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McClure Smith has published short fiction and nonfiction in numerous U.S. and European literary magazines. You can read some of them here:
“The Escape” at Yalobusha Review
“Every Pitcher Tells a Story” at Litro
“Scots in Hawaii” at Barcelona Review
“Easterhouse” at Barcelona Review
“Tod 1932” at J Journal
“Tea Party” at Manchester Review
The Violence, a collection of the short fiction, was published by Queen's Ferry Press in 2015.
Here are Sherwood Kiraly, Emma Frey, Mary DiPrete, Evelyn Coffin and Chad Simpson reading from the collection.
Smith’s book, The Seductions Of Emily Dickinson, was published by the University of Alabama Press in 1996 and received the Elizabeth Agee Prize and a Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award. In 2003, he co-edited with Ellen Weinauer the collection American Culture, Canons and The Case of Elizabeth Stoddard.
His essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Contemporary Literature, Narrative, Journal of Narrative Technique, Arizona Quarterly, American Transcendental Quarterly and ESQ.