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…
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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…
WTP Writer: Jacqueline Crooks
Short-story author and novelist Jacqueline Crooks Looking Back on 2016 Interview by Jo Ely, Contributing Editor Jacqueline Crooks is a Jamaican-born, British short-story writer whose main subjects are migration and Caribbean subcultures. Crooks is A Wasafiri Prize runner-up, and the first chapter of her novel Fire Rush was published by Granta (WW15, the Anthology of New Writing,…
Eye on the Indies
A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Book Review Editor Book: Where’s the Moon?: A Memoir of the Space Coast & the Florida Dream College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, November 2, 2016 ($26.00 paperback, 224 pages, 29 B&W photos, index). ISBN 978-1-62349-450-6 Author: Ann McCutchan Ann McCutchan is an essayist and journalist…
Eye on the Indies
Indie Book Reviews and a Look at Indie Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Book Review Editor Book: Losing Helen: An Essay Pasadena, CA: Red Hen Press, September 2016 ($14.00 paperback, 110 pages). ISBN 978-1-59709-990-5 Author: Carol Becker Carol Becker is Dean of Faculty and Professor of the Arts at Columbia University School of the Arts. She was previously Dean of…
WTP Writer: Patty Somlo
Transforming Struggles Into Art Interview by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Patty Somlo is an author of fiction and creative nonfiction living in Sonoma County, California. Her second book, The First to Disappear (Spuyten Duyvil), was a finalist in the Fiction: Short Story category of the 2016 International Book Awards. Her work has appeared in journals, including the Los Angeles Review, the…
Site Review: Sarah James
The Possibilities of Poetry by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Sarah James, which began as poet Sarah Leavesley’s promotional website, has evolved into a cache of reviews of indie poetry and interviews with poets, and is still evolving. Leavesley, a poet and playwright with a background in journalism, is the author of four collections of poetry: plenty-fish,…
Eye on the Indies
New To WTP Blog: Indie Book Reviews and a Look at Indie Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Book Review Editor Book: Ninety-Nine Stories of God Portland, OR: Tin House Books, July 12, 2016 ($19.95 cloth hardcover; 168 pages) ISBN 978-1-941040-35-5 Author: Joy Williams The highly respected writing of Joy Williams includes four novels, four prior short-story collections, a…
Erin Clossey: 45th Anniversary Ploughshares
For 45 Years, Ploughshares Has Been on Cutting Edge of Literature Founded by DeWitt Henry, contributing editor for The Woven Tale Press In 1971, DeWitt Henry, now professor emeritus of Emerson’s Writing, Literature and Publishing Department, and Peter O’Malley, owner of The Plough and Stars pub in Cambridge, Massachusetts, decided through discussions over pints that…
Yossi Waxman | Novel Excerpt
Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye I Die a Little From a novel by Yossi Waxman Translated by Baruch Gefen Paintings by Yossi Waxman [dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen I was young, I believed there is life, real life, with awareness and understanding and love, and even hatred… I believed there is life in rocks and trees and flowers and…
Listen to Kirstin Maguire
Audio Poetry: The Writing Life By Kirstin Maguire https://soundcloud.com/kirstinmaguire/the-writing-life [dropcap]K[/dropcap]irstin Maguire produces her poems in audio at SoundCloud as well as publishing them in numerous publications and collections, including Every Day Poems, The Guardian, Foliate Oak Literary Magazine and Cannon Poets. Her debut collection was a collaboration with Artist Jane Moore— the Sketch A Day…
Woven Tale Press Editor Jo Ely | In Her Own Words
Writing My First Novel Jo Ely [dropcap]I[/dropcap]f truly committed, one can always find time to write–poet Salena Godden gets up at 4 am, and short story writer and novelist Jacqueline Crooks would write on buses and trains, commuting to her seven-day-a-week job. Not many people have that kind of commitment, and I am no exception. I…