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Melissa Faliveno
@mlfaliveno.bsky.social
writer, teacher, rock/roller | author of TOMBOYLAND: ESSAYS & forthcoming novel, HEMLOCK | asst. prof at UNC | she/they
www.melissafaliveno.com
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✨Cover reveal!✨ Super excited to share the creepy cover of my dreams for my debut novel, HEMLOCK, coming 1/20/26 from @littlebrown.bsky.social & now available for preorder! You can find it at all major retailers and, better yet, your local indie bookstore or @bookshop.org. See you in the woods! 🦌🌲👻
Honestly the essay I’ve been waiting to write for nearly thirty years
July 21, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Get ready for so much teenage sadness and yearning and driving past cornfields and crying!
July 21, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Wowwee @hubcitypress.bsky.social is OPEN this weekend for single-narrative nonfiction! This is my time, my favorite stuff! Can be personal, reportage, memoir, cultural criticism, history, or a blend of the above. Ends at midnight on Sunday. Drop any questions below.

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Hub City Press & Writers Project Submission Manager
Hub City Press, the publishing arm of the Hub City Writers Project, publishes books of literary fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, regional nonfiction, nature, and art. We are seeking new and extra...
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July 11, 2025 at 4:26 PM
✨Cover reveal!✨ Super excited to share the creepy cover of my dreams for my debut novel, HEMLOCK, coming 1/20/26 from @littlebrown.bsky.social & now available for preorder! You can find it at all major retailers and, better yet, your local indie bookstore or @bookshop.org. See you in the woods! 🦌🌲👻
July 11, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Just completed the second day of Kenyon Review’s Summer Online Creative Non Fiction workshop with the wonderful @mlfaliveno.bsky.social and had the express pleasure of hearing her read this piece. Magic.
"Bets is falling apart. I guess maybe I am too. But somehow, for now, we both hold on."

Here is a piece from our latest issue by @mlfaliveno.bsky.social we keep revisiting. Read it at the link in our bio.

kenyonreview.org/piece/drivin...
June 25, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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"Bets is falling apart. I guess maybe I am too. But somehow, for now, we both hold on."

Here is a piece from our latest issue by @mlfaliveno.bsky.social we keep revisiting. Read it at the link in our bio.

kenyonreview.org/piece/drivin...
May 27, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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It's finally here! Our Winter 2025 issue the winning entry of the 2024 Kenyon Review Nonfiction Contest judged by @melissafebos.bsky.social, the Far Corners folio, poetry by @victoriachang.bsky.social, nonfiction by @mlfaliveno.bsky.social, and so much more!

kenyonreview.org/journal/wint...
April 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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I am accepting submissions for my emerging writer series at gay.submittable.com. You should have three publications or fewer and no book contract. Yes, this is a paid opportunity. Guidelines at the link. Plz follow the guidelines.
Roxane Gay Books & The Audacity Submission Manager
THE AUDACITY, my newsletter, features an emerging writer twice a month. I define emerging writer as someone with fewer than three article/essay/short story publications and no published books or book ...
gay.submittable.com
March 6, 2025 at 10:44 PM
So incredibly stoked that this is happening, and that the very first @marchxness.bsky.social essay I wrote (about the Creatures & Virginia Woolf & menstrual blood & nu-metal, among other things) will be in it alongside so many faves! Coming March 2026!
This is the longest we've kept a secret project secret: SLP is proud to be the home for HIT REPEAT UNTIL I HATE MUSIC: THE MARCH XNESS ANTHOLOGY, collated by the Official @marchxness.bsky.social Selection Committee (@angermonsoon.bsky.social + @meganc.bsky.social) and forthcoming on 3/31/26!
February 28, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Chapel Hill, NC: reminder! TOMORROW, Feb. 18, @flyleafbooks.bsky.social will host @ajromriell.bsky.social, author of the memoir WOLF ACT, in conversation with @mlfaliveno.bsky.social!

We hope you'll come celebrate with AJ and Melissa on publication day 🎉

Details: flyleafbooks.com/event/romrie...
AJ Romriell presents WOLF ACT, with Melissa Faliveno
flyleafbooks.com
February 17, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Come work with me at UNC! We’re looking for our next Kenan Visiting Writer, a fiction writer with one book working on their next. This position was life changing for me & I loved our program so much I came back (truly, best folks ever). Hit me up with questions! unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/289...
Lecturer
The Creative Writing Program in UNC's Department of English and Comparative Literature seeks to bring an emerging talent to campus for a one-year teaching appointment as the Kenan Visiting Writer.The ...
unc.peopleadmin.com
December 17, 2024 at 3:43 PM
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Happy publication anniversary to this memoir roundup I wrote for @xtramagazine.com in 2022, ft. books by @mlfaliveno.bsky.social, @otroedgargomez.bsky.social, Eleanor Crewes, Katie Heaney, and Grace Perry! 📚 I spent much of the pandemic reading queer memoir, and these were some of my favorites 🥰
The five queer books that helped me come out | Xtra Magazine
These five recent memoirs are queer books that helped me come out, echoing my own life, sometimes in unexpected ways
xtramagazine.com
December 9, 2024 at 3:03 PM
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We are happy to share our 2024 Pushcart nominations.

Kinship: One Week in LA, @amspagna.bsky.social
Mountain Milk, Shubha Venugopal
Astonish, Diane Zinna
The Sauna, @dianaruzova.bsky.social
Carry Me, @mlfaliveno.bsky.social
Transition Lenses, Jessica Petrow-Cohen
November 21, 2024 at 1:05 PM
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I am notoriously bad at both describing my own work and saying good things about it, so shout out to these incredible folks who were willing to blurb the book: @mlfaliveno.bsky.social @otroedgargomez.bsky.social @mcrane12.bsky.social & Shayla Lawson 💞 elj-editions.com/no-offense-a...
November 21, 2024 at 12:12 AM