We’ve narrowed down hundreds of entries to six finalists.
2016 Remember in November Contest for Creative Nonfiction Finalists Announced
Category: Contest
2016 Nonfiction Contest Judges Announced
We’re pleased to announce the guest judges in the 2016 Remember in November Contest for Creative Nonfiction….
2016 Contest Open: The Remember in November Contest for Creative Nonfiction has a $1,000 Grand Prize
It’s contest time! Hippocampus Magazine is giving away more than $1,200 in cash and prizes this November in our sixth annual creative writing contest, the Remember in November Contest for Creative Nonfiction.
Object Lessons by Carol Smith
I wake up sweating and lie there as the adrenaline ebbs, running through what I would take, if I had to leave. The mental cataloging starts: what I have lost already; what I have yet to lose; an inventory of what matters.
The Sound of Ice by Tyler Lacoma
The first sound is the foot sound, the break sound, the cracking crunch that hikers know… It is a stubborn, short sound, underneath your boots. Ka-krack, krunch, it says. It says little else.
Until We Have Loved by Jeanine Pfeiffer
The bat is so itty-bitty-teeny-tiny her body embraces only half my thumb, to which she clings during our first moments. Clings to with eyes shut: either because she naturally re-immersed herself in torpor, or from exhaustion.
Penalty Phase by Charisse Coleman
In the first moments of Saturday, Aug. 12, 1995, in Shreveport, Louisiana, my older brother, Russell, age 42, was finishing up his shift as a minimum-wage, 54-hour-a-week stock clerk at Thrifty Liquor.
Lessons from My Sire by Cynthia Jalynski
I never knew what to say when people asked me what my father did for a living. Sometimes I joked, “He’s involved with high-risk investments.” — “Stocks? Bonds?” — “More like ponies and dice.”
Unwrapped by Dina Honour
He held it up and out, away from his body and along his arm. He used it to point at us sitting there in front of him. Over the curved edge, he gathered us in his sights.
2015 Remember in November Contest for Creative Nonfiction Finalists Announced
The first round of judging in our 2016 Remember in November Contest for Creative Nonfiction is complete.
