Minerva Rising

27/08/2025

New creative nonfiction piece up in The Keeping Room!

Here's a snippet from Laura Ingram's "Red Planet, With Exit Wounds":

"You call often, always more than once. I let it ring out, careful not to touch even a letter of your name. I don’t breathe or blink until the phone stops seizing in ringtone. You want to know if I am alive. You leave eleven voicemails. I dream that when you left, you left with both of my legs inside your suitcase, kneecaps folded neatly along with your shirts and socks, and now I am waking up with half of me. I relearn how to walk every morning."

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Read "Red Planet, With Exit Wounds" (CNF) by Laura Ingram, new in The Keeping Room magazine for women, Minerva Rising Press

11/07/2025

New fiction piece up in The Keeping Room!

Here's a snippet from Jen Knox's "WHAT THEY CAN’T SEE":

"Mom wears orange and smiles at people who thank her, smiles at people who yell at her, and smiles at the man who will soon rob her. Everyone near Mom wears yellow or orange and has matching ball caps striped with white, which makes them visible to my wolves."

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Read "WHAT THEY CAN’T SEE" (fiction) by Jen Knox, new in the Keeping Room magazine for women, Minerva Rising Press

08/07/2025

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

Tomorrow night, we will be joined by the incomparable Sharon White, author of "Minato Sketches"—Minerva's latest book release and the winner of the Rosemary Daniell Fiction Prize–as she leads us through an hour-long course on summertime/imagery writing.

Let’s explore the simultaneous feelings of loss and renewal that the summertime presents us with, and let’s figure out how to translate those thoughts onto the page.

Sign up for the workshop HERE: https://bit.ly/4lekH8U

Summertime Generative Writing Workshop - Thursday, July 10, 7 pm EST, via Zoom. Minerva Writes Writers Toolkit. Includes a free Keeping Room submission

07/07/2025

Write an ode to an insect.

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, July 11th, at 11:59pm. Happy writing!

03/07/2025

New creative nonfiction piece up in The Keeping Room!

Here's a snippet from Helen Collins Sitler's "Gold Sneakers: What a Saudi Woman Taught Me About Agency":

"Gold sneakers peeked out from under Safiya’s plain abaya. We both grinned when she noticed me noticing, and she lifted her long hem to show them off. Maybe I shouldn’t have been so surprised later that spring when she hurried into my university office and launched into a rant about her husband."

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02/07/2025

New creative nonfiction piece up in The Keeping Room!

Here's a snippet from Kandi Maxwell's "What She Remembers":

"She’s backpacked hundreds of miles throughout Northern California’s backcountry—The John Muir Trail, Ansel Adams Wilderness, Yosemite, Sequoia, King’s Canyon, the Trinity Alps, Mount Whitney, and Mount Shasta to name a few.

She’s shocked at how easily these names flow through her mind—the same brain that continually fogs up, leaving gaps of missing words in sentences. Pauses in places as she tries to speak. But these wild places stick to her like wet leaves on her boots, and over the years, they have grown into vines embedded tightly around her heart."

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01/07/2025

It's July, which also means it's the start of National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month. Also known as BIPOC Mental Health Month, in July, we recognize, understand, and aim to lessen the unique mental health challenges faced by racial and ethnic minority communities.

According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), in 2020, fewer than one in every two Black adults got care for mental health, while in 2018, Asian Americans were 60 percent less likely to receive mental health treatment than non-Hispanic whites.

Mental illness affects everyone. Show your support this month, and every month, by learning more about mental illness and by spreading the word.

For those in need of mental health resources, please click the link: https://buff.ly/tB90HnG

30/06/2025

Goodbye sweet June! How good you've been; how sweet; how memorable; how hot and humid and wholly too quick for our liking.

In honor of our bittersweet farewell to June, write a goodbye poem, addressed to anyone or anything.

Remember to submit your Monday Writing Prompt to us through Messenger for the chance to be highlighted in next Monday’s post. DM submissions will remain open until Friday, July 4th, at 11:59pm. Happy writing!

30/06/2025

JUNE NEWSLETTER ☀️🌈

Click here to learn more about our Summertime Writing Workshop and learn how YOU can get involved at Minerva Rising Press: https://buff.ly/HCBGFk4

Also, read on to discover our Minerva Pride Pick and latest pieces in The Keeping Room!

The summertime—with its longer days, extreme weather, and its air of new beginnings—offers us writers a wholly unique setting to situate our characters in. Fickle summer can take on a personality of its own; it becomes the perfect place setting for drama, tension, and changing relationships.

27/06/2025

New creative nonfiction piece up in The Keeping Room!

Here's a snippet from Miriam Bat-Ami's "Vacated Lawn Chairs":

"Since my husband’s death in March of 2020, I’ve gotten into the habit of counting chairs on front porches and lawns, in backyards and around firepits, vacated seats suggesting a grouping of two or more: a husband and a wife relaxing after dinner while the children run from the swings to the slide or couples drinking wine at the close of the day. I have walked freely alone among the forested trees, but lawn chairs call for company."

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Read "Vacated Lawn Chairs" (CNF) by Miriam Bat-Ami, new in the Keeping Room magazine for women, Minerva Rising Press

20/06/2025

New creative nonfiction piece up in The Keeping Room!

Here's a snippet from Patricia Powers's "Olivia Rodrigo Can Save Us":

"When I was younger, I held out hope, some distant fantasy, that someone would discover me and my talent, usually with very little effort on my part. I was optimistic enough to walk about my life holding a little container of joyful possibility, under the assumption that something incredible would happen to me, that life was fun. As I aged, that container slipped progressively from my hands until eventually it clonked on the sidewalk, and I left it behind."

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Read "Olivia Rodrigo Can Save Us" (CNF) by Patricia Powers, new in the Keeping Room magazine for women, Minerva Rising Press

19/06/2025

On June 19th—Juneteenth—we celebrate and commemorate the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States. We approach this day as an opportunity for celebration, education, and community connection.

Minerva Rising Press wishes everyone a joyous, prosperous Juneteenth.