YouTube video by Melissa Llanes Brownlee

I’m celebrating my BSF nom from The Sunlight Press for my flash “ Pulelehua ” (for the last time this week, I promise). I haven’t written, submitted or published much this year, so I am honored th...

Over the next few months, we’ll be introducing our submissions editors so that you, dear writers and readers, might have a clearer idea of who we are, who reads your work first at SmokeLong, and what ...

You work, you serve, you cook, you clean for others. You do what you need to, but it’s never enough. Sometimes you ask for help. For food. For shelter. For life. And yet, you scrape together what you ...

You work, you serve, you cook, you clean for others. You do what you need to, but it’s never enough. Sometimes you ask for help. For food. For shelter. For life. And yet, you scrape together what you ...

Our second day of fiction features Melissa Llane Brownlee's "Pulelehua."

You work, you serve, you cook, you clean for others. You do what you need to, but it’s never enough. Sometimes you ask for help. For food. For shelter. For life. And yet, you scrape together what you ...

“And then one fairy night, May became June.”I have always liked that line by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It is the sort of thing you notice only when you pay attention. It is like one day the air changes and...

You work, you serve, you cook, you clean for others. You do what you need to, but it’s never enough. Sometimes you ask for help. For food. For shelter. For life. And yet, you scrape together what you ...

YouTube video by Melissa Llanes Brownlee

You work, you serve, you cook, you clean for others. You do what you need to, but it’s never enough. Sometimes you ask for help. For food. For shelter. For life. And yet, you scrape together what you ...

Hi all! Tomorrow’s my birthday so I won’t be able to join Literary Namjooning’s launch for Issue 3 but if you would like to join in with the wonderful editors and readers of our mag along with our am...