Claire Taylor is a writer of poetry, short fiction, and the occasional essay. She makes up stories for kids in her monthly newsletter, Little Thoughts,… Read More »Writing the Slow Burn: “Retreat” by Claire Taylor
Carol McGill lives in Dublin. Her short stories have been published in Sonder Magazine, Crannóg, Number Eleven Magazine, Silver Apples Magazine, and the anthology Words… Read More »Carol McGill on Crafting an Urgent, Frenzied Story with Perspective and Punctuation
Rhea Dhanbhoora worked for close to a decade as an editor and writer in print and digital content for a variety of clients before quitting… Read More »Rhea Dhanbhoora on Writing about Identity in the Parsi Zoroastrian Diaspora
Here at Capsule Stories, we think snail mail is awesome. We’re sending out free postcards with a snippet of a story featured in Capsule Stories… Read More »Free Postcard from Capsule Stories
By Claire Taylor The first book that made me want to be a writer came into my possession by way of a swimming pool. My… Read More »Reading Ordinary People as a Not-So-Ordinary 10-Year-Old
Content warning: sexual assault Julia Farney is an angsty therapist prone to sporadic existential crises and spontaneous travels across the country. She makes questionable art… Read More »Julia Farney on Exploring Trauma Through Poetry
Mary Ford Neal lives near Glasgow, in the United Kingdom, where she works as an academic at the University of Strathclyde, teaching, researching, and writing… Read More »Mary Ford Neal on Writing a Poem in Memoriam
By Michael Colbert I started reading it on the tour bus. Tucked against the curtain, I gave more attention to sleuthing sisters, Antarctica, mother-daughter magician… Read More »Reading The Isle of Youth by Laura van den Berg in Sicily
Dani Castonzo is a fundraiser and creative writer from Chicago. She is an avid reader, traveler, and walker. She is a frequent performer in Chicago’s… Read More »How Journaling and Observation Shape Dani Castonzo’s Prose Poetry
By Carolina VonKampen I didn’t finish reading H Is for Hawk. It had been assigned by my professor as the last required book in our… Read More »On (Not) Reading the Wrong Book at the Wrong Time: H Is for Hawk