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SUMMARY:HippoCamp Online Weekend 2026: Multiple Events [Ticket Package Page]
DESCRIPTION: Registered attendees will get access to event recordings for 30 days\, with the exception of Deep Dives. \nHippoCamp Online Weekend\, the virtual version of our conference founded in 2015\, will include four separate webinar events\, plus evening “chill and chats\,” which will be informal Zoom meetings that allow registered attendees to connect and reflect. As an optional add-on\, there will be two Deep Dive sessions to choose from each day. \nAt a Glance: An Overview of the Weekend’s Events\nYou may register for events separately or purchase a weekend package on this page. A brief description and links to each individual event page are listed in this table. \n\n\n\nEVENT\nDAY & TIME\nall times are ET\nDETAILS & REGISTRATION\n\n\nHippoCamp Minis: Craft \nFive 10-minute sessions on craft-based topics specific or relevant to creative nonfiction. \nSaturday\, 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.\n$30\, register or see details here\n\n\nA Night of Nonfiction: Debut CNF Author Readers & Discussion \nReadings from debut authors\, plus a featured reader\, followed by a discussion and audience Q&A.\nSaturday\, 6-8 p.m.\nFree/Donate what-you-can ($10 suggested)\, register or see details here\n\n\nHippoCamp Minis: Publishing\, Promotion & the Writing Life \nFive 10-minute sessions on getting your work out there. \nSunday\, 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.\n$30\, register or see details here\n\n\nAn Evening with the Book Champions: A Publishing & Publicity Roundtable \nA moderated discussion with publicists and agents\, followed by an audience Q&A.\nSunday\, 6-8 p.m.\n$30\, register or see details here\n\n\nOPTIONAL ADD-ONS\n(Not part of weekend ticket package)\nDAY & TIME – all times are ET\nDETAILS & REGISTRATION\n\n\nDeep Dives  (purchase separately) \n90-minute\, interactive session in meeting format. Seating limited. These are live only\, not recorded. \nSaturday & Sunday\n2 to 3:30 p.m.\n($50 each; not part of weekend package; sharing here as FYI) \nSaturday\, Option 1\nScenes that Work: Choosing What Stays in Your Memoir & What Goes w/ Ronit Plank \nSaturday\, Option 2\nPostmarked: Modern Takes on the Ancient Art of Letters w/ Brenda Miller \nSunday\, Option 1\nMaking a Newsletter Work for You w/ Allison K Williams \nSunday\, Option 2\nMining Your Obsessions: Writing (Nearly) Endless Essays On One Subject w/ Elizabeth Austin\n\n\n\nPURCHASE WEEKEND PACKAGE TICKETS\nYou may purchase a ticket for the entire weekend on this page. You will get individual Zoom invites by for EACH webinar closer to the event. Note: First\, select quantity using (+) sign and then add to cart. \nIf you prefer to only attend one or two events\, you may purchase tickets a la carte at the individual page for each event\, linked above or see the full list at our main calendar page.
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SUMMARY:HippoCamp Minis: CRAFT - 5 CNF Writing Topics in a Flash (2026)
DESCRIPTION:  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: A Conference for Creative Nonfiction Writers 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 15-16th! Read about all of them here. \n\nAbout the Sessions & Speakers\nThis webinar will feature the following five flash sessions: \nDid You Get My (sub)Text? (Wendy Fontaine)\nWhen we write creative nonfiction\, there’s the story we want to tell and then there’s the story beneath the story. That’s where subtext comes in. Subtext is the underlying meaning that gives our writing depth and texture\, the unspoken clues and suggestions that allow our readers to connect the dots. In this flash session\, you will learn to: \n\ncreate layers using word choice\, detail\, and blank space\nstrengthen themes\, connotation\, and nuance\nfind balance between clarity and subtlety\n\n \nAbout the Speaker: Wendy Fontaine is the flash editor at Hippocampus Magazine. Her work has appeared in dozens of literary journals and magazines including Pithead Chapel\, Hippocampus Magazine\, Longridge Review\, Creative Nonfiction’s Sunday Reads\, Sweet Lit and Yemassee. She has received nonfiction prizes from Identity Theory\, Hunger Mountain and Tiferet Journal\, as well as nominations to the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net anthologies. A native New Englander\, she currently resides in southern California with her daughter and husband. \n\nMeasure Twice\, Cut Once: How to Edit Your Pieces Before Submission (Marissa Gallerani)\nEditors are said to have a keen eye\, but what happens when you want to use their skills before you submit your work? \nIn this talk focused on editing for writers\, Hippocampus contributor Marissa Gallerani will share her tips and tricks to polishing your pieces before submission. The session will: \n\nreview the importance of editing and explore how editing can improve a piece\nprovide tangible tips that writers can implement with their own work\ndefine different editing strategies for fiction and non-fiction pieces alike\nshare how to be your own best editor when no one else is around\n\nAttendees will leave feeling more confident about their own editing skills\, and with practical tips to use for their short and longform writing. \nAbout the Speaker: Marissa Gallerani is a queer and disabled writer\, living and working in Providence\, RI. She holds a MFA from the Newport MFA at Salve Regina University\, and has had featured publications in Hippocampus\, Write or Die\, and The Harvard Review Online\, among others. She has taught at Salve Regina University\, the New England Institute of Technology\, Write or Die\, and has courses forthcoming this year with Elegant Literature. \nMarissa writes The Chaotic Reader newsletter on Substack\, where she details the life of a working writer by interviewing authors\, and analyzes literature through the lens of political science. A book club dropout who loves fantasy the most\, she will read anything and knows that reading books and buying books are two separate hobbies. \n\nWriters with ADHD: Throw Away the Rulebook (B.K. Jackson)\nWriting poses numerous challenges for people with ADHD\, and much of the problem stems from trying to follow advice that’s intended for neurotypical people. In this flash session you’ll learn to: \n\nunderstand how conventional wisdom and writing advice can hinder rather than help neurodivergent writers\nwork with your ADHD brain instead of against it\nrecognize the roadblocks ADHD builds and overcome or work around them\nharness those aspects of ADHD that boost creativity\n\n \nAbout the Speaker: B.K. (Kate) Jackson is an author; a developmental editor and certified book coach; and a journalist with bylines in HuffPost\, The Los Angeles Times\, The Sun\, SurvivorLit\, Whale Road Review\, Hippocampus Magazine\, WIRED and more. She earned a BA and an MA from UCLA. \nKate is the editor of the anthology Relative Strangers: Inheritance\, Identity\, and the Meaning of Kinship\, and founder and editor of Severance (severancemag.com)\, a magazine and community for adoptees and individuals who’ve discovered misattributed parentage. She’s revising a memoir about maternal abandonment and family secrets. She lives in Milford\, Pennsylvania. Find her at www.bkjacksonwriter.com and creativelyadhd.substack.com. \n\nProps as Prompts: How to Pull Story from Found Objects\, Artifacts\, & Photos (Leslie Lindsay)\nWhen writers hit the wall\, or otherwise burn out\, they may stare at the blinking cursor\, give up\, and walk away. What if you took yourself on a (focused) field trip\, instead? This session is aimed at delving into the physical archives\, items\, and places of your story. Hippocampus Magazine interviewer Leslie Lindsay shares tips from her research in writing a blended memoir about her Kentucky-born great-grandmother\, Cora Bell. These tips\, insights\, and ‘prompts using props\,’ will help you get deeper into your character\, your story\, and allow your intuition to surface. This session will: \n\ncover what to research in person using found objects\, maps\, photographs. (hint: you’ll get into story/character if you leave your desk and go out into the world)\noffer tips on allowing the subconscious to ‘do its thing’\nexplore how certain ‘found objects’ can act as a touchpoint on your writing desk\, and/or show up as a motif in your work\n\nAttendees will leave with ideas to revise existing (or create new!) material or deepen current work\, including historical fiction\, creative nonfiction\, essays\, and poetry. \nAbout the speaker: Leslie A. Lindsay is the author of Speaking of Apraxia: A Parents’ Guide to Childhood Apraxia of Speech. She has contributed to the anthology\, Becoming Real: Women Reclaim the Power of the Imagined Through Speculative Nonfiction. Leslie’s essays\, reviews\, poetry\, photography\, and interviews have appeared in The Millions\, DIAGRAM\, The Rumpus\, LitHub\, and On the Seawall\, among others. She holds a BSN from the University of Missouri-Columbia\, is a former Mayo Clinic child/adolescent psychiatric RN\,and an alumna of Kenyon Writer’s Workshop. Her work has been supported by Ragdale and Vermont Studio Center and  nominated for Best American Short Fiction. \n\nNarrative Medicine: Why the Chart Is Never the Whole Story (Renée K. Nicholson)\nWhat if the skills that make you a better writer could also make medicine more compassionate? Narrative medicine trains healthcare professionals\, patients\, caregivers\, educators\, and others to read and respond to the stories that surround illness and healing\,   often using the very tools you already bring to creative nonfiction. In this session\, Renée K. Nicholson explores where narrative medicine and creative nonfiction meet\, and why that intersection matters. This session will: \n\nintroduce narrative medicine and examine how close reading and reflective writing function as tools for witness and understanding\nexplore how creative nonfiction writers are uniquely positioned to contribute to this growing field\nconsider how narrative medicine’s core questions can deepen and expand your own work on the page\n\nAbout the Speaker: Renée K. Nicholson is a writer working across poetry\, essays\, fiction\, and criticism. She holds a BA from Butler University\, an MFA from West Virginia University\, and a certificate in narrative medicine from Columbia University. The author of six books\, including the poetry collection FEVERDREAM\, the memoir-in-essays FIERCE AND DELICATE and a début novel under contract\, her work has appeared in over 100 publications\, among them The Gettysburg Review\, Bellevue Literary Review\, and River Teeth. A member of the National Book Critics Circle and a 2026 Artist-in-Residence at the Château d’Orquevaux in France\, she left academia in 2024 to write full time and lives in Morgantown\, West Virginia. \n\n\nTICKET OPTIONS\nYou may purchase a ticket for just this event ($30) below\, or register for the entire weekend\, here ($75).
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SUMMARY:Deep Dive: Postmarked: Modern Takes on the Ancient Art of Letters (Brenda Miller)
DESCRIPTION:Deep Dives are intensive/generative 90-minute workshops\, with two options to choose from each day during HippoCamp Weekend; these are NOT included in the main ticket package and require separate registration. Registration is limited to 20 attendees; we suggest signing up early.   This format is intentionally designed to be live; it will not be recorded.  \n\nAbout the Session\nRemember the joy of finding a handwritten letter in your mailbox? Letters used to be our primary form of communication\, but they’ve fallen out of favor in the technology age. In this hands-on workshop\, we’ll: \n\nexplore the literary power of letter writing in our modern lives\nexamine how authors often used letters to elucidate not only their everyday lives but also to grapple with the complexities of their work\nstudy contemporary authors\, who employ the letter form as a structural device for their stories. We’ll even turn to oral storytelling in podcasts such as This American Life and Letters Live!\nanalyze how writers use the letter form to create intimacy\, reveal historical context as well as personal details\, and provide a container for difficult subjects\n\nIn a supportive\, encouraging environment\, participants will then engage in short\, guided writing exercises designed to draft personal stories in letter form. These could be real letters one would send to a particular recipient\, or they might be autobiographical essays using the letter form as a literary device. \nAbout the speaker: \nBrenda Miller’s most recent book is Love You\, Bye: A Daughter’s Journey in Essays and Poems (Skinner House Books\, 2026). She is the author of six essay collections\, including A Braided Heart: Essays on Writing and Form. She co-wrote\, with Suzanne Paola\, the popular textbook Tell it Slant\, and her work has received seven Pushcart Prizes. \n\n\nTICKET INFO\nYou may register for this event a la carte\, independent of the full HippoCamp Online Weekend. (But if you would like to attend other sessions or the entire event\, you can learn more here.) \nThis session is limited to 20 attendees for optimal engagement with speaker and each other; we suggest signing up as early as possible to secure your seat. Note: Deep Dives are using the Zoom meeting format where all attendees will be on screen. 
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/deep-dive-brenda-miller/
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SUMMARY:Deep Dive: Scenes That Work: Choosing What Stays in Your Memoir & What Goes (Ronit Plank)
DESCRIPTION:Deep Dives are intensive/generative 90-minute workshops\, with two options to choose from each day during HippoCamp Weekend; these are NOT included in the main ticket package and require separate registration. Registration is limited to 20 attendees; we suggest signing up early.   This format is intentionally designed to be live; it will not be recorded.  \n\nAbout the Session\nThe heartbeat of a memoir is a mind at work trying to make sense of what we’ve experienced and why it matters now. As memoirists our job isn’t merely to report the circumstances we endured but create gripping narratives that keep readers invested and turning the page. In this session we’ll work with tools and generative prompts to help you write scenes that amplify the stakes\, tension\, and resonance in your memoir. \nThis session will help memoirists: \n\ncraft a map of key events that belong in their memoir\ndeepen the emotional and psychological dynamics in their pages\nwrite scenes that create propulsive narrative arcs\nexperiment with potential structures for their project\n\nAbout the speaker: \nRonit Plank is a writer\, teacher\, and editor whose work has appeared in The Atlantic\, Poets & Writers\, The Rumpus\, Hippocampus\, River Teeth’s Beautiful Things\, The New York Times\, and elsewhere\, earning Best of the Net\, Best Microfiction\, and Pushcart Prize nominations. \nHer first book is the memoir When She Comes Back\, her second the story collection Home is a Made-Up Place. She’s CNF editor at The Citron Review\, teaches memoir widely\, and hosts the podcast and Substack Let’s Talk Memoir featuring interviews with memoirists about their creative process and writing life. Find her across social media at: @RonitPlank. \n\n\nTICKET INFO\nYou may register for this event a la carte\, independent of the full HippoCamp Online Weekend. (But if you would like to attend other sessions or the entire event\, you can learn more here.) \nThis session is limited to 20 attendees for optimal engagement with speaker and each other; we suggest signing up as early as possible to secure your seat. Note: Deep Dives are using the Zoom meeting format where all attendees will be on screen. 
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/deep-dive-scenes-ronit-plank/
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SUMMARY:Deep Dive: Mining Your Obsessions: Writing (Nearly) Endless Essays On One Subject (Elizabeth Austin)
DESCRIPTION:Deep Dives are intensive/generative 90-minute workshops\, with two options to choose from each day during HippoCamp Weekend; these are NOT included in the main ticket package and require separate registration. Registration is limited to 20 attendees; we suggest signing up early.   This format is intentionally designed to be live; it will not be recorded.  \n\nAbout the Session\nWe all have obsessions: the subjects\, relationships\, and questions we can’t stop writing toward\, whether we mean to or not. In this generative workshop\, we’ll treat these topics as a renewable resource. Through a structured exploration\, you’ll dig into the patterns hiding in your existing work — recurring images\, emotional landscapes — and turn them into a visual thematic map you can mine for years. \nIn this session\, writers will: \n\nexcavate patterns\, working to surface recurring images\, tensions\, and questions.\nbuild personal thematic maps\, placing a core focus at the center with 3–5 satellite themes radiating out\, then spotting the intersections where unexpected new essays are born.\ngenerate at least five fresh essay ideas using six concrete strategies\, plus tactics for matching themes to submission calls\nstudy how the pros do it\, looking at writers who’ve mined the same territory for decades across forms and genres\n\nOpen to writers at all levels\, whether you’re assembling an essay collection\, hunting for the through line in a memoir\, or simply tired of feeling like you write “the same things.” No pre-class reading required. \nAbout the speaker: \n  \nElizabeth Austin’s writing has appeared in The New York Times\, TIME\, Harper’s Bazaar\, Electric Literature\, Narratively\, McSweeney’s\, and others. She has been awarded residencies including Sewanee\, Hedgebrook\, and Turning Points. She holds an M.F.A. from Vermont College of Fine Arts\, writes a newsletter on her writing and post-cancer family life\, and lives outside of Philly with her two kids and many pets. \n\n\nTICKET INFO\nYou may register for this event a la carte\, independent of the full HippoCamp Online Weekend. (But if you would like to attend other sessions or the entire event\, you can learn more here.) \nThis session is limited to 20 attendees for optimal engagement with speaker and each other; we suggest signing up as early as possible to secure your seat. Note: Deep Dives are using the Zoom meeting format where all attendees will be on screen.
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