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
Jakky Bankong-Obi writes from Abuja, Nigeria. Jakky is co-editor at Ice Floe Press, and her work is forthcoming or published in London Grip, The Kalahari… Read More »Jakky Bankong-Obi on Breaking Free from the Expectation to Write Only “Serious Poetry”
Stella Lei (she/her) is a teen writer whose work is published or forthcoming in Honey Literary, Four Way Review, Okay Donkey Magazine, and elsewhere. She… Read More »The Song That Inspired Stella Lei’s Flash Fiction Piece “Girls on TV”
Taylor Wyna Stewart is a writer from Birmingham, Alabama, whose work has been featured in Cypress Press, Aura Literary Arts Review, and Reckon Women. Taylor… Read More »Taylor Wyna Stewart on Writing Blissful Innocence That Stands on the Edge of Heartbreak
By Teresa Pham-Carsillo For as long as I could remember, I had a fantasy of being in a position of concentrated solitude, able at last… Read More »The Price Is Loneliness: Reimagining the Fantasy of Writing in Solitude