A Treasure Trove of Information By Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Meredith Sue Willis’s website is packed with information about writing and teaching, her life as a prolific writer, and resources to craft a marketable book. She splashes her website with images of her book covers, family photos, and other authors. She provides links to…
Category: reviews: literary websites
Websites cited here were submitted by artists and writers for review. In our reviews, WTP editors consider actual website design and ease of navigation, but first and foremost, seek to highlight is content–to grow the online presence to these noteworthy cyber talents.
Site Review: Debasis Mukhopadhyay
“I like to see these languages as multiple voices dwelling within me.” By Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Debasis Mukhopadhyay holds a PhD in literary studies and lives and writes in Montreal, Canada. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Curly Mind, After the Pause, Posit, Manneqüin Haüs, Yellow Chair Review, Thirteen Myna Birds,…
Site Review: Button Poetry
Broadcasting Today’s Best and Brightest Poets By Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Although I have been writing poetry since I was two years old, I only first discovered “slam poetry” in college, when a classmate began a slam poetry club, team, and reading series, drawing on performers whom he had met at regional and national high…
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…
Site Review: Talking Writing
“Creating meaning through personal stories.” By Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Talking Writing, an online literary journal spearheaded by Martha Nichols and Jennifer Jean, aims to provide a home for first-person journalism. Defined on their “About” page as “features told from a personal perspective but underpinned by research and reporting,” first-person journalism, the editors claim, is an…
Site Review: Wally Swist
“Living in a farming area and observing nature…has been my own version of living a Thoreauvian or Franciscan kind of life” By Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Submit your website for review by WTP Wally Swist’s works range the gamut—as the author of over twenty collections of poetry, on his website you will find his complete bibliography,…
Site Review: Pen + Brush
Achieving Gender Parity Through the Arts by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Founded in 1894 by Janet and Mary Lewis, Pen + Brush has been at the forefront of gender parity in the arts for over 120 years. In its current incarnation as a gallery in the Flatiron District of New York City, Pen + Brush…
Site Review: SFK Press
Southern Fried Karma by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor SFK Press, a.k.a. Southern Fried Karma, is an independent press founded by Steve McCondichie devoted to publishing Southern authors. Based in Metro Atlanta, McCondichie is after works that expand the definition of Southern literature, from “the bespectacled Flannery O’Connor” to authors who “have dumped the askew pastorals…
Site Review: LitReactor
Gaming the Workshop by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor The team behind LitReactor, a literary website that offers online classes and writers’ workshops, a features magazine, a podcast, and a Reddit-esque community chatroom, doesn’t shy away from bold claims. On their about page, they boast: “If you’re passionate about reading and/or writing, this is the only website…
Site Review: The Review Review
Demystifying Literary Magazines by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor In 2008, Becky Tuch, the founder of The Review Review, felt like she had hit a publishing wall: “I stopped submitting to literary magazines. As a fiction writer, trying to get my work published felt as futile and inconsequential as trying to write my name on a…
Site Review: Trish Hopkinson
The Un-“Selfish Poet” by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Blogger and poet Trish Hopkinson immediately sets the spunky and erudite tone for her site with the subheading: “The Selfish Poet.” This head-on foray into the world of semi-promotional, semi-informational poet websites is both witty and refreshing in its honesty. Hopkinson does devote half of her site (2/4…
Site Review: VIDA Women in Literary Arts
A Literary Watchdog by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor In the online literary arena, VIDA: Women in Literary Arts stands apart. Many literary websites promote individual artists, curate resources for writers, or are literary journals. VIDA, however, takes on the unique role of watchdog for gender equity in literary publication. The VIDA Count, which the site…