It’s a gift to learn from others’ disciplines—and discipline—from their careful, thoughtful study and observation.
REVIEW: The Trauma Mantras: A Memoir in Prose Poems by Adrie Kusserow
REVIEW: Fungal: Foraging in the Urban Forest by Ariel Gordon
[Ariel] Gordon creates an intimacy with the reader that makes us sit up and take notice…”
Alumni & Contributor Updates: Summer 2024
We’re always pleased to share updates from our family of contributor-alumni and HippoCamp presenters. Here’s our Summer 2024 edition.
Meet the Team: 6 Questions with Annie Rehill, Reader
Meet the Team is a recurring series to introduce, celebrate, and elevate our amazing crew of volunteers. In this installment we talk to Annie Rehill.
REVIEW: Hell Gate Bridge: A Memoir of Motherhood, Madness, and Hope by Barrie Miskin
Hell Gate Bridge is an apt metaphor. Miskin’s symptoms were many, severe, and disorienting.
INTERVIEW: Ellen van Neerven, Author of Personal Score: Sport, Culture, Identity
The collection invites readers to better understand and imagine queer and First Nations experiences in Australia, where Ellen van Neervan lives.
CRAFT: On Writing Trauma in Creative Nonfiction by Travis Harman
I mined my brain, every crevice, searching for parts of me that only I knew.
WRITING LIFE: Get Thee to a Writer’s Conference: How Attending Both Did and Did Not Change My Life by Lori D’Angelo
Like many new MFA grads, I had a lot of questions.
REVIEW: Take Back the Magic: Conversations With the Unseen World by Perdita Finn
After Finn’s father died, she received her inheritance in the mail: a small jet-black rock circled by twisted iron rods….
WRITING LIFE: Through Line by Katie McDougall
When a story is dismissed as cliché, trite and uninteresting, it’s easy to redirect the indictment to oneself.
