We held séances during fifth-grade recess, on the picnic table where the janitors took their cigarette breaks.
Fifty of us walked, fingertip to gloved fingertip, through the sodden snow….
I lean on the deck rail and savor dusk’s drift toward night — the glitter-caps rippling Kachemak Bay….
After high school ended for the day, my younger brother and I would go to a nearby park to practice hopping fences.
I lean on the deck rail and savor dusk’s drift toward night — the glitter-caps rippling Kachemak Bay….
Nights in the desert we sped down soft roads.
He’s fallen again. I am in the bathtub, hooking my arms under my father and dragging him up….
I watched from the kitchen doorway as my aunt Marge taught my mother how to carve the moose …
After high school ended for the day, my younger brother and I would go to a nearby park to practice hopping fences.
I want to tell one thing, one perfect thing. I was a 12-year-old kid in the Garden of Eden. At the center of the garden, a perfect natural spring boiled up from a deep subterranean source, its waters as clear as a glass of club soda. Fish flashed through the water silver and quick. Too…
Visible through the window: light sun, little squirrels scurrying down cement steps, empty-handed.
We held séances during fifth-grade recess, on the picnic table where the janitors took their cigarette breaks.
Fifty of us walked, fingertip to gloved fingertip, through the sodden snow….
As a student of football and of writing about it, I was first drawn to the simplicity of the title.
Like Eurie Dahn, many of my memories are wrapped up in food.
For those of us who aspire to write micro, Fennelly shows us how it’s done ….
If I were to use one word to describe Governing Bodie, it would be tender.
Griffiths’ accounting of her life since marrying fellow author Salman Rushdie in 2021 is Biblical.
The timing of this book is impeccable, as America’s gargantuan fascist elephant keeps tromping his way around the global room….
Woman House: Essays and Assemblages is, among other things, a book about secrets.
Anywhere Else: Essays on Florida by Rachel Knox is part love letter to the author’s home state and part reckoning.
One Bad Mother: In Praise of Psycho Housewives, Stage Parents, Momfluencers, and Other Women We Love dives into many tropes.
Metronome is part historical retelling, part sociological examination of the place of the little object’s presence in our lives.
Dementia Widow is first and foremost a beautifully crafted love story.
We speak to CNN anchor Carol Lin about her new book, When News Breaks: A Memoir of Love and War
…an alternately excruciating and lyrical memoir of being lost for 18 years in the complexities of a hard to diagnose condition…
…the book is heartbreaking. But it is also filled with joy, beauty, tension, conflict; it’s a great read.
I didn’t expect Map of a Heart to be a page turner, like a mystery, but it is.
Music can be closely tied to our memories, and this can be a boon when we write about our past experiences.
It may seem old-fashioned these days, but my daily writing practice revolves around a personal blog.
The 2026 We Love Short Shorts Contest for Flash Creative Nonfiction is open for Feb. 1-28, 2026. Prize: $250 + publication.
Selected Memories Vol. 2: Fifteen Years of Creative Nonfiction from Hippocampus Magazine will be release in March 2026
We’re always pleased to share updates from our family of contributors and presenters. Here’s our Fall 2025/Early 2026 edition.
