To get ready for our inaugural creative nonfiction conference, HippoCamp, we did Q&As with some of our presenters.
Interview: Meet a Few HippoCamp 2015 Speakers — A Mash-up Interview
Category: Interviews
Our archive of interviews with authors, publishers, agents, filmmakers, and other literary and publishing professionals.
Interview: Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger Year
Tasked with answering Salinger’s fan mail, [Rakoff] took it upon herself to humanize him through the responses she wrote to his admirers…
Interview: Lori A. May, Author of The Write Crowd
Literary citizenship essentially boils down to community engagement—what writers, readers, and other booklovers can do to support the literary community in their own backyards, nationally, and beyond.
Flipped Interview: The Hippocampus Staff Answers Instead of Asks — Behind the Scenes at an Online Literary Magazine
Usually we ask the questions. We inquire the minds of memoirists, authors, agents, publishers, editors and other literary professionals.
Interview: April Eberhardt, Literary Agent
I met April Eberhardt this past June while I was at Chautauqua Institution in New York teaching a memoir writing workshop.
Interview: Megan Hustad, author of More Than Conquerors: A Memoir of Lost Arguments
She spent her childhood moving from America to the Caribbean and then the Netherlands and back to America with parents who were struggling missionaries.
Interview: Austin Kleon, author of Show Your Work
Most of my career has just been about figuring out how to unite my love of reading, writing, drawing, monkeying around on the computer, and playing music.
Interview: Sonja Livingston, Author of Ghostbread
… Sonja Livingston is a poet at heart; so it is no surprise that her tales of growing up poor as one of seven children brought up by a single mother are written in comparatively short bursts…
Interview: Sean Prentiss and Joe Wilkins, editors of The Far Edges of the Fourth Genre
Several terms have been used to identify this genre: nonfiction, contemporary nonfiction, or creative nonfiction – a term that some reject.
Interview: Elizabeth Scarboro, author of My Foreign Cities: A Memoir
My husband died at the end of January. There. I said it. … Still off-balance and only weeks after his passing, I discovered an essay, online, written Elizabeth Scarboro.
