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brandon brown

@cedarchromatic

bald black kid | MFA in strange stories | essays on culture and worldbuilding | tinkering with short stories and tabletop games | he/they

 albuqerque, nm
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Joined February 2010
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You can read more about the prize, and my fellow writers, here: pen.org/twelve-emerging-writ…
Twelve Emerging Writers To Receive 2025 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize

Twelve Emerging Writers To Receive 2025 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize

The PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers annually recognizes 12 emerging writers for an outstanding debut short story.

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I was awarded the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, alongside eleven other writers! What a delightful and humbling surprise!
Split Lip Magazine (@splitlipthemag) profile pictureSplit Lip Magazine@splitlipthemag28 Apr 2025
We are thrilled to share that @cedarchromatic has been awarded the PEN/Robert J. Day Short Story Prize for "Faultline," a story we published last year! Congratulations, brandon! We love your story and are so proud of you! Check out the story here: buff.ly/GxHjBua
Congratulations! "Faultline" by brandon brown 2025 PEN/ROBERT J DAU SHORT STORY PRIZE WINNER Graphic design behind the words is the same that we used in the artwork accompanying this story, a night sky with a streetlamp shining down from above. The image is blurred here.

ALT Congratulations! "Faultline" by brandon brown 2025 PEN/ROBERT J DAU SHORT STORY PRIZE WINNER Graphic design behind the words is the same that we used in the artwork accompanying this story, a night sky with a streetlamp shining down from above. The image is blurred here.

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We are thrilled to share that @cedarchromatic has been awarded the PEN/Robert J. Day Short Story Prize for "Faultline," a story we published last year! Congratulations, brandon! We love your story and are so proud of you! Check out the story here: buff.ly/GxHjBua
Congratulations! "Faultline" by brandon brown 2025 PEN/ROBERT J DAU SHORT STORY PRIZE WINNER Graphic design behind the words is the same that we used in the artwork accompanying this story, a night sky with a streetlamp shining down from above. The image is blurred here.

ALT Congratulations! "Faultline" by brandon brown 2025 PEN/ROBERT J DAU SHORT STORY PRIZE WINNER Graphic design behind the words is the same that we used in the artwork accompanying this story, a night sky with a streetlamp shining down from above. The image is blurred here.

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A new Abnormal Mapping! We played 1000xRESIST and talk at length about what we liked and the one really big fumble at the end we both didn’t. Much discussion about the friction between intimate trauma metaphor and sci fi allegory! Six to one, sisters! abnormalmapping.com/the-abno…
Abnormal Mapping 169: 1000xRESIST — Abnormal Mapping

Abnormal Mapping 169: 1000xRESIST — Abnormal Mapping

We tackle a newer game this month as we talk about the critically acclaimed adventure game 1000xRESIST. We found plenty to love and plenty to pick at during our time with this one, but it’s exactly...

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Our new patreon-exclusive season will be releasing tomorrow!! Please join us for a debut stream at 7 PM ET at twitch.tv/friendsatthetable !!! More details for the upcoming season are laid out over on our patreon! patreon.com/posts/120569149
FriendsAtTheTable - Twitch

FriendsAtTheTable - Twitch

Friends at the Table is an actual play podcast about critical worldbuilding, smart characterization, and fun interaction between good friends. Find us at friendsatthetable.net! — FriendsAtTheTable...

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My little flash "Faultline" was nominated by Split Lip for the 2025 Best Small Fictions anthology ! 😭🙏🏾🤯 And I'm in great company—check out everyone's stories on splitlipthemag.com 👏🏾
Split Lip Magazine

Split Lip Magazine

Split Lip Magazine is a voice-driven literary journal with a pop culture twist. We publish online monthly and in print. Poetry, fiction, memoir, flash, reviews, interviews, art.

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Split Lip Magazine (@splitlipthemag) profile pictureSplit Lip Magazine@splitlipthemag13 Jan 2025
✨ We are delighted to announce our 2025 Best Small Fictions nominations! ✨ Congratulations to these talented authors. We are crossing all fingers and toes for you! buff.ly/3PvDhLl
Best Small Fictions Nominations: Nini Berndt, “Wingdings” brandon brown, “Faultline” Christina Cooke, “What Happened Was” Ani King, “Mother-Mother, Wasp-Mother” Ayotola Tehingbola, “Sister, Sister”

ALT Best Small Fictions Nominations: Nini Berndt, “Wingdings” brandon brown, “Faultline” Christina Cooke, “What Happened Was” Ani King, “Mother-Mother, Wasp-Mother” Ayotola Tehingbola, “Sister, Sister”

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Really pleased to be reading flash for Split Lip Magazine, after the great editorial experience I had as a contributor—send your stuff our way!!!
Split Lip Magazine (@splitlipthemag) profile pictureSplit Lip Magazine@splitlipthemag11 Dec 2024
We are thrilled to welcome SLM contributor brandon brown (@cedarchromatic) to our flash fiction reading team! Check out their incredible flash, FAULTLINE, in our archives: buff.ly/3YaFEat
Words coming out of a megaphone that say: New Reader!! brandon brown. The flyer is in yellows, reds, and whites.

ALT Words coming out of a megaphone that say: New Reader!! brandon brown. The flyer is in yellows, reds, and whites.

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"If Sam has always seemed lost to her. If the years have slipped by since she last saw Sam. If she’s spent years circling a question she can’t voice." Read @cedarchromatic's brilliant flash in our October issue: buff.ly/3YaFEat
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Here's another #flashfiction I read this week that knocked me out over at @splitlipthemag by @cedarchromatic . splitlipthemag.com/flash/102…
Faultline — Split Lip Magazine

Faultline — Split Lip Magazine

That time my dad took me camping by the Eel River at the Fortuna KOA. As we lay under the stars with the fire dying, he told me people eat spiders in their sleep—hundreds in a lifetime.

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This year, I’m going ghost, not a category I’ve ever gone for. I guess I want to be intimate with, like, an entity that is also a community or a structure or a community—might be a wild way to work out how I feel about something, y’know? And the sex would just be great, probably!
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And check out Tournament Arc on itch: biscuitfund.itch.io/tourname…!
Tournament Arc by Biscuit Fund Games

Tournament Arc by Biscuit Fund Games

The sports anime RPG for everyone

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Check out the blog: brittlealmanac.com/angsty-ki…
sometimes failure

sometimes failure

Make story yours, you know?

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I wrote a tiny blog about the TTRPG Tournament Arc by Alyssa Ridley for the Almanac. This game really snuck up on me - you know, when I read it, I was excited by the idea but uncertain about it. Play has been so, so, so much fun, though.
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Image from austin walker (@austin_walker)
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@Genki_JPN30 Oct 2024
Metaphor ReFantazio battle song chanting man was live on stage at TGS! SO SICK!
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Cathy Ulrich@loki_writes23 Oct 2024
"If she is a golem. If she is a cloud. If she is the soil clinging to their sneakers." @cedarchromatic in @splitlipthemag: splitlipthemag.com/flash/102…
Faultline — Split Lip Magazine

Faultline — Split Lip Magazine

That time my dad took me camping by the Eel River at the Fortuna KOA. As we lay under the stars with the fire dying, he told me people eat spiders in their sleep—hundreds in a lifetime.

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Séamus Isaac Fey’s poem “Tove's Cento: Youth” muses on the intensity of emotion, the distance between a parent and a child, desire for an undefined future. Here they share just one thing about the piece: buff.ly/40gP5Yn
Side profile of a man with short brown hair holding a microphone against a white brick wall. He has a gold earring and a brown wool jacket. A fluorescent light lights the wall and the photograph.

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