2019 WTP Literary Winner

2019 WTP Literary Winner

[tm_pb_section admin_label=”section”][tm_pb_row admin_label=”Row”][tm_pb_column type=”1_2″][tm_pb_image admin_label=”Image” src=”https://www.thewoventalepress.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Duckler-1.jpg” alt=”Merridawn Duckler” title_text=”Merridawn Duckler” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”left” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] [/tm_pb_image][/tm_pb_column][tm_pb_column type=”1_2″][tm_pb_text admin_label=”Text” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] Merridawn Duckler [/tm_pb_text][tm_pb_text admin_label=”Text” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] Congratulations for winning The Elizabeth Sloan Tyler Memorial Award in the Literary category! Duckler is a writer from Portland,…

2019 WTP Fine Art Winner

2019 WTP Fine Art Winner

[tm_pb_section admin_label=”section”][tm_pb_row admin_label=”row”][tm_pb_column type=”4_4″][/tm_pb_column][/tm_pb_row][tm_pb_row admin_label=”Row”][tm_pb_column type=”1_2″][tm_pb_image admin_label=”Image” src=”https://www.thewoventalepress.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Tropa.jpg” alt=”Merridawn Duckler” title_text=”Merridawn Duckler” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”left” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] [/tm_pb_image][/tm_pb_column][tm_pb_column type=”1_2″][tm_pb_text admin_label=”Text” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] Madara Tropa [/tm_pb_text][tm_pb_text admin_label=”Text” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] Congratulations for winning The Elizabeth Sloan Tyler Memorial Award in the fine art category! Tropa (b. Latvia…

2019 WTP Second Place Literary Winner

2019 WTP Second Place Literary Winner

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Vol. VII #9

Vol. VII #9

  Digital-Painting Abstracts and Exquisite Trees This month in The Woven Tale Press Vol. VII #9: digital-painting abstracts and exquisite trees both as drawing and painting, expressionistic photography, a memoir of lilacs, poetry, and more. To view more extraordinary issues, visit our WTP Magazine page.       click on cover to go to issue…

"Starters" from Ellen Doré Watson

"Starters" from Ellen Doré Watson

Ellen Doré Watson offers a series of  “starters” for generating the raw material for new poems. The following prompts are inspired by “Three Girls, One of Them a Coward Girl” (from Kingdom Animalia) by Aracelis Girmay. Once you’re launched, the aim is to ride those winds of originality. (As always, any remaining “borrowed” bits should…

A Painter Making Sculpture

A Painter Making Sculpture

For the past twenty-five years, Heather Gorham has been painting and making sculpture—for this artist, the one complements the other. The painter and sculptor uses a variety of mediums including acrylic, wood, resin, and bronze. Gorham’s figurative artwork revolves around the tangible interpretation of the everyday in which she creates—with a twist—a dreamy window into…

An Archeological Approach to the Writing Craft

An Archeological Approach to the Writing Craft

Interview with Elizabeth Mosier Interview by Maribel Garcia Novelist and essayist Elizabeth Mosier logged one thousand volunteer hours processing colonial-era artifacts at Philadelphia’s Independence National Historical Park Archeology Laboratory to write Excavating Memory: Archaeology and Home (New Rivers Press, 2019). A graduate of Bryn Mawr College and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, her…

Basketry as Fine Art

Basketry as Fine Art

  In the WTP Spotlight: Jackie Abrams Enjoy our WTP Spotlights, notable selections featuring artists and writers from our Woven Tale Press magazine. To read the issue in full subscribe here. IN THE WTP SPOTLIGHT: Jackie Abrams has been a basketmaker since 1975, when she first apprenticed to an eighty-one-year-old traditional white ash basketmaker. Since 1990, she has…

Technology and Writing: One Writer's Perspective

Technology and Writing: One Writer's Perspective

Interview with Richard Dokey By Heidi Stauff, WTP Video Producer Richard Dokey’s stories have won awards and prizes and have been reprinted frequently in both regional and national anthologies and texts. He has novels and story collections to his credit. August Heat, an early collection, published by Story Press, Chicago, received a dust jacket endorsement…