THE KEEPING ROOM
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 via PayPal. Submit via Submittable.
***Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please notify us immediately if accepted elsewhere.
***All material must be original and unpublished.
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CREATIVE NONFICTION
Deception by Leslie Tucker
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 opened my mouth but before I could speak she shook her head, patted her protruding belly and chuckled. “I asked Jim how this could have happened...
A Room Without Windows by Lily Beeson-Norwitz
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. When your eyes glanced toward me, I looked down and obeyed. I was taught to be good. I knew my role: I was the balm...
Recipe for Forgiveness
by Julie Lockhart
My mother loved to tell. She would place the stool in the tiny kitchen and tell me to watch her cook. She’d never let me cook or bake by myself. No, you would make a big mess, she’d tell me. I can still hear her voice when I thicken a sauce. You start with melting the...
Snapshots of a Past By Clara Oropeza
In the dream, you are a passenger inside a car that turns right onto the sleepy cul-de-sac of Bierenberg Place. On the left, you recognize the two-story brick house that sits behind a low-picket wooden fence against the backdrop of green hedges filled with bird...
The Session
by Cornelia Mars
[Please note that names have been changed, and dialogue has been translated and shortened for brevity] 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...
POETRY
Inheritence
By Amber Wozniak
Amber Wozniak is, above all things, an eldest child. She has an English writing degree from Seton Hall University and currently works as a healthcare program manager and editor. Her time outside of work is devoted to her true loves: her daughter, literature, and...
Body as Place: A Brief Examination of Lima::Limon by Natalie Scenters’-Zapico
The intersection of body and place dominates Natalie Scenters-Zapico’s second collection Lima::Limon, a book that makes explicit the ways in which female bodies are excavated and mined. She writes in “The Hunt,” the final poem of the collection, “I am a lucky /...
hot spring
By Elizabeth Kuelbs
Elizabeth Kuelbs writes and mothers at the edge of a Los Angeles canyon. She holds an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts....