Textual Healing with Mallory Smart
Dive into this lit podcast hosted by Mallory Smart, where authors explore the synergy between music and their writing. Brace yourself for offbeat interviews where writers discuss their individual styles, get lost in unpredictable anecdotes, and how music transforms their creative process. New episodes airing every Saturday.
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Sarah Edmonds is a queer author and filmmaker from southeastern Pennsylvania who currently serves as video poetry editor for the West Trade Review and as Editor-in-Chief of For Page & Screen Magazine. Their films have been featured in several international festivals and their writing has been published by, or is forthcoming with, Wolfsinger Publication's Us/Them Anthology, Ethel Zine, the West Trade Review, _Decoded: Pride Anth...
Patrick Barb is an author of weird, dark, and spooky stories, hailing from the southern United States and currently living (and trying not to freeze to death) with his wife two kids, and a naughty (but lovable) puppy in Saint Paul, Minnesota. As a writer, his short fiction appears in Nightscript, Diabolical Plots, and Cosmic Horror Monthly, among other publications. His longer works include the novellas Gargantuana’s Ghost (Grey Ma...
Austin Ross is the author of the forthcoming novel Gloria Patri, out August 22 from Malarkey Books. His work has appeared in Literary Hub and elsewhere. He lives just outside Washington, DC, with his family.
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Sarah Edmonds is a queer author and filmmaker from southeastern Pennsylvania who currently serves as video poetry editor for the West Trade Review and as Editor-in-Chief of For Page & Screen Magazine. Their films have been featured in several international festivals and their writing has been published by, or is forthcoming with, Wolfsinger Publication's Us/Them Anthology, Ethel Zine, the West Trade Review, _Decoded: Pride Anth...
Caleb Bethea is a writer from the Southeast. He's an MFA at the University of South Carolina and works as a copywriter. The best of his time - by far - is spent with his wife and two goblins by the ocean. Catch his work in Maudlin House, HAD, Twin Pies, hex, Autofocus, and elsewhere. Follow him on Twitter at @caleb_bethea_
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Nick Gregorio is a husband, writer, teacher, dog-dad, punk, nerd, teeth-grinder, and mall-walker living and writing just outside of Philadelphia. He is the author of five books, and his work has appeared in many print and online journals. He earned his MFA from Arcadia University in 2015, and his second novel, Launch Me to the Stars, I'm Finished Here, was r...
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Dennis James Sweeney is the author of You’re the Woods Too (Essay Press, 2023) and In the Antarctic Circle (Autumn House Press, 2021), as well as several chapbooks of poetry and prose, including Ghost/Home: A Beginner's Guide to Being Haunted (Ricochet Editions, 2020). Formerly a Small Press Editor of Entropy and Assistant Editor of Denver Quarterly, he has ...
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Jessamyn Violet has worn countless different hats and hairstyles. She is or has been, at one time, sometimes, or all the time, the following: A writer, a heavy dreamer, a drummer, a poet, a producer, an actor, a director, an editor, a pianist, a photographer, a journalist, a stand-up comedian, a front woman, a hiker, a biker, a rockstar, a rebel, a really ni...
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Scout Tafoya is a prolific director, author, and critic from Doylestown, PA. He's directed 30 feature films, published two books about filmmaking and his work has been featured in The Village Voice, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Film Comment, and Nylon Magazine among other publications.
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Scout Tafoya is a prolific director, author, and critic from Doylestown, PA. He's directed 30 feature films, published two books about filmmaking and his work has been featured in The Village Voice, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Film Comment, and Nylon Magazine among other publications.
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Drew Buxton is a writer and social worker from Texas. His short story collection So Much Heart is available for preorder now from With an X Books. His work has been featured in The Drift, Joyland, Electric Literature, Ninth Letter, and Vice among other publications. Find him at drewbuxton.com.
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Drew Buxton is a writer and social worker from Texas. His short story collection So Much Heart is available for preorder now from With an X Books. His work has been featured in The Drift, Joyland, Electric Literature, Ninth Letter, and Vice among other publications. Find him at drewbuxton.com.
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Dennis James Sweeney is the author of You're the Woods Too, In the Antarctic Circle, and chapbooks including Ghost/Home: A Beginner's Guide to Being Haunted. He lives with his family in Amherst, Massachusetts.
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Dmitry Samarov was born in Moscow, USSR in 1970. He immigrated to the US with his family in 1978. He got in trouble in 1st grade for doodling on his Lenin Red Star pin and hasn't stopped doodling since. He graduated with a BFA in painting and printmaking from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1993.
He drove a cab—first in Boston, then after a time, in Chicago— which led to the publication of his illustrated work memoirs...
Josh Dale is a cat-loving, native Pennsylvanian. He hopes you listen to this podcast outdoors and away from society. www.joshdale.co
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Jessamyn Violet is a writer and drummer living in Venice Beach, CA. Originally from Massachusetts, she graduated with a BFA in Writing, Literature and Publishing from Emerson College. She went on to earn an MFA in Creative Writing from California College of the Arts. Her poetry book “Organ Thieves” was published by Gauss PDF. She’s placed short fiction in 805 Art + Lit, Adelaide, Little Break and Three Elements. Her debut novel Sec...
Austin Ross is the author of the forthcoming novel Gloria Patri, out August 22 from Malarkey Books. His work has appeared in Literary Hub and elsewhere. He lives just outside Washington, DC, with his family.
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Matthew Binder is the author of the novels Pure Cosmos Club, The Absolved, and High in the Streets. He's also a primary member of the recording project Bang Bang Jet Away.
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Scott Mitchel May is a writer living in Madison, WI. His short fiction has been published in many literary journals including The Maryland Literary Review, HAD, W&S, Maudlin House, Bending Genres, and The Metaworker. He was the winner of the 2019 UW-Madison Writers' Institute Poem or Page Competition in the category of literary fiction, and his unpublished novel, Bridgeport Nowhere, was shortlisted for the 2022 Santa Fe Writers...
Matthew Binder is the author of the novels Pure Cosmos Club, The Absolved, and High in the Streets. He's also a primary member of the recording project Bang Bang Jet Away.
https://www.matthewbinder.net/
Spotify: Bang Bang Jet Away IG: matthew_p_binder Twitter: @mbinder711
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