… the anthology features more than 20 writers of varying genres and backgrounds and their stories, as the title suggests, of woe and glory.
Review: My First Novel — Tales of Woe and Glory edited by Alan Watt
Category: Articles
Review: Not That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham
Dunham’s new memoir, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s “Learned” (Random House, 2014), is equal parts horrifying and hilarious.
CRAFT: One More Gift — From “By Heart” by Risa Nye
In the waning days of the holiday season, I’d like to share three of these pearls with Hippocampus readers.
Writing Life: Leaving Your Bad Neighborhood by Elizabeth Gaucher, Guest Columnist
I won’t say we can’t be fit and healthy, but I can say we aren’t exactly known for those characteristics. We are stereotyped as pasty, tortured, intellectual, deeply troubled people with a penchant for alcohol.
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.
Review: Never Can Say Goodbye – Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York, edited by Sari Botton
If you’ve ever been pick-pocketed by a junkie, or roomed with an artist who painted with his own blood and semen, or watched two rats fight over human feces, then I have a must-read for you.
The Writing Life: How I Started the Margaret Atwood Revolution by Sonal Champsee
I’d been a Twitter-hater up until then. I was all over Facebook, but I didn’t get … how anyone would find wisdom in a 140-character distillation of Justin Bieber’s deepest thoughts.
Craft: Just in Time for Nanowrimo, There’s Help For Distracted Writers, If You Make it Through This Article by Donna Talarico
…45 percent of writers said they watched a funny animal video to help get them through a creative block. Four percent said they stopped writing to have sex…
Review: True Stories, Well Told – from the first 20 years of Creative Nonfiction Magazine, edited by Lee Gutkind and Hattie Fletcher
“Creative nonfiction is tremendously flexible…. There aren’t many rules around here.” The collection that followed held true to those words…
Review: Excavation: A Memoir by Wendy C. Ortiz
The story begins harmlessly enough; Ortiz is a detached teenager from a dysfunctional home whose new English teacher, Mr. Ivers, sees her passion for writing…
