Wizening by Jennifer Weiss FollowFollowFollow When my gnarled toes graze a desolate bedand I stow away your time-frayed pillowcase,may I remember: The trace of your fingers that unraveled me.The rubescent communion of our lips.The bliss when I nuzzled the cleft of...
Jailbait by Rachel Christina McConnell FollowFollowFollow Virginia is for lovers, his license plate said, but I sure as hell wasn’t losing my virginity in the backseat of his car. My first time was in a Motel 6. Getting a room was my idea. I thought it was sexy....
Weight of a Thousand Flowers by Linda Petrucelli FollowFollowFollow “I can see myself living here for a very long time,” I told the realtor, my fingers trembling as I signed for the rundown rancher with a great view. I surprised myself. Long-term commitment was unlike...
Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares by Aarti Namdev Shahani FollowFollowFollow Here We Are: American Dreams, American NightmaresBy Aarti Namdev Shahani Celadon Books, New York, 2019$16.99, PaperbackISBN 9781250204745 Book Review by Ankita Rathour In...
The Earthquake and my Brain By Domnica Radulescu FollowFollowFollow Time has been a long formless dough stretching from one end of the world to another, the days all mashed up into this mushy paste, Monday Sunday Thursday Monday all over again, it could be March it...
MINERVA’S DISPATCH: February News FollowFollowFollow Minerva Rising will be celebrating our 10th anniversary in 2022! -We have several exciting things planned. Sign up for our newsletter to receive all the latest news. Submissions will reopen February 10, 2022....
2021 Memoir Contest winner FollowFollowFollow Minerva Rising Press is pleased to announce the winner of the 2021 Memoir Contest, Janice Airhart’s Mother of My Invention: A Motherless Daughter Memoir. In a Fifties household, while everyone else’s mothers are vacuuming...
The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel FollowFollowFollow The Secret to Superhuman Strengthby Alison Bechdel Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,May 2021$24.00 (Hardcover)978-0-544-38765-2 Book Review by Rebecca Beardsall Struggling to sit up as my abs rebel...
The Push by Ashley Audrain FollowFollowFollow The Pushby Ashley Audrain Pamela Dorman BooksJanuary 2021$26, hardcover978-1984881663 Book Review by Colleen Lutz Clemens “Page-turner.” When I press The Push into people’s hands, I use this phrase to describe Ashley...
Raised in Ruins by Tara Neilson FollowFollowFollow Raised in Ruinsby Tara Neilson Alaska Northwest Books April 2020$16.99 (paperback)978-1-5132-6263-5 Book Review by Rebecca Beardsall Opening with a brown bear stalking the house, Raised in Ruins, a charming, dynamic...
