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,...
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...
by BlogEditor | May 30, 2024 | Creative Nonfiction
We Are Doing Our Best by Eileen Cunniffe FollowFollowFollow We are everywhere, the middle-aged, aging daughters and sons. Watch us folding walkers and wheelchairs into trunks, and then unfolding them again in handicapped spaces or next to sidewalk cutouts. Watch us as...
