The 2026 We Love Short Shorts Contest for Flash Creative Nonfiction is open for Feb. 1-28, 2026. Prize: $250 + publication.
The 2026 We Love Short Shorts Contest for Flash Creative Nonfiction Open for Submissions Feb. 1-28
Big Announcement: Selected Memories, Vol. 2: 15 Years of Hippocampus Magazine is on the Way
Selected Memories Vol. 2: Fifteen Years of Creative Nonfiction from Hippocampus Magazine will be release in March 2026
Alumni Updates – Late 2025/Early 2026
We’re always pleased to share updates from our family of contributors and presenters. Here’s our Fall 2025/Early 2026 edition.
INTERVIEW: Maddie Ballard, author of Patchwork: A Sewist’s Diary
Patchwork is Maddie Ballard’s debut memoir, a collection of essays structured around the making of seventeen garments.
INTERVIEW: Cindy Eastman, Editor of Grief Like Yours: A Story Collection of Life After Loss
…talking to Cindy Eastman was like talking to a good friend…
INTERVIEW: Kerry Neville, Author of Momma May Be Mad
One day an irresponsible psychiatrist labeled her “hopeless,” and Neville… walked out of his office determined to prove him wrong.
INTERVIEW: Kim Danielson author of Piece by Piece: A Life Remembered through Things Lost
Piece by Piece looks at not just things, but the psychological and emotional reasons why it hurts so much to lose them
REVIEW: Trying: A Memoir by Chloe Caldwell
On its surface, this is a memoir about the time Caldwell spent “trying” for a baby, but as with all the best memoirs, it’s so much more than that.
REVIEW: Ghosts of Distant Trees by Erica Watson
There are books that understand something fundamental about place, not just as backdrop…but as a living force that shapes us.
REVIEW: Just Another Meat-Eating Dirtbag by Michael Anthony and Chai Simone
I cracked open Just Another Meat-Eating Dirtbag without preconceived notions of what a graphic memoir could or should be
