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 »Capsule Stories Best Small Fictions 2023 Nominations
The Best Microfiction anthology series considers stories of only 400 words or fewer. Co-edited by award-winning microfiction writer and editor Meg Pokrass and Flannery O’Connor… Read More »Capsule Stories Best Microfiction 2023 Nominations
Each year, Pushcart Press accepts nominations from magazine and small book press editors throughout the world for the Pushcart Prize. Editors can nominate poetry, essays,… Read More »Announcing the Capsule Stories 2022 Pushcart Prize Nominations
Check out the books that the staff readers of Capsule Stories are looking forward to this year! You can also view this list on Bookshop.… Read More »Capsule Stories’ Most Anticipated Books of 2023
By Vicki Roberts The Reading Woman calendar hangs on my office wall at June even though we’ve passed that several months over. I justify it… Read More »The Reader: On Hibernation in a Florida Winter
By Kathryn Rice Emily Dickinson’s most famous lines are painted in gold italics on the wall, just outside the waiting room: “Hope is the thing… Read More »The Thing with Feathers: Finding Hope in Emily Dickinson’s Poetry During My Dad’s Cancer Treatment
Capsule Stories is proud to announce our nominations for the 2023 Best of the Net anthology. The Best of the Net is an awards-based anthology… Read More »Capsule Stories Nominations for 2023 Best of the Net Anthology
By Rachel A.G. Gilman When I started reading Elif Batuman’s The Idiot, one of my best friends asked why I was being such a masochist.… Read More »Healing Heartbreak with Elif Batuman’s The Idiot
By Monica Anderson He wanted to watch Wonder Woman. So did I, but not badly. Not enough to carve out two and a half hours… Read More »Regaining My Own Power After Reading The Secret History of Wonder Woman
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