by BlogEditor | Apr 14, 2025 | Creative Nonfiction, Featured Post
Pysanky Love by Donna H. DiCello FollowFollowFollow Photo by Czesława Grabowska via Unsplash Words have a complex beauty: conjurers of magic, they roll off the tongue, they elicit our emotions, serve as bridges between both personal and collective history. Pysanky is...
by BlogEditor | Apr 2, 2025 | Creative Nonfiction, Featured Post
Bone and The Witch by Shanda McManus FollowFollowFollow Photo by Rey Seven via Unsplash I had a hard time sleeping before Bone came. I was nine, and each night I wondered—Is that scratching on my window? As I got closer to sleep, I would feel a shadow creep toward me....
by Web Designer | Mar 27, 2025 | Craft Essays, Minerva Writes Writer's Toolkit
Writing Towards the Elusive Self FollowFollowFollow Imagine this scene . . . It’s ten in the morning. A woman sits at her desk with a cup of tea. She turns on her computer and opens a Word document. With fingers hovering over the keyboard, she ponders what to type....
by BlogEditor | Mar 27, 2025 | Craft Essays, Minerva Writes Writer's Toolkit
5 Strategies to Overcome Writer’s Block FollowFollowFollow Imagine this scene . . . It’s ten in the morning. A woman sits at her desk with a cup of tea. She turns on her computer and opens a Word document. With fingers hovering over the keyboard, she ponders...
by BlogEditor | Mar 26, 2025 | Generative Workshops, Minerva Writes Writer's Toolkit, News & Events
Redefinition… A Generative Workshop $25.00 Join our community of women writers for REDEFINITION A Generative Workshop Thursday, 4/10/2025 7:00 PM (EST) We’re living in a changed world, and although we have no intentions of completely reinventing...
by BlogEditor | Mar 26, 2025 | Creative Nonfiction, Featured Post
While It’s Still Possible by Sherry Stratton FollowFollowFollow Photo by author I knew Mom couldn’t remove her wedding and engagement rings. Literally, could not get them off: the knuckle of her ring finger was swollen way beyond the size of the rings. Her other...
by BlogEditor | Mar 19, 2025 | Creative Nonfiction
That Irresistible Pull by Karen Skalitzky FollowFollowFollow Photo by Kilyan Sockalingum via Unsplash “I want to be more interesting,” I tell my friend two days after I turned 55. We are sitting in the balcony at the Chicago Symphony Center, eager for a brilliant...
by BlogEditor | Mar 4, 2025 | Fiction
Screen Door by Mary Lewis FollowFollowFollow Annie bit into the packet of ketchup and squeezed it out over her tater tots. It wasn’t enough so she canined her way into another one. “You know you can do that without using your teeth, Sis. Here, I’ll show you,” Gary...
by BlogEditor | Feb 26, 2025 | Creative Nonfiction
My First Love by Rachel Remick FollowFollowFollow Photo by Cameron Behymer via Unsplash Content warning: This essay mentions suicide. The first boy I ever loved was Freddie Prinze. I was five years old when I first saw him on Chico and the Man. The feeling was quick,...
by BlogEditor | Feb 24, 2025 | Creative Nonfiction
Finding the Lightships with Birdy by Akkiah Davison-Floyd FollowFollowFollow I walk quietly to Birdy’s room and softly seat myself on a rocking chair. It’s late, the sun has already set. A small bedside lamp casts off a soft golden glow. Her bed is lowered to the...
