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...
by BlogEditor | Sep 25, 2024 | Creative Nonfiction
Banned Book Week by Kim Brown FollowFollowFollow Images by Kim Brown from The Bookstore of Glen Ellyn This past week, I was walking down the street of the town where I live with my two-year-old granddaughter, who had recently had a meltdown at the Mexican restaurant...
by BlogEditor | Sep 18, 2024 | Creative Nonfiction
A Lesson in Art & Life by Geri Lipschultz FollowFollowFollow Photo of Denali by author I’ll say right now that I did not see Matanuska Glacier or Kenai fjords or Resurrection Bay or the bright blue ice, and I did not venture to fly into the frozen recesses of...
by BlogEditor | Sep 16, 2024 | News & Events
Journal Issue 23 available now FollowFollowFollow Issue 23, Subversion, is available now! The poetry, essays, and stories in Issue 23 – Subversion are a testament to how words can bridge our differences and serve as an antidote to the effects of oppression and...
by BlogEditor | Sep 4, 2024 | Creative Nonfiction
Awakening by Mary Lane Potter FollowFollowFollow Painting by Miriam Zora Engel (author’s daughter) “Do you know what dust is?” my twelve-year-old daughter asks, looking up from her biology homework. Her voice swells with the power of knowing and the promise of youth....
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,...
