Em Capettini
@emcapettini.bsky.social
(she/they) queer fiction writer from the midwest who loves a good ghost story. Author of GIRL DETECTIVES (Porkbelly Press) and THISTLE (Omnidawn).
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Over on my Facebook page there are a ton of ppl who got tickets for this evenings event at Women and Children First and are trying to unload them:
Facebook.com/charliejane
Facebook.com/charliejane
August 21, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Over on my Facebook page there are a ton of ppl who got tickets for this evenings event at Women and Children First and are trying to unload them:
Facebook.com/charliejane
Facebook.com/charliejane
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I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.
August 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.
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Sundress Publications is seeking members for our Reader Board. This is a remote, volunteer position with a possibility for renewal after one year. Apply by August 5, 2025. For more information, visit our website. www.sundresspublications.com/openings/#re...
July 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Sundress Publications is seeking members for our Reader Board. This is a remote, volunteer position with a possibility for renewal after one year. Apply by August 5, 2025. For more information, visit our website. www.sundresspublications.com/openings/#re...
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Hulk Hogan, guy who helped Peter Thiel destroy Gawker, dead at 71.
July 24, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Hulk Hogan, guy who helped Peter Thiel destroy Gawker, dead at 71.
Since I frequently assign the excellent book reviews Strange Horizons publishes in class, I was very happy to pay a reviewer’s contribution fee as part of the 2026 Fund Drive.
📢 It's here! The Strange Horizons Fund Drive 2026 has begun! 📢
Help us raise the $20,000 we need to fund our fiction, poetry, and non-fiction for next year! Beyond that are our stretch goals including some compelling special issues!
Donate at the link ⬇️
Help us raise the $20,000 we need to fund our fiction, poetry, and non-fiction for next year! Beyond that are our stretch goals including some compelling special issues!
Donate at the link ⬇️
Strange Horizons 2026
A free weekly speculative fiction magazine with a global perspective.
www.kickstarter.com
June 16, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Since I frequently assign the excellent book reviews Strange Horizons publishes in class, I was very happy to pay a reviewer’s contribution fee as part of the 2026 Fund Drive.
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We’re in the streets in downtown Chicago.
June 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
We’re in the streets in downtown Chicago.
Starting Awakened by A. E. Osworth and hell yes to this dedication.
June 10, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Starting Awakened by A. E. Osworth and hell yes to this dedication.
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A thread on our response to AI 🧵
✅ We will never knowingly prioritize, publicize, nor market AI-narrated/generated audiobooks.
✅ Recommendations on Libro are from real, live booksellers and our team, not algorithms.
✅ Our customer support team is made of real people, not bots.
✅ We will never knowingly prioritize, publicize, nor market AI-narrated/generated audiobooks.
✅ Recommendations on Libro are from real, live booksellers and our team, not algorithms.
✅ Our customer support team is made of real people, not bots.
June 4, 2025 at 5:49 PM
A thread on our response to AI 🧵
✅ We will never knowingly prioritize, publicize, nor market AI-narrated/generated audiobooks.
✅ Recommendations on Libro are from real, live booksellers and our team, not algorithms.
✅ Our customer support team is made of real people, not bots.
✅ We will never knowingly prioritize, publicize, nor market AI-narrated/generated audiobooks.
✅ Recommendations on Libro are from real, live booksellers and our team, not algorithms.
✅ Our customer support team is made of real people, not bots.
I picked up some soil acidifier for my hydrangeas to hopefully encourage blue and purple flowers again this year.
Forever chasing the June 2022 high when my hydrangea bloomed in bisexual.
Forever chasing the June 2022 high when my hydrangea bloomed in bisexual.
June 3, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I picked up some soil acidifier for my hydrangeas to hopefully encourage blue and purple flowers again this year.
Forever chasing the June 2022 high when my hydrangea bloomed in bisexual.
Forever chasing the June 2022 high when my hydrangea bloomed in bisexual.
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Stonewall was a riot.
Stonewall was a Riot: a Pride Month Reading List
We've put together a reading list of books about queer and trans politics, history, and liberation, offered in solidarity with everyone across the world standing up against injustice. For th...
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June 3, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Stonewall was a riot.
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Jonathan Joss (Comanche, White Mountain Apache) did not simply die from a gunshot. He was murdered in a homophobic, racist hate crime by his former neighbors. He died saving his partners life. Honor his legacy-- both queerness and Indigeneity are inextricable to why he was targeted.
June 3, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Jonathan Joss (Comanche, White Mountain Apache) did not simply die from a gunshot. He was murdered in a homophobic, racist hate crime by his former neighbors. He died saving his partners life. Honor his legacy-- both queerness and Indigeneity are inextricable to why he was targeted.
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Q: Use fo'c'sle in a sentence
A: A lot of fo'c'sle misuse common nautical terms
A: A lot of fo'c'sle misuse common nautical terms
June 2, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Q: Use fo'c'sle in a sentence
A: A lot of fo'c'sle misuse common nautical terms
A: A lot of fo'c'sle misuse common nautical terms
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ALOCASIA is now open for applications for the ALOCASIA Microgrant for Queer Nature Writers!
The recipient will receive $500 to help incubate their future creative endeavors.
Deadline: July 31st, 2025.
The recipient will receive $500 to help incubate their future creative endeavors.
Deadline: July 31st, 2025.
June 2, 2025 at 2:31 PM
ALOCASIA is now open for applications for the ALOCASIA Microgrant for Queer Nature Writers!
The recipient will receive $500 to help incubate their future creative endeavors.
Deadline: July 31st, 2025.
The recipient will receive $500 to help incubate their future creative endeavors.
Deadline: July 31st, 2025.
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Audiobook Month and Pride both take place in June 💕🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ (Although, let’s be real, these months last all year long over here at Libro!)
What are your favorite audiobooks by LGBTQIA+ authors for folks to read this month and beyond?
What are your favorite audiobooks by LGBTQIA+ authors for folks to read this month and beyond?
June 2, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Audiobook Month and Pride both take place in June 💕🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ (Although, let’s be real, these months last all year long over here at Libro!)
What are your favorite audiobooks by LGBTQIA+ authors for folks to read this month and beyond?
What are your favorite audiobooks by LGBTQIA+ authors for folks to read this month and beyond?
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I used to say this, "my relative just has an anger problem"
my therapist asked: did they routinely get in trouble at work for outbursts and fights?
Me: no
Therapist: well they dont have an anger problem- they can control their temper when it counts
Me:
my therapist asked: did they routinely get in trouble at work for outbursts and fights?
Me: no
Therapist: well they dont have an anger problem- they can control their temper when it counts
Me:
I'm telling you, that "they did the best they could" being unraveled by one question "did they show grace to others that they didn't show their children " has healed me
June 2, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I used to say this, "my relative just has an anger problem"
my therapist asked: did they routinely get in trouble at work for outbursts and fights?
Me: no
Therapist: well they dont have an anger problem- they can control their temper when it counts
Me:
my therapist asked: did they routinely get in trouble at work for outbursts and fights?
Me: no
Therapist: well they dont have an anger problem- they can control their temper when it counts
Me:
Trying to channel the gay audacity this Pride month and start drafting the queer detective novel of my dreams
June 2, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Trying to channel the gay audacity this Pride month and start drafting the queer detective novel of my dreams
The doodles/personalizations are fantastic. My copy of Even Greater Mistakes came with a superhero cat.
Just a reminder: You can pre-order Lessons in Magic and Disaster everywhere. If you pre-order from Green Apple Books (is.gd/DkQTM8) I'll sign/personalize/doodle. (Please specify in comments field.)
If you send me a pre-order receipt, you get a PDF of All the Birds deleted scenes and sequel novella.
If you send me a pre-order receipt, you get a PDF of All the Birds deleted scenes and sequel novella.
June 1, 2025 at 8:27 PM
The doodles/personalizations are fantastic. My copy of Even Greater Mistakes came with a superhero cat.
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Happy Pride month!
I'm so glad Lessons in Magic and Disaster is the GAYEST book I've ever written. It's about a trans witch who teaches her lesbian mom to do magic. It's about the struggle for queer liberation from the 1990s to today. It's about an 18th century transmasc icon and Georgian lesbians.
I'm so glad Lessons in Magic and Disaster is the GAYEST book I've ever written. It's about a trans witch who teaches her lesbian mom to do magic. It's about the struggle for queer liberation from the 1990s to today. It's about an 18th century transmasc icon and Georgian lesbians.
June 1, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Happy Pride month!
I'm so glad Lessons in Magic and Disaster is the GAYEST book I've ever written. It's about a trans witch who teaches her lesbian mom to do magic. It's about the struggle for queer liberation from the 1990s to today. It's about an 18th century transmasc icon and Georgian lesbians.
I'm so glad Lessons in Magic and Disaster is the GAYEST book I've ever written. It's about a trans witch who teaches her lesbian mom to do magic. It's about the struggle for queer liberation from the 1990s to today. It's about an 18th century transmasc icon and Georgian lesbians.
I think this is the most I’ve read in a month since 2020.
June 1, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I think this is the most I’ve read in a month since 2020.
During the oral defense of my PhD exams, I was talking about the Hugo Correa scifi short story “When Pilate Said No.”
Instead of saying Pilate like Pontius Pilate, I pronounced it like the exercise.
Instead of saying Pilate like Pontius Pilate, I pronounced it like the exercise.
What’s a word that you have confidently used very incorrectly?
We’ve all been there.
We’ve all been there.
March 20, 2025 at 6:35 PM
During the oral defense of my PhD exams, I was talking about the Hugo Correa scifi short story “When Pilate Said No.”
Instead of saying Pilate like Pontius Pilate, I pronounced it like the exercise.
Instead of saying Pilate like Pontius Pilate, I pronounced it like the exercise.
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3 days remain!
Call for Work: Until You Get Here, Queer Epistolaries
Deadline: March 15, 2025
"Queer folks have been keeping each other company on the page for as long as we’ve existed—to practice solidarity, extend generosity, resist, wonder, flirt..."
medium.com/anomalyblog/...
Deadline: March 15, 2025
"Queer folks have been keeping each other company on the page for as long as we’ve existed—to practice solidarity, extend generosity, resist, wonder, flirt..."
medium.com/anomalyblog/...
Call for Work: Until You Get Here, Queer Epistolaries
For six years and counting, we — Jody and Zoë — have been sending each other love notes: epistolary poems, long form emails with subject…
medium.com
March 12, 2025 at 12:03 PM
3 days remain!
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Guy who has very obviously not read a single book in his entire life, looking at the worst fucking prose ever: wow my AI is really good at writing books
March 12, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Guy who has very obviously not read a single book in his entire life, looking at the worst fucking prose ever: wow my AI is really good at writing books
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The editors of West Trade Review seek creative nonfiction that engages with the ideas of mental health and mental wellness.
Submit by the end of the day on 3/16, and we'll respond to your submission within 2 weeks.
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#writingcommunity
Submit by the end of the day on 3/16, and we'll respond to your submission within 2 weeks.
buff.ly/3SsM4QL
#writingcommunity
March 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The editors of West Trade Review seek creative nonfiction that engages with the ideas of mental health and mental wellness.
Submit by the end of the day on 3/16, and we'll respond to your submission within 2 weeks.
buff.ly/3SsM4QL
#writingcommunity
Submit by the end of the day on 3/16, and we'll respond to your submission within 2 weeks.
buff.ly/3SsM4QL
#writingcommunity
Good morning from Norm.
March 12, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Good morning from Norm.