LOL...she used your post as the panel description!
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LOL...she used your post as the panel description!
That's now officially the panel's title!
For those wondering who we were bringing into the GenCon Writers Symposium as special and featured guests, wonder no longer… www.gencon.com/gen-con-indy...
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In an hour or so, I'll be here with @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social , @edenroyce.bsky.social , @pdjeliclark.bsky.social and others! Come join us online!
How Black Gallerists Are Staying Resilient This Black History Month - Artsy
A friend helped me put into words my existential angst about Valentines Day: it's a manufactured holiday designed to create more Scorpios...
Locus Magazine forgot to add Spacefunk! on its list of 2025 recommending reading. I forgive them. Y'all can still read it, though. Available anywhere books are sold. Happy Black History Month.😁
Booklist said “With detailed world building, social commentary on prison as another form of slavery, & epic space battles, sf readers who enjoy Octavia Butler & Samuel R. Delaney will enjoy will enjoy this entry in the Astra Black series. Highly recommended.” www.booklistonline.com/Breath-of-Ob...
Also, this week, Breath of Oblivion came out in paperback. It’s a great point to jump into the Astra Black series (and book III: A City Dreaming, comes out in May).
Publishers Weekly said "this evocative and moving collection from Broaddus spans the extremes of African and diasporic experiences...the collection moves smoothly among past, present, and future." www.publishersweekly.com/9780996769259
Speaking of Voices…
… my collection, The Voices of Martyrs, has been re-issued! Featuring a new cover by Ali and Damon Taziyah. These short stories are a mix of history, fantasy, horror, and sci-fi.
Is Mo*Con invite only? No. Seriously? Every year folks seem convinced that there’s a special invite that goes out, but all are welcome (however, did I mention, register at the Event Brite link!) www.eventbrite.com/e/mocon-2026...
FAQs:
How much does it cost? We’re keeping Mo*Con free (thanks to a very supportive literary community!)
Does this include meals? Yes. Seriously? It really does include a Friday night dinner as well as Saturday lunch. And a Sunday brunch!
We’ll feature some special local artists (to be announced later) and have some SURPRISES for you along the way. We’re capping attendance at 100 people (ish) so register at the Event Brite link www.eventbrite.com/e/mocon-2026... ]
But wait, there’s more special guests blessing us with their presence:
Editor @annvandermeer.bsky.social; Agents Bridget Smith and @suddenlyjen.bsky.social
Poet Guest of Honor: Linda D. Addison
You see this collection of writers, teachers, and scholars? WELCOME TO THE MO*CON ACADEMY!
Look at these legends we’re honored to call friends:
Guests of Honor: @victorlavalle.bsky.social, @chesyaburke.bsky.social, @redclayscholar.bsky.social, and @k8dee16.bsky.social.
Believe it or not, the first Mo*Con was in 2006 making this year its 20th Anniversary! We can’t let that achievement go uncelebrated, so we’re bringing back some old friends and welcoming some new ones! Mo*Con 2026 runs April 30th (coincidentally my birthday) through May 2nd.
Read @Gabino_Iglesias’s review of THE MAP OF LOST PLACES edited by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social & @lesleyconner.bsky.social: “a solid group of stories that focus on place in very different ways... a very worthy journey.”
I stand on the shoulders of Lillian Haydon Childress Hall, its first librarian. [And I'm privileged to have folks like Nichelle Hayes and Stephen Lane continuing to inspire me.] Thanks for the profile Indianapolis Monthly!
I'm honored to be part of a great and supportive team at the Oaks Academy who have worked so hard to bring the Paul Laurence Dunbar Library back to being a community jewel.
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My latest Amazing Stories column. As we pass out of the 1/4 of the 21st century these are 23 underrated speculative fiction works. Weird and under the radar a few are out of print. All amazing. Featuring works by @brianevenson.bsky.social @jamesreich.bsky.social @sbdivya.bsky.social...
Next, Abagail’s Gethsemane by Wayne Brady and Maurice Broaddus (@mauricebroaddus.bsky.social). This story fills in Mother Abagail’s time in the wilderness, informing it with an incident (and a pandemic) from her, and America’s, past. This one’s brilliant.
Different publication! @mruthrobinson.bsky.social's "The Last God of Talam Dor" in GigaNotoSaurus is a heartrending queer tale of religious sacrifice and forbidden love, and how queer love was the sacred thing all along (in my reading).
It’s the first #FridayReads of 2026! Hope it brings you good things. Anyway, let’s share some books! Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Here’s a (45% off!) little monster full of friendship, magic, and ghosts.
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Tickets are on sale! I've been going to opera productions for nearly 25 yeaes and I'm incredibly psyched for this one. I'm going out for a supernumerary role (supers are background actors in opera productions) in the spring. Wish me luck!
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Dr. @chesyaburke.bsky.social and I are editing an anthology surveying the evolution of Black literary horror. Tentatively titled Black Horror, Then & Next: We Have Always Dreamed in Darkness (FlameTree Press), here are the guidelines…
blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...
Marshall is such a great guy and does so much for community gofund.me/b65736a10
Always think @shereereneethomas.bsky.social as your go to for all things Afrofuturism and film. David Kirkman has some exciting projects coming up!