The Keeping Room is an online magazine for all women writers, poets, and artists.
We are looking to publish your short stories, essays, free writing, poetry, and photo essays that touch on topics related to Women’s Wisdom, Lessons Learned, Self-care, Bodies, Relationships, and Community.
Writers selected for publication will be paid $25
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 stomach, my upper arms like still life paintings of plump, ripe fruit.
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
Decades ago, I saw this message on a poster: “Grow through the Narrow Spots. Change is Inevitable - Growth is...
Be patient with your body. Take time to understand what it has gone through and know that your body will forever be ruined.
I have a testy relationship with Facebook. I ignore it for weeks, then come back for the dopamine hits when friends read what I’ve written…
…than I actually am. I dared to have an open discussion about this for the first time a few weeks ago.
The day I met Anna went like this. Big friendly smile, “Hi, I’m Anna, can you believe these streets are such a mess?”
I once counted my heartbeats and mistook them for yours. I sat up straight when you entered the room and offered you my body without opening my mouth
My mother loved to tell. She would place the stool in the tiny kitchen and tell me to watch her cook.
In the dream, you are a passenger inside a car that turns right onto the sleepy cul-de-sac of Bierenberg Place. On the...
I’m walking up the sunny side of a residential street in Montreal. It’s late March, and a cold snap has just ended. The sun is intense, but the temperature of the air is hovering around zero.