Writing with Spirit

Flirting with Fame

Melanie Lynn Griffin recently escaped a twenty-seven year career as an environmental lobbyist in Washington, D.C. She’s currently reinventing herself as a freelance writer, retreat leader, and pastor. She loves travel, both the inner and outer journeys. She reads, gardens, cooks, meditates, hangs out with friends, and spends as much time as she can at her writing retreat in southern New Hampshire. She received a masters in creative nonfiction from Johns Hopkins University in 2013 and now must figure out what to do with her life. She’s pondering getting a real job, but would much prefer that a first-class agent/publisher discover this blog and make her a famous writer.

Fireworks at the Celebration When I Win the Nobel Prize for Literature

In the meantime, here are links to some of Melanie’s published writing:

Portfolio on Contently:

https://melanielynngriffin.contently.com/

“An Ambivalent Foray:”

A personal essay featured in the 2014 anthology Answers I’ll Accept

T. J. Eckleburg Review:

https://eckleburg.org/works/nonfiction/essays/life-right-lane/

Sojourners — Sojo.net:

https://sojo.net/articles/reader-stories/grieving-questions

 AARP Bulletin:

http://www.aarp.org/work/social-security/info-11-2011/melanie-griffin.html#.TrqiPkT6_dg.email

Sierra Magazine:

A Growing Movement

Grist Guest Essay:

http://www.grist.org/article/christians-bring-hope-for-the-planet

So to Speak Journal:

http://sotospeakjournal.org/secrets-in-the-dark/

Outside In Literary Travel Magazine:

http://outsideinmagazine.com/issue-seventeen/poetry/a-healing-winter-walk-a-photo-poem-melanie-lynn-griffin/

Microjourneys | Multiple Authors | Outside In Literary & Travel Magazine.

http://outsideinmagazine.com/issue-six/wordstories/late-summer-dream-melanie-lynn-griffin/

Microjourneys | Multiple Authors | Outside In Literary & Travel Magazine. (I have two short pieces on this page.)

The Keene Sentinel:

http://www.sentinelsource.com/life_and_style/books/off_the_shelf/public_muse/saturation-by-melanie-lynn-griffin-of-gilsum/article_39e3f99e-d9cd-11e2-982a-001a4bcf887a.html

Broken Light Photography Collective Guest Blogs:

http://brokenlightcollective.wordpress.com/2013/09/10/world-suicide-prevention-day/

http://brokenlightcollective.wordpress.com/2013/06/13/hey-girl-youre-bald/

Seven by Twenty (Twitter Poetry)

Mom’s garden is gone, torn up. Quince, rose, hydrangea, dogwood: The bare earth looks like a grave.

(Oct 2015)

Greenbelt News Review:

Staff writer for a local newspaper, the Greenbelt News Review. Below are links to recent issues containing Melanie’s articles.

http://www.greenbeltnewsreview.com/issues/GNR20130509.pdf (page 1) Green Man Festival

http://www.greenbeltnewsreview.com/issues/GNR20130502.pdf (page 1) Kale-A-Rama Festival

http://www.greenbeltnewsreview.com/issues/GNR20111103.pdf  (page 1) Candidates Green Forum

http://www.greenbeltnewsreview.com/issues/GNR20110203.pdf (page 1) Nature Journaling

http://www.greenbeltnewsreview.com/issues/GNR20101202.pdf (page 1) Teacher Profiles

http://www.greenbeltnewsreview.com/issues/GNR20110526.pdf (page 1) Annual town meeting

http://www.greenbeltnewsreview.com/issues/GNR20110303.pdf (page 9) Sustainability Brainstorming Session

http://www.greenbeltnewsreview.com/issues/GNR20101028.pdf (page 2)  Solar power

Melanie also maintains an extensive list of rejection notes and letters, but chooses not to share them here because she is certain they will be worth a lot of money once she’s famous.

Nobel Prize for Literature