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SUMMARY:HippoCamp Online Weekend 2025: Multiple Events [Ticket Package Page]
DESCRIPTION: If you are having trouble checking out\, you may now also purchase a registration at our Books website]. \nRegistered attendees will get access to event recordings for 30 days. \n“HippoCamp Online Weekend” will include four separate webinar events\, plus evening “chill and chats\,” which will be informal Zoom meetings that allow registered attendees to connect and reflect. New this year are optional deep dives. \nAt a Glance: An Overview of the Weekend’s Events\nA brief description and links to each individual event page for registering. \n\n\n\nEVENT\nDAY & TIME – all times are ET\nDETAILS & REGISTRATION\n\n\nHippoCamp Minis: Craft \nFive 10-minute sessions on craft-based topics specific or relevant to creative nonfiction. \nSaturday\, 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.\n$25\, register or see details here\n\n\nA Night of Nonfiction: Debut CNF Author Readers & Discussion \nReadings from five debut authors\, plus a featured reader\, followed by a discussion and audience Q&A.\nSaturday\, 6-8 p.m.\nDonate what-you-can ($10 suggested)\, register or see details here\n\n\nHippoCamp Minis: Publishing & Promotion \nFive 10-minute sessions on getting your work out there. \nSunday\, 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.\n$25\, register or see details here\n\n\nAn Evening With the Editors: Lit Mag & Small Press Roundtable \nA moderated discussion with five lit mag and small press editors\, followed by an audience Q&A.\nSunday\, 6-8 p.m.\n$25\, register or see details here\n\n\nOPTIONAL ADD-ONS (Not part of weekend ticket package)\nDAY & TIME – all times are ET\nDETAILS & REGISTRATION\n\n\nDeep Dives (purchase separately) \n90-minute\, interactive session in meeting format. Seating limited. \nSaturday\, 2 to 3:30 p.m.\nSunday\, 2 to 3:30 p.m.\n$50\, view details: \nSat. – Improv for Writers \nSun. option 1 – Where Grief Becomes Art\nSun. option 2 – Comics & Graphic Memoir\n\n\n\nPURCHASE WEEKEND PACKAGE TICKETS\nPurchase a ticket at our books website\, here\, if this form is giving you difficulty. \nYou may purchase a ticket for the entire weekend here. Note: First\, select quantity using (+) sign and then add to cart.
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SUMMARY:HippoCamp Minis: CRAFT - 5 CNF Writing Topics in a Flash (2025)
DESCRIPTION: **If you are having trouble checking out** you may now also purchase a registration at our Books website — this is a temporary workaround until our magazine website issue is resolved. Registration includes access to the recording for 30 days. \nSome conferences call these fast-paced events lightning round talks. In honor of the short CNF subgenre\, we call them flash sessions! These have always been a popular and fun part of our in-person HippoCamp conference and\, this year\, we’re once again bringing their magic online. \nIn our Saturday HippoCamp Minis sessions\, you’ll hear from five speakers who will share bite-sized wisdom with practical takeaways on a topic they’re passionate about\, all related to writing creative nonfiction. \nThis is ONE OF FOUR events we’re hosting the weekend of the 16-17th! Read about all of them here. \nThis webinar session will feature: \nDon't Panic: How to Give Sensitive and Effective Written Feedback (Justin Ancheta)\nHas this ever happened to you? You exchanged pieces in a writing group or workshop\, only to discover that the feedback you’re giving isn’t landing very well with others in your group. Or maybe you’re finding the process of giving feedback really hard\, and you don’t know what to say about a piece you’ve received? \nFrom their experience as a volunteer essay reader with Hippocampus Magazine\, Justin Ancheta shares an approach to giving feedback that makes the process more satisfying and ultimately more useful for everyone involved. \nThis session will: \n\nshare tips for how you can give more actionable feedback that other writers can use\ncovers how you can provide more feedback specificity for writers\, to help others move forward\nexplore how you can give feedback that honours the lived experience of other writers\n\nAbout the speaker: Justin Ancheta (He/They) lives in Treaty 13 territory and is a stuttering Filipino-Canadian passionate about the tarot\, science\, spirituality and queerness. Their hybrid CNF draws from their experience as a racialized bi+ ace person with a speech disorder. Their work has been published in AZE Journal\, Queer Toronto\, carte blanche\, The Tahoma Literary Review\, and The Ex-Puritan. He is working on a memoir-in-pieces as a collection of lyrical creative nonfiction\, and an examination of the tarot from an asexual perspective. He is @rampancy on Instagram and @jancheta25 on Bluesky. \n\nNot Just a Backdrop: Writing Place as a Lived Experience (Aurora Bonner)\nPlace is often thought of as scenery—there\, but not integral. Yet place does more than set the scene: it evokes emotion\, reveals identity\, and anchors narrative in lived experience. When we treat place as a passive backdrop\, we miss the chance to deepen meaning and bring our stories to life. \nIn this flash session\, writer and teacher Aurora Bonner shares insights on writing place as personal\, dynamic\, and embodied. We’ll consider how our experiences shape the way we see and describe the landscapes we inhabit and explore how place can function as more than just setting—it can be emotional terrain. \nThis talk will: \n\nunpack what it means to write place as a “lived experience” and why that matters in CNF\nexplore how identity\, emotion\, and perspective shape our perception of landscape\noffer practical tools and revision tips for making place more specific\, personal\, and alive on the page\n\nAttendees will leave with strategies to energize their work with richer\, more intentional depictions of place—and prompts to help them return to familiar settings with fresh perspective. \nAbout the speaker: Aurora Bonner is a place-based writer of creative nonfiction and fiction who explores the relationship between identity and environment. Her writing has appeared in the anthologies Rivers\, Ridges\, and Valleys and DINE\, as well as in HerStry\, Impost\, Under the Gum Tree\, and other literary journals. She regularly reviews books for Colorado Review and Hippocampus Magazine. Aurora is a writing professor at McDaniel College in Maryland and leads workshops and retreats focused on nature\, creativity\, and personal narrative. She holds an MFA from Wilkes University. \n\nFirst\, Second\, Third: Experimenting with POV in CNF (Jackie Domenus)\nOftentimes\, CNF writers naturally gravitate toward the first person singular point of view in the past tense to tell our stories. But what literary magic can we unlock when we change the “I” to “you\,” or when we refer to our child-selves in the third person\, or when we speak directly to a loved one in our writing? How can we refresh our own craft and processes when we shift away from the “traditional”? In this craft mini-session\, we will: \n\nConsider the function and impact of different POVs in CNF when they are used with intentionality\nExplore examples of experimental POV by acclaimed CNF writers\nConsider ways to experiment with POV in our own writing\n\nAbout the speaker: Jackie Domenus (they/she) is a queer\, gender nonconforming writer from South Jersey. Their first book\, No Offense: A Memoir in Essays\, was published with ELJ Editions in 2025. A former Sundress Academy for the Arts resident and Tin House Workshop graduate\, Jackie’s work has appeared in HuffPost\, The Normal School\, Foglifter Journal\, and elsewhere. \n\nUm\, Gimme a Sec Here: 6 Interview Tips for CNF Writers  (Amy Fish)\nInterviewing can be a challenge for memoirists and narrative nonfiction writers alike. Maybe you have too many questions and aren’t sure where to start. Maybe you are asking questions but aren’t getting the answers you are looking for. Join us for this session where we will discuss six interview techniques that you can put into action immediately\, including: \n\nHow to develop a list of questions that will get you the answers you need\nHow to build rapport with interviewees you’ve never met\nHow to know when to stop the interview\n\nAbout the speaker: Amy Fish is a born storyteller with a tendency to over research. Her latest book\, “One in Six Million” went into a second printing after only 7 weeks. She is a staff book reviewer and interviewer here at Hippocampus Magazine. \n\nMind Your C’s: Contrast\, Conflict and Change (Lillie Gardner)\nBefore you submit\, don’t forget! Contrast\, conflict and change are crucial for keeping our stories compelling for the reader. Contrast helps build memorable characters and surprising moments. Conflict includes clearer stakes and tension\, which brings momentum to the reading experience. And change is what we’re reading for: what happens and why is everything different because of it? In this flash session\, we’ll dive into these essential components of story and identify strategies to strengthen them. Participants will leave with a checklist of questions to use when preparing their work for submission. \nAbout the speaker: Lillie Gardner is a writer of screenplays and prose in Minnesota. As a screenwriter\, she’s been a Winner at Austin Film Festival and Catalyst Festival\, featured in MovieMaker Magazine as a “Screenwriter to Watch\,” and she’s currently a Fellow in the Hollywood Radio & TV Society Foundation Fellowship Program. Since minoring in creative writing at NYU alongside her music studies\, Lillie’s been published in Quail Bell Magazine\, the Delmarva Review\, PANK Magazine and more. She teaches at The Loft Literary Center\, writes screenplay and novel coverage\, and serves as an essays reader for Hippocampus. \n\n\nTICKET OPTIONS\nYou may purchase a ticket for just this event ($25) or register for the entire weekend ($75); choose your option below. (If this form is giving you difficulty\, you can alternatively purchase a ticket at our books website\, here.) \n\n	\n\n		\n		\n		\n\n		\n\n\n		\n\n\n\n	Tickets\n\n		\n	\n	\n		The numbers below include tickets for this event already in your cart. Clicking "Get Tickets" will allow you to edit any existing attendee information as well as change ticket quantities.	\n\n\n		\n		\n		\n	\n		Tickets are no longer available
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CATEGORIES:Craft,Hippo Organizing
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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:A Night of Nonfiction 2025: Debut CNF Author Readings & Discussions
DESCRIPTION: If you are having trouble registering\, you may now also purchase a ticket at our bookstore; there is a free option and a $10 donation option there. Registration includes access to the recording for 30 days. \nThis is the online version of our ever-popular in-person event\, which was first held in the summer of 2015 at our inaugural HippoCamp: A Conference for Creative Nonfiction! \nThis event will feature readings from four debut CNF authors\, followed by a special guest reading and then a panel discussion\, led by someone from the Hippocampus Magazine interviews team. Learn more about (or purchase!) their books at our Bookshop affiliate site. \nThis is ONE OF FOUR main events we’re hosting the weekend of the 16-17th! Read about all of them here. \n\nThe 2025 Night of Nonfiction will feature: \nAnnamaria Formichella (Contest winner + opening reader) \nAnnamaria Formichella is the winner of our 2025 We Love Short Shorts Contest for Flash Creative Nonfiction. Originally from New England\, Annamariay teaches in the English department at Buena Vista University in Storm Lake\, Iowa. Her creative work has been published in several collections and magazines\, including Gyroscope Review\, Wilderness House Literary Review\, New Flash Fiction Review\, Litbreak Magazine\, and Anacapa Review. Her dreams include returning to the ocean and writing stories that hit the reader with a quiet crash. \n\nTia Levings (A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy) \nTia Levings is the New York Times Bestselling author of A Well-Trained Wife\, her memoir of escape from Christian Patriarchy. She writes about the realities of religious trauma and the trad wife life\, decoding the fundamentalist influences in our news and culture. Her work and quotes have appeared in Teen Vogue\, Salon\, the Huffington Post\, and Newsweek. She also appeared in the hit Amazon docu-series\, Shiny Happy People. Her second book releases with St. Martin’s Essentials May 5\, 2026. \n\nTheresa Okokon (Who I Always Was) \nTheresa Okokon is an award-winning writer\, storyteller\, and teacher. A Wisconsinite living in New England\, she is the co-host of Stories From The Stage who teaches storytelling and writing\, coaches other tellers\, hosts storytelling events\, collaborates with nonprofits on narrative-driven special projects and events. An alum of both the Memoir Incubator and Essay Incubator programs at GrubStreet\, Theresa’s memoir of essays about memory\, family stories\, and the death of her father — Who I Always Was — was published by Atria Books at Simon & Schuster in 2025. \n\nHyeseung Song (Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl) \nHyeseung Song is a first-generation Korean American painter and the author of Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl. Docile has been called a “savagely beautiful memoir” by David Henry Hwang\, a “revelation” by Chloé Cooper Jones and was named a “Best Book” by Apple and “Most Anticipated” by Electric Literature\, BookRiot and more. Raised in Texas\, Song studied philosophy at Princeton and Harvard Universities\, and painting at the Grand Central Atelier in New York City. Song lives in Brooklyn and upstate New York\, and is at work on her first novel. \n\nCasey Mulligan Walsh (The Full Catastrophe: All I Ever Wanted\, Everything I Feared) \nCasey Mulligan Walsh writes about living with grief beside joy\, embracing uncertainty\, and the nature of true belonging. Her memoir\, The Full Catastrophe: All I Ever Wanted\, Everything I Feared\, was published by Motina Books in February 2025. She has written for The New York Times\, Next Avenue\, Modern Loss\, Hippocampus Magazine\, Split Lip\, and numerous other literary journals and is a founding editor of In a Flash literary magazine. Her essay\, “Still\,” was nominated for Best of the Net. Casey lives in Upstate New York with her husband\, Kevin\, a chatty orange tabby\, and too many books to count. \n\nBrendan O'Meara\, special guest reader (The Front Runner: The Life of Steve Prefontaine) \nBrendan O’Meara is the host of the Creative Nonfiction Podcast and the author of The Front Runner: The Life of Steve Prefontaine. Subscribe to Pitch Club\, where writers audio annotate their pitches that led to publication and Rage Against the Algorithm\, Brendan’s monthly\, up-to-11 newsletter. You can follow him @creativenonfictionpodcast on Instagram and @brendanomeara.bsky.social on Bluesky. Learn more at brendanomeara.com. \n\nLeslie Lindsay\, Moderator\nLeslie has interviewed hundreds of authors from poets to memoirists. Her rich and insightful interviews have been featured in The Millions\, CRAFT Literary\, The Rumpus\, LitHib\, Hippocampus Magazine\, The Florida Review\, The Cincinnati Review\, among others. Her interdisciplinary work\, including photography\, focuses on ancestry\, architecture\, art\, nature\, science\, and motherhood\, and been featured in DIAGRAM\, The Smart Set\, and Brushfire Review. Her work has been nominated for Best American Short Stories. Leslie resides in Greater Chicago. \n\n\nTICKET OPTIONS\nYou may reserve a ticket for just this event by making a donation of any size (including a free ticket) OR you may 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
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SUMMARY:HippoCamp Minis: Publishing & Promotion - 5 CNF 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. Registered attendees will get access to event recordings 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 Sunday HippoCamp Minis sessions\, you’ll hear from five speakers (including Hippocampus Magazine editors) who will share bite-sized wisdom with practical takeaways on a topic they’re passionate about\, all related to promoting and publishing 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: \nInbox Hero: How to Write a Newsletter People Love (Steph Auteri)\nIn a world in which publications fold on the regular and social media platforms come and go (RIP Twitter)\, an email newsletter remains one of the best ways to reach readers. But do you REALLY need to bother with all that? And if you do\, well… what should it even BE? What does one even put into a newsletter? How does one build a newsletter that serves their writing life on both a personal and a professional level? \nIn this flash session\, you’ll learn: \n\nwhy producing a newsletter is totally worth your time\nwhat to write about in your newsletter\nbest practices for building a readership\n…and whatever the heck else we can manage to fit into 10 minutes\n\nAbout the speaker: Steph Auteri\, our essays editor\, has written for everyone from the Atlantic\, Pacific Standard\, and Rewire News Group to Poets & Writers\, Creative Nonfiction\, and Cutleaf Journal. But one of her favorite things to write is her email newsletter\, Thunder Thighs\, which has been going out to subscribers for god knows how long. She also launched a side newsletter\, Guerrilla Sex Ed\, and has written email campaigns for a number of clients. Learn more at stephauteri.com. \n\nGetting the Word Out: How to Pitch Your Book to Local Journalists (Molly Bilinski)\nGetting the word out about a new book can be daunting\, but leveraging local news outlets can help. There are still many community-focused journalists hungry for stories\, and sending the right pitch at the right time can benefit both the author and the journalist. \nIn this flash session\, focused on pitching books to journalists\, Hippocampus Magazine Articles Editor Molly Bilinski shares strategies and tips for authors seeking local news coverage. \nDuring this session\, participants will learn how to: \n\nIdentify the local news writers they can pitch their books to\nCapture the attention of local journalists through timing and positioning\nDraft a pitch email to local journalists\n\nAttendees will leave the session with a better understanding of the local media landscape\, as well as how to pitch their book to local journalists for coverage. \nAbout the speaker: Molly Bilinski is an award-winning journalist and storyteller based in Monroe County\, Pa. The environment and science reporter for LehighValleyNews.com\, her bylines have also appeared in the Reading Eagle\, The Press of Atlantic City and The Morning Call. She holds a masters of fine arts in creative nonfiction from Wilkes University’s Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing. A member of the Society of Environmental Journalists and Kutztown University’s English Advisory Board\, she also serves as Hippocampus Magazine’s articles editor. \n\nBe a Literary Citizen: How to Create Community and Why it Matters (Jamie Beth Cohen)\nSome writers are introverts\, some are not. Introverts and extroverts alike may crave the community and support of other writers\, but don’t always know how to find their people. \nThis session will highlight \n\nthe benefits of being part of a writing community\nthe different kinds of writing communities\nhow to find or create a writing community\n\nAbout the speaker: Jamie Beth Cohen writes fiction\, creative nonfiction\, and poetry. Her words have appeared in the New York Times\, Washington Post\, Hippocampus Magazine\, and many other outlets. Wasted Pretty\, her debut novel\, was published in 2019 and its sequel\, Liminal Summer came out in 2021. Jamie enjoys coaching new writers and has been mentoring an award-winning incarcerated journalist for the past five years. In 2015\, Jamie co-founded Write Now Lancaster\, a monthly writing meet-up. She’s a proud extroverted writer who believes much of what she has accomplished with words is thanks to her community. \n\nBe Your Book's Matchmaker: Writing the Proposal (Vicki Mayk)\nBook proposals are a business plan for your book and a marketing tool to sell your manuscript to agents and publishers. A good proposal helps to attract the best agent\, publisher\, and readers. In this session writers will learn: \n\nThe basic components of a book proposal.\nWays that the content can help you find the right agent and/or publisher.\nHow it provides insights about readers and identifies markets.\nWays the proposal gives writers a head start on marketing and planning a book launch.\n\nAbout the speaker: Vicki Mayk is a writer\, editor\, and teacher whose work has appeared in the Brevity Blog\, Cleaver\, Hippocampus\, Literary Mama\, The Manifest-Station\, Bending Genres\, the anthology Air and others. Her narrative nonfiction book\, Growing Up on the Gridiron: Football\, Friendship and the Tragic Life of Owen Thomas\, was published by Beacon Press. Catch up with her at vickimayk.com. \n\nSearch Matters: SEO & Discovery Tips for CNF Writers (Donna Talarico)\nMost people turn to search engines or a specific website’s search feature to find what they’re looking for — including books. Getting found — showing up in a Google or other search engine results/listings — is crucial in a day of information overload\, short attention spans\, evolving algorithms\, and AI advancements. \nIn this flash session\, Donna Talarico shares tips from her day job in content strategy about how SEO can help you build and sustain your platform. This session will: \n\ngive a primer on search engine optimization (SEO) and debunk some myths\ncover how to research what users (aka potential readers) are actually searching for (hint: it’s probably not your name)\nshare how to use that data to inform content creation choices across mediums and platforms\nexplore how AI and voice assistants are affecting the ways people find things on the internet\nlook ahead to anticipated challenges and trends for SEO\n\nAbout the speaker: Donna Talarico is founder/publisher of Hippocampus Magazine. By day\, she’s a content strategist in higher education and B2B. \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-publishing/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
CATEGORIES:Hippo Organizing,Marketing/Promotion,Publishing
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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: 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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250817T180000
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SUMMARY:An Evening With the Editors 2025: A Lit Mag & Small Press Roundtable
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. Registered attendees will get access to event recordings for 30 days. \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 editors and other publishing professionals. \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. \nThis is ONE OF FOUR main events we’re hosting the weekend of the 16-17th! Read about all of them here. \nThis webinar session will feature: \nAthena Dixon (Split/Lip Press and Fourth Genre)\nAthena Dixon is an essayist and editor originally from Northeast Ohio. She is the author of the books The Incredible Shrinking Woman and The Loneliness Files. She serves as the nonfiction/hybrid editor for Split/Lip Press and as a consulting editor for Fourth Genre magazine. \n\nWendy Fontaine (Hippocampus Magazine)\nWendy Fontaine’s work has appeared in American Scholar\, Jet Fuel Review\, Oyster River Pages\, Sweet Lit\, Sunlight Press and elsewhere. She has received nonfiction prizes from Identity Theory\, Hunger Mountain and Tiferet Journal\, along with nominations to the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net anthologies. She lives in southern California with her husband and her daughter (who is now in college) and serves as flash editor at Hippocampus Magazine. Find her online at www.wendyfontaine.com or on Bluesky @wendyfontaine. \n\nSteph Liberatore (In Short)\nSteph Liberatore (she/her) is a writer and professor at George Mason University and the founding editor of In Short: A Journal of Flash Nonfiction. Her essays have appeared in Short Reads\, River Teeth\, Inside Higher Ed\, and elsewhere and been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. When Steph isn’t writing or editing or chasing after her two young kids\, she’s working on her first book\, an investigative memoir. Find her online at www.stephliberatore.com. \n\nTom McAllister (Barrelhouse)\nTom McAllister is the author of four books\, including the novel How to Be Safe and the new essay collection It All Felt Impossible. His short work has been published in many places\, including The New York Times\, The Sun\, Black Warrior Review\, Cincinnati Review\, and more. He is the nonfiction editor at Barrelhouse and teaches in the MFA program at Rutgers-Camden. \n\nAlexis Paige (Vine Leaves Press)\nAlexis Paige is the author of Work Hard\, Not Smart: How to Make a Messy Literary Life; and Not a Place on Any Map — two memoirs by Vine Leaves Press\, where she is the nonfiction editor. Her work appears in various journals\, including Longform\, Hippocampus\, Fourth Genre\, The Rumpus\, and Brevity\, where Paige was an assistant editor. Winner of the New Millenium Writings Nonfiction Prize and twice a Best American Essays “Notable\,” she has also received four Pushcart Prize nominations. Paige teaches in the Wilkes University Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing and is an associate Ppofessor of literature & writing at Vermont State University. \n\nRae Pagliarulo\, moderator (Hippocampus Magazine)\nRae Pagliarulo\, our associate editor\, 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\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/an-evening-with-the-editors-2025/
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