Melissa Burkart
Maine-based fantasy writer of flash fiction, novels, and everything in between. Perpetually Exhausted Parent (PEP). Forever a theatre kid. she/her
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Melissa Burkart (she/her) lives in Maine with her family and writes fantasy stories in the cracks between wrangling her two perpetual chaos machines (aka kids). She always has an audiobook and knit…
blog
blog
writing the fantastic
stories
stories
Constellations Falling, Trollbreath Magazine (March 2025) The Wander Problem, Sudden Fictions podcast (June 2024) Rain in the Nightmarket, Sudden Fictions podcast (April 2024) ******** I spent a lo…
workshops & events
workshops & events
Upcoming: A short play of mine will be included in Meetinghouse Theatre Lab’s Out-of-the-Hat reading in March! — 6:00-7:30 pm 21 March 2026 at Hammond Hall 47 Main Street Winter Harbor.…
mentoring
mentoring
I hope to be the writing mentor I never found. I spent decades searching for writing mentors in classes and workshops. I got plenty of what-do-I-do-with-a-fantasy-writer reactions, but never found …
Melissa Burkart (@mwithpen.bsky.social)
Melissa Burkart (@mwithpen.bsky.social)
Possible sea witch living by the Maine coast. Spec fic/fantasy writer of flash fiction, novels, and everything in between. Perpetually Exhausted Parent™. Forever a theatre kid. Bi/demi she/her. melissaburkart.com
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