Bill Capossere
he/him | writer, reviewer | Rochester, NY, United States
Bill Capossere writes essays, short stories, and plays. His work has appeared in multiple journals such as Colorado Review, AQR, and Short Story, Long; anthologies including In Short, Man in the Moon, and Brief Encounters; and been recognized in the “notable essays” section of several Best American Essays. His plays have been given stage readings at the Durango PlayFest and GEVA Theatre's Festival of New Plays. He also reviews for fantasyliterature.com and Strange Horizons
Selected work
Man in the Moon
Colorado Review, 2005
Museum of Lamentation
Rosebud Magazine, 2006
Museum of Lost Languages
2006
Museum of Lost and Found
Rosebud Magazine, 2006
Planetary Loss
Colorado Review, 2006
Ties
2008
Price of Passage
2010
Black Holes
Colorado Review, 2009
Fog
Alaska Quarterly Review, 2010
Strange Travelers
Colorado Review, 2012
Chess Piece
2015
The Museum of Grace
Chautauqua Literary Journal, 2014
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Winter Write
Soon
Spider Magazine [Cricket Media]
The Web
Tahoma Literary Review, 2019
Roadmap
Colorado Review, 2019
Peckish
MacQueen's Quinterly, 2020
Last Man on the Moon
MacQueen's Quinterly, 2020
New Blues
Eclectica, 2020
Because I would Not Write the Moon
2020
The Waiter Museum"
O:JA&L, 2020
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Bill Capossere|"The Map Museum" - O:JA&L
O:JA&L, 2020
Flash Discourse: Fiction|Bill Capossere|"The Museum of Tears" - O:JA&L
O:JA&L, 2020
Fall-Winter 2020 — Bluestem Magazine
Bluestem Magazine, 2020
Wrong Frequency
2021
The Museum of Extinction
2022
Please Update Your Security Questions - Cutleaf Journal
CutLeaf Journal, 2025
“The Long Departure” by Bill Capossere
Short Story, Long, 2026