
The first round of judging in our 2016 Remember in November Contest for Creative Nonfiction is complete.
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We’re pleased to announce the guest judges in the 2015 Remember in November Contest for Creative Nonfiction, which will award a grand prize of $1,000. As is tradition, our most recent winner is part of the panel. The Hippocampus Magazine staff will narrow down all submissions to five finalists; from there, the guest judges take…

Christine Hale’s memoir (retitled) A Piece of Sky, A Grain of Rice is forthcoming from Apprentice House (April 2016). In this layered collage of memory within memory, Hale recreates for readers her kaleidoscopic experience of acceptance and insight along a broken path. Writer, prodigal daughter, single parent, Buddhist disciple, and, late in midlife, a newlywed,…

We’re proud to share these recent successes from past Hippocampus contributors: Lorie Adair‘s debut novel, Spider Woman’s Loom has been published by Foreverland Press. Described an exquisitely woven tale, it is set on the vast and starkly beautiful Navajo reservation in the aftermath of Indian agents exploiting the land and sending children to faraway boarding…