Creative Nonfiction

“Doll,” Mud Season Review 40 (October 2018): http://mudseasonreview.com/author/melissa-goodnight/ (Original publication)

“Doll,” Dreamers (March 2020): https://www.dreamerswriting.com/melissa-goodnight/ (Reprint)

“Safe,” Lunch Ticket (Summer/Fall 2019): https://lunchticket.org/a-la-carte-safe/

“Crepitation,” Welter (December 2020): https://blogs.ubalt.edu/welter/w-online/

“Mary,” Litro (June 2021): https://www.litromagazine.com/usa/category/loneliness-issue/

“Margie,” Moon City Review (March 2023)

Flash Fiction

“The Center Won’t Hold,” Jenny (Fall 2018): http://www.jennymag.org/fall-18-issue/the-center-wont-hold

“The Line,” The Dead Mule School (May 2019): https://deadmule.com/melissa-goodnight-the-line-fiction-may-2019/

“Lighter and a Knife,” On the Run (March 2023) https://www.ontherunfiction.com/stories/lighter-and-a-knife

Poetry

“Kansas.” Blue City Poets, edited by Polly McCann, Flying Ketchup Press, 2019, p. 12–13.

“Lost.” Blue City Poets, edited by Polly McCann, Flying Ketchup Press, 2019, p. 2.

Book Reviews

Review of Quietly Hostile, by Samatha Irby. May, 2023. West Trade Review.

https://westtradereview.com/westendirbyreview23.html?_=1683495442916&fbclid=IwAR0oqsnske3mWO5xmOhYlVwY_rFoxiu661ZWoBmY_O1UXhFswolZljG_vKw

Review of Where Misfits Fit: Counterculture and Influence in the Ozarks, by Thomas Michael Kersen. November 15, 2021. Clarion-Ledger/University Press of Mississippi

https://msbookspage.wordpress.com/2021/11/15/where-misfits-fit-counterculture-and-influence-in-the-ozarks-by-thomas-michael-kersen/?fbclid=IwAR2x0On6VfiSuXaBvPWxkxpku9UJ3E6Sl7xnXRM5lKRv-V8ntK87Coh9hmI