by BlogEditor | Aug 28, 2024 | Creative Nonfiction
A Scar That Burns by April McCloud FollowFollowFollow Photo by Hannah Grace via Unsplash The thing I remember most about dying, is how much it burns. Gasping for air, returning to life, the pain is exquisite. Everything else is burned away as the heat and fire...
by BlogEditor | Aug 11, 2024 | News & Events
Submission open – Rosemary Daniell Fiction Prize FollowFollowFollow Minerva Rising is seeking short story collections, novellas and novels from women writers. Just as the Goddess Minerva represented creativity, wisdom, medicine, commerce, arts and education, our...
by BlogEditor | Aug 5, 2024 | Creative Nonfiction
Why Motherhood by Shay Galloway FollowFollowFollow My mother did not want seven children. She birthed me at the age of seventeen, her high school diploma incomplete, her own mother slowly dying. I imagine the discovery of my conception was not one of joy and wonder,...
by BlogEditor | Jul 3, 2024 | Creative Nonfiction
The Turquoise Mountains by Anne-Marie Delaunay-Danizio FollowFollowFollow My first canvas hangs on the wall of my art studio in Waltham, MA. It is an abstract landscape of blues, browns, and purples, evoking mountains, lakes, and volcanoes. Throughout the first part...
by BlogEditor | Jul 1, 2024 | Creative Nonfiction
Country Mouse and City Mouse by Katherine Riegel FollowFollowFollow For Carolyn 1. One of us thinks too little about weight. One of us thinks too much. She is all angles, like the drawings of women in pattern catalogs at the fabric store. I am all rounded: my chin, my...
