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WTP Vol. XII #1
Mixed-media photography, silk painting, car parts, fiction, poetry and more! Print copy available here. To view more extraordinary issues, visit our WTP Magazine archive
A Thriller Plus
Review of Mark Wish’s Necessary Deeds By Jack Smith, WTP Guest Writer Necessary Deeds by Mark Wish (Regal House Publishing, January 2024; 208 pp.; $18.95; ISBN 9781646034079). Mark Wish is a prize-winning short story writer and novelist. Necessary Deeds, his fourth novel, is a high-octane thriller, a murder mystery, a suspense novel—and more. It’s also a…
Contending Forces
The Empowered Writer, Part Four By WTP Writer Richard Wertime Woven Tale Press writer Richard Wertime reflects on the craft of fiction in an ongoing series of craft notes Read Part One, Part Two, and Part Three “Gee! And here I’d thought…” (Anonymous) Rare indeed is the writer who, the next morning, hasn’t cast a quick…
Examining the Precariat
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor American Precariat: Parables of Exclusion, edited by Zeke Caligiuri et al., introduction by Eula Biss (Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, November 14, 2023; 320 pp.; ISBN 9781566896955; $19.95 paperback). “The sea is the pitiless social darkness into…
Hard-Hitting, Hard-Boiled Fiction
Review of Jack Remick’s Man Alone By Jack Smith, WTP Guest Writer Man Alone by Jack Remick (Sidekick Press, August 2023; 120 pp.; $16.94; ISBN 9781958808153). Jack Remick is the author of numerous works of fiction. His most recent work, Man Alone, is hard-boiled fiction at its best. In a series of short scenes with clipped…
Questions of Courage
The Empowered Writer, Part Three By WTP Writer Richard Wertime Woven Tale Press writer Richard Wertime reflects on the craft of fiction in an ongoing series of craft notes *Read Part One here and Part Two here “Even the most successful of careers is built on a mountain of wasted effort.” —E. M. Forster Note…
A Narrative of Lost Identity
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Nadia by Christine Evans (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press; September 19, 2023; 246 pp.; $19.00; ISBN 9781609389093 paperback; ISBN 9781609389109 eBook). “We become so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that at last we are…
WTP Vol. XI #6
Literary and Fine Art Magazine: this month, unique fiber art, digital painting, flash fiction, and more! Print copy available here. To view more extraordinary issues, visit our WTP Magazine archive
The "Lucky Hit"—and After
The Empowered Writer, Part Two By WTP Writer Richard Wertime Woven Tale Press writer Richard Wertime reflects on the craft of fiction in an ongoing series of craft notes Read Part One here “I have to learn alone to turn my body without force in the deep element.” —Adrienne Rich, “Diving into the Wreck,” lines…
The Empowered Writer
Part One By WTP Writer Richard Wertime Woven Tale Press writer Richard Wertime reflects on the craft of fiction in an ongoing series of craft notes “That afternoon nothing new came to Thea Kronborg, no enlightenment, no inspiration. She merely came into full possession of things she had been refining and perfecting for so long.”…
Fluid Photographic Collage
Enjoy our WTP Spotlights, notable selections featuring artists and writers from our Woven Tale Press magazine. To read the issue in full subscribe and you can also register on our site to enjoy our archive. Lisa McCutcheon earned her MFA in Painting in 2001 from the San Francisco Art Institute and currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.…