Everyone can get involved with Hippocampus Magazine with {prompts}! About each month, we’ll post a new creative nonfiction prompt, inspired by a real-life event. Fact is stranger than fiction–if we experience something unbelievable, others must have a similar story. From January 2011 “Oh. My. God. What is that smell?” Join the fun with our current…
Category: March 2012
Review: Anthropologies: A Family Memoir by Beth Alvarado
“My mother and I are sitting in the small dining room of her town-house; we are sitting at the table she’s had since I was a girl, but I am nearly fifty.” Thus begins Beth Alvarado’s memoir Anthropologies: A Family Memoir. This first sentence sets the tone and style of the book—clear pictures and underlying emotions presented in brevity and concise language that reads like poetry.
Craft: Reading Between the Lines in “Someone Like You” — What’s writing got to do with it? by Risa Nye
The Piano Sale by Lucille Rains
March 2012: Editor’s Notes
Happy March! It’s been unseasonably warm in my neck of the woods this winter. And I’m not complaining. It’s not spring yet, but it sure feels like it. Just yesterday at my day job, at Elizabethtown College, I snapped a picture of an art class having class outside. As I write this, I am procrastinating…