JOURNAL SUBMISSION
Issue 23 – Subversion
Submission is now closed
Minerva Rising Press will be accepting poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction submissions for focused on the theme of Subversion.
Writers hold a superpower when it comes to undermining authority and breaking down systems of oppression. Our poetry, essays and stories carry the ideas and truths that influence necessary change in the world. What are the ways subversive behavior have shifted our direction? How have we rebelled against systemic racism, the patriarchy, discrimination in all forms? How do you define subversion, and how has it affected change in your life? How can it change and heal the planet? With this theme, we seek writers who can share stories, poems and essays showcasing the ways subversion has been and continues to be a necessary antidote to oppression within our own lives, our communities and the world.
Submissions will be open NOW through May 15. We look forward to reading your work.
Submission Guidelines
All work should address the theme of Subversion. Please no journalistic features, academic works or opinion pieces. We offer a contributor’s copy and a small stipend for accepted submissions. We purchase first publication rights. All other rights revert to the author upon publication. We only accept electronic submissions. Please, do not mail or fax submissions. Submissions received in this manner will not be acknowledged or considered.
Cover letters should briefly explain how you see your work connecting to this theme. For poetry, submit 1-5 poems (max. 10 pages) at a time. Poems may be single-spaced.
For fiction and nonfiction, please send only one story or one essay at a time, up to 7,000 words. (We will rarely run anything longer than seven thousand words. There’s no minimum word length). Prose submissions should be double-spaced.
PREVIOUS THEMES
Issue Then, Now, and Future, Issue 22
The editorial team is looking to publish both previous and new contributors’ poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction work to help celebrate the themes of growth, change, and reflection. As writers, we constantly catalog and memorialize ourselves and experiences into succinct pieces that act, at times, as time capsules. Our writing often begs us to consider who we were a year ago, five years ago, ten years ago. As artists, our writing captures and reflects the changes enacted in our personal lives. There is power in both the act of writing but also in the sharing. Inviting readers to explore our work showcases vulnerability, strength, and connection. Often, we learn who we were or who we can become from rereading previous work. There’s a prompting of reflection that pushes us to ask what’s next? We’re often taught not to look back, to live in the present, to not focus on the future, but what if that curiosity propelled reflection and introspection? What if, instead of labeling writing as old and new, we celebrated it like we celebrate our lives with loved ones? What if we collected ourselves, and the work of others, into a collection that spoke of hope?
Women’s Suffrage
Spring 2020
Our 20th issue will be dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the women’s suffrage movement in the United States. We’re looking for short stories, essays, interviews, reviews, and poetry about the valiant women who won the right to vote as well as those who continue to fight for justice and equality for all.
We welcome work that examines how women are dealing with the current political climate and the way in which women’s lives and choices impact our history.
Reinvention, Resolution, Recreation
Spring 2019
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” – Anaïs Nin
What Matters
Fall 2018
We gather so much between our open arms – our children, our bodies, our lovers, our hearts. Nature, the earth, beginnings and endings. What else matters? Gun control, affordable health care, reproductive rights, equality, special education. Voice. And of course wisdom, art, friendship, spirituality.
What matters to you is what matters to us. What matters — write it down, submit it.
The Creative Self
The Creative SelfIssue 21 is all about what it means to create and be creative. We are looking for writing that considers how we make space to open ourselves to creativity, ways creativity manifests beyond the arts, how we often have to turn to a new form of creativity during times of turmoil and uncertainty. Also, the ways creativity assists in wellness (spirit & body) and mindfulness of ourselves and the world around us. Send us your best poems, essays, short stories, reviews that uplift and examine what it means to be creative.
Relationships, Sexuality, and Desire
Fall 2019
“How we need that security. How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this. I need someone to pour myself into.”
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Books, Books, Books
Fall 2019
Books, books and more books.
We read them.
We write them.
We are who we are because of them.
We want to read about the books stacked beside your bed, the ones you hold dearest, and the ones that shaped your life. Or send us a re-imagined scene from a classic. Tell us about a book you wish had been written or one that got it all wrong.
As long as it deals with books, we want to read it.
Ripples
Summer 2017
“A stone has been cast into the reliable immutable pond of the past, and as the ripples subside everything appears different. The reflections are quite other; everything has swung and shattered, it is all beyond recovery” ― Penelope Lively, The Photograph
When the unexpected happens, the effects go on and on like RIPPLES in the water. The uncertainty, doubt and fear can make us question what we thought we knew and who we are.
Whether from the personal or the political, we want to read what RIPPLES have stirred in you.
MINERVA RISING PRESS publishes thought-provoking and insightful stories and essays written by a diverse collective of women writers to elevate women’s voices and create a more compassionate world.