Textual Healing with Mallory Smart

Mallory Smart

Booking Overview

This is a literary interview podcast focused on authors’ writing practices, individual styles, and the influence of music on their work, typically featuring emerging and independently published writers. Credible pitches include fiction writers, poets, essayists, and authors with literary-journal credits, distinctive creative processes, or forthcoming books; booking difficulty is low because the show regularly features rising writers rather than highly prominent public figures.

Metrics

Episodes: 196

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Estimated listeners: 100 - 1,000

Listener location: USA

Instagram: 356 followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

mallory@maudlinhouse.net

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Host

Mallory Smart - Host of a literary podcast exploring authors’ writing, creative processes, and connections between music and literature.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

low

Typical Credentials:

Emerging authors, fiction writers, poets, and essayists with published work in literary journals, independent presses, or forthcoming books.

Required Achievements:

Publication in recognized literary journals, Published or forthcoming books, Work spanning fiction, poetry, or essays

Recent Guest Discussions

Scott Laudati - Writing Practice, Fiction, Essays, Poetry, And A Writer’s Survival Guide.

Julin Martinez - Writing, Unusual Or Experimental Fiction, Literary Influences, And His Forthcoming Debut Collection.

Julin Martinez - Writing And Literary Experiences In A Coast-to-coast Conversation.

Recent Topics

Literature, Writing, Music, Fiction, Poetry

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Textual Healing with Mallory Smart

S5E9 -Shane Kowalski: i keep using the word striking

October 10, 2026

Shane Kowalski lives in Pennsylvania. His work has appeared in Harper's, Conjunctions, EPOCH, Fence, The Iowa Review, and elsewhere. He is the author of the short story collections Small Moods and Are People Out There, both published by Future Tense Books. 🎧 Like what you hear? Rate and review Textual Healing on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. It seriously helps us reach more listeners. 🌐 Visit us: https://textualpodcast.com 📲 Follow: Twitter| Instagram | Bluesky: @mallorysmart.bsky.social 🔗 Mor...

S5E8 -Off the Record with Shane Kowalski: Just a Figment of Speech

October 03, 2026

S5E7 -Claire Vaye Watkins: Staying Weird

July 26, 2026

Claire Vaye Watkins was born in Bishop, California and raised in the Mojave Desert on the Amargosa River. A graduate of the University of Nevada Reno, she earned her MFA from the Ohio State University in 2010. Claire is the author of three novels—Gold Fame Citrus, I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness, and Yellow Pine—and the short story collection Battleborn. She has received the Story Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award, the Rosenthal Family ...

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mallory@maudlinhouse.net

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