Mel Dollison

...hasn't left LiveJournal yet. Melissa Dollison is a Virginian from an unincorporated community too small to even be considered a town, but who has managed to escape to Massachusetts for college. She’s a reluctant writer, a long time connoisseur of both lesbian and feminist political and literary history, and an avid participant in the impractical internet politics surrounding all of the above. She’ll defend 90s sci fi television, theatre kids, downhill skiing, and porcupines to the death. When not otherwise engaged in pursuing an education, she can usually be found at the top of a pine tree or behind her computer, or sometimes both at the same time.

Harmonious Hearts 2015 - Stories from the Young Author Challenge

By Mel Dollison, Irene Grant, Angelicque Bautista, Alice Blank, Erica Engelin, Melissa Dollison, Shaye Evans, Danielle Eyer, Jordan Gillespie, Juli Philippo and Others

Harmony Ink Press - Young Author Challenge

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Celebrate with Harmony Ink Press as we recognize the talented winners of our second annual Young Author Challenge. This anthology showcases the LGBTQ genre’s best up-and-coming-authors between the ages of fourteen and twenty-one.

The road from childhood to adulthood can be a bumpy one, especially for LGBTQ youth. Travel beside characters of all identities, orientations, and expressions as they search for a place to belong and people to love and support them just the way they are. From cities to the countryside, across diverse nations, and in fantastical realms of imagination, these young people struggle against society’s expectations, judgment from friends and family, and their own confusion—all while trying to enjoy their teenage years. Join them as they find the strength to be the people they’re meant to be and the courage to show their beauty to the world.

Angelicque Bautista—Hummingbird Heart
Alice Blank—I Wouldn't Let You Drown
Erica Engelin—My Friend, My Sister
Melissa Dollison—Home Before the Moon Turns
Shaye Evans—Boarding Discovery
Danielle Eyer—The Love Song of Amalia Savage
Jordan Gillespie—Love in the Time of Figure Skating
Juli Philippo—Ceilings
Zig—The Three Poly Teens
Hannah Irene—Black Rose
CJ—The Pirate and the Princess
Sheila McIntosh—Leucippa
Gabriella Reeb—Just a Little Bit Late
S. A. Star—Chance Encounters
Sara Stark—Stardust
Laura Swogger—This Photograph
Imani J. Walton—Three Stages of Agony