The press
About
Happy Capybara Publishing began as a writing group with a shared document and a standing reservation. The zine came later, when we noticed we were editing each other's stories with more care than most places that rejected them. We publish short fiction quarterly, online and in print, and we run the occasional contest when the treasury allows.
Why the capybara? Because it is the world's largest rodent and the world's calmest animal, and that is the whole editorial philosophy: be unhurried, be unbothered, and let smaller, noisier creatures sit on you if they need somewhere to rest. Also, they're semiaquatic, and so — as you may have noticed — are most of our stories.
We pay writers, we answer every submission, and all rights revert to authors on publication. The press is kept afloat by members, print subscribers, and people who buy the zine for the covers and stay for the sentences.
The masthead
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Andrea Vincent
Editor-in-chief
Andrea is working toward the proliferation of the capybara in the American South, a goal ever present in her fiction, but entirely obfuscated.
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Edgar Bounds
Digital Editor
Bricoleur writing strictly in the adjacent possible, Edgar Bounds is roughly as tall as a nickel. His grand goal is to publish a "work without words" and has vowed not to produce good work in its absence.
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Galen Gower
Editor
Benevolent god that swoops in to help everybody from time to time, writing scary stuff and getting published and such
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Tyler Donnely
Fiction Editor
Tyler Donnely edits fiction for Happy Capybara and teaches high-school geography, which explains a lot about his stories. He believes every map is a short story that lost its nerve.
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The editorial circle
First readers
The rest of the writing group reads every submission blind. They are legion, they are kind, and they argue about commas with the intensity of a border dispute.