Maurice Broaddus
@mauricebroaddus.bsky.social
Writer, librarian, practice adult, forever mentor...
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By way of introduction, I’m the resident Afrofuturist at the Kheprw Institute, the librarian of the recently restored historic Paul Laurence Dunbar Library, and I’m a Black male horror, science fiction and fantasy author.
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How Black Gallerists Are Staying Resilient This Black History Month - Artsy
How Black Gallerists Are Staying Resilient This Black History Month
Three Black gallerists discuss how they care for themselves and their communities.
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February 8, 2026 at 7:04 PM
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...
February 5, 2026 at 2:58 AM
A friend helped me put into words my existential angst about Valentines Day: it's a manufactured holiday designed to create more Scorpios...
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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.😁
February 2, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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.😁
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.
… 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.
January 23, 2026 at 4:18 AM
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.
… 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.
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.
January 14, 2026 at 1:56 AM
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.
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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.”
The Map of Lost Places edited by Sheree Renée Thomas & Lesley Conner: Review by Gabino Iglesias
The Map of Lost Places, Sheree Renée Thomas & Lesley Conner, eds. (Apex 978-1-95576-526-8, $27.95, 306pp, tp) April 2025. Cover by Marcela Bolívar. Much has been written about place as characte…
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December 6, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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'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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Meet The Oaks Academy Librarian Maurice Broaddus
Maurice Broaddus never sought out to become a librarian but after falling into the endeavor unconventionally, has never looked back.
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January 9, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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.
www.indianapolismonthly.com/arts-and-cul...
www.indianapolismonthly.com/arts-and-cul...
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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...
25th Century Five and Dime #17: 23 of the Best underrated Science Fiction/ Speculative/ Weird of the first quarter of the 21st Century - Amazing Stories
With my last column written in 2025, I wanted to highlight some works of excellent speculative fiction that might normally get overlooked. If I were going
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January 8, 2026 at 11:28 PM
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...
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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.
January 5, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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.
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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).
The Last God of Talam Dor - GigaNotoSaurus
Content Warning: religiously motivated ableism and homophobia, both internalized and external; self-harm; and depictions of ritual sacrifice including drowning, hanging, and burning, not very graphic....
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January 2, 2026 at 11:39 PM
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).
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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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January 3, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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.
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...
bookshop.org/p/books/hous...
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...
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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!
#blacksky
#blacksky
It's official: LALOVAVI will make its world premiere as part of the Cincinnati Opera's 2026 season on July 9 and 11, 2026!
December 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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!
#blacksky
#blacksky
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…
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Black Horror | Call for Submissions
We are very excited to announce a new call for submissions which is now open!
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December 19, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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...
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Marshall is such a great guy and does so much for community gofund.me/b65736a10
Donate to Support Marshall Carr's Journey Ahead, organized by Wil Ralston
Hello from the crew of JUST KEEP WRITING Podcast. Today we are starting a Go-Fund-Me… Wil Ralston needs your support for Support Marshall Carr's Journey Ahead
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December 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Marshall is such a great guy and does so much for community gofund.me/b65736a10
25 years of marriage means if you're staying in a hotel that has a land line in the bathroom, you're obligated to keep calling your spouse until they answer...or at least yell "YOU BETTER NOT BE CALLING ME FROM THE TOILET!" - - Yeah, my job here is done.
December 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
25 years of marriage means if you're staying in a hotel that has a land line in the bathroom, you're obligated to keep calling your spouse until they answer...or at least yell "YOU BETTER NOT BE CALLING ME FROM THE TOILET!" - - Yeah, my job here is done.
Not that I want Jeff's humiliation. I'm just a supportive friend.
Reminder: if KARMA gets a bestseller ribbon in any Amazon category, I have promised to wear a giant hot dog suit and post videos galore of my grim humiliation and resentment. www.amazon.com/Karma-Bridge...
Karma
Karma [Nelson, Bridgett, Strand, Jeff] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Karma
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December 10, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Not that I want Jeff's humiliation. I'm just a supportive friend.
When your business manager, who is also your wife, begins the update meeting with "Bruh," you know your antics are about to be reined in...
December 9, 2025 at 8:10 PM
When your business manager, who is also your wife, begins the update meeting with "Bruh," you know your antics are about to be reined in...
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#FandSF #FavoriteStories Summer 2025 #Fantasy #SF
Soul Rebel by @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social
Afrofuturistic steampunk tale about the political conflict between the Maroons, Assembly of First Nations, and United States of Albion.
Each chapter heading is an apropos title of a Bob Marley song.
Soul Rebel by @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social
Afrofuturistic steampunk tale about the political conflict between the Maroons, Assembly of First Nations, and United States of Albion.
Each chapter heading is an apropos title of a Bob Marley song.
December 6, 2025 at 7:50 PM
#FandSF #FavoriteStories Summer 2025 #Fantasy #SF
Soul Rebel by @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social
Afrofuturistic steampunk tale about the political conflict between the Maroons, Assembly of First Nations, and United States of Albion.
Each chapter heading is an apropos title of a Bob Marley song.
Soul Rebel by @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social
Afrofuturistic steampunk tale about the political conflict between the Maroons, Assembly of First Nations, and United States of Albion.
Each chapter heading is an apropos title of a Bob Marley song.
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Signed books & comics by @laurelhightower.bsky.social, @joerlansdale.bsky.social, @amandaheadlee.bsky.social, @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social, @jeffstrand.bsky.social, @katsilvaauthor.bsky.social, @owenkingauthor.bsky.social, & more! Try finding those on Amazon! vortexbooksandcomicsonline.bigcartel.com
Vortex Books & Comics Online Shop
The online component of Vortex Books & Comics, featuring signed copies from authors who have visited the physical store.
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December 5, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Signed books & comics by @laurelhightower.bsky.social, @joerlansdale.bsky.social, @amandaheadlee.bsky.social, @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social, @jeffstrand.bsky.social, @katsilvaauthor.bsky.social, @owenkingauthor.bsky.social, & more! Try finding those on Amazon! vortexbooksandcomicsonline.bigcartel.com
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A new issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction is here at last from new publisher Must Read Magazines! Featuring @nnedi.bsky.social, @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social, @matthewkressel.net and @mercuriodrivera.bsky.social, @justinkey.bsky.social and more: weightlessbooks.com/the-magazine...
November 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
A new issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction is here at last from new publisher Must Read Magazines! Featuring @nnedi.bsky.social, @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social, @matthewkressel.net and @mercuriodrivera.bsky.social, @justinkey.bsky.social and more: weightlessbooks.com/the-magazine...
Happy birthday to the timeless, ageless, Dr. @chesyaburke.bsky.social. She's ... kinda alright. #bestbestman
November 12, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Happy birthday to the timeless, ageless, Dr. @chesyaburke.bsky.social. She's ... kinda alright. #bestbestman
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I am finally home for a few days in a row so you know what that means....rant time.
How Booksellers Decide What to Sell: Why Aren't We Getting This Info Out About Libraries?
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How Booksellers Decide What to Sell: Why Aren't We Getting This Info Out About Libraries?
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How Booksellers Decide What to Sell: Why Aren't We Getting This Info Out About Libraries?
I have been telling us all how bad we are at communicating what we do at libraries and how that has made us susceptible to censorship and bu...
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November 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I am finally home for a few days in a row so you know what that means....rant time.
How Booksellers Decide What to Sell: Why Aren't We Getting This Info Out About Libraries?
raforall.blogspot.com/2025/11/how-...
How Booksellers Decide What to Sell: Why Aren't We Getting This Info Out About Libraries?
raforall.blogspot.com/2025/11/how-...
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I have a new interview about RAKESFALL up at Reactor! In which I am quite verbose reactormag.com/author-inter...
A Conversation With Vajra Chandrasekera, Author of Rakesfall - Reactor
"I think writers, like all artists, have a responsibility to act as human cultural workers in an actual society"
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November 11, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I have a new interview about RAKESFALL up at Reactor! In which I am quite verbose reactormag.com/author-inter...
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@niadavenport.bsky.social has been an incredible part of the SSF community. She's someone who has helped many others, including myself.
Please donate, if you can, to help her and her family through this awful loss.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-ni...
Please donate, if you can, to help her and her family through this awful loss.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-ni...
Donate to Support Nia and Her Children After Tragic Loss, organized by Lindsey Hart
Our hearts are with Nia, a beloved friend, author and advocate who has pou… Lindsey Hart needs your support for Support Nia and Her Children After Tragic Loss
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November 10, 2025 at 10:05 PM
@niadavenport.bsky.social has been an incredible part of the SSF community. She's someone who has helped many others, including myself.
Please donate, if you can, to help her and her family through this awful loss.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-ni...
Please donate, if you can, to help her and her family through this awful loss.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-ni...
Flashback Tuesday: in case you were wondering what it's like raising my children (the college years edition)...
Oldest: Hey, can you send me some money? I have some college expenses I didn't expect.
Us: *sends money*
Oldest: Thanks. *sends pic*
(He's the 3rd banana from the right)
Oldest: Hey, can you send me some money? I have some college expenses I didn't expect.
Us: *sends money*
Oldest: Thanks. *sends pic*
(He's the 3rd banana from the right)
November 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Flashback Tuesday: in case you were wondering what it's like raising my children (the college years edition)...
Oldest: Hey, can you send me some money? I have some college expenses I didn't expect.
Us: *sends money*
Oldest: Thanks. *sends pic*
(He's the 3rd banana from the right)
Oldest: Hey, can you send me some money? I have some college expenses I didn't expect.
Us: *sends money*
Oldest: Thanks. *sends pic*
(He's the 3rd banana from the right)