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• Coffee, kueh, sugar sculptures… and human flesh. Issue 4 is here.

  Posted on July 18, 2016 by Admin in Uncategorised

  We’re delighted to conclude our inaugural year with Issue 4 of Capricious: an issue themed around food and drink which, as the title of this post suggests, can take some very different forms. With fiction by Jamie Lackey, Mari Ness, Chad Stroup, and Anya Ow, this issue covers the sweet… and the unsavoury. As always, […]

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• Issue 3! Award Nominations! Open to Submissions!

  Posted on April 11, 2016 by Admin in Uncategorised

  Issue 3 – our first issue of 2016 – is here. If you’re a subscriber, you’ll have received it by email, otherwise you can purchase for immediate download. We’re delighted to bring you new fiction by Malka Older, Crystal Lynn Hilbert, Lee Murray and RJ Edwards, along with cover art by Vincent Konrad. These stories […]

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• Issue 2 out now!

  Posted on December 22, 2015 by Admin in Uncategorised

  Issue 2 of Capricious, featuring fiction by Octavia Cade, Toby MacNutt, Rebecca Campbell, and Alexander Hardison, and cover art by Belinda Morris, is out now! The issue has a watery theme, with four very different speculative stories, set in academia and on far away planets, exploring crafts and customs, concerned with belonging and escape, with […]

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• Advance Notice: Temporary Submissions Closure

  Posted on October 17, 2015 by Admin in Uncategorised

  This is just a quick update to let you know we’ll be closing to fiction submissions from 15 November 2015 until mid-March 2016. We’ve been really pleased, as a new publication, to receive so many submissions – as we can accept only a small number of stories, and have some personal commitments over the summer, […]

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• Issue 1 available now

  Posted on September 21, 2015 by Admin in Uncategorised

  We’re very pleased to announce that Capricious Issue 1 is now available for free download. Featuring work from A.J. Fitzwater, Sean Monaghan, Sabrina Amaya Hoke and Bogi Takács, this issue takes you through fairy tales and to other worlds in none of the ways you’d expect. The authors challenge and interrogate genre boundaries, exploring themes of consent, communication, […]

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• We’re open for submissions!

  Posted on August 1, 2015 by Admin in Uncategorised

  After a bit of hedgehog-wrangling, help from some kind people, and a lot of poking at WordPress, we’re pleased to announce that Capricious is open for submissions. We’re looking for literary and experimental speculative fiction, and related non-fiction, and we’d love to hear from you. Take a look at our submissions guidelines and do pass the […]

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