Minerva Rising

10/06/2025

New creative nonfiction piece up in The Keeping Room!

Here's a snippet from Virginia Archer-Peak's "Womb-Spoke":

"A man I once loved explained to me in my 20’s that I didn’t want children. I never said this, but his evidence was that we didn’t have any. Back then, I went for men who said things like this, who liked explaining things to women."

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Read "Womb-Spoke" (creative nonfiction) by Virginia Archer-Peak, new in the Keeping Room magazine for women, Minerva Rising Press

09/06/2025

Rainy days and rainbows go hand in hand. After your own downpours, what small joys bring a rainbow back into your life? Write a list, write a poem, write a potion—what's your rainbow?

Remember to submit your Monday Writing Prompt to us through DMs for the chance to be highlighted in next Monday’s post. DM submissions will remain open until Friday, June 13th, at 11:59pm. Happy writing!

05/06/2025

The Keeping Room magazine is always open for submissions! Send us your fiction and creative nonfiction for the chance to be featured in The Keeping Room online magazine. All writers selected for publication will be paid $25.

Also, stay tuned for news on upcoming novel competitions!

Click here to submit to The Keeping Room: https://buff.ly/CeC3APx

04/06/2025

Happy Pride Month from your friends at Minerva Rising Press ❤️ 🧡 💛 💚 💙 💜

You are loved. You are seen. You are supported.

03/06/2025

New creative nonfiction piece up in The Keeping Room!

Here's a snippet from Brittney P. Mihalich's "Woman Running":

"Had it been a clear day, would Eliza Fletcher have run home in Memphis to rouse her two children for school? Would Melissa Millan have run home, just a few miles behind me, to kiss her two children goodnight?

Will I make it home to mine?"

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Read "Woman Running" (creative nonfiction) by Brittney P. Mihalich, new in the Keeping Room magazine for women, Minerva Rising Press

02/06/2025

Oh June, beautiful June! What might you have in store for us?

Write a list of everything—from insignificant to outlandish—that this fateful month may bring you.

Remember to submit your Monday Writing Prompt to us through DMs for the chance to be highlighted in next Monday’s post. DM submissions will remain open until Friday, June 6th, at 11:59pm. Happy writing!

28/05/2025

Last call to sign up for a productive night of generative travel writing!

Tomorrow night, we will be joined by the incredible Eileen Cunniffe, author of "We Are Doing Our Best"—a painfully poignant CNF piece published in The Keeping Room–as she guides us through an hour-long course on travel writing.

Sign up at the link below. Together, we'll translate our travel experiences into evocative stories.

SIGN UP HERE: https://buff.ly/x4HrwUP

22/05/2025

When we travel, our awareness changes. Each step away from home grants us a new understanding of ourselves, those around us, and the world in general.

Join us, and guest author Eileen Cunniffe, for a generative travel writing workshop on Thursday, May 29th, at 7:00 PM (EST) over Zoom.

Registration is $25 and includes a free Keeping Room submission!

Click the link here to sign up: https://buff.ly/QgZkeKh

Together we'll figure out how to translate our travel experiences into stories that bring us closer together.

16/05/2025

SPOTLIGHT NEWSLETTER 🏯

Click the link down below to learn more about our newest book release—Sharon White's Minato Sketches—and read through to sign up for our upcoming Travel Writing Workshop!

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12/05/2025

Make an imaginary bouquet for a mother figure in your life. Explain your choices behind each flower.

Remember to submit your Monday Writing Prompt to us through DMs for the chance to be highlighted in next Monday’s post. DM submissions will remain open until Friday, May 16th, at 11:59pm. Happy writing!

21/04/2025

Kelly Westhoff submitted this lovely spring Haiku (plant graphic and all!), detailing the welcome changes April brings into our lives each year.

For this week's prompt: this upcoming Friday, April 25th, the world celebrates DNA day! To honor this momentous occasion, begin a free write describing something about yourself (perhaps your deep love for iced chai; your penchant for forest green home decor; your fish obsession) that feels so intrinsic to your character that it must be written in your DNA.

Remember to submit the first 150 words of your Monday Writing Prompt to us through DMs for the chance to be highlighted in next Monday’s post. DM submissions will remain open until Friday, April 25th, at 11:59pm. Happy writing!

20/04/2025

Happy Easter from your friends at Minerva! 🐣 To celebrate, read our newest creative nonfiction piece up in The Keeping Room!

Here's a snippet from Donna H. DiCello's "Pysanky Love":

"Words have a complex beauty: conjurers of magic, they roll off the tongue, they elicit our emotions, serve as bridges between both personal and collective history. Pysanky is one of those words to me, even though it is not of my native tongue. It is Ukrainian, and derives from the verb pysaty, which means “to write.” In a lyrical linguistic maneuver, pysanky is intertwined with and describes the art of Ukrainian egg design done at Easter time, with the “writing” completed on the eggs wordlessly, with wax and dye."

Click the link below to read more.

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Read "Pysanky Love" (CNF) by Donna H. DiCello, new in the Keeping Room magazine for women, Minerva Rising Press