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
Capsule Stories is happy to announce our Best Microfiction nominations for 2021. The anthology Best Microfiction 2022 will be published by Pelekinesis in the summer… Read More »Capsule Stories Best Microfiction Nominations 2021
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 Our 2021 Pushcart Prize Nominations
By Alex Grehy Two events of small significance took place in 1965: the Good Housekeeping Institute reprinted its cookery book, and I was born. In… Read More »The Joys of an Old Cookery Book + Alex Grehy’s Christmas Pudding Recipe
By Rebekah Morris Content warning: rape, child sexual abuse My Grandma Betty had a secret. The kind of secret that haunts you to your grave,… Read More »When Women Were Birds There Were No Secrets
By T. C. Anderson When I began developing my work The Forest as an art installation a few months prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, its… Read More »Writing from the Inside: My Parallel Storytelling Journey with Bo Burnham
By Quinn Forlini My sophomore English class was starting One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey when I was going to have surgery.… Read More »Reading One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in a Fog of Medication
Nora Boyle is a poet, farmer, beekeeper, and witch who consumes coffee by the cauldron-full. She is the founder of Lady Book Witch Press, based… Read More »Lady Book Witch Press Founder Nora Boyle on Delving Into Grief and Family Secrets in Her Poetry