As you make the transition from writer to published author, you are faced with a lot of decisions.
CRAFT: Make your Marketing Suit Your Goals by Angel R. Ackerman
Alumni Updates: Fall/Winter 2024
We’re always pleased to share updates from our family of contributor-alumni and HippoCamp presenters. Here’s our Fall/Winter 2024 edition.
Hippocampus Magazine Announces 2024 Pushcart Prize Nominees for Creative Nonfiction
Hippocampus Magazine is delighted to announce our six Pushcart Prize nominees from our 2024 publishing year.
Creative Nonfiction Can Be Spooky, Too: 5 Memoirs That Will Keep You in Suspense by Steph Auteri
Creative nonfiction can be spooky too. Here are a few CNF books from recent history that bring the enchanting, the uncanny, and the creepy.
REVIEW: Tap Dancing on Everest: A Young Doctor’s Unlikely Adventure by Mimi Zieman
While pitched as an adventure story… it is so much more than that…. It’s a “finding one’s “own voice and learn[ing] to trust it” coming-of-age story…
REVIEW: Revelation at the Foodbank by Merrill Joan Gerber
Gerber is a writer’s writer, sharing memories of more than 60 years of working at the craft
INTERVIEW: Summer Stewart, Co-founder & Publisher of Unsolicited Press
My peers and I were finding that it was hard to find places to our send work. So initially I co-founded a literary journal with a few friends.
INTERVIEW: Kim Liao, Author of Where Every Ghost Has a Name: A Memoir of Taiwanese Independence
Where Every Ghost Has a Name spans the year Liao spent in Taiwan wading her way through her family’s history, which has been largely erased or hidden away by the government.
REVIEW: What Kind of Bird Can’t Fly: A Memoir of Resilience and Resurrection by Dorsey Nunn
Dorsey Nunn never forgot the question a friend asked him on the day he walked out of San Quentin Prison.
REVIEW: A Year of Plenty: A Family’s Season of Grief by B.J. Hollars
When someone is alive and healthy, it is easy to think you have all the time in the world to say everything you need.
