{"id":22,"date":"2025-09-17T17:13:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T17:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capclave.org\/capclave26\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2026-03-10T21:37:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T01:37:04","slug":"capclave-2026","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/capclave.org\/capclave26\/","title":{"rendered":"Capclave 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">October 2-4, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Capclave is a small relaxed literary convention with a program that usually focuses on the short fiction form. Our Guests of Honor and other notable authors, editors, artists, and fans of the short fiction form will explore the creation and enjoyment of short fantasy and science fiction genre stories.<\/p>\n<p>Past Capclaves have hosted discussions with authors and fans; readings by authors; a dealer&#8217;s room with books, magazines, artwork, crafts, and other science fiction and fantasy related items; exhibits by artists; space science presentations from NASA; a hospitality suite; room parties; interesting conversations with other fans and professionals; and a relaxed atmosphere for visiting old friends and meeting new friends.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<header class=\"entry-header responsive-max-width\">\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\">Guests of Honor<\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h3>Nino Cipri<\/h3>\n<p>Nino Cipri is a trans and queer writer, editor, and educator. Their fiction has been nominated for the Shirley Jackson, World Fantasy, Lambda, Nebula, and Hugo Awards. A multidisciplinary artist, Nino has also written plays, screenplays, and radio features; performed as a dancer, actor, and puppeteer; and worked as a stagehand, bookseller, bike mechanic, and labor organizer.<\/p>\n<p>Nino\u2019s 2019 story collection &#8220;Homesick&#8221; won the Dzanc Short Fiction Collection Prize and was chosen as one of the top ten books on the ALA\u2019s Over the Rainbow Reading List. Their novella &#8220;Finna,&#8221; about queer heartbreak, working retail, and wormholes, was published by Tor.com Publishing in 2020, and its sequel &#8220;Defekt&#8221; was released in 2021. Nino\u2019s sapphic YA folk horror novel, &#8220;Dead Girls Don\u2019t Dream,&#8221; was published by Holt Young Readers in 2024. 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