Interview by Press Literary Editor Jo Ely Read McMonagle’s story in WTP Vol. III #12. Firstly, congratulations, Alan, on your recent two book deal with Picador. This is wonderful news and well deserved recognition for your work. You are clearly one to watch. I wonder what first drew you to the short story form. [Alan has…
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WTP Artist: Kathy Blankley Roman
Interview with Kathy Blankley Roman See her work in WTP Vol. III #2 and Vol. VI #3 What are you working on in your studio right now? I’m just getting back to studio time after a brief hiatus, dealing with putting a solo show together and building a website. In my acrylic studio, I have…
WTP Writer: George Szirtes
Interview with poet George Szirtes by Press Literary Editor Jo Ely. See his poetry in Vol. III #11: Tell us about your writing process. (For example, do you outline, revise extensively, use pen and paper, stickies, etc.) I tend to write straight on a keyboard, edit rapidly as I write, revise and revise, then leave it…
Art, Coffee, Tea and Blogs
By Donald Kolberg I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season and a an enjoyable, safe beginning to the New Year. The blast of cold air was refreshing here in central Fl. Made me want to drink lots more coffee. So I thought I’d start out this year with a bit of an up date…
Art, Coffee, Tea and Blogs
By Donald Kolberg Thought you might like to see some of my espresso pot collection. They don’t just sit on a shelf. I do use them. Well anyway its on to this session’s list of blogs. enjoy. ________________________________________________________________________________ http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/colour-wheels-charts-and-tables-through-history/ This is a great view of color wheels and how they have changed along with background…
How Do You Make One Book Stand Out?
Interview by Press literary editor, Jo Ely Matthew Smith has spent the last 25 years working with books, beginning as a Waterstones bookseller in 1991. He was a commissioning editor and manager at major UK publishers Routledge, Longman, Arcturus, Hodder Headline, Pearson and Kogan Page. In early 2014 Matthew founded Urbane Publications, an independent UK publisher,…
Art Spotlight: Garth Evans and Leila Philip
art by Garth Evans and poetry by Leila Philip. Excerpted from Water Rising, a collaboration between an artist and writer. See their work in this month’s Woven Tale Press, and a Press interview. Signals He came at night or in the early hours, we were never sure. Always it was morning when we found the…
A Writer and an Artist Collaborate
(left to right: Leila Philip and Garth Evans In 2012, writer Leila Philip and artist Garth Evans set out to challenge themselves. Philip, an award-winning prose writer, wrote poems. Evans, an internationally renowned sculptor, made watercolors. Philip’s realist poems—about nature, beauty, love, and loss, set amongst Evans’ abstract, deeply hued, layered watercolors–create a book which is…
iPhoneography: Hoarfrost Series
By David Hayes See his work in WTP Vol. III #3 Most mornings I take my Brittany, Kaylee, out for a walk at the nearby park. The Little Miami River runs through this section so I am always on the lookout for happenings on the water. This particular morning, it wasn’t what was on the…
WTP Writer: Claire Meadows
Interview by Press Literary Editor Jo Ely: Tell us about your writing process. For example, do you outline? Revise extensively? I don’t like to make the process too academic and prescriptive. I’ve not set up stringent conditions just in case I’m ever called upon to write in radically different situations and find myself stranded without…
Woven Tale Press Art Exhibition Opening...
…was a huge success! Great eclectic representation of Press artists, and with one of our Press contributors, Christine Klaus, reading from her own work as well as the poetry of a couple of others included in the book. Our first selected works edition is all about an eclectic rather than “best” representation of past artists,…
Graphite Drawing...With a Brush
Dandelion Hair, graphite on paper, 50″ x 50″ Melissa Cooke on graphite drawing: I started using powdered graphite in January of 2008. It was a point in my work where I was feeling stagnant, making small, tedious pencil drawings. I knew I had to make some changes. My solution was to visit an art store and…