From the top of the hill you look down at the playground, monkey bars with paint barely hanging on. There are too many people, kids running up and down a small grassy hill playing tag with their siblings, adults standing on the pavement. You are walking down a sidewalk in a park you haven’t visited in years. Capsule Stories Spring 2021 Edition: In Bloom Spring is here, and with it comes growth, new life, and hope. Within the pages of this edition, you’ll find prose and poetry bursting with life as our contributors explore the theme In Bloom. It was hard to imagine the world blossoming again it was hard to remember that such beauty is possible. We begin Capsule Stories Spring 2021 Edition with these words from Rae Rozman’s poem “An Almost Prayer.” After such a long, dark winter, with an unrelenting pandemic taking more and more lives every day and political unrest sparking fear and division, spring didn’t seem certain this year. Please consider buying your books through to support independent bookstores- and Capsule Stories! Letter from the Editors If you are a marginalized writer and would like to read Capsule Stories Spring 2021 Edition, please email us at and we will send you a free PDF of the edition.ĭisclosure: Capsule Stories is an affiliate of and Amazon, and we will earn a commission if you click through and make a purchase. To ensure that you never miss a future issue of the print magazine, subscribe from just £24 for 4 issues.We want to support marginalized writers and work to make publishing more accessible. Got a question? Drop us a line at us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. We are open to original contributions from anyone, anywhere in the world.Īt Popshot towers we have just wrapped up the Haunting Issue, which will be on sale from 4th August 2022. Include the issue and form of your work in the subject line (i.e. To see your writing published and illustrated, head to our submit page for the full guidelines. Four issues are published per year showcasing the best emerging fiction writers. You can subscribe to either hard copy or digital editions. To discover more about Popshot, pick up a copy from WHSmiths or another reputable newsagent ( here are a few other ways you can safely find it). We’re very sorry but due to volume we cannot reply to submissions unless they are successful, so if you haven’t heard from us by the end of January 2023 please take it as a pass. Entries over the word count will not be considered. The Heart Issue will be published in February 2023. Submissions for the Spring 2023 issue are open until 9am (UK time) on Friday, 2 December 2022. We welcome all genres and writing styles so long as they follow our guidelines for submission ( for more on which, click here). We are looking for a mixture of humour, social commentary, honesty and thrilling storytelling. Successful submissions must display excellent writing, creative flair and originality. Feel free to go in a lighthearted direction, or take us deep into the heart of something darker. Feel free to write about love, loss, lust, ambition or any other emotion that seems driven by this strange, bright red and all powerful organ. Writers might want to consider the different meanings of heart, from its literal role in our physical bodies to the metaphorical role it plays in love, to the idea that there is a heart at the centre of everything, if you can get to it, whether vegetable (like the artichoke), political (or is it a lack of heart that is the issue?), from problems (if you could just find it…) or the wonderful (is there anything this good that is without heart?). We have just finished putting together the Roots Issue (thank you to all who submitted), allowing us to open the doors for new submissions. Illustration by Kevin Deneufchatel The next issue of Popshot will be on the theme of… “Heart.” Submit work for the next issue between today and 9am (GMT) on Friday 2nd December 2022.
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