Panel in the Spotlight: “Debut Authors Share Their Publishing Stories.”
…saga through linked stories. Melissa Scholes Young — a novelist, editor of two anthologies, and associate professor at American University — will moderate as these debut authors tell their stories. Hear from these and other pros during the 2024 Washington Writers Conference on May 3-4 in Rockville, MD. Don’t miss…
Keynote: “A Writer’s Dream: DC’s Creativity, Community, and Craft”
…by the equally notable Melissa Scholes Young (The Hive). We want to make sure attendees come away with an appreciation of the resources available to writers in the DMV and the generosity of spirit that prevails within this community! The 2024 Washington Writers Conference takes place May 3-4 in Rockville,…
…met the featured writer, Melissa Scholes Young, who was reading from her latest book, Flood. Before reading, she had a trivia question for the audience about her hometown, Hannibal, Missouri: What was Mark Twain’s hometown? I answered correctly and won a copy of her book. A connection was made. A…
Jared Yates Sexton in Conversation with Melissa Scholes Young
…be in conversation with Melissa Scholes Young, author of the novels The Hive and Flood, and editor of Grace in Darkness and Furious Gravity, two anthologies by women writers. Hosted by Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave., NW, Washington, DC. Learn more here. Want more people at your event? Advertise…
Reflections on a Year of Reading
…This to No One, Melissa Scholes Young’s The Hive, and Kelly J. Ford’s Real Bad Things. I also read Hugh Bonneville’s memoir Playing Under the Piano after engaging in a brief but delightful Twitter exchange with him and Lou Bayard in advance of their appearance together at Politics and Prose,…
…During the session, novelist Melissa Scholes Young (Flood and The Hive) will moderate a conversation among Leslie Pietrzyk (Admit This to No One and This Angel on My Chest), Susan Muaddi Darraj (A Curious Land: Stories from Home and the Farah Rocks middle grade series), and Donna Hemans (River Woman…
…on bilingual readers. Author Melissa Scholes Young opens her new novel, The Hive, with a succinct, immediately involving introduction to the family. Parents Grace and Robbie are vacationing at the Fehler Family Fish Camp (“a burden both beloved and neglected”) with daughters Maggie, Jules, Tammy, and Kate. The prologue and…
Melissa Scholes Young in Conversation with Jared Yates Sexton
…family foundation they’ve built. Melissa Scholes Young is the author of the novels Flood and The Hive. She’s a contributing editor for Fiction Writers Review and Editor of two volumes of DC Women Writers: Grace in Darkness (2018) and Furious Gravity (2020). Her work has appeared in the Atlantic, Washington…
…chats include DC’s own Melissa Scholes Young, author of the forthcoming novel The Hive (winner, Literary Fiction Category, 2017 Best Book Award from American Book Fest, for Flood); poet Chet’la Sebree on Field Study (winner, 2020 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets); and nonfiction writer Clay Risen,…
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Jólabókaflóð
…Art Taylor Furious Gravity: D.C. Women Writers, edited by Melissa Scholes Young Happy holidays from the Independent, and best wishes for a joyful, literary New Year during which we can all pretend 2020 never happened… Like what we do? Click here to support us!
…capital region in 2020, Melissa Scholes Young may be able to tell you — she has read many of the area’s contemporary voices for the “Grace and Gravity” series, of which Furious Gravity is volume IX. The iconic Richard Peabody founded the fiction series that Melissa now steers. As the…
…the second edited by Melissa Scholes Young, an author and American University professor. With the book set to release on May 1st in the midst of a pandemic, Scholes Young has faced her fair share of complications in premiering the work. “It has required creativity and adaptability…We’ve had to think…
The Washington Writers Conference Presents Melissa Scholes Young
Melissa Scholes Young, author of the novel Flood and editor of the anthology Grace in Darkness, has been published in the Atlantic, the Washington Post, Narrative, and other places. What might she say about getting your work published all over the place? Find out at the Washington Writers Conference on…
My Year in Reading: 2018 Edition
…Rob Hiaasen Flood by Melissa Scholes Young (reviewed here) Green on Blue by Elliot Ackerman Miracle Creek by Angie Kim (due out April 2019) Post Grad: Five Women and Their First Year Out of College by Caroline Kitchener White Elephant by Julie Langsdorf (due out March 2019) There is a…
…her debut novel, Flood, Melissa Scholes Young chooses the second option, bringing Laura Brooks back to her hometown of Hannibal, Missouri, 10 years after the great flood of 1993. The book’s immediate question is thus established: Is it ever really possible to go back home? When she arrives in Hannibal,…
GRACE IN DARKNESS: A Panel of DC Metro Women Writers
…series edited by author Melissa Scholes Young, and she has gathered a fabulous group of authors from the anthology to read, including: Patricia Fuentes Burns, Ariel Goldenthal, Jessica Claire Haney, Kate Lemery, Caron Garcia Martinez, and Laura Scalzo. At One More Page Books, 2200 N. Westmoreland St., Arlington, VA. Click…
Talk & Signing: Melissa Scholes Young and Andrea Jarrell
…Who Got Away, and Melissa Scholes Young reads from her debut novel, Flood, winner of the Best Book Award in Literary Fiction. About I’m the One Who Got Away: From a Starred Kirkus Review: “...reminiscent of Joyce Carol Oates. The work’s lasting message is that love, like Jarrell’s prose, is…
…I smiled at the young woman sitting across from me in Davenport Coffee Shop. After writing for nearly 20 years, I was the interviewee for an author spotlight about my essay included in the Grace in Darkness anthology. The question she asked stuck with me. After focusing so extensively on…
…Flood: A Novel by Melissa Scholes Young (reviewed here). Don't Wait to Be Called by Jacob R. Weber (reviewed here). Reading for Research: Though I’m sure I’ll read a stack of fiction, since reading exceptional fiction helps to up my own game, I’m going to take a flyer and say…
…her debut novel, Flood, Melissa Scholes Young chooses the second option, bringing Laura Brooks back to her hometown of Hannibal, Missouri, 10 years after the great flood of 1993. The book’s immediate question is thus established: Is it ever really possible to go back home? When she arrives in Hannibal,…
…and, as event host Melissa Scholes Young put it, the literary godfather of DC. MFA student Vince Granata kicked off the event with an illuminating overview of Gargoyle’s establishment in 1976, its reputation as a “scallywag, maverick” publication, its description in the Post as “Washington’s most revered and irreverent” literary…
Like her protagonist, Young grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, a place nearly synonymous with Mark Twain. Now a lecturer at American University and contributing editor for the Fiction Writers Review, Young has written what she describes as “the book Mark Twain would have written if Becky Thatcher had gone home…
Meet Ellen Prentiss Campbell, Marc Nieson, and Melissa Scholes Young
The three DC-based authors will read from their latest works. A reception and book-signing will follow. This event is free and open to the public. At the Writer's Center, 4508 Walsh St., Bethesda, MD. For more information, click here. Like what we do? Click here to support the nonprofit Independent!
…Ellen Prentiss Campbell, and Melissa Scholes Young will read from their work at the Writer’s Center in Bethesda, MD. The event is free and open to the public. Prior to the reading, Nieson and Campbell will host a workshop entitled “Speak Memory!” Click here for info.] Melissa Scholes Young’s work…
An Interview with Carolyn Parkhurst
…writing can be brutal. Young writers need to hear that, maybe now more than ever. You write a book and you think you’re done. Revision is as much of part of the process as the first draft. I think of revisions as surgery, like a rib-spreader. How do I break…
Mothering Through the Darkness: Women Open Up About the Postpartum Experience
…here for more info.] Melissa Scholes Young’s work has appeared in the Atlantic, Narrative, Ploughshares, Poets & Writers, and other literary journals. She’s a contributing editor for Fiction Writers Review. She teaches at American University in Washington, DC, and is a Bread Loaf Bakeless Camargo Fellow. Follow her on Twitter…
…take yourself too seriously. Melissa Scholes Young’s work has appeared in Narrative, Ploughshares, Huffington Post, Poets & Writers, Poet Lore, and other literary journals. She’s a contributing editor for Fiction Writers Review. She teaches at American University in Washington, DC, and is a Bread Loaf Bakeless Camargo Fellow. Her novel,…
An Interview with Rachel Louise Snyder
…of those I meet. Melissa Scholes Young’s work has appeared in Narrative, Ploughshares, Huffington Post, Poets & Writers, Poet Lore, and other literary journals. She’s a contributing editor for Fiction Writers Review. She teaches at American University in Washington, DC, and is a Bread Loaf Bakeless Camargo Fellow. Her novel,…
An Interview with Michelle Brafman
…helped me hear the young Barbara's voice. Once I figured out that the central conflict belonged to Barbara and her mother, I used the letters to show the gap between the Barbara Tzippy knows and the young woman who is desperately trying to glue back the pieces of the world…
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