Textual Healing with Mallory Smart

Become a Patron of Textual Healing: https://www.patreon.com/textualhealing John Patrick Higgins is a writer of long and short stories, screenplays and plays. He has had bad teeth for as long as he can remember and you might expect him, being English, not to notice. But he has noticed, and he’s doing something about it. His new book, Teeth , recounts his journey from a mouthful of moist gravel to a...

Become a Patron of Textual Healing: https://www.patreon.com/textualhealing Mallory Smart is a Chicago-based writer and Editor-in-Chief of Maudlin House . She is the host of the literary/music podcast Textual Healing and cohost of the horror movie podcast That Horrorcast . Her latest book, I Keep My Visions To Myself, just came out from With an X Books . Find her on Twitter or Instagram: @malsmart...

Become a Patron of Textual Healing:  https://www.patreon.com/textualhealing Ari Gold is a film director, poet, musician, & founder/president of Grack Films . His movies have screened at Sundance, Telluride, Karlovy-Vary, & hundreds of other festivals, & he has won over fifty prizes, including best film at SXSW (twice), the Student Oscar, and Best Director at the American Cinematheque /...

Become a Patron of Textual Healing: https://www.patreon.com/textualhealing Emmy-award winner Ben Tanzer's acclaimed work includes the short story collection UPSTATE, the science fiction novel Orphans and the essay collections Lost in Space and Be Cool. Ben is a storySouth and Pushcart nominee, a finalist for the Annual National Indie Excellence and Eric Hoffer Book Awards, a winner of the...

Become a Patron of Textual Healing: https://www.patreon.com/textualhealing Beatriz Seelaender is a Brazilian writer from São Paulo, Brazil. Traces of her writing can be found all over the internet, especially if you follow her on Twitter ( biaseelaender ) or instagram ( slanderdawg ). Her award-winning novella, " All According to Norm ", will be out later this year and can be pre-ordered...

Become a Patron of Textual Healing: https://www.patreon.com/textualhealing Patrick Barb is an author of weird, dark, and horrifying tales, currently living (and trying not to freeze to death) in Saint Paul, Minnesota. His published works include the dark fiction collection Pre-Approved for Haunting, the novellas Gargantuana’s Ghost and Turn, as well as the novelette Helicopter Parenting in the Age...

Become a Patron of Textual Healing: https://www.patreon.com/textualhealing Joshua Bohnsack ‘s work has appeared in The Rumpus, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Salt Hill, AGNI, SAND, Lit Hub, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Essay Daily , and others. He is the founding editor of Long Day Press , a hand-bound chapbook publisher, faculty advisor of Oyez Review , and teaches at Roosevelt University’s MFA in creative w...

Become a Patron of Textual Healing: https://www.patreon.com/textualhealing Brian Allen Carr is an American writer. He is the author of the short story collection Short Bus and was the winner of the inaugural Texas Observer Story Prize as judged by Larry McMurtry in 2011. Carr was also a finalist for the 2011 Texas Institute of Letters Steven Turner Award for First Fiction. His latest book, Bad Fou...

Become a Patron of Textual Healing: https://www.patreon.com/textualhealing Brianna Malotke is a writer based in the PNW. In addition to being a member and on the Social Media team for the Horror Writers Association, she’s also co-chair of the Seattle Chapter. Her most recent horror work can be found in  Dark Town ,  Lost Souls, _and _The Nottingham Horror Collective . She has horrifying poems and...

Become a Patron of Textual Healing: https://www.patreon.com/textualhealing Kyler Bingham Is a writer, educator, and proud dog dad. He lives in Salt Lake City. Salt Lake Dirt is a literary and film zine, podcast & radio show hosted by  Kyler Bingham . Salt Lake Dirt airs on  KPCR 92.9FM  every Monday at 6:00pm PST in Los Gatos, CA. You can listen to the show on all podcast platforms and follow...

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 Rejection Letters. 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 sho...

Become a Patron of Textual Healing: https://www.patreon.com/textualhealing Patrick Barb is an author of weird, dark, and horrifying tales, currently living (and trying not to freeze to death) in Saint Paul, Minnesota. His published works include the dark fiction collection Pre-Approved for Haunting , the novellas Gargantuana’s Ghost and Turn , as well as the novelette Helicopter Parenting in the A...

Become a Patron of Textual Healing: https://www.patreon.com/textualhealing Wilson Koewing is a writer from South Carolina. His debut story collection "Jaded" is available from Main Street Rag/Mint Hill Books. Click  HERE  to purchase. You can read an interview where Wilson discusses the writing of JADED at Bull Magazine  HERE . His second book, QUASI, is available from Anxiety Press. Cli...

Become a Patron of Textual Healing: https://www.patreon.com/textualhealing 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 forthc...

Become a Patron of Textual Healing: https://www.patreon.com/textualhealing 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 Cosm...

Become a Patron of Textual Healing: https://www.patreon.com/textualhealing 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. Check out past episodes of Textual Healing on our website: https://textualpodcast.com/ Rate us on Apple Podcasts: ht...

Become a Patron of Textual Healing: https://www.patreon.com/textualhealing 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 forthc...

Become a Patron of Textual Healing: https://www.patreon.com/textualhealing 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_...

Become a Patron of Textual Healing:  https://www.patreon.com/textualhealing 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...

Become a Patron of Textual Healing: https://www.patreon.com/textualhealing 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 As...

Become a Patron of Textual Healing: https://www.patreon.com/textualhealing 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 bike...

Become a Patron of Textual Healing: https://www.patreon.com/textualhealing 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. Check out Scout's work: https://ww...

Become a Patron of Textual Healing: https://www.patreon.com/textualhealing 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. Check out Scout's work: https://ww...

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 . Check out other With an X Books here: www.withanxbooks.com Check out past episodes of Textual Healing...

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 . Check out past episodes of Textual Healing on our website:  https://textualpodcast.com/ Rate...