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Joseph Scapellato

@josephscapellato.bsky.social
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THE MADE-UP MAN (2019), BIG LONESOME (2017). Of Italian (Sicilian) & Polish immigrants to Chicago. West Branch lit mag, Stadler Center for Poetry and Literary Arts, StoryStudio Chicago.

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Joseph Scapellato @josephscapellato.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Really excited to be teaching this class (remotely!) at @storystudiochicago.bsky.social!
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Joseph Scapellato @josephscapellato.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Oh man, thanks, Dylan! That's really kind of you. Being an open node -- having your metaphorical doors open -- has made a real difference in my life, and I'm glad to hear that it's doing that same work for you, too. Hope all's well!
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Joseph Scapellato @josephscapellato.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
West Branch Wired is live! Some really great stuff in this issue. westbranch.blogs.bucknell.edu
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West Branch – A Thrice-Yearly Magazine of Poetry, Fiction, Essays, and Reviews
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StoryStudio Chicago @storystudiochicago.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Have you found point of view—in theory, and/or in practice—to be a rather slippery concept? If so, join @josephscapellato.bsky.social tomorrow night (5/7) on Zoom for a POV Workout! #writingcommunity www.storystudiochicago.org/classes/clas...
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Point of View Workout with Joseph Scapellato - StoryStudio Chicago
You’ll walk out of the class with practical point of view handouts—including terminology, strategies, and writing exercises—that you can use to revitalize an existing project or to help you get cracki...
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Joseph Scapellato @josephscapellato.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
I read it last summer for the first time! I found it to be the kind of book that is The Kind of Book You Can Only Read for the First Time Once. Enjoy!
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Joseph Scapellato @josephscapellato.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Hi all! I'm teaching a remote @storystudiochicago.bsky.social class on point of view next week. Still some spots available! www.storystudiochicago.org/classes/clas...
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Point of View Workout with Joseph Scapellato - StoryStudio Chicago
You’ll walk out of the class with practical point of view handouts—including terminology, strategies, and writing exercises—that you can use to revitalize an existing project or to help you get cracki...
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Joseph Scapellato @josephscapellato.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Great people organizing great classes for great students!
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Hit me up for Independent Bookstore Day recommendations!
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West Branch Magazine @westbranchmagazine.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Will you be at AWP? We will! Join us for an offsite on that Saturday night with this stellar lineup. We’re partnering with @ninthletter.bsky.social and so hyped about this event!! We’ll have free drink tickets, too! See you there!
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West Branch Magazine @westbranchmagazine.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
reminder the deadline to apply is Friday!!!! send in your app today!!!
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Joseph Scapellato @josephscapellato.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Looking for VAPs in Fiction and Nonfiction at Bucknell! Spread the word -- bucknell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing (Fiction and/or Non-Fiction)
Position Title: Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing (Fiction and/or Non-Fiction) Position Type: Full time Location: Bucknell Hall Categories: Faculty Exempt Job Summary: Job Duties: Buckn...
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Joseph Scapellato @josephscapellato.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Poets/fiction-writers-interested-in-editing! @westbranchmagazine.bsky.social is seeking two (PAID) Associate Editors. See below!
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Joseph Scapellato @josephscapellato.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Hugs to you and your family --
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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Come join us!
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Joseph Scapellato @josephscapellato.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Poets and fiction writers! WEST BRANCH is looking for two Associate Editors, one in poery, one in fiction. We pay! Details below --
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Jonathan Danielson @jonathanin2k.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
We're exactly three months away from the release of my debut collection of short fiction, THE LOWEST BASIN: ARIZONA STORIES, from @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social I hope you’ll check it out and I hope you are (but not likely) as excited as meeeeeee!
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Joseph Scapellato @josephscapellato.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
WEST BRANCH WIRED 107 is live! Amazing work, featuring a special portfolio of poetry curated by @sabadilla15.bsky.social! westbranch.blogs.bucknell.edu
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West Branch – A Thrice-Yearly Magazine of Poetry, Fiction, Essays, and Reviews
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Joseph Scapellato @josephscapellato.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Bread! Made with a poolish. A riff on a recipe in Forkish's FLOUR WATER SALT YEAST --
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Laila Lalami @lailalalami.com · 20/01/2025
A gentle reminder that your attention is a form of currency. Spend it wisely.
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Joseph Scapellato @josephscapellato.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
"In governance, good is to be tidy" -- this is so true in administrative work, too!
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Joseph Scapellato @josephscapellato.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
The Answer That Which Bringeth More Questions!
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Joseph Scapellato @josephscapellato.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Right! You fill the spaces with your self/yourself.
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Joseph Scapellato @josephscapellato.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Beautifully put! Love the idea that mystery is inherently interactive. I think this is true even if the mystery routes the reader to one answer (cozy mysteries, crime procedurals, etc.) or many possible answers/more mysteries (Lynch, and all the wild fiction that we love best).
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Joseph Scapellato @josephscapellato.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Teachers-of-undergrad-poets! Just a reminder that the deadline for this (completely free) (very storied) program is 1/31.
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Joseph Scapellato @josephscapellato.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Hey writers! What are your favorite quotes/passages -- from writers -- on language?
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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
One of my all-time favorite poems, and the one I read aloud every New Year’s Eve.
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Joseph Scapellato @josephscapellato.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Thanks for this. And I completely agree that extraordinary flash is being written right now! Again, just out of curiosity -- what do you think might help academia and the larger literary world catch up?
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Joseph Scapellato @josephscapellato.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Do you feel that there's a trend towards pressing the two together? (And if so, are you seeing this in the way that people talk about the two, and/or in the kind of flash fiction that's being published at the moment?) Just curious!
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Joseph Scapellato @josephscapellato.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
I've always felt that flash fiction is entirely its own entity, operating in its own universe of varied conventions, pressures, and expectations, a universe parallel to the universe of longer prose!
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Joseph Scapellato @josephscapellato.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Just a reminder to encourage your undergrad poets to apply to the Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets!
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Joseph Scapellato @josephscapellato.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Just a reminder to apply for the Philip Roth Residency!
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Joseph Scapellato @josephscapellato.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Thanks for sharing, Sumita!
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Joseph Scapellato @josephscapellato.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Did you see Alien: Romulus? Very much in conversation, aesthetically, with the 70s/80s vision of the future in Alien/Aliens.
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Joseph Scapellato @josephscapellato.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
This looks so good! On my list now. Thanks!
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Joseph Scapellato @josephscapellato.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
The Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poetry was on hiatus for a few years, and @jessnirvanapoet.bsky.social and the team has been working hard to relaunch it this summer. Spread the word!
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Joseph Scapellato @josephscapellato.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
(Please share this widely!!!)♥️
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Joseph Scapellato @josephscapellato.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Do you teach undergrads? Please encourage your poetry-inclined students to consider submitting to the (completely free!) Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate #Poets! #poetry #writingcommunity www.bucknell.edu/academics/be...
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Joseph Scapellato @josephscapellato.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
(Please share widely!)
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Joseph Scapellato @josephscapellato.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Applications are open for the Stadler Center's Philip Roth Residency! Come hang out with us for a few months and get some writing done. #writingcommunity www.bucknell.edu/academics/be...
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Philip Roth Residence in Creative Writing
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Joseph Scapellato @josephscapellato.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
@storystudiochicago.bsky.social
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Joseph Scapellato @josephscapellato.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I'm thrilled to be teaching a new remote course at StoryStudio Chicago: the Novel Support Group! Before the first meeting, I'll poll the students to find out what sort of help they're looking for, then design lesson plans based on the responses. www.storystudiochicago.org/classes/clas...
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Novel Support Group with Joseph Scapellato - StoryStudio Chicago
In this four-session course, we’ll figure out the kind of support you need—planning/outlining, generative directed freewrites, craft lessons, writing time, reading recommendations, a writing group, re...
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Kristine Langley Mahler @suburbanprairie.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I work with the actual best people in the small press world and I am BEREFT that we are going to lose Pedro (who's been my teammate since 2017!), but I'm also VERY EXCITED for this opportunity to get to know + love another brilliant mind! Short fiction friends! I know I have them! APPLY TO JOIN US!!
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Joseph Scapellato @josephscapellato.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Very surprised to see that my novel, published a few years ago already, made an interesting list: "8 Books Like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind." In some good company! earlybirdbooks.com/books-like-e...
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8 Books Like 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'
If you love stories of romance that play around with space, time, and the very meaning of love, Eternal Sunshine is the ideal movie for you. if you’re already a fan of it, here are eight books sure to
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Joseph Scapellato @josephscapellato.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Hi literary world friends! Does anyone know of any lit mags that are looking for volunteer readers and/or any lit-related organizations that are looking for remote interns? I'm putting together a list of opportunities for my undergrads. Thanks!
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StoryStudio Chicago @storystudiochicago.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Do you write #fantasy? Would you like to? Check out this FREE panel online on January 6! Four amazing fantasy writers -- moderated by Laura Ehrlich -- will kick of our Fantasy Genre month in style.
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Genre Series: Fantasy Edition Panel - StoryStudio Chicago
We're delighted to host a free and open to the public panel of fantasy writers.
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Joseph Scapellato @josephscapellato.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I'm consistently impressed with @agnimagazine.bsky.social!
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Joseph Scapellato @josephscapellato.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
West Branch is always looking! We're open until April. westbranchsubmissions.bucknell.edu
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West Branch Submission Manager
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Joseph Scapellato @josephscapellato.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
A former British rock star used to live on our block. One day I told him that I was learning how to play the banjo. He laughed, not in a kind way, and said: What's the difference between a banjo and an onion? I said: I don't know. He said: Nobody cries when you cut up a banjo.
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Joseph Scapellato @josephscapellato.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
We're open until April! westbranchsubmissions.bucknell.edu
westbranchsubmissions.bucknell.edu
West Branch Submission Manager
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Joseph Scapellato @josephscapellato.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Beautiful stacks!!! My only recs for addittions might be Robert Boswell's HALF-KNOWN WORLD and Charles Johnson's THE WAY OF THE WRITER --
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