Melanie Pappadis Faranello

• Fiction
  
• Swamp Pink, “Flotsam,” 2024
  
• Vestal Review, “My Father, My King,” 2022
  
• StorySouth, “Arboretum,” 2017 
  
• Connotation Press, “Airways,” 2017 
  
• Adelaide Literary Magazine, “Everybody Needs Something,” 2017
  
• Adelaide’s Literary (Best of) Anthology, “Just Fine,” 2017
  
• Blackbird, “Marionette,” 2015 
  
• Contrary Magazine, “Don’t Forget to Say Hello,” 2015
  
• The Ampersand Review, “Lucky Penny,” 2013 
  
• Requited Journal, “Newborn Eyes,” 2013
  
• Fifth Wednesday Journal, “At the Auditorium,” (Pushcart Prize Nomination) 2012
  
• Essays
  
• Hippocampus, “The Shape of Grief,” 2024 
  
• Electric Literature, "How to Love a Widower," 2025
  
• Permafrost, "A Flutter,a Rabble, a Wing," 2025
  
• Vol1. Brooklyn, “In Giron,” 2024 
  
• HuffPost Personal, “365 Days,” 2024
  
• Catamaran Review, “What Would Odysseus Do,” 2023
  
• Mom Egg Review, “Becoming,” 2023
  
• StoryQuarterly, “El Coup,” (Pushcart Prize Nomination) 2022
  
• HuffPost Personal, “Here’s What I Learned about Grief,” 2021
  
• Literary Mama, “Kindergarten Pick-Up,” 2013
  
• Emerge Literary Journal, “Sometimes It’s a Pin Prick,” 2013
  
• Poetry
  
• Pedestal, “Paper Tiger,” 2022

MANUSCRIPTS (seeking representation)______________________________

NOVELS:

PAPER HOUSES (Novel-Literary Fiction/88,000 words, 2024): A dual-timeline/dual-pov novel set in 1984 and 2001 Chicago, intertwining a reclusive groundskeeper and a  twelve-year-old girl as their search  for missing loved ones intersect in surprising ways. A psychological exploration of mistaken identity, intimacy and the longing for connection.

THE WANT (Novel-Literary Fiction/70,000 words,in-progress 2025): A contemporary novel about a 32-year-old disillusioned office worker in NYC who spend her days responding to online customer complaints of off-brand household products, while contending with her own dashed dreams. A darkly humorous exploration about the coming of age in young adulthood that requires letting go of past stories to create the life you want to live.

IN OTHER KINDS OF WEATHER (Novel-Literary Fiction/90,000 words, 2022): A contemporary family drama about a recently laid-off family man who veers off course to save his family while a newly-single marriage counselor struggles to recreate herself. Trouble brews in their pristine suburb, questioning how well we know what is going on behind our neighbors' doors. 

Short Story Collection:

EVERYBODY NEEDS SOMETHING (Story Collection 60,000 words):  A collection of stories exploring our human need for connection and the ways in which we struggle to attain it.

Non-Fiction:

A RABBLE, A FLIGHT, A WING: Notes on Grief and Belonging (CNF/30,000 words):  A hybrid collection of creative non-fiction centering on various forms of loss and questions of belonging. 

POETRY ON THE STREETS : A coffee table style collection of photographs and typewriter poetry about human emotions spontaneously written by everyday people on the street over three years