By Zoe Grace Marquedant I put my clothes, my phone, my duffle with proverbially everything I owned in the spare room. Set aside boots I… Read More »For the Birds: Listening to Helen Macdonald’s Vesper Flights Amid the Chickens
Kalisse L. Van Dellen writes about where she’s been and what she’s lost. She is a graduate of Belhaven University in Jackson, Mississippi, and resides… Read More »Kalisse L. Van Dellen on Structuring Her Essay “Baking Do” Around a Chocolate Cake Recipe
By Jim Curtis “There is no Frigate like a Book / To take us Lands away,” the irredeemably landlocked Emily Dickinson once wistfully wrote. Immobilized… Read More »The Complete Sherlock Holmes as a Frigate
The Best Small Fictions is the first-ever contemporary anthology solely dedicated to anthologizing the best internationally published short hybrid fiction in a given calendar year.… Read More »Announcing the Capsule Stories Best Small Fictions Nominations 2021
Joshua Flores manifested in Chicago with Spanish as his first language, and the struggle to learn English well led him to read. At ten years… Read More »Joshua Flores on Channeling His Mother’s Magic in an Essay About Making Tamales
The Best American Short Stories is the longest-running and best-selling series of short fiction in the country. Heidi Pitlor has been the series editor of… Read More »Announcing Capsule Stories 2021 Best American Short Stories Selections
C. T. Holte grew up in Minnesota without color TV; played along creeks and in cornfields; went to lots of school; and has had gigs… Read More »C. T. Holte on Writing Poems About Blended Families and Their Unique Mix of Holiday Traditions
Jen Feroze (she/her) lives by the sea in Essex, United Kingdom, with her husband and two small sleep thieves. Her work has recently appeared in… Read More »Jen Feroze on Capturing Her Family’s Christmas Eve Cheeseboard Tradition in a Haibun
Ellen Clayton is from Suffolk, England, where she lives with her husband and three young children. Her poetry often focuses on motherhood and love. She… Read More »Ellen Clayton on Writing Her Poem “Home-Baked” for the Sugar and Spice Theme
By Sarah Ernestine I waited seven years to read The Goldfinch. Someone gifted me a copy back in high school when it won a Pulitzer,… Read More »99 Percent: Listening to The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt