writer from Hawai'i living in Japan
she/her
Books: Hard Skin (https://www.juventudpress.com/books/p/hard-skin-stories-by-melissa-llanes-brownlee) & Kahi and Lua (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BCS7DMLK)
Recent Pubs: Five South, Cotton Xenomorph
Upcoming Pubs: Trampset, Sugar Sugar Salt, Indiana Review
Avatar Description: A woman of native Hawai'ian descent, with long brown hair, a black turtleneck sweater and a black backdrop
| Website | https://www.melissallanesbrownlee.com |
| Art & Writing Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/lumchanmfa |
| Ukulele Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/lumchanukulele |
| "Or Else" in Five South | https://www.fivesouth.net/post/or-else-by-melissa-llanes-brownlee |
1. @lumchanmfa recommended using every prompt for the same characters and world. IT IS THE MOST FUN. I did that at @Napdragon 's "Haunted Objects" workshop and the story I wrote just got accepted HAPPY DANCING.
2. If my novella gets declined, I know EXACTLY what I'm going to do and I'm so excited about it I'm kind of hoping it gets declined.
3. Seriously, I am too delighted over 1 and 2 to think of anything. ALL OF THE ABOVE is number 3.
@3GoodThings #3GoodThings #WritingCommunity
A reading recommendation: @lumchanmfa
Melissa Llanes Brownlee's micro-fiction is truly wonderful. I've been reading it some days as a way to start my day, start my brain. Her website:
I have an interview with the amazing @sagetyrtle from the Crow Collective on the Flesh Cricket podcast! If you have the time I would be honored if you listened to us talk story!!
I'm super excited today to bring you an interview with Melissa Llanes Brownlee, a Native Hawaiian writer, currently living in Japan, where she teaches English at a junior high school. She received her Bachelor's Degree in Creative Writing and Linguistics from Boise State University and her Master's Degree in Fine Arts in Fiction from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her work has appeared in numerous literary journals and magazines, in print and online, and you can find her two books, Hard Skin and Kahi and Lua, available for sale here.
Today on the writing podcast Flesh Cricket, an interview with author @lumchanmfa Melissa Llanes Brownlee. We talk about writing from lived experience, where the inspiration for Melissa's books came from, and Melissa reads a beautiful, beautiful flash fiction piece. Listen here:
I'm super excited today to bring you an interview with Melissa Llanes Brownlee, a Native Hawaiian writer, currently living in Japan, where she teaches English at a junior high school. She received her Bachelor's Degree in Creative Writing and Linguistics from Boise State University and her Master's Degree in Fine Arts in Fiction from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her work has appeared in numerous literary journals and magazines, in print and online, and you can find her two books, Hard Skin and Kahi and Lua, available for sale here.
Interview Podcast with Short Story Today by Jon DiSavino!
https://shortstorytoday.com/episodes/episode-37-melissa-llanes-brownlee-selected-flash-fiction-579
I have a reading next weekend!! Join us!
Bereket writers Melissa Llanes Brownlee, Sofía Aguilar and Nathan Xie will be reading excerpts from their published work and answering questions at this virtual reading + Q&A event. Event Timing: Saturday, January 21st at 7 pm Eastern Time Zoom Video Call Link: To be sent after registration. For questions, contact Bereket Writing Community at [email protected]. Bereket Writing Community is an intentional, equity-focused organization that brings together creative writers from traditionally marginalized backgrounds and matches them into long-term writer's workshop groups. Through biweekly and monthly groups that meet on a regular schedule, writers form long-term companionship with one another to support each other’s writing journeys. Centered around values of diversity, collaboration, gratitude and social justice, Bereket also organizes virtual writing events and programs to support the needs of the writers in the community and beyond.
Last publication of the year in @emptyhousepress!
https://www.emptyhousepress.com/issue-nine/melissa-llanes-brownlee
@lumchanmfa "She thinks of the freedom such a form would give her"
Love this, Melissa! 💜
New stories up in the first iteration of the @astrolabe universe!
Check them out!
https://www.astrolabe.ooo/brownlee-skin-and-bone
https://www.astrolabe.ooo/brownlee-once-upon-a-time-in-hawaii
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