Callie J. Smith writes about women who, like her, are finding themselves. Her essays and cozy fiction (contemporary and fantasy) explore everyday things like hope, creativity, and grief. She reflects on writing and more broadly about life and creative work via her nonfiction “Short Stuff” posts and in her Substack newsletter.
Smith’s writing has appeared in Abbey of the Arts, Academy of the Heart and Mind, Bearings Online, Branches, Christian Century, Commuter Lit, Dragon Soul Press anthologies, Freedom Fiction Journal, Gals Guide Press anthologies, Gnome and Bone Magazine, Helix Literary Magazine, A Kintsugi Life, Literally Stories, 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.
Smith is a clergy person in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).
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