Blood draws have been hard on me my whole life. The medical techs tell me my veins are small. Sometimes they resort to a pediatric needle…
Creative Nonfiction
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
Fight Like a Girl by Justine Payton
CW: sexual violence
The man who settled himself between my legs was twice my size. I immediately felt suffocated beneath the pressure of his weight …
Pandemic Thoughts, Racing
By Sue Repko
Today I am recalling January, thumbing through my day planner, trying to pin this down, trying to put brackets around...
Threads
By Billie Hinton
My grandma’s Singer was black with a yellow and orange floral pattern on the side. It folded down like origami into a...
Night Owls
By MJ Lemire
My mom forgets that she lives in China. “I live in Michigan.” she tells me during our Skype chats, the South China Sea...
The Idol
By Jewel Beth Davis
In the early 90s, I was hired to act in Film Directing classes for two summers at the Maine Photographic and Film...
Gift
By Chanel Brenner
I became a mother when Riley was born. I became a poet when he died. His death and writing poetry are intertwined like...
Family Jewels
By Nancy Jorgensen
Nana, my mother's mother, was the maven of molasses creams, maple syrup, piggy-back rides, pickled beets, knits and...