From my desk I have the teeniest glimpse of Charleston Harbor, which means I’m a storm watcher, especially during hurricane season.
CRAFT: Writing Up a Storm (How Severe Weather Alerts Improve My Prose) by Stephanie Hunt
Year: 2020
REVIEW: Mercy: A Memoir of Medical Trauma and True Crime Obsession
In stark prose, Trahan cuts to the core of her memories. “My mother had taught me by example to dread medicine,” she writes.
REVIEW: This One Will Hurt You by Paul Crenshaw
When one of his students asks how much one can “make up” when writing an essay, writer Paul Crenshaw replies, “Nothing…”
REVIEW: The Enjoy Agenda: At Home and Abroad by Rick Bailey
The forty essays in this slim collection span decades and move freely through time, memory association, and geography.
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Be Heard: Where to Submit Essays Related to Current Events
Hello, friends! As lovers and publishers of creative nonfiction we’re aware that, right now, it’s so important to express ourselves through words. As writers, putting pen to paper is how we move forward, either to help ourselves or others understand things more clearly or to speak the truth and influence change. While some might be…
Hippocampus Family & Alumni Updates: Late Winter/Early Spring 2020
We’re always pleased to share updates from our family of contributor alumni and other friends. Here’s what we’ve collected between our last update and early March 2020. Have something to share? Submit your news here for inclusion in a future update. Corinne Heyning Laverty’s new book, North America’s Galapagos: The Historic Channel Islands Biological…
2020 Hippocampus Magazine Contest for Creative Nonfiction Writers: $1,000 Grand Prize
Hippocampus Magazine is giving away more than $1,250 in cash and prizes in November 2020 in our annual writing contest for creative nonfiction.
REVIEW: The Dragons, The Giant, The Women by Wayétu Moore
Moore was five…when her family was forced to evacuate Monrovia, walking for three weeks, until they reached a village near the Sierra Leone border.
REVIEW: Unashamed: Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim by Leah Vernon
Everything on the cover Vernon’s memoir screams confident, proud, fearless… the image fits her so well that it would be easy to think she’d always been this way…
