Melissa Llanes Brownlee (she/her), a native Hawaiian writer living in Japan, has work published and forthcoming in Prairie Schooner and Moon City Review, and honored in Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, and Wigleaf Top 50. Read Hard Skin (2022) and Kahi and Lua (2022), and check out her new collection, Bitter over Sweet (2025), from Santa Fe Writers Project. She tweets @lumchanmfa and talks story at melissallanesbrownlee.com.
Stories in Smokelong Quarterly
Story:
in ache
Interview: Smoke & Mirrors with Melissa Llanes Brownlee
Interviewer in Smokelong Quarterly
Interview: Smoke Signals with Nadia Born
Interview: Smoke Signals with Beth Sherman
Interview:
Smoke & Mirrors with
Sandra Carlson Khalil
Interview: Smoke & Mirrors with Ella Hormel
In September 2022 SmokeLong launched a workshop environment/community christened SmokeLong Fitness. This community workshop is happening right now on our dedicated workshop site. If you choose to join us, you will work in a small group of around 15-20 participants to give and receive feedback on flash narratives—one new writing task each week.