Category: Hippocampus News

An archive of posts relating to Hippocampus news and happenings, including special calls for submissions, contest alerts, award nominations, staff updates, book news, and general announcements.

Insider Tips – Donna Talarico, Founder/Publisher

It’s been a few months since we’ve published an Insider Tips article. This month, our editor interview with Duotrope went live and we thought that sharing the link  here would provide some solid “insider tips” of what we’re looking for in submissions. For those unfamiliar with the website, Duotrope is a huge, up-to-date directory of…

Editor’s Notes: August 2012

Happy August! The tail end of July proved to be busy at Hippo Headquarters! Going along with the theme of last month’s issue, I was rock and rolling myself with a move from the quaint Elizabethtown, Pa. to the heart of downtown Lancaster – a much better place for a social, creative type to live…

Liner Notes: July 2012

“The waiting is the hardest part….” That’s a line from a song of the same name by my all time favorite band, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. And waiting to release this issue has been hard. This month we’ve turned Hippocampus Magazine into a mixtape of creative nonfiction. Our first theme issue is dedicated to…

A Giveaway a Day: Happy Birthday Hippo!

We’re giving away a prize a day in honor of our first birthday! Our wonderful literary friends and business-owner pals donated an assortment of goodies to help us celebrate our birthday! Please visit our donors’ websites to learn more about their work and/or publications and products. We’re still looking to fill a few more days…

2012 Reader Survey Results and More by Donna Talarico

As a lit mag editor (and a marketer/PR person by trade), I was curious to know more about our audience. So between January and March 2012, Hippocampus Magazine surveyed its readers; seventy-three people responded to the anonymous survey. As promised, I’m sharing the results with our community. (view PDF of all charts here) Before delving…

Editor’s Notes: May 2012 – The Birthday Issue

While it has been more than a year since Hippocampus Magazine entered the literary magazine scene—we launched our website in January 2011 seeking submissions—this month marks our one-year milestone of publishing fresh creative nonfiction, and in working toward our three-fold mission of entertaining, educating and engaging readers and writers of creative nonfiction. I am beaming…