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***All material must be original and unpublished.
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FICTION
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CREATIVE NONFICTION
Math Class isn’t Tough. What Comes After is Tough.
by Jessica Manack
Can a woman ever really stop tallying the figures of her life? It was just before 9:00 a.m., we were finishing breakfast, the toddler playing with his food more than eating it. I carried the dishes into the kitchen. "I'll clean up." "Really?" my husband asked. "I can...
Her Sunflower Apron
by Gail Ghai
When Ginny Reuben’s kitten, Tickle, got stuck in our giant elm tree, the neighbors flooded our front yard as if free food samples were being offered. The kids jumped, screamed, and cried, trying to coax the frightened creature back down to safe earth. It was a...
Anna’s Cabinets
by Laura Plummer
Section 8 apartments are all the same. Shady characters linger in the lobby, wearing too many layers for mid-July. When I visit, they speak to each other in code and tuck their hands into their pockets.In unit 112, two toddlers sit naked on the cold linoleum tiles in...
My Father’s Boxes
by Laura Plummer
In the basement is a shelf of identical cardboard boxes labeled in my father’s heavy, slanted writing. This is his system for categorizing his universe. Boxes of cables and wires, antique watch parts, electronics, family history. Of vintage cameras, pocket knives and...
The Cool Girls
by Laura Plummer
It’s Lyndsy’s eleventh birthday. The girls she invited are a year older than us. Wanting to impress them, I show off by doing handstands in the above-ground pool. I’m wearing my tie-dye one-piece and feeling totally rad. Mr. Parker calls to us that it’s time for...
POETRY
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