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Kelly Smith

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About Me

Just published in the latest edition of The Roundtable Review is my feature interview with author Richard Blandford on his book 'Hound Dog.' In edition 7 I interview author Toby Litt.Featured in Edition 5 is my interview with Alan Emmins , author of '31 Days: A New York Street Diary' . Also read my review of the new short fiction anthology 'Small Voices, Big Confessions' .In Edition 4 I interview Michael Bywater on the release of his book 'Big Babies' and my short story 'Captain and Maria' is published in the new fiction section.Plain MySpace Layouts by Iron Spider
My writing is published regularly in the The Roundtable Review . See the links above for my most recent author interviews, book reviews and short fiction.I am currently studying for my MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia and working as Fiction Editor for EditRed.

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Books:

Love them. Passionately. Authors: Nabokov, E.M.Forster, Virginia Woolf, Henry James, Ovid, Jon McGregor, Annie Dillard, Robyn Davidson, David Mitchell, Jonathen Franzen, Flaubert, Kate Chopin, Euripides, Jon Dos Passos, Will Self, Tolstoy, Guy de Maupassant, Don DeLillo, Murakami, Woody Allen, Alan Bennett, Margaret Atwood, Toby Litt, Raymond Carver, Ali Smith, Robert MacFarlane, Caron Freeborn, Elizabeth Speller, Alan Emmins, Patricia Duncker, Edward Abbey, Kazuo Ishiguro, Barry Lopez, Thomas Pynchon, Michael Bywater, Paul Auster, Voltaire, Choderlos De Laclos, Martin Amis, Kingsley Amis, Mark Ravenhill, Harold Pinter, Martin McDonagh, Steven Hall, Noam Chomsky, Philip Roth...the poetry of John Keats, William Carlos Williams, Philip Larkin.

Heroes:

No heroes. Only heroines.

My Blog

Lie.

You don't lie awake at night wanting to be anywhere but here, anywhere but next to this man.  It must have been the moon that woke you; it's too bright.  The curtains never keep it out. You ...
Posted by Kelly Smith on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:44:00 PST

Life is a Bird

'Wait! You leave your coke behind!' the woman yells from behind the counter, at the customer jumping into his car outside on the street. Late evening light disperses inside the shop, the glare of a s...
Posted by Kelly Smith on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 05:35:00 PST

McHenry and Meredith

On his first trip to the city he'd meant business. Through the small, smeared glass window of the plane, McHenry had watched Mount St. Helens loom through the clouds like Olympus; pressing his face up...
Posted by Kelly Smith on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 05:39:00 PST

Breaking

It began with the acknowledgement they were wrong. That all assumptions made and judgements called were flawed and skewed. While these new facts began to form, she made an attempt to speak. Someone ha...
Posted by Kelly Smith on Sat, 09 Jun 2007 03:14:00 PST

Painting Lesson

  He coloured the present with the past, hand selected the hue, the shade. Sienna red and burnt umber for pain, cobalt blue for long lost days. He sketched each glance, mistook her look Filled in...
Posted by Kelly Smith on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 02:50:00 PST

Untitled

Within, the cold days linger longer. The fire holds no embers of past reminders. You, my absent friend, die like old coal....
Posted by Kelly Smith on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 04:52:00 PST

Captain and Maria

    Barbara had just faked her one-hundred-and-ninety-sixth orgasm.  Not consecutively, you'll understand. A biological impossibility surely?  She noted the new figure as the ...
Posted by Kelly Smith on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 02:24:00 PST

A Valentine for Ruth

A Valentine for Ruth Ribbons of songs came streaming through the half-opened window caught up in a breeze that carried them off to another place, rippling and dancing as they flew   &n...
Posted by Kelly Smith on Thu, 16 Nov 2006 08:50:00 PST