Melissa Fitzpatrick

Melissa Fitzpatrick lives in the Los Angeles area. She writes fiction and poetry, and can often be found wandering around, looking for birds to photograph.
Bluesky @melissafitz.bsky.social Email mfitzwrites@gmail.com
Take Wing (my Substack)
PROSE:
“At the Roller Rink on My Last Day in Dublin,” FlashFlood, June 2025
“Floating,” Tiny Molecules, April 2025
“A Necessary Deception,” JMWW, April 2025 (Nominated for Pushcart)
“The Lost Boy,” Frazzled Lit, March 2025
“That Tammy Girl,” The Mersey Review, December 2024
“The Pearl Divers,” Roi Fainéant, November 2024
“Checkers,” Flash Fiction Magazine, September 5, 2024
“The Flight,” self-published on Substack, August 2024
“Sweet Tooth,” Lunch Ticket, June 2024
“Only Water, Then Sky,” Atlas and Alice, April 2024 (Nominated for Best Microfiction)
“Leap Day,” Flash Fiction Online, February 2024
“Open Gate,” Five South, November 2023
“Palm trees float in the moonlight,” Paragraph Planet, August 19, 2023
“A Melody You’ve Never Heard,” FlashFlood, June 2023
“The Cougar in the Attic,” MoonPark Review, June 2023 (Nominated for Pushcart)
“Beach People,” 805 Lit + Art, May 2023 (Nominated for Best of the Net)
“Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board,” Milk Candy Review, October 2022
“Unbound,” Corvid Queen, September 2022
“Birding at the End of the World,” CHEAP POP, April 2022
POETRY:
“After Dobbs,” Tangled Locks Journal, January 2025
“Funhouse,” HAD, April 30, 2024
“Venice Boulevard, March 2019,” Scrawl Place, September 2022
VISUAL ART/PHOTOGRAPHY/COMICS/HYBRID/MULTIMEDIA:
“Matilija,” a hybrid piece, Temple in a City, June 2025
“Speak Truth, Speak Fire,” cover illustration, Epistemic Literary, May 2025 (Nominated for Best of the Net)
Illustration to accompany my story, “A Necessary Deception,” JMWW, April 2025
“All this loss,” a self-published comic on my Substack, January 2025
“Find your way,” a self-published comic on my Substack, September 2024
“Where Breath Becomes Sound,” a multimedia piece. Finalist for Slippery Elm’s Deanna Tulley Multimedia Contest 2024