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SUMMARY:HippoCamp Minis: CRAFT - 5 CNF Writing Topics in a Flash (2025)
DESCRIPTION: **If you are having trouble checking out** you may now also purchase a registration at our Books website — this is a temporary workaround until our magazine website issue is resolved. Registration includes access to the recording for 30 days. \nSome conferences call these fast-paced events lightning round talks. In honor of the short CNF subgenre\, we call them flash sessions! These have always been a popular and fun part of our in-person HippoCamp conference and\, this year\, we’re once again bringing their magic online. \nIn our Saturday HippoCamp Minis sessions\, you’ll hear from five speakers who will share bite-sized wisdom with practical takeaways on a topic they’re passionate about\, all related to writing creative nonfiction. \nThis is ONE OF FOUR events we’re hosting the weekend of the 16-17th! Read about all of them here. \nThis webinar session will feature: \nDon't Panic: How to Give Sensitive and Effective Written Feedback (Justin Ancheta)\nHas this ever happened to you? You exchanged pieces in a writing group or workshop\, only to discover that the feedback you’re giving isn’t landing very well with others in your group. Or maybe you’re finding the process of giving feedback really hard\, and you don’t know what to say about a piece you’ve received? \nFrom their experience as a volunteer essay reader with Hippocampus Magazine\, Justin Ancheta shares an approach to giving feedback that makes the process more satisfying and ultimately more useful for everyone involved. \nThis session will: \n\nshare tips for how you can give more actionable feedback that other writers can use\ncovers how you can provide more feedback specificity for writers\, to help others move forward\nexplore how you can give feedback that honours the lived experience of other writers\n\nAbout the speaker: Justin Ancheta (He/They) lives in Treaty 13 territory and is a stuttering Filipino-Canadian passionate about the tarot\, science\, spirituality and queerness. Their hybrid CNF draws from their experience as a racialized bi+ ace person with a speech disorder. Their work has been published in AZE Journal\, Queer Toronto\, carte blanche\, The Tahoma Literary Review\, and The Ex-Puritan. He is working on a memoir-in-pieces as a collection of lyrical creative nonfiction\, and an examination of the tarot from an asexual perspective. He is @rampancy on Instagram and @jancheta25 on Bluesky. \n\nNot Just a Backdrop: Writing Place as a Lived Experience (Aurora Bonner)\nPlace is often thought of as scenery—there\, but not integral. Yet place does more than set the scene: it evokes emotion\, reveals identity\, and anchors narrative in lived experience. When we treat place as a passive backdrop\, we miss the chance to deepen meaning and bring our stories to life. \nIn this flash session\, writer and teacher Aurora Bonner shares insights on writing place as personal\, dynamic\, and embodied. We’ll consider how our experiences shape the way we see and describe the landscapes we inhabit and explore how place can function as more than just setting—it can be emotional terrain. \nThis talk will: \n\nunpack what it means to write place as a “lived experience” and why that matters in CNF\nexplore how identity\, emotion\, and perspective shape our perception of landscape\noffer practical tools and revision tips for making place more specific\, personal\, and alive on the page\n\nAttendees will leave with strategies to energize their work with richer\, more intentional depictions of place—and prompts to help them return to familiar settings with fresh perspective. \nAbout the speaker: Aurora Bonner is a place-based writer of creative nonfiction and fiction who explores the relationship between identity and environment. Her writing has appeared in the anthologies Rivers\, Ridges\, and Valleys and DINE\, as well as in HerStry\, Impost\, Under the Gum Tree\, and other literary journals. She regularly reviews books for Colorado Review and Hippocampus Magazine. Aurora is a writing professor at McDaniel College in Maryland and leads workshops and retreats focused on nature\, creativity\, and personal narrative. She holds an MFA from Wilkes University. \n\nFirst\, Second\, Third: Experimenting with POV in CNF (Jackie Domenus)\nOftentimes\, CNF writers naturally gravitate toward the first person singular point of view in the past tense to tell our stories. But what literary magic can we unlock when we change the “I” to “you\,” or when we refer to our child-selves in the third person\, or when we speak directly to a loved one in our writing? How can we refresh our own craft and processes when we shift away from the “traditional”? In this craft mini-session\, we will: \n\nConsider the function and impact of different POVs in CNF when they are used with intentionality\nExplore examples of experimental POV by acclaimed CNF writers\nConsider ways to experiment with POV in our own writing\n\nAbout the speaker: Jackie Domenus (they/she) is a queer\, gender nonconforming writer from South Jersey. Their first book\, No Offense: A Memoir in Essays\, was published with ELJ Editions in 2025. A former Sundress Academy for the Arts resident and Tin House Workshop graduate\, Jackie’s work has appeared in HuffPost\, The Normal School\, Foglifter Journal\, and elsewhere. \n\nUm\, Gimme a Sec Here: 6 Interview Tips for CNF Writers  (Amy Fish)\nInterviewing can be a challenge for memoirists and narrative nonfiction writers alike. Maybe you have too many questions and aren’t sure where to start. Maybe you are asking questions but aren’t getting the answers you are looking for. Join us for this session where we will discuss six interview techniques that you can put into action immediately\, including: \n\nHow to develop a list of questions that will get you the answers you need\nHow to build rapport with interviewees you’ve never met\nHow to know when to stop the interview\n\nAbout the speaker: Amy Fish is a born storyteller with a tendency to over research. Her latest book\, “One in Six Million” went into a second printing after only 7 weeks. She is a staff book reviewer and interviewer here at Hippocampus Magazine. \n\nMind Your C’s: Contrast\, Conflict and Change (Lillie Gardner)\nBefore you submit\, don’t forget! Contrast\, conflict and change are crucial for keeping our stories compelling for the reader. Contrast helps build memorable characters and surprising moments. Conflict includes clearer stakes and tension\, which brings momentum to the reading experience. And change is what we’re reading for: what happens and why is everything different because of it? In this flash session\, we’ll dive into these essential components of story and identify strategies to strengthen them. Participants will leave with a checklist of questions to use when preparing their work for submission. \nAbout the speaker: Lillie Gardner is a writer of screenplays and prose in Minnesota. As a screenwriter\, she’s been a Winner at Austin Film Festival and Catalyst Festival\, featured in MovieMaker Magazine as a “Screenwriter to Watch\,” and she’s currently a Fellow in the Hollywood Radio & TV Society Foundation Fellowship Program. Since minoring in creative writing at NYU alongside her music studies\, Lillie’s been published in Quail Bell Magazine\, the Delmarva Review\, PANK Magazine and more. She teaches at The Loft Literary Center\, writes screenplay and novel coverage\, and serves as an essays reader for Hippocampus. \n\n\nTICKET OPTIONS\nYou may purchase a ticket for just this event ($25) or register for the entire weekend ($75); choose your option below. (If this form is giving you difficulty\, you can alternatively purchase a ticket at our books website\, here.) \n\n	\n\n		\n		\n		\n\n		\n\n\n		\n\n\n\n	Tickets\n\n		\n	\n	\n		The numbers below include tickets for this event already in your cart. Clicking "Get Tickets" will allow you to edit any existing attendee information as well as change ticket quantities.	\n\n\n		\n		\n		\n	\n		Tickets are no longer available
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SUMMARY:Deep Dive: Improvisation for Writers (Saturday\, Option 1)
DESCRIPTION:New this year\, we’re holding two intensive/generative 90-minute workshops each day; these are NOT included in the main ticket package and require separate registration.  \n **If you are having trouble checking out** you may now also purchase a registration at our Books website — this is a temporary workaround until our magazine website issue is resolved.  \n\nDo you want to take your writing to new places? Could you benefit from more freedom\, confidence\, courage\, and joy in your writing practice? Would you like to loosen up and shake up your old patterns and habits so you can make new discoveries? \nIn this experiential\, unique\, fun\, and instantly applicable workshop\, you’ll learn principles and skills of improvisation that can help you supercharge your writing work. You’ll discover how thinking like an improviser can help you generate and develop ideas; create peace and acceptance with where you are in your process; expand into new territory; and reach writing goals more effectively and with greater ease. \nCreate new connections and develop your creative infrastructure in a safe\, structured\, zero-performance\, introvert-friendly\, no-experience-necessary environment. Elevate your craft as you break down inner blocks to your creativity. Put your new insights into practice during the workshop and see how the principles translate to the page in real time. \nNo matter your writing style or genre\, whether you’re a plotter or a pantser\, you’ll leave the session ready to use the concepts and skills you’ve learned to venture boldly forward in your writing. \nYou will learn how to: \n\nRecognize and loosen unconscious patterns that shut down creativity\, presence\, and positive risk-taking.\nDeal more effectively with your inner critic and reduce the perfectionism that keeps you stuck and sabotages your momentum.\nTap into beginner’s mind so that you can continue to stretch and expand\, no matter where you are in your process or career.\nExperience more joy\, playfulness\, and resourcefulness as you venture boldly into the unknown.\n\nAbout the speaker: \nCarrie Spaulding is a coach\, speaker\, facilitator\, educator\, artist\, writer\, nomad\, improviser\, and human. Specializing in creative and experiential approaches\, Carrie facilitates real-time growth\, empowering participants with improved skills and instantly applicable tools and strategies. \nIn Carrie’s innovative group programs The Lab and The Life Workshop and her private coaching as The Thirtysomething Coach®\, Carrie helps people do what matters to them and create careers\, relationships\, and lives they love. \nIn 2018\, Carrie began a nomadic adventure across the United States\, deepening her ability to foster presence\, adaptability\, creativity\, and connection in ever-changing environments. \nLearn more about Carrie at carriespaulding.com.\nConnect at @carriespaulding and https://www.linkedin.com/in/carriespaulding/.\nContact Carrie at carrie.spaulding@gmail.com. \n\n\nTICKET INFO\nThis session is limited to 20 attendees for optimal engagement with speaker and each other. Note: Deep Dives are using the Zoom meeting format where all attendees will be on screen.
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SUMMARY:Deep Dive: Can’t Draw? Let’s Make Comics! Exploring Graphic & Hybrid Memoir (Sunday\, Option 1)
DESCRIPTION:New this year\, we’re holding two intensive/generative 90-minute workshops each day; these are NOT included in the main ticket package and require separate registration. \n **If you are having trouble checking out** you may now also purchase a registration at our Books website — this is a temporary workaround until our magazine website issue is resolved.  \n\nAre you a writer who needs to get unstuck? \nAre you comics-curious? \nLove graphic memoirs but no idea how to start? \nIn this workshop\, no drawing skills are needed – come as you are. We’ll dive into how to start making comics\, gently explore areas of resistance\, and build our capacity for vulnerability. Together\, we’ll discuss what graphic memoir is and practice making some work together. You’ll leave with: \n\na how-to toolbox about the language and construction of comics\nprompts to help you tenderly approach moments of resistance in your creative practice\nstrategies for starting a regular comics practice\n\nCome join me! Let’s draw together! \nThis session is limited to 20 attendees for optimal engagement with instructor and each other. Note: Deep Dives are using the Zoom meeting format where all attendees will be on screen.  \n\nAbout the speaker: Cara Gormally (they/them) is a cartoonist\, researcher\, and professor. Cara’s narrative nonfiction comics remix autobiographical stories with research to make science relatable. Their comics have appeared in the Washington Post\, Mutha Magazine\, and other places. Their debut graphic memoir\, Everything is Fine\, I’ll Just Work Harder\, is a story about an unexpected healing journey to come home to themself\, was published in April from Street Noise Books. A D.C. metro area resident\, Cara is an avid morning person\, loves nerdy research deep dives\, and has more questions than answers. \n\nTICKET INFO
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/deep-dive-comics/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
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SUMMARY:Deep Dive: Writing from the Heart: Where Grief Becomes Art (Sunday\, Option 2)
DESCRIPTION:New this year\, we’re holding two intensive/generative 90-minute workshops each day; these are NOT included in the main ticket package and require separate registration.  \n **If you are having trouble checking out** you may now also purchase a registration at our Books website — this is a temporary workaround until our magazine website issue is resolved.  \n\nGrief\, though universal\, makes us uncomfortable\, especially when complicated by circumstances associated with shame or stigma. During this ninety-minute workshop\, memoirists Melanie Brooks and Eileen Vorbach Collins\, will discuss how giving words to hard stories — one about suicide loss\, the other about HIV/AIDS — allowed them to remap their losses\, process their experiences\, and explore life in the new normal after loss. \nModerated by Lisa Cooper Ellison\, a trauma-informed writing coach\, the session will open with short readings by the authors. Together\, they’ll discuss the personal and cultural challenges of telling grief stories\, how they used writing to process their experiences\, and the writing lessons they learned along the way. The workshop will include a short\, guided writing exercise\, time for participants to share\, and a Q&A session. \nAbout the speakers:  \nMelanie Brooks\nMelanie Brooks is the author of A Hard Silence and Writing Hard Stories. She teaches creative nonfiction in the MFA programs at Bay Path University and Western Connecticut State University and professional writing at Northeastern University. She holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Southern Maine and a certificate in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University. Her essays and interviews have been published in The Boston Globe\, HuffPost\, Yankee\, The Washington Post\, Ms.\, Psychology Today\, The Globe and Mail\, and other notable publications. She lives in New Hampshire. \n\nEileen Vorbach Collins\nEileen Vorbach Collins writes true stories she wishes were fiction and fairy tales she wishes were true. Her essays have received the Diana Woods Memorial Award for Creative Nonfiction\, The Gabriele Rico Challenge Award\, a Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award\, and two Pushcart Prize nominations.  Her essay collection\, Love in the Archives\, a Patchwork of True Stories About Suicide Loss\, published in 2023\, was a Foreword Indies Finalist and received a Pencraft Award for Literary Excellence and the Sarton Women’s Book Award for memoir. \n\nLisa Cooper Ellison\nLisa Cooper Ellison is an author\, speaker\, trauma-informed writing coach\, and host of the Writing Your Resilience podcast. She works at the intersection of storytelling and healing\, blending personal experience with suicide loss and complex PTSD with clinical training to help writers transform difficult experiences into powerful art. Her essays and stories have appeared on Risk! and in The New York Times\, HuffPost\, Hippocampus Magazine\, Kenyon Review Online\, and other notable outlets. \n\nThis session is limited to 20 attendees for optimal engagement with speakers and each other. Note: Deep Dives are using the Zoom meeting format where all attendees will be on screen.  \n\nTICKET INFO
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/deep-dive-grief-2025-sunday/
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