Writing
Books
I'm Afraid That I Know Too Much About Myself Now, To Go Back To Who I Knew Before, And Oh Lord, Who Will I Be After I've Known All That I Can, ELJ Editions, May, 2023.
Look at All The Little Hurts of These Newly-Broken Lives and The Bittersweet, Sweet and Bitter Loves, Ethel Zine and Press, May, 2023 [Limited-Edition Copies!]
Fiction
2023
I Don’t Want to Be a Person’s My Person Because Persons Aren’t Very Good People, The ASP Bulletin.
Pillow Talking About Persons Piecing-Together: Possessions, Prizes and Being a Place for a Loved One to Hold Themselves Within, Querencia Summer. 2023 Anthology.
When It Gets Hot in the South, Staged Desegregated Beauty Pageants Protest against the Chocolate Cinderellas, Rooted Magazine.
The Reluctant Riverboat Passengers, The Serialized Attacks of The Swamp Gin Monster, and The Saw That Stayed, Hex Literary.
2022
Cauliflower is Just What Happens to Broccoli When It Dies, Jellyfish Review.
Technically, I'm a Poet Now, and/so I Think It's My Turn to Write Something About the Moon, Hennepin Review.
Baby is the Big Man, Now, Lost Balloon.
When It Gets Cold in the South, You Get a Jesus, You Get a Jesus, Everybody Gets a Goddamn Jesus, CRAFT.
2021
Chicken-Girls and Chicken-Ladies and all the Possibilities of Pillowcases, Barren Magazine.
The Terrible Darling, Milk Candy Review.
When it Gets Cold in the South, The Church Folks Keep Churching On, Louisiana Literature.
The Telling and Showing Ends in this Space, in this Place Where Bare Foot Pushed Back Against the Pebbles, and the Blueberries Always Remained Unbroken in the Pancake Batter, Parentheses Journal.
The Proper Way to Peel an Orange, The Citron Review.
2020
When it Gets Cold in The South, The Youngest Baby Dies, Fractured Lit.
Mr. Frogman, Booth Journal.
And Suddenly, You're the Worst Kind of Human, 1958, King Ludd's Rag No. 1.
2019
The Blackhawk Beast and the One Who Wails, Barren Magazine.
Tears for the War Heroes, for the Philosophy Majors, for the Mamas Who Fight Against the Dust, Rigorous Magazine.
Characters in Development, Paragon Press.
Six Feet, Bleek, and Buried, X-Ray Literary Magazine.
When it Gets Cold in The South, Only the Pumpernickel Survives, Jellyfish Review.
When it Gets Cold in The South, Your Mama Calls to Mama You, Parentheses Journal.
2018
I am Your Protagonist, Literary Orphans.
2016
Iron Man, Indicia Magazine.
2014
“Party", "Second Meeting", "Questions" and "On the Set", Valley Voices.
Nonfiction
2023
So, You Want To Live Forever Even Though Death is a Kind of Forever, Too?, The Daily Drunk Magazine.
We Deserve Black Existences Where Our Givingness is Ours to Give to Ourselves, and Your Givingness is Yours to Keep to Yourselves, Alien Magazine.
The Wanting Season, The Rayon Christmas Roast, The Soft-Stained Glass Meal, The Frankenstein Failure, and The Secret of The Sewing Stamina., Chestnut Review, Summer 2023, (Volume 5, Number 1).
"At My Gynecologist, the Ghost Gloves Go to the Garbage and the Too-Green Girls Become a Little Less Green", F(r)iction, The Bodies Issue, No. 20, The Winter Issue.
2022
We Used to be Hunter Gathers at Hancock. We Used to Stalk the Silk and Satins. We Used to Wear Garments Fit for a Queen, Paddler Press, Vol. 4.
A Grandma and Granddaughter Watch Television Together. Granddaughter Says That Life is Supposed to Be the Blessing for Black People. Grandmother Says that Death is Supposed to Be the Blessing for Black Folks. The Television Decides for them Both, Denver Quarterly, Vol. 56 No. 3.
2021
Things My Aunt Nanny Taught Me, Chicken Soup for the Soul, Special Issue: I'm Speaking Now.
One of The Girls Who Lived, One of Those Girls Who Lived, 2004, TriQuarterly Issue 160.
You Are The Stranger Here, You Are The Unfamiliar Bite of Food, Stanchion Zine, Issue 5, 2021.
We Give, and We Give, and We Give So Much, JMWW Journal.
In the Forward to the Back, in the Time Machine, In the Back to the Forward, In the Summer of 2019, The Daily Drunk.
2019
To The Loved Ones We Gave Our Apples To, Heroin Chic Magazine.
Stories From My Grandma's Body, Barren Magazine.
Iconoclastic, PM Magazine.
It's 5am-ish, and My Father Tells Me a Story From His Time in Singapore, No Contact Magazine.
For Horror Writers, Who Have Tried To Birth The Happy Things, Variant Literature.
Poetry
2023
“Let Me Hold What Once Held You. Let Me Make What Once Held You Hold Me. Let Me Hold, Let Me Make the Memory of Us Together.”, Paranoid Tree.
2022
If I Had It My Way, Burger King Would Be The One We'd Remember, The Hellebore Press.
Candy-Striped and Candy-Stripped at Greenwood Leflore Hospital, During the Summer of Your 16th Year, Janus Literary.
To The Infomercial Wives Who Lost Their Husbands, And Then Got Them Back, After Losing Every Bit Of Themselves, Stanchion Zine, Issue Eight.
Essays
Love & Nappiness, Luna Luna Magazine, 2018.
We Deserve More Black Stories with Happy Endings Electric Literature, 2019.
Sew in Love on Christmas: An Essay on the World of Maladaptive Daydreaming, Hallmark Holiday Movies, the Lost Art of Sewing, and Redefining the Trope of Unexpected Romance, West Branch, Creative Nonfiction Issue, 2022.
When the World was Ending We Wore The Cornrows. We Twisted Our Coils, and We Waited., Quarter After Eight Issue 29, 2022.
Interviews
Brownlow’s story will be included in Best MicroFiction 2021 anthology, Mississippi University For Women, 2021.
Two Questions for Exodus Oktavia Brownlow Milk Candy Review, 2021.
Exodus Oktavia Brownlow Needs No Introduction, No Contact Magazine, 2022.
Mississippi Native: Exodus Oktavia Brownlow, Rooted Magazine, 2023.
104. Exodus Oktavia Brownlow | Essays, green forests, and finding your footing, Arts Calling Podcast, 2023.
Author Interview - Exodus Oktavia Brownlow, Friendly City Books Podcast, 2023.
Book talk: Five questions with Exodus Oktavia Brownlow, The Commercial Dispatch, 2023.
Exodus Oktavia Brownlow on “I’m Afraid that I Know Too Much….”, Prince George’s County Office of Human Rights and the Prince George’s County Memorial Library System, 2023.
The Mississippi Arts Hour - Exodus Oktavia Brownlow, Mississippi Public Broadcast, 2023.
Forthcoming
“Please Be Mine, Even Though I Don’t Fully Have Myself, Yet.” Parentheses Journal.
“The Thrill of Movement and Thought: How a Black Body Becomes Owned and Mastered by its Heired-Keeper” Booth.
