by BlogEditor | Feb 19, 2025 | News & Events
Rising Above… A Generative Writing Workshop $25.00 Virtual Writing Workshop Thursday, March 6, 2025 7 PM (EST) As a community of wordsmiths, champions of individuality, and humans, we must continue to create. This defiant act of expression gives us hope,...
by BlogEditor | Feb 18, 2025 | Fiction
PETIT BATTEMENT by Mandy Lange FollowFollowFollow Molly’s pas de chat is born of force, timing, and intensity. A blink of respite at the pinnacle of the leap, when chaos slips into calm. A gentle return to plywood. She rotates her heel, chafing against her too-small...
by BlogEditor | Feb 11, 2025 | Creative Nonfiction
The Interloper by Kandi Maxwell FollowFollowFollow Photo by MD Duran via Unsplash “You should meet, Jonnie,” my friend, Glenda says. “You two have so much in common.” We both hike, camp, and love animals. He has horses, I have wolf dogs. He lives in a cabin he built...
by BlogEditor | Feb 3, 2025 | Fiction
Beyond Me by Sidney Logan Echevarria FollowFollowFollow I was not allowed to answer the telephone. Unless, of course, I’d been told to, or, in the very off chance no one was home except for me. But being six, that was, indeed, a very far off chance. When the telephone...
by BlogEditor | Jan 9, 2025 | Fiction
Guai Girl By Anyu Ching FollowFollowFollow I often find myself thinking about the first time. The sound and spring of it. How the unconscious, bite-sized action of an even smaller child would go on to spur a lifetime of torment and disdain. Had I learned how to talk...
by BlogEditor | Jan 6, 2025 | Fiction
The Lay of Our Land by Angela Belcher Epps FollowFollowFollow I’m finally hitting my stride after last semester’s rocky start. It was a maddening experience because everything looked great on paper. My lesson plans aligned so perfectly with the State standards for...
by BlogEditor | Nov 18, 2024 | Creative Nonfiction
A Woman’s Right to Bear by Tasha Bovain FollowFollowFollow Photo by Matthias Wagner via Unsplash Before I knew what I wanted to do for a living as an adult, I imagined my life as a mother, reading bedtime stories and playing dress up with my daughter. I come from a...
by BlogEditor | Oct 10, 2024 | Fiction
I Was Supposed to Stay Out When the Bedroom Door Was Closed by Holly Fine FollowFollowFollow Cigarette burn holes in my cardigan meant Mom kept me close. I counted them in her comforter, seared edges lined up like Orion’s Belt. Ashes into wormholes into news anchors...
by BlogEditor | Oct 7, 2024 | Fiction
When The Mermaids Came by Holly Barratt FollowFollowFollow It was early Valentine’s Day morning when the first one washed up dead near Bridgend. By 10am there was a crowd around the rotting carcass. Eventually three officers broke through, dragged it up the beach,...
by BlogEditor | Sep 25, 2024 | Minerva's Dispatch, News & Events
New in The Keeping Room: Banned Book Week, by Kim Brown FollowFollowFollow Read “Banned Book Week” by Minerva Rising Press Executive Editor, new in The Keeping Room magazine for women. read the post MINERVA RISING PRESS publishes thought-provoking and...
