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
Maina Chen is a nerd masquerading as an editor and writer in some cavernous corner of Brooklyn. A half-nocturnal night dweller, she writes short stories… Read More »Maina Chen on Nostalgia and Revising Old Work
We believe that words shape us as individuals. Words stay with us as we go through life, and the words we kept sacred yesterday may… Read More »Reading the Right Book at the Right Time
At Capsule Stories, we love working with new and emerging writers. Some of our contributors had their first piece of writing published in Capsule Stories!… Read More »New Writer’s Checklist for Submitting to Capsule Stories
A. Martine is a trilingual writer, musician, and artist of color who goes where the waves take her. She might have been a kraken in… Read More »A. Martine on the Musicality of Poetic Forms
Gillian Webster lives in the beautiful Georgian New Town of Edinburgh. She fell in love with the United States when she first began traveling there… Read More »Gillian Webster on Creating Delicious Tension with Dialogue in Her Fiction