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SUMMARY:HOW-TO TUESDAY: Writing Hard Stories — Navigating Trauma\, Family & Other Difficult Topics in Memoir
DESCRIPTION:Writing about difficult life circumstances can help a writer understand them in a profound way. The process of re-entering those memories\, taking them apart\, and then putting them back together again on the writer’s own terms\, can transform them into something deeply meaningful for both writer and reader. \nIn this talk focused on writing “the tough stuff\,” author Melanie Brooks shares from her own memoir-writing experience the challenges of confronting the vulnerability\, fear\, and pain that inevitably accompany the journey to bring hard stories to the page. This session will consider the following questions: \n\nHow do we peel back the layers of memory to get to the heart of our stories?\nHow do we cope with the difficult emotions that are dredged up in the process?\nHow do we navigate the tricky terrain of our families\, particularly if we are writing about circumstances that overlap with theirs?\n How do we shape and craft our stories so they are accessible for others?\n\nAttendees will leave with strategies for uncovering the powerful stories they have to tell and for taking care of themselves in the process. \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. \n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nMelanie Brooks\nMelanie Brooks is the author of the memoir A Hard Silence: One daughter remaps family\, grief\, and faith when HIV/AIDS changes it all (Vine Leaves Press\, 2023) and Writing Hard Stories: Celebrated Memoirists Who Shaped Art from Trauma (Beacon Press\, 2017). \nAll of our How-To Tuesday speakers have a connection to Hippocampus\, and Melanie is a past contributor to our magazine and also wrote a chapter for our craft anthology Getting to the Truth: The Craft and Practice of Creative Nonfiction. She’s has had numerous interviews and essays on topics ranging from loss and grief to parenting and aging published in the The Boston Globe\, HuffPost\, Yankee Magazine\, The Washington Post\, Ms. Magazine\, Creative Nonfiction\, and other notable publications. \nShe 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’s Stonecoast writing program and a certificate in narrative medicine from Columbia University. \nMelanie lives in New Hampshire with her husband\, two children (when they are home from college)\, and chocolate lab.
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LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
CATEGORIES:Hippo Organizing,How-to Tuesdays,Online
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SUMMARY:How-To Tuesday: Getting Found — Discoverability & SEO for Writers in a Time of AI\, Evolving Algorithms and Information Overload (Donna Talarico)
DESCRIPTION:Most 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\, and evolving algorithms. \nIn this talk focused on SEO for writers\, Hippocampus Magazine founder/managing editor 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\nAttendees will leave with ideas to revise existing (or create new!) content and marketing materials\, including your website\, book metadata\, directory/catalog listings\, and more — maybe even your book subtitle! \n>>Read our related craft column\, “You’re Writing for Search Engines\, Too: SEO for Tips for Writers” \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\nDonna Talarico\, founder/publisher of Hippocampus Magazine\, 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 Association)\, 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 New York Times (Tiny Love Stories)\, Wanderlust Journal\, and The Writing Disorder (which nominated her essay “A Prequel to My Sister’s” for a Pushcart Prize). Donna serves on the residency faculty (with a focus on the business of publishing) at the Maslow Family Graduate Creative Writing Program at Wilkes University.
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/how-to-tuesday-getting-found-seo-for-writers/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
CATEGORIES:Hippo Organizing,How-to Tuesdays,Marketing/Promotion,Online
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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/
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