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2026
2025
2024
White Winged Doves: A Stevie Nicks Anthology. Pre-orders available!
“With Mom.” Hamilton Stone Review. Forthcoming. Fall 2025.
Back to Alabama. 2024. Sundress Publications.
“Neither the One Who Plants.” Thimble Literary Magazine. December 2024.
“The Carpet.” Ekstasis Magazine. Summer 2024.
“The Rock and the Sky.” Ekstasis Magazine. Summer 2024.
“15 reasons why you mad Brittney Griner is free.” Bellingham Review. Spring 2024.
2023
“Application for Angels” and “Queen & Slim.” The South Carolina Review. Spring 2023.
2022
“No Better.” Radix Magazine, Fall 2022.
“Save a Black Girl.” Foothill Poetry Journal, Fall 2022
“Unreliable Narrator.” Aunt Chloe: A Journal of Artful Candor. Fall 2022.
“Curlie Raised the Blues,” “Whitney & Robyn,” “Baby Archie,” “Exodus,” and “Rain on a September Morning.” Weber—The Contemporary West. Fall 2022.
Si, Lo Sono Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito — Wayne Literary Review, Spring 2022.
No was born on a warm afternoon in December — Wayne Literary Review, Spring 2022.
Serena Williams vs Mark Knight — Spectrum, vol. LXV, Spring 2022.
Weep with Those Who Weep — Crosswinds Poetry Journal, Spring 2022.
Harriet Tubman as a Caseworker — Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry and Prose, Spring 2022.
2021
Miles Davis: The Horn, The Iris, and The Sorcerer — Aunt Chloe: A Journal of Artful Candor, Fall 2021
Holy City: Charleston, SC — Oyster River Pages, Fall 2021
Threshing Floor — Obsidian, Spring 2021.
The Other Nine — Obsidian, Spring 2021.
Return — Obsidian, Spring 2021.
“Black Don’t Crack and Other Tales in Multiple Choice.” Wayne Literary Review, Spring 2021
2020
The First Sunday Morning in November — Ariel Chart, Fall 2020.
Expert of the Apricot Groves — Solstice Literary Magazine, Spring 2020
2019
Burn the whole thing — Call + Response Journal, Fall 2019
Alice Walker’s 75th Birthday Celebration, Eatonton, Georgia — Call + Response Journal, Fall 2019
The Spare Bedroom — The Crambo, Spring 2019
2018
Legion: For We Are Many — The Auburn Avenue, Autumn/Winter 2018
Winter in Georgia — The Auburn Avenue, Autumn/Winter 2018
2017
Back to Alabama — The Auburn Avenue, Autumn/Winter 2017
Curlie Blue — South85, Spring/Summer 2017
2016
Moon Rising — Exit 271: Your Georgia Writers Resource, Winter 2016
[The Ocean] — Exit 271: Your Georgia Writers Resource, Winter 2016
2015
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Curlie Blue — South85, Spring/Summer 2017
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The Cadet
Previously published in South85 Journal, Fall 2020
Valerie A. Smith, Ph.D 