Textual Healing with Mallory Smart

Christina Quay is a florist, artist, and mother when she isn't writing books with her partner Chase. She graduated from the University of South Florida where she studied Journalism and Spanish Language. She resides in Florida with her family where she dreams of a climate that isn't quite so...red.

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Kirsti MacKenzie has published in HAD, trampset, Identity Theory, and Rejection Letters. She studied creative writing at Humber College and Memorial University but learned the most from bathroom graffiti in dive bars. She lives in Ottawa and can be found perpetually on her bullshit @KeersteeMack.

You can check out her most recent short story, All Fucked Up On Shell Bras, on Maudlin House.

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Join Mallory Smart as she discusses all things music & writing with some of the coolest people in the lit world. Listen to her and her guests go wild about their musical influences, fav genres, and how it all goes back into how they write.

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Claire Hopple is the author of five books. Her fiction has appeared in Wigleaf, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Peach Mag, Forever Mag, and others. She grew up in the woods of Western PA and currently lives in Asheville, NC. More at clairehopple.com.

Be sure to grab a copy of Echo Chamber: A Novella and Stories by Claire Hopple from Trident Press, and use the code: TRIDENTPRESS when checking out for a 10% discount.

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Kyle Seibel is a writer in Santa Barbara CA. His work has been featured in Joyland Magazine, New World Writing, and Wigleaf. He is represented by Christopher Schelling of Selectric Artists and his debut collection of short fiction is currently looking for a publisher. Follow him on Twitter @kylerseibel. He's been getting a lot better lately.

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Kirsti MacKenzie has published in HAD, trampset, Identity Theory, and Rejection Letters. She studied creative writing at Humber College and Memorial University but learned the most from bathroom graffiti in dive bars. She lives in Ottawa and can be found perpetually on her bullshit @KeersteeMack.

You can check out her most recent short story, All Fucked Up On Shell Bras, on Maudlin House.

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AUG STONE is a writer, musician, & comedian. Author of the comedy novels The Ballad Of Buttery Cake Ass and Off-License To Kill, as well as the memoir _Nick Cave’s Bar, _his journalism has appeared in The Quietus, The Comics Journal, Under The Radar, and many more sites and magazines. Aug was a founding member of H Bird and The Soft Close-Ups, and has played in countless other bands. He performs comedy as absurdist stream-of-consciousness raconteur, Young Southpaw. 

His Twitter is @AugStone and his website is: http://www.augstone.com/

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AUG STONE is a writer, musician, & comedian. Author of the comedy novels The Ballad Of Buttery Cake Ass and Off-License To Kill, as well as the memoir _Nick Cave’s Bar, _his journalism has appeared in The Quietus, The Comics Journal, Under The Radar, and many more sites and magazines. Aug was a founding member of H Bird and The Soft Close-Ups, and has played in countless other bands. He performs comedy as absurdist stream-of-consciousness raconteur, Young Southpaw. 

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Scott Laudati lives in Brooklyn with his bo-chi, Josie. He is the author of Play The Devil (novel) and Camp Winapooka (poems). His poetry and short stories have been published by Columbia University, X-R-A-Y, University of Chicago, Hobart, and many others. Visit him anywhere @ScottLaudati

On a side note: his favorite Jack Kerouac book is On The Road…

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Mallory Smart is a Chicago-based writer and Editor-in-Chief of the indie press, Maudlin House. She talks about music and literature on the podcast, Textual Healing, and about horror movies on her podcast,That Horrorcast. Her novel, The Only Living Girl In Chicago, just came out from Trident Press in August 2021. Her hybrid short story collection, THE WRITER, came out on December 31st 2022,

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