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SUMMARY:Hippocampus Magazine Anthology Launch & 15th Anniversary Party: Selected Memories Vol. 2
DESCRIPTION:[Note: If using Google Maps\, you may also find it under MAP Technologies\, as The Game Lounge is a space within their building. The address 322 W. Baltimore. \nPlease double check the address if you’re using GPS to walk or drive. There happens to be a barcade in the Federal Hill area with a similar name that may show up if you just search by name.] \nJoin us for the launch party of Selected Memories Vol. 2\, an anthology\, celebrating 15 years of creative nonfiction at Hippocampus Magazine. Readings from contributors\, light refreshments\, camaraderie\, and books! \nYou can also pre-order the book here! \nNitty Gritty Details\nDoors open at 7 p.m.; program begins by 7:30 p.m. \nPlease RSVP using the form to help us gauge interest\, even if you aren’t 100% sure you can make it.  \n\nThis event is free\, but donations are appreciated.\nWe have a 120 capacity limit for this space.\nRSVPs will help us track this\, as well as plan for food.\nThis is an event space (similar to a gallery); we suggest eating dinner before arriving.\nWe will have some snacks and assortment of beverages\, such as bottled water\, seltzer\, beer\, and wine.\n\nConfirmed Line-Up\nThe following Selected Memories contributors will read from their work: \n\nHolly Abbe\nSayuri Ayers\nMargaret Luongo\nNicole Piasecki\nRonit Plank\nSJ Sindu\nTori Walters\n\nMore to possibly be added.
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/hippocampus-magazine-anthology-launch-party/
LOCATION:The Game Lounge (MAP Technologies)\, 322 W. Baltimore St.\, Baltimore\, MD\, 21201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Hippo Organizing,In-Person,Reading
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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)
CATEGORIES:Craft,Hippo Organizing,How-to Tuesdays
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SUMMARY:HOW-TO TUESDAY: Thinking About Platform (for Writers): Leveraging Themes & Strengths to Build an Authentic Audience
DESCRIPTION:Building a platform as a writer shouldn’t mean performing a version of yourself that feels foreign. Sustainable and impactful platforms grow organically from the themes that already live at the heart of your work — the questions\, obsessions\, and processes that drive your writing in the first place. \nIn this session\, we’ll explore how to identify the recurring threads in your writing and use them as the foundation for authentic platform building. Rather than forcing yourself into uncomfortable marketing roles\, you’ll learn to align your efforts with your natural strengths and interests\, creating a body of work that builds recognition around your unique voice. \nThis session will ask each writer to consider the following questions: \n\nWhat are the recurring themes and obsessions that run through your existing work?\nHow can you leverage your personality and natural strengths to support your platform’s growth?\nHow do you create coherence across your work without repetition or stagnation?\nHow can small\, consistent efforts around your themes build toward larger publishing opportunities?\nWhat does sustainable platform building look like for introverts vs. extroverts?\n\nAttendees will leave with a clear understanding of their own thematic through-lines\, a personalized strategy for platform development that feels authentic rather than performative\, and practical tools for building a body of work that serves as a foundation for bigger projects. \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\nElizabeth Austin’s writing has appeared in Time\, Harper’s Bazaar\, McSweeney’s\, Narratively and elsewhere. She is currently working on a memoir about being a bad cancer mom. She lives outside of Philly with her two children and their many pets. Find her at writingelizabeth.com and on Instagram: @writingelizabeth. \n\nGet Tickets to this Event
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/how-to-tuesday-building-platform/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
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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/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
CATEGORIES:Hippo Organizing,Marketing/Promotion,Publishing
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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: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)
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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
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/a-night-of-nonfiction-2025/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
CATEGORIES:Hippo Organizing,Reading
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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/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
CATEGORIES:Conference,Craft,Hippo Organizing
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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/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
CATEGORIES:Craft,Hippo Organizing
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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.
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/hippocamp-online-weekend-2025/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
CATEGORIES:Conference,Hippo Organizing
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SUMMARY:STORIES ON SUNDAY: Mothers and Other Fictional Characters (Nicole Graev Lipson)
DESCRIPTION:Enjoy a reading\, then hear the story behind the stories during Stories on Sunday with Nicole Graev Lipson\, author of Mothers and Other Fictional Characters: A Memoir in Essays. \nAll Stories on Sundays guest readers have a connection to Hippocampus Magazine. Nicole’s essay “The New Pretty” was the runner-up in our 2020 Remember in November Contest for Creative Nonfiction and we also nominated it for a Pushcart Prize that year. \nFrom the Jacket Copy: What does it take to escape the plotlines mapped onto us? Searching for clues in the work of her literary foremothers\, Lipson untangles what it means to be a girl\, a woman\, a lover\, a partner\, a daughter\, and a mother in a world all too ready to reduce us to stock characters. Whether she’s testing the fragile borders of fidelity\, embracing the taboo power of female friendship\, escaping her family for the solitude of the mountains\, or letting go of the children she imagined for the ones she’s raising\, Lipson pushes beyond the easy\, surface stories we tell about ourselves to brave less certain territory. \nRisky and revealing\, nourishing and affirming\, rigorous and sexy\, Mothers and Other Fictional Characters is a shimmering love letter to our forgotten selves—and the ones we’re still becoming. \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: Stories on Sundays are bi-monthly readings from a recent/forthcoming work of creative nonfiction followed by an author interview + audience Q&A. Your registration helps fund our contributor payments and other costs associated with running our journal. \nMeet the Speaker\nAll Stories on Sundays guest readers have a connection to Hippocampus Magazine. Nicole’s essay “The New Pretty” was the runner-up in our 2020 Remember in November Contest for Creative Nonfiction and we also nominated it for a Pushcart Prize that year. \nNicole Graev Lipson is the author of the memoir-in-essays Mothers and Other Fictional Characters (Chronicle Books\, March 2025). Her writing has been awarded a Pushcart Prize\, selected for The Best American Essays anthology\, and nominated for a National Magazine Award. In addition to Hippocampus\, her essays have appeared in The Sun\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, The Gettysburg Review\, River Teeth\, Alaska Quarterly Review\, Fourth Genre\, The Washington Post\, and The Boston Globe\, among other places. Lipson holds an MFA from Emerson College and lives outside of Boston with her husband and children.
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/stories-on-sunday-nicole-graev-lipson/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
CATEGORIES:Hippo Organizing,Reading,Stories on Sunday
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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)
CATEGORIES:Craft,Hippo Organizing,How-to Tuesdays,Online
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SUMMARY:STORIES ON SUNDAY: No Offense: A Memoir in Essays (Jackie Domenus)
DESCRIPTION:Enjoy a reading\, then hear the story behind the stories during Stories on Sunday with Jackie Domenus\, author of No Offense: A Memoir in Essays.\n \nFrom the Jacket Copy: When Jackie “came out” in 2014\, right as the Trump era was revving up\, she began paying closer attention to the inappropriate questions\, uncomfortable reactions\, and pointed assumptions about sexuality and gender she was witnessing and now experiencing firsthand. \nNo Offense: A Memoir in Essays takes a magnifying glass to subtle moments that many people don’t recognize as homophobic or transphobic\, exploring the impact of microaggressions on LGBTQ+ folks. Blending personal essay and cultural critique\, the collection confronts society’s reactions to queerness at poignant moments in Jackie’s life\, from wedding planning to OBGYN appointments to the Pulse Nightclub Massacre\, and beyond. Revealing the complex and tender moments that sculpted their identity from a tomboy adolescence to gender exploration as an adult\, No Offense analyzes the loaded conversations queer and trans folks face every day on topics like labels\, haircuts\, Halloween costumes\, and more. \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: Stories on Sundays are bi-monthly readings from a recent/forthcoming work of creative nonfiction followed by an author interview + audience Q&A. Your registration helps fund our contributor payments and other costs associated with running our journal. \nMeet the Speaker \nJackie Domenus (they/she) is a queer writer from New Jersey. Their first book\, No Offense: A Memoir in Essays\, was released by ELJ Editions in Feb. 2025. A former Sundress Academy for the Arts resident and Tin House Workshop graduate\, Jackie’s work has appeared in The Normal School\, The Offing\, Pidgeonholes\, Foglifter Journal\, and elsewhere. \nAll Stories on Sundays speakers have a connection to Hippocampus Magazine and Books; Jackie was a past speaker at our in-person conference for creative nonfiction writers\, HippoCamp.
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/stories-on-sunday-no-offense-a-memoir-in-essays-jackie-domenus/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
CATEGORIES:Hippo Organizing,Reading,Stories on Sunday
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SUMMARY:STORIES ON SUNDAY: The One Who Loves You: Growing Up Biracial in a Black and White World (Shannon Luders-Manuel)
DESCRIPTION: Note: On mobile\, some users aren’t able to see the entire check-out form\, which is preventing the ability to add a quantity. We apologize for the issue. If you are unable to pre-register\, you can join in at this link\, staring at 7 p.m. ET: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86819839055 In the meantime\, we have a support ticket into our event plug-in app as this is an issue with their code not adapting to mobile device screen size.  \nEnjoy a reading\, then hear the story behind the stories during Stories on Sunday with Shannon Luders-Manuel author of The One Who Loves You: Growing Up Biracial in a Black and White World. (Please note the date change! This is now scheduled for 3/30) \n\nAbout the Book: As a child\, Shannon Luders-Manuel felt like an outsider in every environment she entered. Born to a Black father and white mother who separated when she was three\, Luders-Manuel grew up with her white extended family\, in largely white areas of California. Throughout her life\, she yearned to understand her charismatic\, transient father—whose promises were rarely kept\, who struggled with alcohol and violence\, and whose love she desperately needed. How could she find a place among two worlds—one white and one Black—when they felt so different? \nLuders-Manuel sought guidance in Baptist religion\, becoming a born-again Christian at age fourteen\, and eventually found herself in an abusive relationship. When her father entered hospice care when she was just twenty-four\, she became his caretaker despite their long estrangement and hoped to find connection while she still could. Instead\, she learned that neither man nor God could give her the home she needed—she would have to build her own sense of self. \nThe One Who Loves You eloquently speaks not only to mixed-race individuals but to anyone who struggles with being labeled by others and to those who seek to reconcile the most contradictory parts of their own identities. \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: Stories on Sundays are bi-monthly readings from a recent/forthcoming work of creative nonfiction followed by an author interview + audience Q&A. Your registration helps fund our contributor payments and other costs associated with running our journal. \nMeet the Speaker\nShannon Luders-Manuel is the author of The One Who Loves You: A Memoir of Growing Up Biracial in a Black and White World\, published in February 2025 by Lawrence Hill Books\, an imprint of Chicago Review Press. Her work has appeared in The New York Times\, the Los Angeles Times\, JSTOR Daily\, and the Los Angeles Review of Books\, among others. She holds an M.A. in English literature from the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst\, and lives in Los Angeles. \nAll Stories on Sundays speakers have a connection to Hippocampus Magazine and Books; Shannon was a past scholarship recipient to our in-person conference for creative nonfiction writers\, HippoCamp.
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/stories-on-sunday-shannon-luders-manuel/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
CATEGORIES:Hippo Organizing,Reading,Stories on Sunday
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SUMMARY:HOW-TO TUESDAY: Finding Story Inspiration When You're All Tapped Out with Steph Auteri
DESCRIPTION:When we mine our lives for writing inspiration\, we sometimes fall into the trap of focusing on that one terrible thing\, or that one incredible thing\, or that one wacky thing that happened to us\, wringing the topic dry until we’re bored of our own dang story. After that\, we worry there’s nothing unique or exceptional left about our lives that’s worth writing about. \nBut life itself — everything we experience or observe — is filled with story fodder. In this session\, you’ll learn: \n\nwhy ordinary lives can lead to extraordinary writing\nthe questions you can ask yourself when you’re feeling all tapped out on story ideas\nhow to generate a buttload of story ideas in one sitting\n\nSteph Auteri has been a journalist and personal essay writer for about 25 years\, which means she’s had to come up with a buttload of story ideas on the regular for a very long time. Join her if you’re in a slump and looking to reinvigorate your writing practice. \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 \nSteph Auteri has successfully brainstormed and pitched stories to the Atlantic\, Pacific Standard\, VICE\, Rewire News Group\, and many other publications. She’s also gotten personal for Poets & Writers\, Creative Nonfiction\, Romper\, under the gum tree\, and elsewhere. Two of her essays — both of them about very ordinary\, relatable experiences — were listed as Notable by Best American. And she had the gall to write a whole dang book about her life\, too (A Dirty Word). These days\, she’s bringing her life into her short fiction. Learn more at stephauteri.com. \nAll of our speakers have a connection to Hippocampus Magazine. Steph serves as our essays editor\, and her work also appears in our craft anthology\, Getting to the Truth: The Craft and Practice of Creative Nonfiction.
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/how-to-tuesday-finding-story-inspiration-when-youre-all-tapped-out-with-steph-auteri/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
CATEGORIES:Hippo Organizing,How-to Tuesdays,Publishing
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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/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
CATEGORIES:Craft,Hippo Organizing,How-to Tuesdays,Online
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SUMMARY:STORIES ON SUNDAY: Paul Rousseau (Friendly Fire: A Fractured Memoir)
DESCRIPTION: Note: if you’re reading this on mobile\, the full ticket instructions might not be showing in the ticket box above; to register\, add your chosen dollar amount and number of tickets using the + sign. (For a free ticket\, simply put in $0.) Ticket includes live event and access to recording.  \nEnjoy a reading\, then hear the story behind the stories during Stories on Sunday with author Paul Rousseau. \nAll Stories on Sunday guest readers have a connection to Hippocampus Magazine. A past contributor\, Paul received a Pushcart Prize nomination for the essay “Curiously Colored & Timely Animals + Other Things Forgotten Post Brain Surgery” which appeared in our May-June 2021 issue. \nAbout the Book: One month before his college graduation\, Paul Rousseau is accidentally shot in the head by his roommate and best friend. \nAt some point in the course of Paul and Mark’s friendship\, Mark acquired — legally and with required permits — five firearms. Those weapons lived with them in their college apartment. It was a non-issue for the two best friends. They were inseparable. They were twenty-two-year-old boys at the height of their college experience\, unaware that everything was about to change forever. \nThe bullet ripped through two walls before it struck Paul’s skull. Mark had accidentally pulled the trigger while in the other room and — frightened for his own future — delayed getting treatment for Paul\, who miraculously remained conscious the entire time. In vivid detail\, Friendly Fire brings us into the world of both the shooting itself and its surgical counterpoint — the dark spaces of survival in the face of a traumatic brain injury and into the paranoid\, isolating\, dehumanizing maw of personal injury cases. \nFriendly Fire: A Fractured Memoir is the story of a friendship — both its formation and its destruction. Through phenomenal writing and gripping detail\, Paul reveals a compelling and inspirational story that speaks to much of contemporary American life. \nAbout the Series: Stories on Sundays are bi-monthly readings from a recent/forthcoming work of creative nonfiction followed by an author interview + audience Q&A. Your registration helps fund our contributor payments and other costs associated with running our journal. \nMeet the Speaker\nPaul Rousseau is a Disabled writer. His debut\, Friendly Fire: A Fractured Memoir is forthcoming from HarperCollins September 10\, 2024. Paul’s writing has also appeared in Roxane Gay’s The Audacity\, Catapult\, Hippocampus\, Wigleaf\, and the San Francisco Chronicle\, among others. You can read his work online at Paul-Rousseau.com and follow him on Twitter @Paulwrites7.
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/stories-on-sunday-paul-rousseau-friendly-fire-a-fractured-memoir/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
CATEGORIES:Hippo Organizing,Reading,Stories on Sunday
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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: Publishing & Promotion - 5 CNF 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 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. \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\nPlanning the DIY Book Tour (Melanie Brooks)\nSession description: This flash session will  share some hard-earned wisdom and insights to consider when promoting your book and planning your own tour without a publicist. Participants will gain tips on approaching bookstores and libraries\, partnering with other authors\, using local media and targeted organizations\, marketing\, anticipating challenges\, event preparation\, and more. \nAbout the speaker: Melanie 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)\, shortlisted for the 2024 Memoir Prize from Memoir Magazine\, named a 2023 Foreword INDIES Finalist\, and Winner of a Bronze Medal in the Wishing Shelf BookAwards\, and Writing Hard Stories: Celebrated Memoirists Who Shaped Art from Trauma (Beacon Press\, 2017). She teaches creative nonfiction in the M.F.A. program at Bay Path University and in the M.F.A. program at 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. She’s had numerous interviews and essays on topics ranging from illness\, loss\, and grief to parenting and aging published in the The Boston Globe\, The Washington Post\, HuffPost\, Yankee Magazine\, Psychology Today\,  Ms. Magazine\, Creative Nonfiction\, and other notable publications. Though she is still a proud Canadian\, she lives in New Hampshire with her husband\, two children (when they are home from university in Toronto)\, and chocolate Lab. \n\nFinding & Landing an Agent (Amy Fish)\nSession description: Everyone wants an agent but no one knows where\, or how\, to find one. Join Amy for this flash workshop where she will offer seven quick tips that you can implement immediately to bring yourself closer to representation. Participants will learn how to set themselves up for success\, how to remain persistent when they are discouraged\, and how to research agents that might be a good fit. Everyone will walk away with actionable steps for their agent search plan. \nAbout the speaker: Amy Fish is a committed HippoCamper and a born story-teller with a tendency to over-research. Her latest Chapbook\, Honeymoon Sneakers: A Cautionary Tale (Cactus Press 2024) came out a few months ago\, and she is the author of the forthcoming One in Six Million: The Baby by the Roadside and the Man who Retraced a Holocaust Survivor’s Lost Identity (Goose Lane Editions 2025). Amy writes a weekly Substack called Persistence for Writers. \n\nCrafting the Perfect Author Bio (Joey Garcia)\nSession description: When a radio talk show host\, podcaster\, or TV producer requests your bio before a scheduled interview\, do you have the right one to send? What about bios for other opportunities related to the business of being an author? In this fast-paced\, content-rich session\, learn what belongs in your bio\, what raises red flags\, and how to write bios that level up your literary career. \nAbout the speaker: Joey Garcia is an editor and book coach who helps writers get known while she’s editing their books. Her clients have been featured in major media\, including The Wall Street Journal\, Smithsonian magazine\, Ms. magazine\, CNN\, and The Tamron Hall Show. A recognized relationship expert\, Joey has been interviewed by USA Today\, Deutsche Welle\, KVIE public television\, KTLA radio\, and the Dear Prudence podcast. Joey’s personal essays can be found in Hippocampus CNF magazine\, Hypertext\, the Brevity blog and (HER)oics: Women’s Lived Experiences During the Coronavirus Pandemic\, among others. In 2017\, Joey established the first-ever literary fellowship in Belize\, her birthplace. \n\nFinding & Applying for Artists Grants (Rae Pagliarulo\, associate editor)\nRae Pagliarulo \nSession description: What would you do with $5\,000 or $10\,000 just to work on your writing? In this session you’ll learn about where to look for grant opportunities\, what you’ll need to apply\, and how this seemingly-unreachable source of revenue can help move your project from floundering to finished! \nAbout the speaker: Rae 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\nReaching Readers\, Not Just Writers (Donna Talarico\, founder/managing editor)\nSession description: Often\, we promote our work among writerly circles\, but what about the everyday reader? Those folks who love to immerse themselves in true stories\, but who you also won’t find in the online and real-life literary communities we spend so much time in. In this brief talk\, Donna will dive into discoverability and explore ways readers can find YOU and what you write about. She’ll cover researching and using keywords\, writing for search engines (including AI assistants)\, crafting marketing copy for products and events\, and finding opportunities to collaborate with local partners. \nAbout the speaker: Donna 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. \n\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-publishing-2024/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
CATEGORIES:Hippo Organizing,Marketing/Promotion,Online,Publishing
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SUMMARY:A Night of Nonfiction: Debut CNF Author Readings & Discussions - Summer 2024
DESCRIPTION: Registration closes two hours before the event.  \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 five debut CNF authors\, followed by a special guest reading and then a panel discussion\, led by Lara Lillibridge from the Hippocampus Magazine interviews team. Learn more about (or purchase!) their books at our Bookshop affiliate site. \nThis is ONE OF FOUR events we’re hosting the weekend of the 10-11th! Read about all of them here. \nThe 2024 Night of Nonfiction will feature: \nAnnabelle Tometich (The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit\, Florida & Felony) \nAnnabelle Tometich went from medical-school reject to line cook to journalist to author. She spent 18 years as a food writer and restaurant critic for The News-Press in her hometown of Fort Myers\, Florida. Her first book\, “The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit\, Florida\, and Felony” (April 2024\, Little Brown) was called “sweet\, sharp” by The New York Times. \nTometich’s writing has appeared in The Washington Post\, USA Today\, Catapult\, the Tampa Bay Times\, and many more outlets. She has won more than a dozen awards for her stories\, including first place for Food & Travel Writing at the 2022 Sunshine State Awards. She (still) lives in Fort Myers with her husband\, two children\, and her ever-fiery Filipina mother. \n\nAudrey Jean (Dear Dad You’re Dead\, Dear Dead You’re Dad: Poems\, Essays\, and Reflections from a Youngest Daughter) \nGrowing up\, Audrey Jean (she/her) knew she was going to be an author one day\, she just wasn’t sure how. Or when. Let alone of what. But there was always something to say\, and she was keen to find a way to say it. Her next book\, which she hopes won’t be as depressing as this one\, is planned for a 2025 release\, and will be her first foray into fiction (and romance!).When she’s not writing something or other\, you can usually find her trying to make a dent in her ever-growing TBR pile\, working on training her cats to take walks\, or stewing over a new cookbook with flour inevitably streaked over her front. \nIf that doesn’t work\, look in the mirror\, spin around twice while saying\, “Do you want to watch the 2005 version of Pride and Prejudice?” and she’ll show up behind you with a bottle of wine\, ready to go. \nIf you’re interested in connecting and seeing what’s coming next\, you can find her at: audreyjean.net | Instagram: audreyjean_writes \n\nCarole Duff (Wisdom Builds Her House) \nCarole Duff is a veteran teacher\, flutist\, naturalist\, and writer of creative nonfiction. She posts weekly to her long-standing blog Notes from Vanaprastha and has written for Brevity blog\, Huffington Post\, Mockingbird\, Please See Me\, Streetlight Magazine\, The Perennial Gen now The Sage Forum\, for which she is a regular contributor\, and other publications. Her book Wisdom Builds Her House releases August 20\,\, 2024. Carole lives in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains with her husband\, another third-stage-of-life\, debut author K.A. Kenny (The Starflower)\, and two\, large overly-friendly dogs. You can contact Carole through her website: caroleduff.com. \n\nIsaac Yuen (Utter\, Earth: Advice on Living in a More-than-human-world) \nA first-generation Hong Kong Canadian writer based in Berlin\, Isaac Yuen’s short fiction and creative nonfiction has been published in AGNI\, Gulf Coast\, Orion\, Pleiades\, The Pushcart Prize Anthology\, Shenandoah\, and of course\, Hippocampus\, among other places. He was a nature writer-in-residence at the Jan Michalski Foundation for Literature in Switzerland\, a Science Meets Fiction fellow at the HWK Institute in Advanced Study in Germany\, and will be an upcoming artist-in-residence with the La Napoule Foundation in France. Utter\, Earth: Advice on Living in a More-than-Human World is his debut essay collection. \n\nZoë Bossiere (Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir) \nZoë Bossiere (they/she) is writer from Tucson\, Arizona. They are the managing editor of Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction and the coeditor of two anthologies: The Best of Brevity and The Lyric Essay as Resistance: Truth from the Margins. Bossiere’s debut\, Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir chronicles their experiences growing up as a trans boy in a Tucson\, Arizona trailer park. \n\nLilly Dancyger\, special guest reader (First Love: Essays on Friendship + others) \nLilly Dancyger is the author of First Love: Essays on Friendship (The Dial Press\, 2024)\, a collection of personal and critical essays about the power and complexity of female friendship; and Negative Space (SFWP\, 2021)\, a reported and illustrated memoir selected by Carmen Maria Machado as a winner of the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards. She lives in New York City\, and is a 2023 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in nonfiction from The New York Foundation for the Arts. Her writing has been published by Guernica\, Literary Hub\, The Rumpus\, Longreads\, Off Assignment\, The Washington Post\, Playboy\, Rolling Stone\, and more. She writes the Substack newsletter The Word Cave. \n\nModerator: Lara Lillibridge\nLara Lillibridge (she/they) is the author of Mama\, Mama\, Only Mama: An Irreverent Guide for the Newly Single Parent; Girlish: Growing Up in a Lesbian Home\, and co-editor of the anthology\, Feminine Rising. Her essay collection: The Truth About Unringing Phones\, releases March 2024 with Unsolicited Press. \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 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
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/night-of-nonfiction-2024/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
CATEGORIES:Hippo Organizing,Online,Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240810T110000
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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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ORGANIZER;CN="Hippocampus Magazine and Books":MAILTO:hippocampusmagazine@gmail.com
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240812
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SUMMARY:HippoCamp Online Weekend 2024: Multiple Events [ticket package page]
DESCRIPTION: Note that you can still sign up for the full package up to two hours before the final event begins on Sunday; you will get access to all events by recording. \n“HippoCamp Weekend” will include four separate events\, plus evening “chill and chats\,” which will be informal Zoom meetings that allow registered attendees to connect and reflect. \nFull Weekend Overview & Ticket Package\n\nWe’re offering a full weekend package at a discounted rate on this page\, and you may also register for individual events. \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 if purchased individually\, see full 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-wish ($10\, suggested)\, see full 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 if purchased individually\, see full 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 if purchased individually\, see full details here\n\n\n\nWEEKEND PACKAGE TICKETS\nYou may purchase a ticket for the entire weekend here. Note: First\, select quantity using (+) sign and then add to cart.
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/hippocamp-online-weekend-2024-overview-package/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
CATEGORIES:Hippo Organizing,Online
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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
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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:20240512T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240512T193000
DTSTAMP:20260419T172852
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SUMMARY:STORIES ON SUNDAY: Kirsten Reneau (Sensitive Creatures)
DESCRIPTION: Note: if you’re reading this on mobile\, the full ticket instructions might not be showing in the ticket box above; to register\, add your chosen dollar amount and number of tickets using the + sign. (For a free ticket\, simply put in $0.) Ticket includes live event and access to recording. \nEnjoy a reading\, then hear the story behind the stories during Stories on Sunday with essayist Kirsten Reneau. \nIn an unflinching yet hopeful prose\, Sensitive Creatures (Belle Point Press; March 2024) explores the most animal parts of our human nature. Discussions of various creatures in the natural world serve as portals to the painful realities Kirsten Reneau confronts in the process of breaking—and remaking—a home. \nHonest in their descriptions of sexual assault and its traumatic effects\, these essays are at once clinical and lyrical reflections on the ways that desire can permeate our lives for better or worse\, as well as how it can be channeled into a lifegiving force for women in a world often hostile to their basic needs. Sensitive Creatures ultimately is a story of darkness\, resilience\, and the light that still manages to crack through. \nAll Stories on Sunday guest readers have a connection to Hippocampus Magazine. A past contributor\, Kirsten received a Pushcart Prize nomination for the essay “An Incredibly Brief and Unfinished History of Sound\,” which appeared in our March-April 2019 issue. We also published “Bar Bathroom Graffiti in New Orleans: A One Year Catalog” in September-October 2020. Both of these essays appear in her debut collection! \nAbout the Series: Stories on Sundays are bi-monthly readings from a recent/forthcoming work of creative nonfiction followed by an author interview + audience Q&A. Your registration helps fund our contributor payments and other costs associated with running our journal. \nMeet the Speaker\nKirsten Reneau is a writer living in the south. She graduated from West Virginia Wesleyan College and received her MFA from the University of New Orleans. In addition to her first full-length collection Sensitive Creatures\, she is the author of two chapbooks\, and her work has been published in The Threepenny Review\, Alaska Quarterly Review\, Reed Magazine\, and others. 
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/stories-on-sunday-kirsten-reneau-sensitive-creatures/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
CATEGORIES:Hippo Organizing,Online,Reading,Stories on Sunday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240421T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240421T191500
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SUMMARY:STORIES ON SUNDAY: Penny Guisinger (Shift: A Memoir of Identity and Other Illusions)
DESCRIPTION: Note: if you’re reading this on mobile\, the full ticket instructions might not be showing in the ticket box above; to register\, add your chosen dollar amount and number of tickets using the + sign. (For a free ticket\, simply put in $0.) Ticket includes live event and access to recording. \nJoin Penny Guisinger for a reading from Shift: A Memoir of Identity and Other Illusions\, followed by a conversation led by Alexis Paige and an audience Q&A. (Paige is author of Work Hard\, Not Smart: How to Make a Messy Literary Life and Not a Place On Any Map and the nonfiction acquisitions editor at Vine Leaves Press.) \nAbout the Book: Penny Guisinger was not always attracted to women. In Shift she recounts formative relationships with women and men\, including the marriage that produced her two children and ultimately ended in part due to her affair with her now-wife. Beginning her story as straight and ending as queer\, she struggles to make sense of how her identity changed so profoundly while leaving her feeling like the same person she’s always been. Shift examines sexual and romantic fluidity while wrestling with the ways past and present mingle rather than staying in linear narratives. Under scrutiny\, Guisinger’s sense of her own identity becomes like a Mobius strip or Penrose triangle—an optical illusion that challenges the dimensions and possibilities of the world. \nAbout the Series: Stories on Sundays are bi-monthly readings from a recent/forthcoming work of creative nonfiction followed by an author interview + audience Q&A. Your registration helps fund our contributor payments and other costs associated with running our journal. \nAbout Our Speaker\nPenny Guisinger is the author of Postcards from Here and the forthcoming Shift: A Memoir of Identity and Other Illusions. All of our speakers have a connection to Hippocampus Magazine; she’s not only a past contributor to the magazine\, but she also co-authored (with Alexis Paige) a chapter for Getting to the Truth: The Craft and Practice of Creative Nonfiction. \nPenny’s work has also appeared in Fourth Genre\, River Teeth\, Under the Gum Tree\, and others. Pushcart nominated\, a Maine Literary Award winner\, and a three-time notable in Best American Essays\, she is a co-director of Iota Short Forms and a former assistant editor at Brevity. Penny is a graduate of the Stonecoast MFA Program.
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/stories-on-sunday-penny-guisinger-shift/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
CATEGORIES:Hippo Organizing,Reading,Stories on Sunday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240416T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240416T203000
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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:20240317T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240317T201500
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SUMMARY:STORIES ON SUNDAY: Lara Lillibridge (The Truth About Unringing Phones)
DESCRIPTION: Note: if you’re reading this on mobile\, the full ticket instructions might not be showing in the ticket box above; to register\, add your chosen dollar amount and number of tickets using the + sign. (For a free ticket\, simply put in $0.) Ticket includes live event and access to recording. \nJoin us for a reading and conversation with Lara Lillbridge\, author of the new collection The Truth About Unringing Phones: Essays on Yearning. Lara will share excerpts from book and\, interspersed with the readings will be a conversation with Hippocampus Magazine founder/publisher Donna Talarico. We’ll talk about things like: \n\nHow to decide the order of essays in a collection\nWhen/how to change already-published essays to fit the collection\nUsing real names vs. aliases when writing about family\nThe hybrid elements in this collection\, whether sketches\, charts or unique forms\nWriting multiple books with overlapping themes/characters/life events\nSelf-preservation of writer-Lara while writing about the self-preservation of character-Lara\nAnd more — because there will be plenty of time for audience questions at the end!\n\nAbout the Book: When Lara was four years old\, her father moved from Rochester\, New York\, to Anchorage\, Alaska\, a distance of over 4\,000 miles. She spent her childhood chasing after him\, flying a quarter of the way around the world to tug at the hem of his jacket. Now that he is in his eighties\, she contemplates her obligation to an absentee father. \nThe Truth About Unringing Phones (March 2024; Unsolicited Press) is an exploration of responsibility and culpability told in experimental and fragmented essays. ​ \nAbout the Series: Stories on Sundays are bi-monthly readings from a recent/forthcoming work of creative nonfiction followed by an author interview + audience Q&A. Your registration helps fund our contributor payments and other costs associated with running our journal. \nAbout Our Speaker\nAll of our Stories on Sunday authors have a connection to Hippocampus Magazine. Lara Lillibridge (she/they) is a past contributor who has since joined our team as interviews editor. A champion for other writers\, Lara also won our inaugural Literary Citizen of the Year award presented at HippoCamp: A Conference for Creative Nonfiction Writers. She also has a chapter in our own craft anthology\, Getting to The Truth\, which is about blending genres and getting experimental with your CNF. \nIn addition to her new collection\, Lara is the author of Mama\, Mama\, Only Mama: An Irreverent Guide for the Newly Single Parent; Girlish: Growing Up in a Lesbian Home\, and she is co-editor of the anthology\, Feminine Rising.
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/stories-on-sunday-lara-lillibridge/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
CATEGORIES:Hippo Organizing,Online,Reading,Stories on Sunday
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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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