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About Me



melissamann.com is a writing website, which includes the litzine Beat the Dust and BTD TV .

My Interests

Making stuff up, running, gigs, Pilates, comedy, raging against the Machine, vacuuming patterns into the carpet, movies, reading, theatre, finding new illnesses I'm about to die of, cooking, drawing, vegetarianism, walking, making stuff up...

I'd like to meet:



Groovy creatives doing inspiring things.

Music:

Current playlist - Blues and Lamentations, Kate Campbell; Facelift, Alice in Chains; Dig Lazarus Dig, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds; Dixie Chicken, Little Feat.

Movies:

My best of 2008 so far: No Country for Old Men, Juno, Son of Rambow, The Orphanage, Let's Get Lost, In Search of the Midnight Kiss.

My best of 2007: The Last King of Scotland, Babel, Notes on a Scandal, Bobby, For Your Consideration, The Lives of Others, Sunshine, Zodiac, Jindabyne, Tell No-one, La Vie en Rose, Lady Chatterley, Two Days in Paris, Atonement, 3:10 to Yuma, Michael Clayton, Control.

My best of 2006 - Red Road, Hidden, Brokeback Mountain, Munich, Goodnight and Good Luck, The Constant Gardener, Capote, Syriana, L'enfant, Romance and Cigarettes, Transamerica, The Squid and the Whale, Lemming, Time to Leave, United 93, Thank You for Smoking, Heading South, A Scanner Darkly, Little Miss Sunshine, The Departed, Casino Royale, Little Children.

Books:

Current library loans: The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid; Black Girl White Girl, Joyce Carol Oates; Village of Stone, Xiaolu Guo; Two Caravans, Marina Lewycka; On the Beach with Chet Baker, Robert Seatter.

Heroes:

Whatever happened to, all the heroes??

My Blog

Book review at Word Riot

The latest Word Riot is now live with poetry, short stories, flash fiction, creative non-fiction, interviews, experimental and reviews, including one of mine.  It's about Miranda July's...
Posted by melissamann.com on Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:52:00 PST

Am all cut-up, uh huh huh!

A first line of mine that went nowhere is part of a cut-up called 'First Line Last' just posted at new litzine on the block, Parasitic 101.  Other writers involved are Yu-Han Chao, Joe Dunth...
Posted by melissamann.com on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:24:00 PST

’Remember me to myself’...

... a story of mine, has just been posted at Savage Manners.  It's about choosing life with a bit of road-kill and decapitation thrown in for good measure.  You can find it under the wheels ...
Posted by melissamann.com on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 04:47:00 PST

It’s flaming June at Beat the Dust!

The June issue of the online litzine is looking scorchio, people so cover yourself in Factor 50 and bask in the literary talent of some of the hottest underground writers around.  We ha...
Posted by melissamann.com on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:56:00 PST

Litzine Beat the Dust’s new Podcast goes supersonic

The latest in online litzine Beat the Dust's Podcast series has just been posted with the previously unpublished work from May's featured writer, Mark SaFranko.  He's a&n...
Posted by melissamann.com on Sat, 31 May 2008 01:28:00 PST

Abracadaver at The Beat

The Beat, the online litzine for writers and artists has just posted some of my short fiction... well I say fiction, it's actually the bastard child of a rather frenzied coupling between a p...
Posted by melissamann.com on Fri, 30 May 2008 05:43:00 PST

New Straight from the Fridge

The Spring 08 edition of SFTF is now live here http://upbondageupyours.blogspot.com with some strong pieces of writing from the up 'n' underground.  My offering is on the second shelf d...
Posted by melissamann.com on Wed, 28 May 2008 12:30:00 PST

Mark SaFranko at Beat the Dust: Part Deux

Yes, he's back and this time he's singing!  In the final release of work from this month's featured writer, Mark SaFranko, litzine Beat the Dust has two songs from a forthcoming and a recent albu...
Posted by melissamann.com on Mon, 19 May 2008 03:42:00 PST

Featured writer at litzine Beat the Dust

Yep, litzine Beat the Dust has broken its own rules this month, devoting the whole of the May edition to the previously unpublished work of the father of all underground writers, Mark SaFranko.  ...
Posted by melissamann.com on Mon, 12 May 2008 03:12:00 PST

’Love 2wice Removed’ at dogmatika!

A story of mine has just been posted at independent lit mag dogmatika, a great place for books, culture and other stuff.  'Love 2wice Removed' is a tale of obsessive...
Posted by melissamann.com on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:55:00 PST