Brandon O’Brien’s Bibliography
Poetry:
- ‘prometheans’, Control Literary Magazine Issue 5, August 2015
- ‘god-date’, Uncanny Magazine Issue Nine, March 1st 2016
- ‘population changes’, Strange Horizons August 8th 2016
- ‘Papa Bois and the Boy’, Reckoning #1, December 21st 2016 (available online May 29th 2017)
- ‘time, and time again’, Uncanny Magazine Issue Fifteen, March/April 2017
- ‘defining moment’, Past Simple Issue 12, March 2017
- ‘the lagahoo speaks for itself’, Arsenika Issue 1, April 11th 2017
- ‘The Sailor-Boys’, Sunvault, August 29th 2017
- ‘Birth, Place’, Uncanny Magazine Issue Eighteen, September/October 2017
- ‘The Metaphysics of a Wine, in Theory and Practice’, Arsenika Issue 2, February 2018
- ‘drop some amens’, Uncanny Magazine Issue Twenty-One, March/April 2018
- ‘Hunting with Zeno’s Arrows’, Eye to the Telescope Issue 28: Time, April 2018
- ‘How Come You Find Yourself In All This’, Susumba’s Book Bag Issue 10: Writing The Storm, June 17 2018
- two poems, sx salon 28, June 2018
- ‘the one’, Uncanny Magazine Issue Twenty-Three, July/August 2018
- ‘Gretels’, CULTUREGO Magazine #3, July-September 2018
- ‘Elegy for the Self as Villeneuve’s Beast‘, Uncanny Magazine Issue Twenty-Eight, May/June 2019
- ‘Elegy for the Self as Villeneuve’s Belle’, Uncanny Magazine upcoming
Prose:
- ‘Best Foot Forward’, Akashic Books’ Duppy Thursday, November 2015
- ‘fallenangel.dll’, New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales From The Caribbean (Peepal Tree Press)
- ‘They Will Take You From You’, Strange Horizons, May 1st 2017
- ‘“Punch God (In The Face)”, by The Harmnones’, Anathema #2, August 1st 2017
- ‘Song of the Seirēnes’, Ride The Star Wind, upcoming Summer 2017
- ‘The Cutpurse With His Trousers Down’, Nisaba Press, February 27th 2018
- ‘Some Muses Are Not Gentle’, Welcome to Miskatonic University, upcoming 2018 (early access on Broken Eye Books’ Patreon March 19th 2018)
- ‘The Howling Detective’, Uncanny Magazine Issue Twenty-One, March/April 2018
- ‘Gasping’, Apex Magazine Issue 111, August 2018
- ‘Due By the End of the Week‘, Fireside Magazine, February 2019
Nonfiction:
- ‘You Forgot To Invite The Soucouyant’, Fantasy Magazine: People of Colo(u)r Destroy Fantasy! Special Issue, December 1st 2016
- Brandon O’Brien Interview, Reckoning, June 8th 2017
- ‘Decolonise the Future’, Invisible 3, June 27th 2017
- ‘Dialect in SFF: What Does The Future Sound Like?’, Tor.com, July 17th 2017
- ‘A Great Deal’, Lesser and Leeward, August 1st 2017
- ‘“Fun” Doesn’t Exist in a Vacuum—Why Context Always Matters’, Tor.com, December 13th 2017
- ‘“Who are you?”: Black Panther and the Politics of Belonging’, Tor.com, February 26th 2018
- ‘Building Bridges: Black Panther and the Difference Between Rage and Revolution’, Tor.com, February 28th 2018
- ‘Black Lightning is a Superpowered Example of How Systems Dominate the Bodies of Black Americans’, Tor.com, March 20th 2018
- ‘It’s Time to Talk About Marvel’s Gamora Problem’, Tor.com, May 17th 2018
- ‘Getting Men Off Ledges’, Fireside Magazine, June 21st 2018
- ‘Timeless, Sense8, and Firefly: The Case Against Two-Hour Wrap-Ups’, Tor.com, June 27 2018
- ‘Luke Cage’s Queer Characters Are a Good Starting Point — But We Deserve More‘, Tor.com, July 18 2018
- ‘Black Lightning Returns with a Focus on Consequences‘, Tor.com, October 15 2018
- ‘The System Still Has Zero Tolerance For Young Black Recovery in Black Lightning‘, Tor.com, November 6 2018
- ‘Black Lightning’s Second Season Explores Young Love and Redemption‘, Tor.com, January 28 2019
- ‘If You’ve Heard This One Before‘, Uncanny Magazine Issue Thirty-One, November-December 2019