URANIANS (@astrahousebooks); Best American SFF, @FandSF, @GuernicaMag. Clarion '17. Climate lawyer. Opera nut & ballet husband-man.
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Jan 19
Come write with me! At @lighthousewriters we’re bringing back my hit 4-week craft seminar, “Standing on the Shoulders of Giant Robots: Craft Lessons from Speculative Short Fiction.” (Sign up at lighthousewriters dot org)
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Jan 19
Across four 2-hour classes, we’ll read and discuss classic SF/F short stories, old and new, that offer an intensified look at craft issues like exposition, narrator, and time. I had a lot of fun teaching this and can’t wait to talk about some of my favorite stories ever written.
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28 Oct 2025
Say goodnight to the "Man in the Wall" by @mrbruff
Read the first pages of the story here: southernhumanitiesreview.com…
#litmag #WritingCommunity #fiction
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25 Feb 2025
In one month! I'll be teaching a 4-session online seminar through the Lighthouse Writers Workshop, "Standing on the Shoulders of Giant Robots: Craft Lessons from Speculative Fiction." Four Wednesday evenings, March 19 to April 9. Registration link below: (1/4)
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25 Feb 2025
Week 2, Exposition and Conflict
- Octavia Butler, "Bloodchild"
- Ted Chiang, "Exhalation"
Week 3, Time
- Ken Liu, "Seven Birthdays"
- Aimee Bender, "The Leading Man"
Week 4, Speculative Sentences
- Samuel R. Delaney, "Aye, and Gomorrah"
- Cesar Aira, "The Musical Brain"
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25 Feb 2025
All levels and all genres welcome! While we'll do some in-class exercises, this is a craft seminar, not a workshop. DM me for any questions, and here's that link!
lighthousewriters.org/worksh…... (4/4)
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23 Nov 2024
Hey everyone, in two weeks I'll be teaching an online seminar though @lighthousewrite, on realist fiction with unreality at its center. Details below and at the sign-up link below. Anyone can register. I cannot wait to dive into these stories together!
ALT Come write with me! "The Grit & the Pearl: Realist Stories with Unreal Centers," Sunday December 8 on Zoom, 10AM to 12PM Mountain time
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23 Nov 2024
It's impossible to narrow this topic to a handful of stories, but I want us to look at Mavis Gallant and Elizabeth McCracken's ghost stories "From the Fifteenth District" and "Something Amazing" (two favorites), and magical realism in Gabo's "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings."
ALT Photo of Little Angel puppet theater's production of "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings," by Gabriel García Márquez
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23 Nov 2024
And, if we have time, we'll do paragraph-level read of the opening to Chekhov's novella "The Black Monk" and the bravura reality-warping passage from Carmen Maria Machado's "Mothers." (WandaVision should be writing her checks IMO)
ALT Illustration by G.K. Savitsky of Anton Chekhov's "The Black Monk," showing our overworked and nervous protagonist at his writing desk.
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4 Oct 2024
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12 Sep 2024
“Only a Church that is prepared to find itself enriched by the encounter with creation’s diversity can call itself catholic.” @mrbruff describes the enduring ambiguities of queer Catholicism.
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12 Sep 2024
goooorgeous work from @mrbruff: "Do I like girls? Do I like being a girl? Taste and see. Try again."
9 Sep 2024
With the Vatican’s willingness to bless same-sex unions and a green(ish) light for transgender baptism, has the Catholic Church mellowed on LGBTQ doctrine? Or is it the Inquisition in drag? @mrbruff investigates.
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Theodore McCombs retweeted
11 Sep 2024
fantastically proud to announce DAYSPRING, my debut novel, is nominated for the @writerstrust Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers.
I owe a tremendous thanks to editor @jordanginsberg, the team at @strangelight_, and agent @LaurenAbramo.
Proud to honour Dayne. 💜
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9 Sep 2024
Very honoured to be among the works considered in this magisterial and thoughtful survey, and always such a pleasure to talk with @mrbruff !
9 Sep 2024
With the Vatican’s willingness to bless same-sex unions and a green(ish) light for transgender baptism, has the Catholic Church mellowed on LGBTQ doctrine? Or is it the Inquisition in drag? @mrbruff investigates.
thebaffler.com/latest/a-foot…
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9 Sep 2024
I’m thrilled to have this piece in @thebafflermag today, on the Vatican’s exquisite ambiguities on queerness and its place in the Catholic Church. (With an enthusiastic detour into @meakoopa’s astonishing queer gospel DAYSPRING)
9 Sep 2024
With the Vatican’s willingness to bless same-sex unions and a green(ish) light for transgender baptism, has the Catholic Church mellowed on LGBTQ doctrine? Or is it the Inquisition in drag? @mrbruff investigates.
thebaffler.com/latest/a-foot…
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9 Sep 2024
With the Vatican’s willingness to bless same-sex unions and a green(ish) light for transgender baptism, has the Catholic Church mellowed on LGBTQ doctrine? Or is it the Inquisition in drag? @mrbruff investigates.
thebaffler.com/latest/a-foot…
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Theodore McCombs retweeted
26 Aug 2024
The @ColoradoSun interviewed @mrbruff about URANIANS, winner of the Colorado Book Award in the short stories category coloradosun.com/2024/08/25/s…
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