Anstruther Press, 2024The Anstruther Reader: Sappho, Let Go, & Flick Off!The Anstruther Reader is an anthology compiling ten years worth of limited edition chapbooks and broadsides, including poems from my chapbook, Claw Machine.poetry
DOG TEETH Mag, 2024How would you like to be perceived?How would you like to be drawn? The body artist asks. She sits under a shower of mist. Her blue-green scaled body catches sunlight from the watery window. There are sketches of beings on the walls and her tables. speculativepoetry
Polar Borealis Magazine, 2024The Mindworm is SpreadingThe sun tries to touch the soil, burning through tarmac and asphalt to reach cold earth underneath. The roads crack and sink. Sparrow wings sit discarded in ditches. I do not need to consume continually, it is more a craving turned habit.speculativepoetry
above/ground press, 2024Put on your shoes or else you need to leaveStilted bones for your birthday are an expected guest present in the evening decanter poured between me, the mist and my sister. Sparrows are my confidantes. Butterflies are my enemies. My sister is alright, she isn’t a butterfly. absurdpoetrysurrealismabstract
untethered magazine, 2024I vowed to be of service to other beingsOn a productive day I get out my fountain pen and paper and stand outside, in the rain, letting wet smear You can’t read this. poetryekphrastic
Polar Starlight, 2024Family TreeNebby peeled back the layers of her grandmother’s Holo account. She tried to piece together the girl her grandma had been. Opening the earliest part of the catalogue. speculativepoetry
The Future Fire, 2024Manipulating the LightThe open skylights lance drops of sunlight that slip through prisms and bounce off mirrors, leaving a spill of colour and light speculative
Querencia, 2024ObjectifiedArt from 55 contributors from the women & lgbtqiap+ communities- all sales from this volume will be donated to Crossroads for Womenspeculative
Decapitate, 2024Chemical Rebalance for Young Cyborg HousewivesThe woman stares at the pillbox of pearls beside her bed. She takes it in her hand, shakes out a few into her palm then strings a necklace. She clasps it behind her neck. speculativereprint
Bywords, 2024Ugly, Red: A CentoNow we find each other turned by urban obstacles. With disbelief I touch the cold marble, time for the tram, time for the conductress, time for the policeman. When I banged my head on the door, I screamed, instead of painting volcanoes.cento
Dreams & Nightmares, 2024Squishing AntsPulling up backyard violets & dandelions baby birds gossip and scream, sitting beside one another. They make their wobbly way up the branches: shaky landing strips. Warm air cools to night. I skateboard with my friends on a bike path home. speculative
Star*Line, 2024[Light glances off]Light glances off the geodesic dome. Inside: a cool, green reprieve against the dry, cracked desert. Our community survives.speculativetanka
Star*Line, 2023FoamingSeed beetles swarm behind the landscaping androids pushing together, closely, stabbing fresh wells and building stepped terraces in the fractured ground.
Nightingale & Sparrow Literary Magazine, 2023WildfireAll of your objects will outlive you. Here they are: haunting your line of sight. So set them aflame. As in: The whole world will outlive you As in: You are a dying god. As in: Welcome to Ragnarök, welcome to the burning of the world.
Poetry Pause, 2023Offerings to Save the WorldI stand on the mountains of strawberry fields that lace my muscles with veins of red and gold water and sun and earth. I stand at the edge of an oceanic ravine. Even at the lowest depths, marine animals find a reason to put the lights on. ekphrastic
Star*Line, 2023Hi! I am your Cortical Update!I have been anthropomorphized into a pixelated alien, a shifty piece of verbal software, learning and unlearning itself. I mold to the contours of your pen, your mouse. I am a linguistic virus embedded in the soft space between tongue and inner ear.
365tomorrows, 2023Atmosphere of LoveThe casting call was very specific. No bodymods, no one over 6 ft. No medical conditions. She taped her audition in an office tech supply store in front of a tall, tubular black camera-droid. She introduced herself, Jordan Wreath, age 24...speculative
365tomorrows, 2023Bunny at Club C0de“What is this stuff,” Bunny asked the spiky lipped girl offering her the small bag. “AdBlok,” she said, putting some powder in her mouth. Bunny tipped some powder into her mouth. Her face weighed into her head and her vision blurred, turned purple. speculative
The Sprawl Mag Vol 1.2 Launch PartyThis recording features readings from Lorraine Schein, Bobby Parrott, Rasha Abdulhadi, Cassondra Windwalker, Devon Field, Lilian Vercauteren, Cheryl S. Ntumy, Chelsea Fanning Danny McLaren, Katherine
untethered vol. 15 virtual launch party!I read my poem, I vowed to be of service to other beings at about the 48 min mark!
The Sprawl Mag Vol 1.2 Launch PartyThis recording features readings from Lorraine Schein, Bobby Parrott, Rasha Abdulhadi, Cassondra Windwalker, Devon Field, Lilian Vercauteren, Cheryl S. Ntumy, Chelsea Fanning Danny McLaren, Katherine
untethered vol. 15 virtual launch party!I read my poem, I vowed to be of service to other beings at about the 48 min mark!
The Sprawl Mag Vol 1.2 Launch PartyThis recording features readings from Lorraine Schein, Bobby Parrott, Rasha Abdulhadi, Cassondra Windwalker, Devon Field, Lilian Vercauteren, Cheryl S. Ntumy, Chelsea Fanning Danny McLaren, Katherine
Extrasensory Overload Author SpotlightInterview promoting my flash piece in the Extrasensory Overload Anthology
Award-winning poet Mahaila Smith reflects on writing speculative poetry - CBC Ottawa, All in a DayLocal poet Mahaila Smith is winner of the 2024 John Newlove Poetry award.
Ugly, Red: A Cento - Winner of the 2024 John Newlove AwardThis year's judge was Jim Johnstone who said, "In this year's John Newlove Award winning poem word building becomes world building, a powerful meditation deftly stitched together with a seamless, serotonin-inducing hand."
Micro-interview with Mahaila SmithAnd this week we’re joined by Mahaila Smith, author of the poem “Manipulating the Light” in The Future Fire #69, to talk about solarpunk, climate crisis and future work.
Conversation with Mahaila SmithMahaila explains creating a cyber-feminist speculative magazine, their debut poetry chapbook with Anstruther Press, and exciting literary theories.
Chapbook manuscript review + Claw Machine by Mahaila Smith (Anstruther Press, 2020) – SIGNEDPrize in Collusion Books Fundraiser
Anstruther Press: Ellen Chang-Richardson, Síle Englert + Mahaila Smith,Review of Claw Machine by rob mclennan