Melissa is a Contributing Editor for Fiction Writers Review and Editor of Grace and Gravity series.
Furious Gravity
Furious Gravity is the long-awaited ninth volume of the Grace and Gravity series, a literary journal devoted to women writers in the DC region. This volume will be the second edited by Melissa Scholes Young, a DC writer and associate professor at American University, who has taken over from founder Richard Peabody (Gargoyle and Paycock Press). Scholes Young delivers a gorgeous and vivid volume of fifty vibrant voices. Her vision for the ninth volume is a platform in which women write about the gravitational forces that bind them together or push them apart. Fury is useful fuel as they respond to a world they wish was more just. Amidst the darkness provided in generous and unrelenting doses by the current political climate, this collection delivers a compilation of stories and essays with undeniable pull – and, of course, grace.
Grace in Darkness
Grace in Darkness is the long-awaited eighth volume of the Grace and Gravity series, a literary journal devoted to women writers in the DC region. This volume is the first edited by Melissa Scholes Young, a DC writer and professor, who has taken over the task of assembling this journal from the previous editor and founder Richard Peabody (founder and editor also of Gargoyle). Young delivers us a gorgeous and vivid volume of twenty-five vibrant voices. Her vision for the eighth volume is a platform in which women speak – shout, whisper, bellow, and sing – unapologetically and with a confidence so often stripped from women and girls in a society built from a blueprint with a glass ceiling. Amidst the darkness provided in generous and unrelenting doses by the current political climate, this collection delivers a compilation of stories with undeniable light – and, of course, grace.
