Callie J. Smith writes about women who, like her, are finding themselves. Her fiction and essays explore everyday things like hope, creativity, and grief, with the fiction splitting its time between contemporary and fantasy.
Smith reflects on her writing as well as more broadly about creative life and work via her “Short Stuff” posts as well as in a Substack newsletter.
Smith’s writing has appeared in Abbey of the Arts, Academy of the Heart and Mind, Bearings Online, Branches, The Christian Century, Forever Yours: A Dragon Soul Press Anthology, Helix Literary Magazine, A Kintsugi Life, and Women Writers, Women[‘s] Books and received a third-place medal in the 2025 Gals Guide Anthology: Female Friendship and both the Award of Merit (Best in Book) prize and a First Place in Prose from The Polk Street Review. She’s a clergy person in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).
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