Alice Bloch is the author of Mother-Daughter Banquet: A Memoir, the winner of our 2018 memoir contest. Her prolific writing career includes the memoir Lifetime Guarantee, the novel The Law of Return, and publication in several anthologies. She also wrote a column for...
It’s no secret that our staff loves books. Reading is our superpower. We read submissions for Minerva Rising and tons of books and journals for our own personal edification. Here’s what we’ve been reading over the summer: Brooke —...
Emily Lake Hansen is joining Minerva Rising Press as our new Poetry Editor. Emily is the author of the chapbook The Way the Body Had to Travel (dancing girl press, 2014). Her poetry and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Nightjar Review, Atticus Review,...
When someone asks how long Minerva Rising has been around, I always say it started in January of 2012. But the idea was planted a year earlier. I was sitting in my keeping room in January, reading Secrets of the Zona Rosa: How Writing (and Sisterhood) Can Change...
I’m learning a new language. The structure of Czech is entirely different from English; meaning is contained in word order and declination, so that just by changing endings on the same root word, you can create whole new sentences. The possibilities the syntax...
Happy Leap Year! Happy birthday to my daughter’s junior high art teacher, who is technically only 10, so younger than all her students. And Happy Last-Day-of-the 29/29 Leap-Year-Edition challenge. At the start of the month, I joined a writers’...
