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Melissa Llanes Brownlee

@lumchanmfa

Native Hawaiian writer living in Japan https://www.melissallanesbrownlee.com/ Bitter over Sweet https://tinyurl.com/5hd7u63r Hard Skin http://tinyurl.com/yc53 Kahi&Lua http://tinyurl.com/3ryfzvwh

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Latest posts by Melissa Llanes Brownlee @lumchanmfa

I am so honored and grateful for every single person who chose my book for their precious luggage space. You all are the BEST!! Mahalo ❤️❤️❤️

@sfwp.bsky.social

10.03.2026 21:50 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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10.03.2026 21:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yes! @lumchanmfa.bsky.social in this #AWP26 #bookhaul! We sold out of 60 copies of BITTER OVER SWEET! www.sfwp.com/books/brownlee

10.03.2026 15:26 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 2

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09.03.2026 10:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
weekly ukulele video 🥰❤️ (March 9, 2026)
weekly ukulele video 🥰❤️ (March 9, 2026) YouTube video by Melissa Llanes Brownlee

weekly ukulele video 🥰❤️

youtu.be/2jhcv86Vfig

08.03.2026 19:07 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

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08.03.2026 16:25 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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AWP Photo Dump, in Achronological Order VII:

I don’t have a joke for this one… I hit photo and not video, but it was a pretty sick rendition of “Pink Pony Club” as performed by @egjames.bsky.social and @lumchanmfa.bsky.social…

08.03.2026 16:21 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1

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08.03.2026 16:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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08.03.2026 13:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Samez 😂

08.03.2026 08:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

❤️❤️❤️

08.03.2026 03:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

OMG!! You should have muscled in for a hug!!! I am sorry we didn’t connect! Next time ❤️

08.03.2026 02:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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08.03.2026 01:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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07.03.2026 19:13 👍 26 🔁 1 💬 6 📌 0

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07.03.2026 19:13 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

We have sold out of BITTER OVER SWEET @lumchanmfa.bsky.social at booth 529! The author is still at the table. Come on by. We can ship you a copy no problem #awp26

07.03.2026 15:45 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1

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06.03.2026 12:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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Amazing @mooncityreview.bsky.social reading last night with @laurelreview.bsky.social and Puerto del Sol. MCR was repped by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social, Naphisa Senanarong, and Svetlana Litvinchuk, who killed it!

05.03.2026 17:45 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Truth

04.03.2026 23:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Day one of #awp26 with @lumchanmfa.bsky.social at her first big event. There's far too much vodka here... And we're loving it!

04.03.2026 23:43 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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weekly doodle 🥰❤️

Bitter Over Sweet
@sfwp.bsky.social
@susanschulman.bsky.social

03.03.2026 23:27 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Congratulations!!

02.03.2026 21:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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On a Ghostlight Night - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine Photo by Avi Theret on Unsplash by Pat Foran Fresh off a ghostlighting incident that left him clear-eyed and cold, the horse we rode in on didn’t seem to mind that we didn’t seem to know what we signe...

I have a piece with ghostlighting and the horse we rode in on in it in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social. Thanks so much @jhhwriter.bsky.social for including this one in Issue 40. gooseberry-pie.com/on-a-ghostli...

12.02.2026 17:55 👍 33 🔁 12 💬 7 📌 7

Here, we made one of those "Where I'll be at AWP" thingies.

02.03.2026 21:43 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

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02.03.2026 05:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Paper Mache — Ghost Parachute Lisa cuts strips of the newspapers she collected from the neighbor with the willow tree that blooms pink in the spring, her fingers smearing black, words seeking solace along whorls on her tips and ed...

Read "Paper Mache" written by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social
and illustrated by Brett J Barr.

"Lisa cuts strips of the newspapers she collected from the neighbor with the willow tree that blooms pink in the spring..."

tinyurl.com/5aauaypz

01.03.2026 23:55 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0