{"id":39550,"date":"2026-09-22T14:32:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T18:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/?p=39550"},"modified":"2026-09-22T14:32:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T18:32:32","slug":"capclave-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2026\/09\/22\/capclave-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Where you can find me at Capclave 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Only 10 days before this year’s Capclave<\/a> kicks off, where in addition to recording several episodes of my Eating the Fantastic podcast<\/a>, I’ll be on five programing items.<\/p>\n

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If you’ll also be in Rockville next weekend, here’s where you’ll be able to find me!<\/p>\n

Great Over-Expectations: Do authors assume too much of their readers?<\/strong>
\nFriday, October 2nd, 5:00 p.m., Monroe<\/em>
\nGenre fiction often assumes its readers have certain knowledge\/experience with select tropes from its readers, but does this limit their audience?\u00a0 Are writers missing an opportunity to attract more sporadic spec-fic readers by assuming everyone knows about FTL or what a faun looks like? How can writers include enough information for readers new to the genre without boring experienced readers? Or should there be starter lit for those new to the genre?\u00a0
\nwith Drema De\u00f2raich, Jack Campbell, Melissa Scott, and Cerece Rennie Murphy<\/em><\/p>\n

What tangled webs we weave \u2026<\/strong>
\nFriday, October 2nd,, 8:00 p.m., Eisenhower<\/em>
\nLove is never as simple as people like to think. Monogamy and other traditional relationship structures are coming increasingly under critical review today in the 21st century, and we are seeing a growing acceptance of non-traditional relationships and families. \u00a0With the rise in acceptance for polyamory and other forms of ethical non-monogamy, along with found families, how do you adapt traditional romantic arcs and tropes to reflect, and extrapolate these trends in SFF? \u00a0What works do it well and which don\u2019t
\nwith Apurva Desai (M), Jennifer R. Povey, and Zack Be <\/em><\/p>\n

Experimenting with New Forms of Writing<\/strong>
\nSaturday, October 3rd, 10:00 a.m., Monroe<\/em>
\nThere is more than one way to tell a story. Angel Down is considered a horror novel, it just won the Pulitzer Prize, and it’s all one ongoing sentence. What are some ways for writers to rethink story structure? How can writers experiment with different forms without it getting in the way of the story?\u00a0 Are readers willing to read literary experiments? Are genre readers more or less willing to experiment than are readers of “literary” fiction? And how would publishers\/agent market stories written in new formats?
\nwith Dominick Rabrun, Nino Cipri, Zach Be, and Lawrence M. Schoen <\/em><\/p>\n

Stories that Aren\u2019t or Are They?<\/strong>
\nSunday, October 4th, 11:30 a.m., Monroe<\/em>
\nMust a story have a plot? Is it critical to have some form of conflict that\u2019s resolved by the end of the story in order for it actually be a story? Some published stories are just lists of various things with description. Must a story have characters? What about action? What makes something a story instead of just a collection of words and how far can writers push those boundaries? Why are these “maybe” stories becoming mainstream? What makes them attractive to readers and get them nominated for awards?
\nwith Scott H. Andrews (M), Matthew Kressel, Nino Cipri, and Joshua Palmatier<\/em><\/p>\n

Author Reading<\/strong>
\nSunday, October 4th, 1:30 p.m., Wilson<\/em>
\nPerhaps I’ll read a piece of my upcoming Lightspeed<\/em> story.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I hope to see you there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Only 10 days before this year’s Capclave kicks off, where in addition to recording several episodes of my Eating the Fantastic podcast, I’ll be on five programing items. If you’ll also be in Rockville next weekend, here’s where you’ll be able to find me! Great Over-Expectations: Do authors assume too much of their readers? Friday, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-39550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-capclave"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39550"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39554,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39550\/revisions\/39554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}