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SUMMARY:Deep Dive: Improvisation for Writers (Saturday\, Option 1)
DESCRIPTION:New this year\, we’re holding two intensive/generative 90-minute workshops each day; these are NOT included in the main ticket package and require separate registration.  \n **If you are having trouble checking out** you may now also purchase a registration at our Books website — this is a temporary workaround until our magazine website issue is resolved.  \n\nDo you want to take your writing to new places? Could you benefit from more freedom\, confidence\, courage\, and joy in your writing practice? Would you like to loosen up and shake up your old patterns and habits so you can make new discoveries? \nIn this experiential\, unique\, fun\, and instantly applicable workshop\, you’ll learn principles and skills of improvisation that can help you supercharge your writing work. You’ll discover how thinking like an improviser can help you generate and develop ideas; create peace and acceptance with where you are in your process; expand into new territory; and reach writing goals more effectively and with greater ease. \nCreate new connections and develop your creative infrastructure in a safe\, structured\, zero-performance\, introvert-friendly\, no-experience-necessary environment. Elevate your craft as you break down inner blocks to your creativity. Put your new insights into practice during the workshop and see how the principles translate to the page in real time. \nNo matter your writing style or genre\, whether you’re a plotter or a pantser\, you’ll leave the session ready to use the concepts and skills you’ve learned to venture boldly forward in your writing. \nYou will learn how to: \n\nRecognize and loosen unconscious patterns that shut down creativity\, presence\, and positive risk-taking.\nDeal more effectively with your inner critic and reduce the perfectionism that keeps you stuck and sabotages your momentum.\nTap into beginner’s mind so that you can continue to stretch and expand\, no matter where you are in your process or career.\nExperience more joy\, playfulness\, and resourcefulness as you venture boldly into the unknown.\n\nAbout the speaker: \nCarrie Spaulding is a coach\, speaker\, facilitator\, educator\, artist\, writer\, nomad\, improviser\, and human. Specializing in creative and experiential approaches\, Carrie facilitates real-time growth\, empowering participants with improved skills and instantly applicable tools and strategies. \nIn Carrie’s innovative group programs The Lab and The Life Workshop and her private coaching as The Thirtysomething Coach®\, Carrie helps people do what matters to them and create careers\, relationships\, and lives they love. \nIn 2018\, Carrie began a nomadic adventure across the United States\, deepening her ability to foster presence\, adaptability\, creativity\, and connection in ever-changing environments. \nLearn more about Carrie at carriespaulding.com.\nConnect at @carriespaulding and https://www.linkedin.com/in/carriespaulding/.\nContact Carrie at carrie.spaulding@gmail.com. \n\n\nTICKET INFO\nThis session is limited to 20 attendees for optimal engagement with speaker and each other. Note: Deep Dives are using the Zoom meeting format where all attendees will be on screen.
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SUMMARY:Deep Dive: Can’t Draw? Let’s Make Comics! Exploring Graphic & Hybrid Memoir (Sunday\, Option 1)
DESCRIPTION:New this year\, we’re holding two intensive/generative 90-minute workshops each day; these are NOT included in the main ticket package and require separate registration. \n **If you are having trouble checking out** you may now also purchase a registration at our Books website — this is a temporary workaround until our magazine website issue is resolved.  \n\nAre you a writer who needs to get unstuck? \nAre you comics-curious? \nLove graphic memoirs but no idea how to start? \nIn this workshop\, no drawing skills are needed – come as you are. We’ll dive into how to start making comics\, gently explore areas of resistance\, and build our capacity for vulnerability. Together\, we’ll discuss what graphic memoir is and practice making some work together. You’ll leave with: \n\na how-to toolbox about the language and construction of comics\nprompts to help you tenderly approach moments of resistance in your creative practice\nstrategies for starting a regular comics practice\n\nCome join me! Let’s draw together! \nThis session is limited to 20 attendees for optimal engagement with instructor and each other. Note: Deep Dives are using the Zoom meeting format where all attendees will be on screen.  \n\nAbout the speaker: Cara Gormally (they/them) is a cartoonist\, researcher\, and professor. Cara’s narrative nonfiction comics remix autobiographical stories with research to make science relatable. Their comics have appeared in the Washington Post\, Mutha Magazine\, and other places. Their debut graphic memoir\, Everything is Fine\, I’ll Just Work Harder\, is a story about an unexpected healing journey to come home to themself\, was published in April from Street Noise Books. A D.C. metro area resident\, Cara is an avid morning person\, loves nerdy research deep dives\, and has more questions than answers. \n\nTICKET INFO
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/deep-dive-comics/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
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SUMMARY:Deep Dive: Writing from the Heart: Where Grief Becomes Art (Sunday\, Option 2)
DESCRIPTION:New this year\, we’re holding two intensive/generative 90-minute workshops each day; these are NOT included in the main ticket package and require separate registration.  \n **If you are having trouble checking out** you may now also purchase a registration at our Books website — this is a temporary workaround until our magazine website issue is resolved.  \n\nGrief\, though universal\, makes us uncomfortable\, especially when complicated by circumstances associated with shame or stigma. During this ninety-minute workshop\, memoirists Melanie Brooks and Eileen Vorbach Collins\, will discuss how giving words to hard stories — one about suicide loss\, the other about HIV/AIDS — allowed them to remap their losses\, process their experiences\, and explore life in the new normal after loss. \nModerated by Lisa Cooper Ellison\, a trauma-informed writing coach\, the session will open with short readings by the authors. Together\, they’ll discuss the personal and cultural challenges of telling grief stories\, how they used writing to process their experiences\, and the writing lessons they learned along the way. The workshop will include a short\, guided writing exercise\, time for participants to share\, and a Q&A session. \nAbout the speakers:  \nMelanie Brooks\nMelanie Brooks is the author of A Hard Silence and Writing Hard Stories. She teaches creative nonfiction in the MFA programs at Bay Path University and Western Connecticut State University and professional writing at Northeastern University. She holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Southern Maine and a certificate in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University. Her essays and interviews have been published in The Boston Globe\, HuffPost\, Yankee\, The Washington Post\, Ms.\, Psychology Today\, The Globe and Mail\, and other notable publications. She lives in New Hampshire. \n\nEileen Vorbach Collins\nEileen Vorbach Collins writes true stories she wishes were fiction and fairy tales she wishes were true. Her essays have received the Diana Woods Memorial Award for Creative Nonfiction\, The Gabriele Rico Challenge Award\, a Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award\, and two Pushcart Prize nominations.  Her essay collection\, Love in the Archives\, a Patchwork of True Stories About Suicide Loss\, published in 2023\, was a Foreword Indies Finalist and received a Pencraft Award for Literary Excellence and the Sarton Women’s Book Award for memoir. \n\nLisa Cooper Ellison\nLisa Cooper Ellison is an author\, speaker\, trauma-informed writing coach\, and host of the Writing Your Resilience podcast. She works at the intersection of storytelling and healing\, blending personal experience with suicide loss and complex PTSD with clinical training to help writers transform difficult experiences into powerful art. Her essays and stories have appeared on Risk! and in The New York Times\, HuffPost\, Hippocampus Magazine\, Kenyon Review Online\, and other notable outlets. \n\nThis session is limited to 20 attendees for optimal engagement with speakers and each other. Note: Deep Dives are using the Zoom meeting format where all attendees will be on screen.  \n\nTICKET INFO
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/deep-dive-grief-2025-sunday/
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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/
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