Paperclip Anthologies

Stories that illuminate the ordinary and elevate the human experience.

Paperclip Press publishes a series of ongoing anthologies that will grow, season after season, year after year. Each anthology explores a singular theme, yet opens its doors to voices from every corner of the world. Writers contribute to a living archive: a body of work that never closes, never concludes, and evolves with every new perspective added.

Our anthologies are not one-off publications but enduring series, each with its own identity, rhythm, and literary heartbeat. To submit is to join a long, continuous conversation — one that unfolds across time, culture, and craft. These are stories shaped by truth, imagination, and the quiet power of shared narrative.
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Paperclip Atlas:
The Curious Book of Places
Vol. 1: How to Fold a Country
A glorious mess of misplaced luggage, mistaken identities, ancestral ghosts, and one border disaster involving a goat and a man named Pavel. These stories trace cities we left, countries we never quite fit into, and the blurry terrain between departure and return. Told by storytellers, each piece unfolds a place that defies neat geography — imagined or remembered, vanished or invented. Together, they form a living atlas of emotion, dislocation, and belonging that can't be pinned down but refuses to be forgotten.
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Paperclip Kitchen:
The Curious Book of Taste
Vol. 1: The Forgotten Recipes
Simply not your regular cookbook. It’s an act of preservation. Home cooks share generational recipes on the brink of disappearance. From coastal villages to city flats, these dishes carry forgotten flavors and untold family rituals — each recipe wrapped in the story that kept it alive. Part oral history, part culinary time capsule, this collection invites you into heritage kitchens where ingredients and techniques were whispered down. A celebration of dishes nearly lost, and the people who remember them.
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Paperclip Flame:
The Curious Book of Romance
Vol. 1: Coming Soon
Love is rarely tidy — it tangles itself in first glances, fraying vows, late-night confessions, and the quiet ache between what we want and what we dare to say. These stories trace the geometry of connection: almost-lovers, mismatched souls, accidental sparks, and the kind of longing that keeps a heartbeat off-tempo. Told by romantics and realists alike, each piece explores how affection survives, transforms, or evaporates in the world. Flame is a tempest of desire — playful, passionate, beautifully impossible to contain.
Paperclip Vault:
The Curious Book of Mystery
Vol. 1: Coming Soon
A labyrinth of locked rooms, forgotten worlds, stray portals, and one suspicious footprint that shouldn’t exist — yet refuses to disappear. These stories slip between realities: a key that opens nothing, a door that shouldn’t be there, a shadow that remembers more than its owner. Told by conjurers, speculators, and quiet dreamers, each piece unravels a secret begging not to be found. Together, they build a vault of imagination — immersive, uncanny, and lit by the dim glow of mysteries waiting to be solved or never meant to be.

Paperclip Thinkery:
The Curious Book of Intrusive Thoughts
Vol. 1: Coming Soon
A cabinet of curious mind-murmurs: half-formed philosophies, dangerously honest questions, and the kind of mental detours you pretend you don’t have in public. These pieces wander through curiosity, irritation, revelation, and the strange logic of thoughts that refuse to stay politely inside their lanes. Told by overthinkers, underthinkers, and those who simply think differently, each piece opens a trapdoor into another mental pathway. Together, they form a restless, clever, inquisitive Thinkery — part meditation, part mischief, entirely human.
Paperclip Nest:
The Curious Book of Belonging
Vol. 1: Coming Soon
A collection of quiet shelters — between lives, borrowed cities, reinvented selves, and the soft ache of learning to belong again. These stories explore solo living, cultural in-betweenness, and the tender reconstruction that follows every transition. Told by wanderers, returners, and those who were never fully rooted to begin with, each piece reflects a search that is personal, shifting, and deeply intimate. Together, they form a contemplative Nest — an archive of becoming, belonging, and finding one’s place in the world, one room at a time.