She couldn’t say how she had come to burn her hands that night. I forgot too.
A Midnight Burning by Katrina Knebel
Year: 2016
Holding the Plank by Craig Reinbold
I grew up wearing Husky-brand jeans. I once cried to my mom that I was the fattest kid in the third grade.
Radical Chic by John Picard
The Georgetown apartment was full of liberals with deep pockets. It was Washington D.C.’s version of “Radical Chic.”
Review: David Kushner, Alligator Candy
Kushner is a journalist, and as such his writing style is blunt and visceral. He doesn’t shy away from immersing his readers in the experience…
CRAFT: 5 Strategies for Writing Better Dialogue by Tom Farr
Dialogue is something fiction writers have to think about all the time, but it’s just as important if you’re writing narrative nonfiction or memoir.
2016 Contest Open: The Remember in November Contest for Creative Nonfiction has a $1,000 Grand Prize
It’s contest time! Hippocampus Magazine is giving away more than $1,200 in cash and prizes this November in our sixth annual creative writing contest, the Remember in November Contest for Creative Nonfiction.
Red Rabbit by Robert W. Fieseler
He was waiting for the streetcar and seemed familiar to me because I’d dreamt about someone like him the night before.
Where Do You Go From Alston Street? by Kat Moore
Peanut hands me three white pills. She says it will help. She says better than nothing. … she says this is my needle, don’t set yours down, I got AIDS.
Holiness of a Garden by Amanda Lightner
A few months after our wedding, Trevor and I moved to a small, red brick parsonage beside a small, red brick church built in 1873.
Inheritance by J.L. Cooper
By the time I was eight, I’d come to know of a cigar box my father kept in our garage, filled to the top with various nuts and bolts, washers, grommets, and screws.
