Carol Smallwood

CAROL SMALLWOOD is a literary judge, reviewer, and multiple Pushcart-nominee. She edited Bringing the Arts Into the Library (American Library Association, 2014); Writing after Retirement (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014); and Women on Poetry: Tips on Writing, Revising, Publishing and Teaching (McFarland, 2012), which was included on Poets & Writers Magazine list of Best Books for Writers. Her more than four dozen nonfiction books have been published by Peter Lang, Libraries Unlimited, American Library Association, Scarecrow Press, and others.

Contributor Bios for Issue 9 Summer 2015

July 1, 2015 Contributed By: Alex Cigale, Amanda Sarasien, Anna Leahy, Arne Weingart, Artur Azevedo, Barbara Hamby, Carol Smallwood, Circe Maia, Dariel Suarez, David Armstrong, David Kirby, Elizabeth Switaj, Garnett Kilberg Cohen, Henryk Cierniak, Irene Turner, Jacob M. Appel, James Capozzi, Jesse Lee Kercheval, John Guzlowski, Kelly McQuain, Laurie Blauner, Marc Frazier, Mary Langer Thompson, Matthew Pitt, Okla Elliott, Paul Adler, Peter Burzynski, Richard Cecil, Samuel R. Delany, Vincent Czyz, Vladimir Mayakovsky

Issue 9 Summer 2015 PAUL ADLER received his MFA from Columbia University, where Matthew Zapruder selected his thesis manuscript as winner of the 2012 David Craig Austin Prize. Paul currently works as the Assistant Editor of Westchester Magazine. JACOB M. APPEL is the author of the novels The Biology of Luck and The Man Who Wouldn’t Stand Up. His fourth collection […]

Poems in Water by Mary Langer Thompson
(reviewed by Carol Smallwood)

July 1, 2015 Contributed By: Carol Smallwood, Mary Langer Thompson

POEMS IN WATER by Mary Langer Thompson Green Fuse Poetic Arts (2014) 57 pages reviewed by Carol Smallwood Every poetry collection creates its own sense of space: geographic, cultural, and personal: word selection and use are fingerprints of each writer. The reader tastes a new world and if the poet is good, the world is […]

MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 9 Summer 2015

NONFICTION David Kirby Photos by Barbara Hamby Cows and Wows: Why India Works Depite Itself and What We Can Learn from Its Example INTERVIEW Garnett Kilberg Cohen Interviewed by Okla Elliott Freshness, Craft, and Time FICTION Jacob M. Appel Gable’s Whiskers David Armstrong Gracile Laurie Blauner The Solace of Monsters Garnett Kilberg Cohen Bad […]

Contributor Bios for Issue 8 Summer 2014

July 1, 2014 Contributed By: Amy Gigi Alexander, Barbara Hamby, Carol Smallwood, Christian Sorace, David Kirby, David R. Slavitt, Ed Makowski, Efraín Bartolomé, Gary Fincke, Graham Guest, Greg Hlavaty, Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams, Janet Joyner, Joseph Mills, Joshua Preston, Kevin Brown, Melissa King Rogers, Michael Ennis, Michael Gills, Michael Karl (Ritchie), Michael Meyerhofer, Nancy P. Davenport, Okla Elliott, P. J. Williams, Paul Crenshaw, Richard Kostelanetz, Robert Cowan, Sarah Katharina Kayß, Seth Michelson, Siddhartha Sebastian Larsson, Tony Whedon, Vincent Czyz

Issue 8 Summer 2014 HANNAH DELA CRUZ ABRAMS received the 2013 Whiting Writers’ Award for her novella The Man Who Danced with Dolls and her memoir-in-progress The Following Sea. She has also been accorded a Rona Jaffe National Literary Award and a North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship. Her work has most recently appeared in, or is forthcoming from, Oxford American, Waccamaw, and Southern […]

Style in John Galsworthy’s The Patrician
(reviewed by Carol Smallwood)

July 1, 2014 Contributed By: Carol Smallwood, John Galsworthy

THE PATRICIAN by John Galsworthy Amazon Digital Services, Inc. 160 pages reviewed by Carol Smallwood Style is difficult to detect in your own writing, though it’s automatically sensed in others. The Patrician, a novel published in 1911, is the work I think of in connection with style because it fits so well Galsworthy’s definition of it […]

MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 8 Summer 2014

EDITORS‘ INTRODUCTION Paul Crenshaw & Okla Elliott Special Nonfiction Issue FEATURED ARTICLE David Kirby photos by Barbara Hamby Who Made That Wooden Horse, and What’s It Doing on Our Beach? What Greece Needs Now ESSAYS Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams Letter to Laurena Amy Gigi Alexander From Lost to Loved in Bihar Robert Cowan Close Call […]

Carol Smallwood

Contributor Bios for Issue 9 Summer 2015

Poems in Water by Mary Langer Thompson
(reviewed by Carol Smallwood)

MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 9 Summer 2015

Contributor Bios for Issue 8 Summer 2014

Style in John Galsworthy’s The Patrician
(reviewed by Carol Smallwood)

MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 8 Summer 2014

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