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SUMMARY:HOW-TO TUESDAY: Minding Your C's -- Contrast\, Conflict and Change with Lillie Gardner
DESCRIPTION:In creative nonfiction\, truth is paramount — but crafting a good story is still essential. \nEnter the 3 C’s: contrast\, conflict and change are crucial for keeping our stories compelling for the reader. \n\nContrast leads to distinct characters and memorable moments.\nConflict comes with clear stakes and tension\, which bring momentum to the reading experience.\nChange is what we’re reading for: what happens\, how does it escalate\, and why is everything different because of it?\n\nIn this How-to session\, we’ll dive into these essential components of story and identify strategies to strengthen them in our own writing. Participants will leave with a checklist of questions to use when preparing their work for submission. \nAbout the series: How-To Tuesdays are monthly talks on the craft of creative nonfiction\, publishing\, marketing and the writing life led by Hippocampus Magazine editors & contributors. Your registration helps fund our contributor payments and other costs associated with running our journal. \nAbout the Speaker\n \nLillie Gardner is an award-winning writer from Minnesota who tells stories about women defying expectations. Most recently\, she’s written episodes for Wondery’s narrative podcast ‘Whose Amazing Life?’ As a screenwriter\, Lillie has been Winner at Austin Film Festival of the Women & Animation Fellowship Award\, featured as a “Screenwriter to Watch” in MovieMaker Magazine\, and selected to be a fellow in the Fred Rogers Productions Writers’ Neighborhood Program. \nLillie studied creative writing at New York University\, and her writing has been published in Quail Bell Magazine\, The Delmarva Review\, PANK Magazine and more. In addition to serving on the essays reading panel for Hippocampus Magazine\, Lillie offers notes and coaching services to help writers persist in making their most impactful work. Learn more at lilliegardner.com or follow @lilliegardner on Instagram \n\nGet Tickets to this Event
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/how-to-tuesday-minding-your-cs-contrast-conflict-and-change-with-lillie-gardner/
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/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
CATEGORIES:Conference,Craft,Hippo Organizing,Online
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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)
CATEGORIES:Craft,Hippo Organizing,Online
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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.
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/deep-dive-improv-for-writers-carrie-spaulding/
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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
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/hippocamp-minis-craft/
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SUMMARY:HOW-TO TUESDAY: Exploring Forms in CNF: What's a Hermit Crab Doing in My Essay? 
DESCRIPTION:In this How-To Tuesday\, we’ll talk about one of the most fun experimental forms of creative nonfiction: the hermit crab essay! \nThese forms can also be an effective way to approach sensitive topics with levity and wit. Your essay could take the form of anything\, from a recipe or personals ad to a corporate memo or a weather report! Think outside the box! \nTogether\, in this session we will: \n\ntalk about what they are and how they work\nlook at great examples of hermit crab essays\nstart thinking about how to create our own\n\nIf you’ve always been curious about experimental forms creative nonfiction — or you just want a refresher! — this session will leave you inspired and ready to write. \nAbout the series: How-To Tuesdays are monthly(ish) talks on the craft of creative nonfiction\, publishing\, marketing\, and the writing life led by Hippocampus Magazine editors & contributors. Your registration helps fund our contributor payments and other costs associated with running our journal. \nAbout Our Speaker\n \nRae Pagliarulo is associate editor of Hippocampus Magazine. She works as a nonprofit fundraising consultant in her lifelong home of Philadelphia. Her essays\, poems\, and articles have appeared in Full Grown People\, bedfellows\, Hippocampus\, The Manifest-Station\, r.kv.r.y. quarterly\, the Brevity Blog\, and numerous others. Her work is anthologized in The Best of Philadelphia Stories: 10th Anniversary Edition. \nRae is the 2014 recipient of the Sandy Crimmins National Poetry Prize\, a 2019 Best of the Net nominee\, and a graduate of Rosemont College’s MFA program.
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/how-to-tuesday-whats-a-hermit-crab-doing-in-my-essay/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
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SUMMARY:HOW-TO TUESDAY: Diving Into Topics that Matter to You: Writing & Publishing Op-Eds With Kelly Caldwell
DESCRIPTION:We’re living through an era when other people’s opinions are on blast\, all the time\, everywhere we go. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t voice your own —  it just means you might want to do so effectively\, and with style. \nIn this session\, we’ll discuss how to go beyond downloading our thoughts to crafting a good op-ed\, one where writers share their expertise and weigh-in on the most critical issues of the day. \nIn this session\, together we’ll explore: \n\nBlending the art of creative writing with the tools of logic\, both of which are key to writing an op-ed that works;\nFinding the right audience for your work\, preferably in an outlet that pays;\nGenerating ideas for and outlining a few op-eds of your own.\n\nOp-eds are a good way for new writers to break into publishing and for established ones to expand their brand or promote forthcoming books. And in the fever swamp of our current public life\, you don’t want to write something sloppy that\, three news cycles later\, you’re apologizing for on social media. \nWe hope you will join us! Note: All registered attendees will get a link to the recording\, so be sure to register even if you cannot make it life. \nAbout the series: How-To Tuesdays are monthly talks on the craft of creative nonfiction\, publishing\, marketing and the writing life led by Hippocampus Magazine editors & contributors. Your registration helps fund our contributor payments and other costs associated with running our journal. \nABOUT THE SPEAKER \nKelly Caldwell’s essays\, articles\, and op-eds have appeared in Vox\, House Beautiful\, The Writer\, sugarsugarsalt\, Pacific Standard\, the Huffington Post\, and Newsday\, among others. She teaches creative nonfiction and is dean of faculty for Gotham Writers Workshop in New York City. So far\, she hasn’t published anything that’s prompted Neil DeGrasse Tyson to mock her on social media.  \nAll of our speakers have a connection to Hippocampus Magazine. Her work also appears in our craft anthology\, Getting to the Truth: The Craft and Practice of Creative Nonfiction (Hippocampus Books).
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/how-to-tuesday-writing-op-eds-caldwell/
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SUMMARY:An Evening With the Editors: A Lit Mag & Small Press Roundtable
DESCRIPTION: Registration closes two hours before start time.   \nJoin us for an evening of all things CNF publishing. Hippocampus Magazine associate editor Rae Pagliarulo will moderate a discussion with five literary magazine/small press publishers. \n\nget a behind-the-scenes look at the submissions process\nfind out what they’re looking for their respective publications\nlearn a bit about the writer-editor relationship\n….and so much more\n\nThere will be plenty of time for audience questions at the end. \nNote: This is ONE OF FOUR events we’re hosting the weekend of Aug.10-11! Read about all of them here. \nThis webinar session will feature: \n\nDW McKinney of Shenandoah Literary\nDW McKinney is a writer and editor based in Las Vegas\, Nevada. A 2024 Torch Literary Arts Fellow\, she is the recipient of fellowships from the VCCA\, PERIPLUS Collective\, Writing By Writers\, Voodoonauts\, and The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow. Her work appears in Oxford American\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, Ecotone\, TriQuarterly\, and Narratively\, among others. She also serves as a nonfiction editor at Shenandoah Literary. Learn more about her at www.dwmckinney.com. \n\nHattie Fletcher of Short Reads and Belt Publishing\nHattie Fletcher is a senior editor at Belt Publishing and a co-founder of “Short Reads\,” a weekly email-based publication showcasing flash nonfiction. She was the managing editor at Creative Nonfiction from 2004 – 2022 and the editor of the monthly True Story magazine. \nStories she’s worked on have been reprinted in the Best American Essays\, Best American Travel Writing and the Best Women’s Travel Writing and have been awarded the Pushcart Prize. She is an instructor at the University of Pittsburgh\, where she teaches “Editing for Writers.” \n\nKristine Langley Mahler of Split/Lip Press\nKristine Langley Mahler is the author of three nonfiction books\, A CALENDAR IS A SNAKESKIN (Autofocus\, 2023)\, CURING SEASON: ARTIFACTS (West Virginia University Press\, 2022)\, and TEEN QUEEN TRAINING (forthcoming with Autofocus\, 2026). Her work has been supported by the Nebraska Arts Council and Art at Cedar Point\, twice named Notable in Best American Essays\, and has appeared in print and online at DIAGRAM\, Fourth Genre\, Ninth Letter\, Brevity\, and Hunger Mountain\, among others. She is the director of Split/Lip Press. A memoirist experimenting with the truth on the suburban prairie\, Kristine makes her home outside Omaha\, Nebraska. Her work may be found at kristinelangleymahler.com or @suburbanprairie.\n\nMichael B. Tager of Mason Jar Press\nAbout the speaker: Michael B.  Tager is the managing editor of Mason Jar Press and ostensibly the author of Pop Culture Poetry: the Definitive Collection. He is also well aware of the fleeting nature of life\, so doesn’t really claim ownership of anything. One time he beat Contra without using the Konami Code and estimates that he had to burn several hundred hours of his life becoming good enough to do that. His website is Michaelbtager.com. \n\nSteph Auteri of Hippocampus Magazine (essays editor)\nSteph Auteri has written for the Atlantic\, the Guardian\, Pacific Standard\, VICE\, and other publications. Her more literary work has appeared in Poets & Writers\, Creative Nonfiction\, Under the Gum Tree\, and elsewhere. She is the author of A Dirty Word and the founder of Guerrilla Sex Ed. \n\nRae Pagliarulo\, moderator (associate editor/flash editor)\n \nRae Pagliarulo works as a nonprofit fundraising consultant in her lifelong home of Philadelphia. Her essays\, poems\, and articles have appeared in Full Grown People\, bedfellows\, Hippocampus\, The Manifest-Station\, r.kv.r.y. quarterly\, the Brevity Blog\, and numerous others. Her work is anthologized in The Best of Philadelphia Stories: 10th Anniversary Edition. She is the 2014 recipient of the Sandy Crimmins National Poetry Prize\, a 2019 Best of the Net nominee\, and a graduate of Rosemont College’s MFA program. \n\n\nTICKET OPTIONS\n\nYou may purchase a ticket for just this event ($25) or register for the entire weekend ($75); choose your option below: \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
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/editor-roundtable-2024/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
CATEGORIES:Community,Craft,Education,Hippo Organizing,Marketing/Promotion,Online,Publishing
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SUMMARY:HippoCamp Minis: CRAFT - 5 CNF Writing Topics in a Flash
DESCRIPTION: Registration closes two hours before start time.   \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 Satuday 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. \nNote: This is ONE OF FOUR events we’re hosting the weekend of Aug.10-11! Read about all of them here. \nThis webinar session will feature: \n\nYoung Adult (YA) Creative Nonfiction (Jiordan Castle)\nSession description: A short session focused on honoring (and raising!) the stakes\, characters\, and themes in YA nonfiction. Participants will learn new strategies for character- and world-building\, pitfalls to avoid\, and how to repurpose memories and life events with integrity. \nAbout the speaker: Jiordan Castle is the author of Disappearing Act\, a memoir in verse. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Rumpus\, The Millions\, Taco Bell Quarterly\, and elsewhere. She is a contributor to the LA-based food and culture magazine Compound Butter. Originally from New York\, she has an MFA in poetry from Hunter College and lives in Philadelphia. \n\nHumor in Creative Nonfiction (Maryann Aita)\nSession description: Writers will leave this quick-witted workshop with tools to help them determine when and how to incorporate humor into their creative nonfiction. We’ll discuss guiding questions to ask while writing and explore using rhetorical devices to craft humor. This is for writers of all levels who are looking to find more funny in their stories. \nAbout the speaker: Maryann Aita (rhymes with beta) is a writer and performer in New York City and the author of Little Astronaut: A Memoir in Essays (ELJ Editions\, 2022). She is also the nonfiction editor for Press Pause Press\, a journal with zero social media presence. She has three cats. \n\n5 Journalism Tips for CNF Writers (Molly Bilinski\, articles editor)\nSession description: A rapid-fire workshop with journalism tips and tricks to bolster writers pursuing creative nonfiction and/or memoir. Participants will learn some journalistic methods of researching\, sourcing\, interviewing and editing. Participants will leave the workshop with new skills and strategies to enhance their own writing. \nAbout the speaker: \nMolly Bilinski is an award-winning journalist and storyteller based in Monroe County\, Pennsylvania. She writes on the environment and science beat for LehighValleyNews.com\, but her byline has also appeared in the Reading Eagle\, The Press of Atlantic City and The Morning Call. She was the first-place winner of the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association’s 2022 Diversity Portfolio. \nMolly earned her master’s of fine arts in creative nonfiction in June 2024 from Wilkes University’s Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing. She is Hippocampus Magazine’s articles editor\, in charge of the CRAFT and WRITING LIFE columns. \n\nExpert-Level Goofing Around (Jenny Hill)\nSession description: In this session\, we’ll explore a few of the many ways you can invite play and spontaneity into your writing life. Play increases problem solving skills\, fosters more innovative thinking\, and reduces stress. It’s a core part of the creative process! Discover how to nurture and keep play in your practice. \nAbout the speaker: Jennifer (Jenny) Hill is a published poet\, circus performer\, and arts educator who has worked as a teaching artist with the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts for 24 years. Everything she does begins with play. You can find more about her online at actsofjennius.com. \n\nWhat CNF Writers Can Import from Poetry (Doug Van Gundy)\nSession description: Creative nonfiction and poetry share a long and undefended border.  Many craft elements —immediacy\, lyricism\, arresting imagery\, and others — enjoy dual citizenship.  But there is still much the CNF writer can learn from a visit in the land of poetry and\, once back on her side of the border\, adapt to her own needs and purposes. \nAbout the speaker: Doug Van Gundy directs the Low-Residency MFA program in Creative Writing at West Virginia Wesleyan College. His poems and essays have appeared in many journals\, including Poetry\, Guernica\, Poets & Writers\, and The Oxford American. He is the author of a book of poems\, A Life Above Water and co-editor of the anthology Eyes Glowing at the Edge of the Woods: Contemporary Writing from West Virginia. \n\n\nTICKET OPTIONS\nEvents will be recorded and all registered attendees will get video link. \nYou may reserve a ticket for just this event ($25) or purchase a package for the entire weekend ($75); choose your option below. Note: First\, select quantity using (+) sign and then add to cart. \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
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/hippocamp-minis-craft-2024/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
CATEGORIES:Craft,Hippo Organizing,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240716T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240716T193000
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SUMMARY:HOW-TO TUESDAY: Quieting the Doubts and Rising Above: Thoughts on Impostor Syndrome with Athena Dixon
DESCRIPTION:Almost 70% of people experience impostor syndrome in their lifetimes\, but in the midst of it everything seems lonely and echoing. In this discussion\, writer Athena Dixon will give an overview of impostor syndrome– what it is\, how to identify it\, and perhaps how we can begin to work through it and use it to our advantage. \n\nHow does impostor syndrome show up both on the page and off?\nHow do we begin to not only recognize it\, but also give ourselves both grace and strength when attempting to manage it?\nHow does impostor syndrome speak to parts of our creative selves that may need attention?\n\nAthena will share her experiences with these doubts along with tips on how we can both embrace and combat these feelings as means of better approaching the page. \nAbout the series: How-To Tuesdays are monthly talks on the craft of creative nonfiction\, publishing\, marketing and the writing life led by Hippocampus Magazine editors & contributors. Your registration helps fund our contributor payments and other costs associated with running our journal. \nAbout Our Speaker\nBorn and raised in northeast Ohio\, Athena Dixon is the author of the essay collections The Incredible Shrinking Woman (Split/Lip Press) and The Loneliness Files (Tin House). Her work also appears in publications such as Harper’s Bazaar\, Shenandoah\, Grub Street\, Narratively\, and Lit Hub among others. She is a consulting editor for Fourth Genre and serves as the nonfiction/hybrid editor for Split/Lip Press. She resides in Philadelphia.
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/how-to-tuesday-impostor-syndrome-athena-dixon/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
CATEGORIES:Craft,Hippo Organizing,How-to Tuesdays,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240604T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240604T193000
DTSTAMP:20260605T115251
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SUMMARY:HOW-TO TUESDAY: The Quiet Memoir: Finding "Conflict" in a Quiet Life with Kate Meadows
DESCRIPTION: Event update: This event was originally scheduled for May 7. We’ll resend event information to those who’ve already registered. \nWe live in a society that is hungry for true stories of profound trauma and monumental recovery. But what if you’re a writer who doesn’t have an obvious rock-bottom-to-mountain-top story to share? Is there room for life stories that are quieter\, tamer? \nIn this talk\, writer/editor Kate Meadows will address this question head-on and share her own experience of coming to terms with (and ultimately defining for herself) “the quiet memoir.” In the end\, there is a market for “quieter” life stories. The key is to create resonating points with your reader. \nKate will focus on the following points in this talk: \n\nThe significance of conflict and how to identify possible points of tension in a quiet memoir\nVarious ways to think about conflict (hint: it’s more than just “a problem!”)\nWhy knowing your audience is critical\nHow to hone in on the true significance of your story\n\nAttendees will gain a better understanding and appreciation of the quiet memoir and learn how to approach stories with no obvious struggle in new and different ways. \nAbout the series: How-To Tuesdays are monthly talks on the craft of creative nonfiction\, publishing\, marketing and the writing life led by Hippocampus Magazine editors & contributors. Your registration helps fund our contributor payments and other costs associated with running our journal. \nAbout Our Speaker\nKate Meadows is a creative nonfiction writer\, editor and writing coach with an MFA in professional writing. Her work has appeared in Writer’s Digest\, Poets & Writers\, Chicken Soup for the Soul and elsewhere\, including in three anthologies published by Books by Hippocampus: Dine\, Ink\, and Getting to the Truth: The Craft and Practice of Creative Nonfiction. The latter includes Kate’s essay about the very topic of this webinar\, the quiet memoir! \nKate leads a private online writing community called StoryCore. Recently she collaborated with the only officially licensed artist for Harley-Davidson motorcycles\, Scott Jacobs\, to write and publish his life story. Kate lives in Rapid City\, South Dakota\, with her husband\, two sons and a Boxer named Nellie. www.katemeadows.com
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/how-to-tuesday-the-quiet-memoir-with-kate-meadows/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
CATEGORIES:Craft,Hippo Organizing,How-to Tuesdays,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240416T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240416T203000
DTSTAMP:20260605T115251
CREATED:20240308T222357Z
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SUMMARY:How-To Tuesday: WTF is Analytics? Using Data to Improve Our Craft with Mandy Pennington
DESCRIPTION: This event is over; if you missed registering but would still like to purchase access to the recording\, please email us at info[at]hippocampusmagazine[dot]com for details.  \nWhile writing is in many ways an artistic endeavor that challenges us to take creative leaps and indulge our muses\, thinking analytically and spending time with data can actually help us improve our craft and be more effective in our writing practice. \nIn this session\, digital strategist and writer Mandy Pennington will explore: \n\nWhat analytics are and how they can be used to understand the space you currently occupy in the conversations around your work\nBasic analytics programs that can give you greater insight into where your readers come from and how they interact with you\nTools for researching and understanding audiences who might be most interested in engaging with you and your work\nStrategies for analyzing your own work and performance\nHow data can be used to strengthen your book proposal\, brainstorm new work\, and more!\n\nBy the end of this session\, writers should feel more comfortable with data without the fear of losing the soul of what makes their work uniquely compelling and personal. \nNote: In an event survey we did several months back\, this topic was suggested a few times. We heard you! And we hope to answer this question (WTF is analytics!) for you in a fun and meaningful way. \nAbout the series: How-To Tuesdays are monthly talks on the craft of creative nonfiction\, publishing\, marketing and the writing life led by Hippocampus Magazine editors & contributors. Your registration helps fund our contributor payments and other costs associated with running our journal. \nAbout Our Speaker\nMandy Pennington is a writer\, marketer\, teacher and actor with a passion for storytelling. She serves as the director of digital strategy at Wilkes University and is currently pursuing her MFA in the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing. She holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in communications from Marywood University\, a master’s degree in creative writing from Wilkes University\, and instructs courses in organizational communication\, media ethics\, and other marketing communications topics.\n\n\nHer work has been featured in Currents in the Electric City: A Scranton Anthology (Belt Publishing)\, 2022 American Writer’s Review (San Fedele Press)\, Used Car Dealer and Search Engine People. Her first play\, My Condolences\, premiered at the 2018 Scranton Fringe Festival\, where she currently serves as a marketing committee volunteer and active performer. She is in the process of finishing a coming-of-age memoir and adapting it into a one woman show. \nMandy lives in northeastern Pennsylvania with her husband and two mischievous cats. Learn more: @mandybpenn or mandybpenn.com.
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/how-to-tuesday-wtf-is-analytics-with-mandy-pennington/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
CATEGORIES:Craft,Hippo Organizing,How-to Tuesdays,Marketing/Promotion,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240305T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240305T193000
DTSTAMP:20260605T115251
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SUMMARY:How-To Tuesday: Fact-Checking Family Stories: Using Research Tools in Memoir (Brandon Arvesen)
DESCRIPTION:It is no surprise to nonfiction writers that piecing together a memoir is a messy process. The word alone is problematic\, stemming from the French word “mémoire” meaning “memory” or “reminiscence.” At its core memoir is just that—a recollection of past events.\n\nWriting memoir demands that writers descend into memory and to engage readers with accurate and meaningful details. Writers and their subjects remember stories\, but are they accurate? Memory is flexible\, unreliable\, and vulnerable to hyperbole. How can any memoirist honestly engage in the process of telling true stories? \nThis talk emphasizes the essential use of reporting and research in narrative writing. Attendees will follow author\, editor\, and professor Brandon Arvesen as he traces a family myth about his own adoption from a reminiscence to reportable fact for a current in-process essay. This session will explore: \n\n\nHow meticulous and diligent research can lead to stronger narrative construction.\nEffective research practices for memoir writers with works in progress.\nA variety of online and in-person tools for tracking down sources\, fact checking\, recreating scenes\, and more.\nA string of questions and answers that helped Brandon take a story from apocryphal to factual.\n\n\nWe hope you will join us for this event. Remember: If you can’t make it live\, you can still register and watch the recording later. \nAbout the series: How-To Tuesdays are monthly talks on the craft of creative nonfiction\, publishing\, marketing and the writing life led by Hippocampus Magazine editors & contributors. Your registration helps fund our contributor payments and other costs associated with running our journal. \nMeet the Speaker\nBrandon Arvesen received an MFA in creative nonfiction from Goucher College\, an MA in writing from Johns Hopkins University\, and a BA in English with a concentration in secondary education from Goucher College. Prior to teaching at Colby-Sawyer\, Brandon taught at Goucher College\, in the Goucher College Prison Education Partnership and in the Baltimore City Public School System. He is the founding editor of 3cents Magazine and a contributing editor to True Magazine.
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/how-to-tuesday-fact-checking-family-stories-using-research-tools-in-memoir-brandon-arvesen/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
CATEGORIES:Craft,Hippo Organizing,How-to Tuesdays,Online,Research
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240206T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240206T203000
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SUMMARY:How-To Tuesday: Reading Aloud: It's Not Just for Bedtime Stories — Using Audio to Hone Your Creative Nonfiction (Theresa Okokon)
DESCRIPTION:Too often\, writers think about reading as a silent activity. But\, if you slow down to think about it\, you are probably HEARING these very words “out loud” in your head. That’s because reading isn’t silence based\, its SOUND based. \nIn this workshop\, we will discuss how to use sound as a meaningful sensory consideration in composing your writing. \n\nWhere are the overlaps between what works in music and what works in writing?\nWhat tools can we use to predict the way our writing might sound to someone else?\nOutside of our writing itself\, how can sound be part of our work as writers?\n\nAbout the series: How-To Tuesdays are monthly talks on the craft of creative nonfiction\, publishing\, marketing and the writing life led by Hippocampus Magazine editors & contributors. Your registration helps fund our contributor payments and other costs associated with running our journal. \nMeet the Speaker\nTheresa Okokon is a Pushcart Prize nominated essayist. A Wisconsinite living in New England\, she is a writer\, a storyteller\, and the co-host of Stories From The Stage. In addition to writing and performing her own stories\, Theresa also teaches storytelling and writing workshops and classes\, coaches other tellers\, hosts story slams\, and frequently emcees events for nonprofits. An alum of both the Memoir Incubator and Essay Incubator programs at GrubStreet\, Theresa’s memoir in essays about memory\, family stories\, and the death of her father — THE OKOKON FAMILY ORCHESTRA — is slated for publication with Atria Books at Simon & Schuster. \n​Theresa’s essays (and bathroom selfies!) have appeared in midnight & indigo\, ELLE\, the Independent\, WBUR’s Cognoscenti\, and Boston.com. Her essay “Me Llamo Theresa”\, published by Hippocampus Magazine and nominated for a 2020 Pushcart Prize\, was named among the Top Essays of the Week by Longreads and The Rumpus. \n​​
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/how-to-tuesdayreading-aloud-its-not-just-for-bedtime-stories-using-audio-to-hone-your-creative-nonfiction-theresa-okokon/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
CATEGORIES:Craft,Hippo Organizing,How-to Tuesdays,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231107T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231107T203000
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SUMMARY:How-To Tuesdays: It's Short\, So It Must Be Flash\, Right? What Your Editor is *Really* Looking For in Flash Creative Nonfiction (Wendy Fontaine/Rae Pagliarulo)
DESCRIPTION:How-To Tuesdays are monthly talks on the craft of creative nonfiction\, publishing\, marketing and the writing life led by Hippocampus Magazine editors & contributors.\n \nEver wondered what makes something “flash\,” and not just a really short essay? Scratching your head over why some flash creative nonfiction pieces get chosen for publication while others don’t? \n\nJoin Hippocampus Magazine flash CNF editors Rae Pagliarulo and Wendy Fontaine to learn more about this subgenre of creative nonfiction in our first How-To Tuesday. In this webinar\, you will: \n\n\nlearn unique elements that distinguish the form\nget an inside look at what flash editors are really looking for in submissions\nexplore the specific reasons why a few of our favorite flash essays made the cut\ndiscover literary magazines that accept flash (and other outlets for your work)\n\nIdeal for writers of all levels\, this session will leave you inspired to enrich your existing work or try flash for the first time. \nNote that registration for our events will close three hours prior to the event so we have time to finalize the guest list and log into the platform to get ready for the session.  \n\n\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKERS\n\nWendy Fontaine\, Assistant Flash Editor\nWendy Fontaine \nWendy Fontaine’s 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\nRae Pagliarulo\, Flash Editor/Associate Editor\nRae Pagliarulo \nRae Pagliarulo works as a nonprofit fundraising consultant in her lifelong home of Philadelphia. Her essays\, poems\, and articles have appeared in Full Grown People\, bedfellows\, Hippocampus\, The Manifest-Station\, r.kv.r.y. quarterly\, the Brevity Blog\, and numerous others. Her work is anthologized in The Best of Philadelphia Stories: 10th Anniversary Edition. She is the 2014 recipient of the Sandy Crimmins National Poetry Prize\, a 2019 Best of the Net nominee\, and a graduate of Rosemont College’s MFA program.
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/how-to-tuesdays-what-your-flash-editor-is-really-looking-for-wendy-fontaine-rae-pagliarulo/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
CATEGORIES:Craft,Hippo Organizing,How-to Tuesdays
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230813T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230813T183000
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SUMMARY:HippoCamp Minis Part 2: An Evening With the Editors!
DESCRIPTION: Registration closes at 2 p.m. eastern\, 8/13.  \nOur volunteer editors are incredible humans — and their expertise goes well beyond their roles at Hippocampus\, and even the literary world. In this session full of brief sessions\, you’ll take away plenty of practical knowledge about writing\, publishing\, marketing\, and living the creative life.  Oh… and this event also serves as special preview of an TBA series from Hippocampus Magazine! \nNote: This is ONE OF THREE events we’re hosting the weekend of the 12-13th! Read about all of them here. \nThis webinar session will feature: \n\nHow to Survive That Angsty First Year After Your Book Pubs (Steph Auteri\, essays editor)We’ve all heard of postpartum book depression. I can confirm: the struggle is real. I spent the year after my own book pubbed flailing about\, trying to find the Next Big Project\, forcing myself to write a proposal that never felt quite right. In this flash session\, I’ll share my top tips for writers who have just introduced their first book to the world\, including how to create your own metrics for success; knowing when to cut yourself a break; allowing yourself creative play; considering the possibility of non-book projects; and remembering what you’re passionate about… and why. \nDon’t worry: If your book project is still in the work\, you’ll still benefit from the ideas covered here! \nAbout the speaker: Steph Auteri has written for the Atlantic\, the Guardian\, Pacific Standard\, VICE\, and other publications. Her more literary work has appeared in Poets & Writers\, Creative Nonfiction\, Under the Gum Tree\, and elsewhere. She is the author of A Dirty Word and the founder of Guerrilla Sex Ed. \n\nWhat If I Can’t Remember? Using Mistakes of Memory to Write Creative Nonfiction (Wendy Fontaine\, assistant flash editor)Memories fade\, morph and sometimes disappear. And yet\, we still need to write about them. In this flash session\, we will touch on the science behind memory distortion and explore how these so-called mistakes might be useful in unlocking the emotional truth of our experiences. \nAbout the speaker: Wendy Fontaine’s 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\nHeart and Soul: 10 Things Contributors Taught Me About Writing & Life (Kristen Paulson-Nguyen\, writing life editor)Writing Life Editor Kristen Paulson-Nguyen dives deep into the column\, rediscovering hard fought wisdom from contributors. She’ll explore timeless topics\, from working with your first book editor\, to finding the writing groups that help you soar\, getting stuck and finding a path forward. \nAbout the speaker: Kristen Paulson-Nguyen is a graduate of GrubStreet’s Memoir and Essay Incubators and has taught courses in flash and the memoir proposal. She edits the Writing Life column for Hippocampus. Through her service Title Doctor\, she has titled 17 works of fiction\, nonfiction\, memoir\, a craft book\, a memoir-in-essays\, and The Writer’s 2021 contest-winning essay. She is querying her memoir \n\nThe Web is for Everyone: Accessibility & Inclusivity Tips for Writers & Content Creators (Donna Talarico\, founder/managing editor)As writers engaged in the literary community\, it’s likely that you create and/or share content across the digital platforms\, including your website\, social media\, and email. But before you hit send\, post\, or publish\, are you certain what you’re about to share will be accessible to all? In this flash session (geared toward non-techies!)\, Donna will share wisdom from her day job in content strategy/UX. We’ll cover the basics of web accessibility — what it is and why it matters — and how to become more mindful about the written and multimedia content your create or share online. \nAbout the speaker: Donna Talarico\, founder/publisher of Hippocampus Magazine and Books\, has more than 25 years of experience in marketing and communications; about half of that time has been in higher education. She serves as an editor for Link Journal (from the HighEdWeb)\, writes an adult learner recruiting column for Wiley\, and has contributed to Guardian Higher Education Network\, The Writer\, mental_floss\, Games World of Puzzles\, and others. Her creative nonfiction appears in The Superstition Review\, The Los Angeles Review\, The Los Angeles Times\, and Wanderlust Journal. Donna serves or has served on the faculty of graduate creative writing programs\, including Wilkes University and Rosemont College\, as well as at Pennsylvania College of Art & Design. \n\nThis is ONE OF THREE events we’re hosting the weekend of the 12-13th! Read about all of them here.  \n(events will be recorded and made available to registered attendees for 30 days)
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/hippocamp-minis-part-2-an-evening-with-the-editors/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
CATEGORIES:Craft,Hippo Organizing,Online
ORGANIZER;CN="Hippocampus Magazine and Books":MAILTO:hippocampusmagazine@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:HippoCamp Minis Part One: 5 CNF Topics in a Flash!
DESCRIPTION: Registration closes at 9 a.m. eastern\, 8/13.  \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 conference and\, this year\, we’re bringing them online. \nYou’ll hear from five speakers who will share bite-sized wisdom with practical takeaways on a topic they’re passionate about. Stay tuned for the line-up! \nNote: This is ONE OF THREE events we’re hosting the weekend of the 12-13th! Read about all of them here. \n(events will be recorded and made available to registered attendees for 30 days) \nThis webinar session will feature: \n\nThe Excavation of Glimmers with Anita GillGlimmers\, a concept coined by Pam Houston\, is a method of collecting random observances in the world and finding them as sources for inspiration or enhancement in one’s writing. In this flash session\, we will uncover our own glimmers and how they offer an innovative approach to generating new work and/or enhancing revision. \nAbout the speaker: Anita Gill is a Fulbright Scholar whose work has appeared in The Iowa Review\, Kweli\, Prairie Schooner\, Coachella Review\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, The Rumpus\, and elsewhere. Her writing has been listed as Notable in Best American Essays and has won The Iowa Review Award in Nonfiction. She holds an MA in Literature from American University\, and an MFA in writing from Pacific University. She currently serves as nonfiction editor for Hypertext Review while working on a novel. Find her online at www.anitagill.ink. \n\nThe First Book Vulnerability Hangover with Megan J. KaleitaHere’s everything I did wrong when it came to my first book being published: All of it. I did everything wrong. I didn’t have a community where I lived. I moved across the country when I should have been doing readings and networking. I thought my job came first (the one that paid the bills\, not the one I liked). I didn’t understand the impact my book would have on the right people and was too worried about the people who wouldn’t like it. In truth\, I had a vulnerability hangover and was running from it. This is everything I’d do differently. \nAbout the speaker: Megan J. Kaleita is the author of This Book is Brought to You By My Student Loans\, and has comedic essays in McSweeny’s\, LitReactor\, LadySpike\, Daily Drunk Mag\, and the upcoming anthology Isn’t She Great: Writer’s On Women Led Comedies from 9-5 to Booksmart. She has a BA from Hartwick College and an MA from Wilkes University\, and has had a jumble of careers including medical receptionist\, marketing manager\, professional blog writer\, and more. She currently lives in Boise\, Idaho but please don’t judge her for that. \n\nOn Chaos and the Researched Braided Memoir with Jennifer LundenContemporary memoir is becoming more multidisciplinary\, incorporating research and original reporting on subjects as wide-ranging as science\, history\, social justice\, cultural criticism\, and more. Finding the form for these complex\, non-linear narratives can feel chaotic and overwhelming. How do people pull it off? How does a writer decide what goes where? In this talk Jennifer Lunden will discuss her process in structuring her book American Breakdown: Our Ailing Nation\, My Body’s Revolt\, and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Who Brought Me Back to Life\, and how she came to recognize the role of chaos theory as both subject and inspiration. \nAbout the speaker: The recipient of the 2019 Maine Arts Fellowship for Literary Arts and the 2016 Bread Loaf–Rona Jaffe Foundation Scholarship in Nonfiction\, Jennifer Lunden writes at the intersection of health and the environment. Her essays have been published in Creative Nonfiction\, Orion\, River Teeth\, DIAGRAM\, Longreads\, and other journals; selected for several anthologies; and praised as notable in Best American Essays. A former therapist\, she was named Maine’s Social Worker of the Year in 2012. She and her husband\, the artist Frank Turek\, live in a little house in Portland\, Maine\, where they keep several chickens\, two cats\, and some gloriously untamed gardens. \n\nSetting as Character: When Place Enlivens Narrative with Suzanne Ohlmann To keep the your reader on the page\, you must invite them immediately into a sense of place. At times\, a well-written place elicits not just setting\, but morphs into its own character. This flash session will take a brief but colorful dive into the technical skills that launch the magical blurring between character and setting\, and create a more tangible experience of place for the reader. \nAbout the speaker: Suzanne Ohlmann is a writer and registered nurse who lives in Nebraska and San Antonio\, Texas. She and her husband\, a firefighter\, share their home with a community of dogs\, cats\, the occasional opossum\, and their son. She works with rural heart failure patients who would otherwise not have access to advanced health care\, and who love to remind her that they’d rather be frying frog legs or fixing fence line than listening to her advice. \n\nWriting Beyond Shame: 5 Steps to Exposing Yourself on the Page with Paul ZakrzewskiMemoir and essays often hinge on the power of your narrator—a version of you—to tell a compelling story. But for writers recovering from trauma\, the effects of toxic shame can overwhelm our desire to get our voice and inner journey down on the page. Drawing from findings and tools in contemporary psychology (ie. Internal Family Systems)\, 12-step recovery\, and writing teachers like Peter Elbow and Julia Cameron\, we’ll explore several ways to recover and (re)center your authentic self in your work. \nAbout the speaker: Since 2005 Paul Zakrzewski has helped writers to dig deep and tell their most authentic life stories through the application of craft and insight. He currently works 1:1 to help authors finish market-ready drafts\, proposals\, query letters\, and more. His writing has appeared in the New York Times\, Washington Post\, Brevity\, Essay Daily and elsewhere. The recipient of an MFA from VCFA\, he edited the prize-winning anthology Lost Tribe: Jewish Fiction from the Edge (Perennial) and currently hosts The Book I Had to Write show\, available wherever you listen to podcasts. \n\nThis is ONE OF THREE events we’re hosting the weekend of the 12-13th! Read about all of them here.  \n(events will be recorded and made available to registered attendees for 30 days)
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/hippocamp-minis-part-one-5-cnf-topics-in-a-flash/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
CATEGORIES:Craft,Hippo Organizing,Online
ORGANIZER;CN="Hippocampus Magazine and Books":MAILTO:hippocampusmagazine@gmail.com
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