Hippocampus Magazine is excited to announce this year’s theme issue. Between now and Sept. 15, 2019, we’re accepting pieces up to 4,000 that connect to the theme: LOST. Do you have a story about a time you were literally lost — maybe on a winding back road, in a sprawling city, or inside a cavernous…
In these essays, Allen grapples with race and racism, family in love and in anger, gender roles, religion, war and trauma, and death and life.
I’d only been alive about a decade the first time I looked through The Window.
Backman shifts deftly into nonfiction with his unconventional essay collection, Things My Son Needs to Know About the World…
Hippocampus Magazine is giving away more than $1,250 in cash and prizes this November in our annual creative writing contest, the Remember in November Contest for Creative Nonfiction. CONTEST AT-A-GLANCE Memoir excerpts and personal essays up to 4,000 words accepted — no theme. Deadline: August 15, 2019 $12 entry fee $1,000 grand prize (1) +…
At Hippocampus Magazine, we enjoy staying in touch with our contributors, our Hippocampus family! We love hearing about and sharing the continued achievements of these writers, as well as those of our staff members and past conference speakers. Each issue, or as often as we have enough updates to create a new post, we like…
…so we kick our checkered Vans into the back of the closet and add each other on LinkedIn.
As I wound down the mountains, I discovered new layers and depths of misery caused by addiction…
Follow the three-lane highway through the southern part of the state. Be patient when it narrows to just two.
He stares not because I am different from his son, but because I am the same.
