoto is a New York–based artist. His paintings perform a kind of surrealism that incorporates animals, plants, everyday objects, landscape, and ethereal beings. His work is metaphorically based and inspired by his travels throughout Europe, Asia, and North America. …
Art Spotlight: Maria Santacecilia
Umbrella and Chess See Maria Santacecilia’s work in WTP Vol. V #2 Ink, pencil, and acrylic 11″ x 22″ I build my works with a sense of fragmentation that the graphic art tries to unite to rationalize. The intention is also the excuse, to move my hand in those unified lines, to change the directions…
Literary Spotlight: Rocio Anica
From WTP Vol. V #2 That You By Rocio Anica I liked him right away, because it was five o’clock in the morning and I was the only person in the hotel pool. In that early light, the sky reflected pink as he wandered onto the scene of my unholy-sunrise worship. He’d brought blue alcohol…
Gallery Profile: LOOC Art, Online Gallery
Co-founder and Co-director Claire Johnston: “…a gallery with a great aesthetic and not a lot of attitude” LOOC Art is unique in being a Web-based gallery, without a brick-and-mortar counterpart beyond representing your artists in large international fairs. How did you and McLanahan come to found LOOC? Lara McLanahan and I founded LOOC Art in 2011 based on a mutual love…
Between Self and Story
On Hemingway and Writing By Richard Gilbert, contributing editor A writer’s sense & sensibility become, through craft, literature. Craft is the self’s conduit to art—but craft mustn’t be enshrined. If you stay in newspapers long enough, you’ll only see words.”* …