By Miun Gleeson After some time off, I returned to therapy this month. And like all good writers-in-therapy eager to document the salient takeaways—short of… Read More »Reading for Fun and Other Antidotes to Grief: Picking Up People We Meet on Vacation
Annie Powell Stone (she/her) has a BA in English from the University of Maryland and an MS in urban education from the University of Pennsylvania.… Read More »Annie Powell Stone on Writing a Poem for the First Time in 10 Years Amid the Pandemic
Pim Wangtechawat (she/her) is a writer from Bangkok with a master’s in creative writing from Edinburgh Napier University. Her writing has been published in various… Read More »Pim Wangtechawat on Uncovering the Beauty in Brokeness and Heartbreak in Her Poetry
Thomas Lawrance is from the United Kingdom, but he lives in Ireland, where he writes fiction and performs stand-up comedy. His writing has appeared with… Read More »Thomas Lawrance on Examining Ireland’s Hidden Bodies in Fiction
By Betty J. Cotter At fourteen I discovered Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead in our small village library. The collection of… Read More »College Girl: The Diaries That Planted the Seed in Wanting to Be a Writer
Matthew Miller teaches social studies, swings tennis rackets, and writes poetry—all hoping to create home. He and his wife live beside a dilapidated orchard in… Read More »Matthew Miller on Writing Poems About Everyday Family Activities
Capsule Stories is proud to announce our first-ever nominations for the 2021 Best of the Net anthology. The Best of the Net is an awards-based… Read More »Capsule Stories Nominations for 2021 Best of the Net Anthology
Mallory Pearson is an artist and writer living in Brooklyn, New York. She writes about themes of folklore, femininity, and loss, and how these elements… Read More »Mallory Pearson on Writing the Things That Make a Rural Summer So Painfully Gorgeous
Alice Rogers is a Welsh writer recently graduated with an MSc in creative writing from The University of Edinburgh. They specialize in American historical fiction… Read More »Alice Rogers on Playing With Cowboys’ Gender and Sexuality in Westerns
By Dian Parker In silence, the world comes in close. Drops of rain sliding off the eaves seem to be inside the bedroom, on my… Read More »Silent Quarantine: Processing the Pandemic Through Literature