weekly ukulele video 🥰❤️ youtu.be/gjxAcm1RC8Q?...

It's my birthday! I'm thrilled every day to do the kind of literary work I'm privileged to do and work with creative people through my classes, my litmags, and my agenting! I'm looking forward to a great year of literary community!

Many thanks to @lumchanmfa.bsky.social for her kind comments on my story - and the exclamation marks!! expositionreview.com/flash-405/wh...

This is such an honor! Thanks so much to @expositionreview.bsky.social and amazing judge @lumchanmfa.bsky.social 🥺

Our June contest “Illumination” was a bright spot for Flash 405, with @lumchanmfa.bsky.social as our guest judge. Congratulations to our winners: @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social, Meg Taylor, @francesgapper.bsky.social, Alice Hatcher, Liana Meffert! Read their flash here: tinyurl.com/Illumination405.

weekly talk story about @bambooridge.bsky.social Pop-Up hosted by @mistahdonald.bsky.social and @expositionreview.bsky.social's FLASH 405 announcement coming this Friday... www.melissallanesbrownlee.com/talk-story/2...

This is so good!! Check out the latest issue @smokelong.bsky.social!

For those of you just waking up in the UK, sitting down to lunch in Goa, or enjoying your afternoon in Sydney, you'll be the first to read Issue 89 of SmokeLong Quarterly! www.smokelong.com/issue-eighty...

Honored to be included! Thank you @mattkendrick.bsky.social and @kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social ❤️❤️❤️

This month's #Mondettes picked by @kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social ⚡Ten wonderful flash fictions 🔍Ten splashes of analysis as to why Kathryn made these brilliant picks 🪴Three fantastic prompts to get you writing mondettes.substack.com/p/september-...

Links to pieces from @emilyrinkema.bsky.social @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social @csquareh.bsky.social @lumchanmfa.bsky.social @sudhab.bsky.social @marioaliberto3.bsky.social @claudiamonpere.bsky.social @megpokrass.bsky.social @dianegotauthor.bsky.social uthor.bsky.social

T-minus 3 HOURS until submissions for the 2025 Literary Awards Program CLOSE tonight at 11:59pm EDT! Submit your manuscript for a chance to be the next @lumchanmfa.bsky.social (BITTER OVER SWEET), Rachel Zimmerman (US, AFTER), or @wendyjfox.bsky.social (IF THE ICE HAD HELD). buff.ly/AMZ2510

Two amazing micro pieces by two amazing writers! @lumchanmfa.bsky.social @aniking.bsky.social You are both so splendid and these stories are perfect compressions!

ICYMI: my micro in @claudineliterary.bsky.social!

Celebrating our September microfiction today!! 👏🏼🙌🏼👏🏼 @lumchanmfa.bsky.social: www.claudineliterary.net/melissallane... @aniking.bsky.social: www.claudineliterary.net/aniking 💚🐈‍⬛💚

weekly ukulele video 🥰❤️ youtu.be/RHeis-jU_5I?...

“Be quick. Quick. Quick. And weigh each ounce careful. Careful. Careful. Even though you only know pounds.” @lumchanmfa.bsky.social in @claudineliterary.bsky.social www.claudineliterary.net/melissallane...

Thrilled to have another microfiction in the exciting @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social 🙏🥧 gooseberry-pie.com/glinda-was-n...

MUCH GRATITUDE TO @jenwithwords.bsky.social @pleomorphic2.bsky.social and all the WONDERFUL EDITORS AT LITERARY NAMJOONING for including "Sticky Notes for a Downcast Soul" in Issue 2 literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/sticky-notes-for-a-downcast-soul-by-tracie-adams

Thanks to Hema Nataraju, Lakshmi Iyer, and @lumchanmfa.bsky.social for including my new story in this fantastic new issue of @lit-namjooning.bsky.social alongside many great pieces! literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

This story by @belindarowe.bsky.social made my heart sing. I want a carrot recorder! The new issue of @lit-namjooning.bsky.social is BRILLIANT 🎉🩷 literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

weekly talk story about @lit-namjooning.bsky.social second issue and Bitter over Sweet book launch... www.melissallanesbrownlee.com/talk-story/2...

On November 7th at 7pm EST, @lumchanmfa.bsky.social will be in conversation with @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social over Zoom to celebrate the launch of BITTER OVER SWEET, hosted by @avitusbcarle.bsky.social! Make sure to register here: buff.ly/CtKtA0k

(Weird face and all 😂) weekly ukulele video 🥰❤️ (September 8, 2025) youtu.be/jLxTSy3r1nw

Check out @lumchanmfa.bsky.social's latest micro, "The day auntie makes you sort the pakalolo into baggies before the Mormons come over for the family home visit," that was recently published in @claudineliterary.bsky.social! buff.ly/yafgXBM Preorder BITTER OVER SWEET: buff.ly/Mj9cIDp

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I can't wait. This'll be amazing.

Get 30% off your total order when you preorder books by Lisa K. Friedman, @lumchanmfa.bsky.social, @laurencjohnson.bsky.social, @wendyjfox.bsky.social, & Jerry Wayne Longmire by entering code "summerreads" at checkout from our square store! buff.ly/3pPOviA @susanschulman.bsky.social

Check out this story by @semarmon.bsky.social!!

I have a story up on The Worlds Within. Please have a look! theworldswithin.net/instance/

Yayayayay!!!

I have the EXTREME pleasure of hosting @lumchanmfa.bsky.social and @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social as they discuss all things craft and wonders found in BITTER OVER SWEET (@sfwp.bsky.social)! When: November 7, 2025 at 7PM EST Where: Zoom Register here: www.melissallanesbrownlee.com/talk-story/2...

weekly talk story about my Bitter over Sweet (@sfwp.bsky.social) book launch with @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social, hosted by @avitusbcarle.bsky.social, and my recent (and not so recent pubs) in @mrbullbull.bsky.social , @claudineliterary.bsky.social and Mojo www.melissallanesbrownlee.com/talk-story/2...

This story racked up 19 rejections before @yourimpossiblevoice.com took it. This BOTN nomination means a lot to me. Thank you @keithjpowell.com 🙏🏾 Written in a @lumchanmfa.bsky.social workshop. Mahalo, my friend 🧡 Read it here: yourimpossiblevoice.com/when-i-final...

Honored to be in the first ever issue of Hot Flash Literary with flash luminaries! Check out my story here, but be sure to read the other stories while they're hot! (They'll always be hot!) Thanks to @jekwriter.bsky.social and Tina Carlson for creating this mag! hotflashliterary.com/a-good-sign/

“No shame auntie.” Oof! New story by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social

Don't miss out on reading @lumchanmfa.bsky.social's latest flash fiction piece over on BULL! buff.ly/wgPAbL3 Preorder BITTER OVER SWEET: buff.ly/a8TvFmK @susanschulman.bsky.social

“I flick my hands open, lick the juice from my arms, my hand, seeds clinging to dark pink strings, dangling.” Only @lumchanmfa.bsky.social can make eating a papaya into a layered and emotional glimpse into family dynamics. So good.

Found out one of my micros went live in June... so here you go lol mikrokosmosjournal.com/2025/06/wen-...

I’m honored to be judging the Fall Flash Fiction Contest at the fabulous @thesunlightpress.bsky.social! There are super generous cash prizes (the winner receives $600, second place winner $250, and third place winner $150). Link with info below. I can’t wait to read your work! ☀️

I have a story in Ghost Parachute today alongside this beautiful artwork by Brett J Barr. Will be reading the whole September issue on my back porch for the next hour with coffee. ghostparachute.com/issue/septem...

New micro from @lumchanmfa.bsky.social in @claudineliterary.bsky.social !

“we are all aliens here on earth” @lumchanmfa.bsky.social is on a roll with two new awesome (as usual) pieces in @mrbullbull.bsky.social

A treasure of a story: “Don’t. Don’t. Don’t lick your fingers. Be quick. Quick. Quick.”

“Sort and place each bud in plastic. Zip. Zip. Zip them closed.” Ah, @lumchanmfa.bsky.social writes another brilliant one in @claudineliterary.bsky.social

New @willmusgrove.bsky.social in @flashfrog.bsky.social flash-frog.com/2025/09/01/d...

@dawnsteffler.bsky.social in Sundog Lit sundoglit.com/dawn-tasaka-...

@claudiamonpere.bsky.social in @flightlit.bsky.social flight-literary.ghost.io/flight-1/

#3. @aniking.bsky.social in @claudineliterary.bsky.social www.claudineliterary.net/aniking

Thread of awesome stories out today! #1 @dawnwriter.bsky.social in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social pitheadchapel.com/blur/