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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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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)
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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/
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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/
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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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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)
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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/
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