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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250427T180000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250330T190000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250128T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250128T203000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240908T190000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240811T180000
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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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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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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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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
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240604T193000
DTSTAMP:20260419T185648
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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:20260419T185648
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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
DTSTAMP:20260419T185648
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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
DTSTAMP:20260419T185649
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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
DTSTAMP:20260419T185649
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240305T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240305T193000
DTSTAMP:20260419T185649
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240225T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240225T191500
DTSTAMP:20260419T185649
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SUMMARY:STORIES ON SUNDAY: Paul Crenshaw & Melt With Me: Coming of Age and Other 80s Perils
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of conversation and creative nonfiction with essayist Paul Crenshaw\, who will read from his new collection Melt With Me: Coming of Age and Other ’80s Perils. (October 2023; Ohio State University Press) \nAbout the Book: At the intersection of 1980s pop culture\, the Cold War\, and the trials of coming of age sits Melt with Me. Paul Crenshaw takes up a range of topics from Star Wars to video games\, Choose Your Own Adventure books to the Satanic Panic. Blending the personal with the historical\, levity with gravity\, Crenshaw shows how pop culture shaped those who grew up in 1980s America: how Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative drove fears of nuclear war\, how professional wrestling taught us everyone was either a good guy or a bad guy\, how Bugs Bunny cartoons reflected the absurdity of war and mutually assured destruction\, and how video games taught young boys\, in particular\, that no matter how hard they tried to save it\, the world would end itself. \nReflecting on the decade and its dark influence on fear-based notions of nation and manhood\, Crenshaw writes\, “All this reminds me I’m still afraid of the same things I was afraid of as a child. Some days I think the movies are real and we’re watching the last hour of humanity. You’ll have to decide if there’s any hope.” \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 readers have a connection to Hippocampus Magazine\, and we’re proud to have published several of Paul Crenshaw’s pieces over the years. In addition to this new collection\, Paul is the author of This One Will Hurt You and This We’ll Defend\, on the Cold War culture of the 1980s. Other work has appeared in Best American Essays\, The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses\, Best American Nonrequired Reading\, The Pushcart Prize\, and Oxford American.
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/stories-on-sunday-paul-crenshaw/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
CATEGORIES:Hippo Organizing,Stories on Sunday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240206T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240206T203000
DTSTAMP:20260419T185649
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SUMMARY:How-To Tuesday: Reading Aloud: It's Not Just for Bedtime Stories — Using Audio to Hone Your Creative Nonfiction (Theresa Okokon)
DESCRIPTION:Too often\, writers think about reading as a silent activity. But\, if you slow down to think about it\, you are probably HEARING these very words “out loud” in your head. That’s because reading isn’t silence based\, its SOUND based. \nIn this workshop\, we will discuss how to use sound as a meaningful sensory consideration in composing your writing. \n\nWhere are the overlaps between what works in music and what works in writing?\nWhat tools can we use to predict the way our writing might sound to someone else?\nOutside of our writing itself\, how can sound be part of our work as writers?\n\nAbout the series: How-To Tuesdays are monthly talks on the craft of creative nonfiction\, publishing\, marketing and the writing life led by Hippocampus Magazine editors & contributors. Your registration helps fund our contributor payments and other costs associated with running our journal. \nMeet the Speaker\nTheresa Okokon is a Pushcart Prize nominated essayist. A Wisconsinite living in New England\, she is a writer\, a storyteller\, and the co-host of Stories From The Stage. In addition to writing and performing her own stories\, Theresa also teaches storytelling and writing workshops and classes\, coaches other tellers\, hosts story slams\, and frequently emcees events for nonprofits. An alum of both the Memoir Incubator and Essay Incubator programs at GrubStreet\, Theresa’s memoir in essays about memory\, family stories\, and the death of her father — THE OKOKON FAMILY ORCHESTRA — is slated for publication with Atria Books at Simon & Schuster. \n​Theresa’s essays (and bathroom selfies!) have appeared in midnight & indigo\, ELLE\, the Independent\, WBUR’s Cognoscenti\, and Boston.com. Her essay “Me Llamo Theresa”\, published by Hippocampus Magazine and nominated for a 2020 Pushcart Prize\, was named among the Top Essays of the Week by Longreads and The Rumpus. \n​​
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/how-to-tuesdayreading-aloud-its-not-just-for-bedtime-stories-using-audio-to-hone-your-creative-nonfiction-theresa-okokon/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
CATEGORIES:Craft,Hippo Organizing,How-to Tuesdays,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240121T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240121T193000
DTSTAMP:20260419T185649
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SUMMARY:STORIES ON SUNDAY: Chantha Nguon & Kim Green (Slow Noodles)
DESCRIPTION:Kicking off our Stories on Sundays series is Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love\, Loss\, and Family Recipes by Chantha Nguon with Kim Green. \nIn this online event that’s sure to be packed with flavor\, you will hear readings from this much-anticipated memoir\, then hear the story behind the book and much more in a Q&A with Chantha\, along with co-author Kim Green. Chantha’s daughter Clara Kim\, who wrote the book’s epilogue and narrated the audio book\, will also join in on the discussion. \nThis event is especially meaningful for us: In 2021\, Hippocampus Magazine published “The Gradual Extinction of Softness” by Chantha Nguon with Kim Green\, an essay which was later named a best essay of the year (and republished) by Longreads. \nSlow Noodles has been getting much praise in recent weeks\, so we’re updating this event listing to share these accolades\, such as: \n\nThe 30 New Books We Can’t Wait to Read (Reader’s Digest)\nWashington Post’s Book Suggestions for 2024\nThese New Books Could Be Some of the Best Reads of 2024 (San Francisco Chronicle)\nZibby Owens’ Predictions for the 2024 Bestseller Lists\n\nAbout the book: In Slow Noodles\, Chantha Nguon recounts her life as a Cambodian refugee who loses everything and everyone—home\, family\, and country—all but the remembered tastes and aromas of her mother’s kitchen. She takes us back to the quiet rhythms of 1960s Battambang\, her provincial hometown\, before the dictator Pol Pot tore her country apart and exterminated more than a million Cambodians\, including ethnic Vietnamese like Nguon and her family. Then\, as an emigrant in Saigon\, the author loses her mother\, brothers\, and sister and eventually flees to a refugee camp in Thailand. For two decades in exile\, she survives by cooking in a brothel\, serving drinks in a nightclub\, making and selling street food\, becoming a suture nurse\, and weaving silk. \nNguon’s irrepressible spirit and determination come through in this lyrical and inspirational memoir that includes more than twenty family recipes for dishes like chicken lime soup\, green papaya pickles\, and pâté de foie\, as well as Khmer curries\, stir-fries\, and handmade bánh canh noodles. Through it all\, recreating the dishes from her childhood becomes an act of resistance\, of reclaiming her place in the world\, of upholding the values the Khmer Rouge sought to destroy\, and of honoring the memory of her beloved mother\, whose “slow noodles” approach to healing and to cooking prioritized time and care over expediency. \nYou can pre-order the book here. \nBonus: Watch the Slow Noodles Book Trailer\n\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. \n\nABOUT THE SPEAKERS\nChantha Nguon\nChantha Nguon was born in Cambodia and spent two decades as a refugee\, until she was finally able to return to her homeland. She is the co-founder\,of the Stung Treng Women’s Development Center\, a social enterprise that offers a living wage\, education\, and social services to women and their families in rural northeastern Cambodia. A frequent public speaker\, she has appeared at universities and on radio and TV news programs\, including NPR’s Morning Edition. She cooks often for friends\, family\, and for private events. (Image by Stacey Irvin c.2014) \nKim Green\nKim Green is an award-winning writer and public radio producer and contributor based in Nashville. Her work has appeared in Fast Company\, the New York Times\, and on NPR’s Weekend Edition\, Marketplace\, and The New Yorker Radio Hour. A licensed pilot\, she was formerly a flight instructor.\nClara Kim\nClara Kim graduated from Sewanee – The University of the South with degrees in math and economics\, and from the London School of Economics with a master’s in statistics. She learned Cambodian cooking from her mother\, Chantha\, and is collecting dozens of her mom’s recipes in a book. Clara runs the U.S. sales division of Mekong Blue; she wrote the epilogue to SLOW NOODLES. \nClara lives and works in London.
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/stories-on-sunday-chantha-nguon-kim-green-slow-noodles/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
CATEGORIES:Hippo Organizing,Online,Reading,Stories on Sunday
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SUMMARY:HOW-TO TUESDAY: Writing Hard Stories — Navigating Trauma\, Family & Other Difficult Topics in Memoir
DESCRIPTION:Writing about difficult life circumstances can help a writer understand them in a profound way. The process of re-entering those memories\, taking them apart\, and then putting them back together again on the writer’s own terms\, can transform them into something deeply meaningful for both writer and reader. \nIn this talk focused on writing “the tough stuff\,” author Melanie Brooks shares from her own memoir-writing experience the challenges of confronting the vulnerability\, fear\, and pain that inevitably accompany the journey to bring hard stories to the page. This session will consider the following questions: \n\nHow do we peel back the layers of memory to get to the heart of our stories?\nHow do we cope with the difficult emotions that are dredged up in the process?\nHow do we navigate the tricky terrain of our families\, particularly if we are writing about circumstances that overlap with theirs?\n How do we shape and craft our stories so they are accessible for others?\n\nAttendees will leave with strategies for uncovering the powerful stories they have to tell and for taking care of themselves in the process. \nAbout the series: How-To Tuesdays are monthly talks on the craft of creative nonfiction\, publishing\, marketing and the writing life led by Hippocampus Magazine editors & contributors. Your registration helps fund our contributor payments and other costs associated with running our journal. \n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nMelanie Brooks\nMelanie Brooks is the author of the memoir A Hard Silence: One daughter remaps family\, grief\, and faith when HIV/AIDS changes it all (Vine Leaves Press\, 2023) and Writing Hard Stories: Celebrated Memoirists Who Shaped Art from Trauma (Beacon Press\, 2017). \nAll of our How-To Tuesday speakers have a connection to Hippocampus\, and Melanie is a past contributor to our magazine and also wrote a chapter for our craft anthology Getting to the Truth: The Craft and Practice of Creative Nonfiction. She’s has had numerous interviews and essays on topics ranging from loss and grief to parenting and aging published in the The Boston Globe\, HuffPost\, Yankee Magazine\, The Washington Post\, Ms. Magazine\, Creative Nonfiction\, and other notable publications. \nShe teaches creative nonfiction in the MFA programs at Bay Path University and Western Connecticut State University and professional writing at Northeastern University. She holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast writing program and a certificate in narrative medicine from Columbia University. \nMelanie lives in New Hampshire with her husband\, two children (when they are home from college)\, and chocolate lab.
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/how-to-tuesday-writing-hard-stories/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
CATEGORIES:Hippo Organizing,How-to Tuesdays,Online
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SUMMARY:STORIES ON SUNDAY: Jennifer Lang (Places We Left Behind)
DESCRIPTION:Hear Jennifer Lang read from Places We Left Behind: A Memoir in Miniature\, followed by a discussion with our flash editor Rae Pagliarulo and an audience Q&A. \nMore about the book: When American-born Jennifer falls in love with French-born Philippe during the First Intifada in Israel\, she understands their relationship isn’t perfect. Both 23\, both Jewish\, they lead very different lives: she’s a secular tourist\, he’s an observant immigrant. Despite their opposing outlooks on two fundamental issues — country and religion — they are determined to make it work. For the next 20 years\, they root and uproot their growing family\, each longing for a singular place to call home. \nIn Places We Left Behind\, Jennifer puts her marriage under a microscope\, examining commitment and compromise\, faith and family while moving between prose and poetry\, playing with language and form\, daring the reader to read between the lines. \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\nAn American-French-Israeli hybrid\, Jennifer writes about identity\, language\, home. While raising kids in the San Francisco Bay Area at the dawning of the internet\, she worked as copy editor/editor/content writer for BabyCenter\, PlanetRx\, and many other now obsolete .coms. But Jennifer dreamed of seeing her name on paper\, in print\, eventually writing for Parenting\, Parents\, Natural Solutions\, Scholastic\, Woman’s Day\, Real Simple. \nThen\, in the early 2000s\, something else caught her eye: the back-page essays. Who were these first-person voices and how did they tell such moving stories? Curious and on the opposite coast\, Jennifer enrolled in a creative nonfiction class: one\, which led to another\, and then another\, finally culminating in an MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts.
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/stories-on-sunday-jennifer-lang-places-we-left-behind/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
CATEGORIES:Hippo Organizing,Online,Reading,Stories on Sunday
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SUMMARY:How-To Tuesday: Getting Found — Discoverability & SEO for Writers in a Time of AI\, Evolving Algorithms and Information Overload (Donna Talarico)
DESCRIPTION:Most people turn to search engines or a specific website’s search feature to find what they’re looking for — including books. Getting found — showing up in a Google or other search engine results/listings — is crucial in a day of information overload\, short attention spans\, and evolving algorithms. \nIn this talk focused on SEO for writers\, Hippocampus Magazine founder/managing editor Donna Talarico shares tips from her day job in content strategy about how SEO can help you build and sustain your platform. This session will: \n\ngive a primer on search engine optimization (SEO) and debunk some myths\ncover how to research what users (aka potential readers) are actually searching for (hint: it’s probably not your name)\nshare how to use that data to inform content creation choices across mediums and platforms\nexplore how AI and voice assistants are affecting the ways people find things on the internet\nlook ahead to anticipated challenges and trends for SEO\n\nAttendees will leave with ideas to revise existing (or create new!) content and marketing materials\, including your website\, book metadata\, directory/catalog listings\, and more — maybe even your book subtitle! \n>>Read our related craft column\, “You’re Writing for Search Engines\, Too: SEO for Tips for Writers” \nAbout the series: How-To Tuesdays are monthly talks on the craft of creative nonfiction\, publishing\, marketing and the writing life led by Hippocampus Magazine editors & contributors. Your registration helps fund our contributor payments and other costs associated with running our journal. \nMeet the Speaker\nDonna Talarico\, founder/publisher of Hippocampus Magazine\, has more than 25 years of experience in marketing and communications; about half of that time has been in higher education. She serves as an editor for Link Journal (from the HighEdWeb Association)\, writes an adult learner recruiting column for Wiley\, and has contributed to Guardian Higher Education Network\, The Writer\, mental_floss\, Games World of Puzzles\, and others. Her creative nonfiction appears in The Superstition Review\, The Los Angeles Review\, The New York Times (Tiny Love Stories)\, Wanderlust Journal\, and The Writing Disorder (which nominated her essay “A Prequel to My Sister’s” for a Pushcart Prize). Donna serves on the residency faculty (with a focus on the business of publishing) at the Maslow Family Graduate Creative Writing Program at Wilkes University.
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/how-to-tuesday-getting-found-seo-for-writers/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
CATEGORIES:Hippo Organizing,How-to Tuesdays,Marketing/Promotion,Online
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SUMMARY:How-To Tuesdays: It's Short\, So It Must Be Flash\, Right? What Your Editor is *Really* Looking For in Flash Creative Nonfiction (Wendy Fontaine/Rae Pagliarulo)
DESCRIPTION:How-To Tuesdays are monthly talks on the craft of creative nonfiction\, publishing\, marketing and the writing life led by Hippocampus Magazine editors & contributors.\n \nEver wondered what makes something “flash\,” and not just a really short essay? Scratching your head over why some flash creative nonfiction pieces get chosen for publication while others don’t? \n\nJoin Hippocampus Magazine flash CNF editors Rae Pagliarulo and Wendy Fontaine to learn more about this subgenre of creative nonfiction in our first How-To Tuesday. In this webinar\, you will: \n\n\nlearn unique elements that distinguish the form\nget an inside look at what flash editors are really looking for in submissions\nexplore the specific reasons why a few of our favorite flash essays made the cut\ndiscover literary magazines that accept flash (and other outlets for your work)\n\nIdeal for writers of all levels\, this session will leave you inspired to enrich your existing work or try flash for the first time. \nNote that registration for our events will close three hours prior to the event so we have time to finalize the guest list and log into the platform to get ready for the session.  \n\n\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKERS\n\nWendy Fontaine\, Assistant Flash Editor\nWendy Fontaine \nWendy Fontaine’s work has appeared in dozens of literary journals and magazines including Pithead Chapel\, Hippocampus Magazine\, Longridge Review\, Creative Nonfiction’s Sunday Reads\, Sweet Lit and Yemassee. She has received nonfiction prizes from Identity Theory\, Hunger Mountain and Tiferet Journal\, as well as nominations to the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net anthologies. A native New Englander\, she currently resides in southern California with her daughter and husband.\n\nRae Pagliarulo\, Flash Editor/Associate Editor\nRae Pagliarulo \nRae Pagliarulo works as a nonprofit fundraising consultant in her lifelong home of Philadelphia. Her essays\, poems\, and articles have appeared in Full Grown People\, bedfellows\, Hippocampus\, The Manifest-Station\, r.kv.r.y. quarterly\, the Brevity Blog\, and numerous others. Her work is anthologized in The Best of Philadelphia Stories: 10th Anniversary Edition. She is the 2014 recipient of the Sandy Crimmins National Poetry Prize\, a 2019 Best of the Net nominee\, and a graduate of Rosemont College’s MFA program.
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/how-to-tuesdays-what-your-flash-editor-is-really-looking-for-wendy-fontaine-rae-pagliarulo/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
CATEGORIES:Craft,Hippo Organizing,How-to Tuesdays
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SUMMARY:HippoCamp Minis Part 2: An Evening With the Editors!
DESCRIPTION: Registration closes at 2 p.m. eastern\, 8/13.  \nOur volunteer editors are incredible humans — and their expertise goes well beyond their roles at Hippocampus\, and even the literary world. In this session full of brief sessions\, you’ll take away plenty of practical knowledge about writing\, publishing\, marketing\, and living the creative life.  Oh… and this event also serves as special preview of an TBA series from Hippocampus Magazine! \nNote: This is ONE OF THREE events we’re hosting the weekend of the 12-13th! Read about all of them here. \nThis webinar session will feature: \n\nHow to Survive That Angsty First Year After Your Book Pubs (Steph Auteri\, essays editor)We’ve all heard of postpartum book depression. I can confirm: the struggle is real. I spent the year after my own book pubbed flailing about\, trying to find the Next Big Project\, forcing myself to write a proposal that never felt quite right. In this flash session\, I’ll share my top tips for writers who have just introduced their first book to the world\, including how to create your own metrics for success; knowing when to cut yourself a break; allowing yourself creative play; considering the possibility of non-book projects; and remembering what you’re passionate about… and why. \nDon’t worry: If your book project is still in the work\, you’ll still benefit from the ideas covered here! \nAbout the speaker: Steph Auteri has written for the Atlantic\, the Guardian\, Pacific Standard\, VICE\, and other publications. Her more literary work has appeared in Poets & Writers\, Creative Nonfiction\, Under the Gum Tree\, and elsewhere. She is the author of A Dirty Word and the founder of Guerrilla Sex Ed. \n\nWhat If I Can’t Remember? Using Mistakes of Memory to Write Creative Nonfiction (Wendy Fontaine\, assistant flash editor)Memories fade\, morph and sometimes disappear. And yet\, we still need to write about them. In this flash session\, we will touch on the science behind memory distortion and explore how these so-called mistakes might be useful in unlocking the emotional truth of our experiences. \nAbout the speaker: Wendy Fontaine’s work has appeared in dozens of literary journals and magazines including Pithead Chapel\, Hippocampus Magazine\, Longridge Review\, Creative Nonfiction’s Sunday Reads\, Sweet Lit and Yemassee. She has received nonfiction prizes from Identity Theory\, Hunger Mountain and Tiferet Journal\, as well as nominations to the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net anthologies. A native New Englander\, she currently resides in southern California with her daughter and husband. \n\nHeart and Soul: 10 Things Contributors Taught Me About Writing & Life (Kristen Paulson-Nguyen\, writing life editor)Writing Life Editor Kristen Paulson-Nguyen dives deep into the column\, rediscovering hard fought wisdom from contributors. She’ll explore timeless topics\, from working with your first book editor\, to finding the writing groups that help you soar\, getting stuck and finding a path forward. \nAbout the speaker: Kristen Paulson-Nguyen is a graduate of GrubStreet’s Memoir and Essay Incubators and has taught courses in flash and the memoir proposal. She edits the Writing Life column for Hippocampus. Through her service Title Doctor\, she has titled 17 works of fiction\, nonfiction\, memoir\, a craft book\, a memoir-in-essays\, and The Writer’s 2021 contest-winning essay. She is querying her memoir \n\nThe Web is for Everyone: Accessibility & Inclusivity Tips for Writers & Content Creators (Donna Talarico\, founder/managing editor)As writers engaged in the literary community\, it’s likely that you create and/or share content across the digital platforms\, including your website\, social media\, and email. But before you hit send\, post\, or publish\, are you certain what you’re about to share will be accessible to all? In this flash session (geared toward non-techies!)\, Donna will share wisdom from her day job in content strategy/UX. We’ll cover the basics of web accessibility — what it is and why it matters — and how to become more mindful about the written and multimedia content your create or share online. \nAbout the speaker: Donna Talarico\, founder/publisher of Hippocampus Magazine and Books\, has more than 25 years of experience in marketing and communications; about half of that time has been in higher education. She serves as an editor for Link Journal (from the HighEdWeb)\, writes an adult learner recruiting column for Wiley\, and has contributed to Guardian Higher Education Network\, The Writer\, mental_floss\, Games World of Puzzles\, and others. Her creative nonfiction appears in The Superstition Review\, The Los Angeles Review\, The Los Angeles Times\, and Wanderlust Journal. Donna serves or has served on the faculty of graduate creative writing programs\, including Wilkes University and Rosemont College\, as well as at Pennsylvania College of Art & Design. \n\nThis is ONE OF THREE events we’re hosting the weekend of the 12-13th! Read about all of them here.  \n(events will be recorded and made available to registered attendees for 30 days)
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/hippocamp-minis-part-2-an-evening-with-the-editors/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
CATEGORIES:Craft,Hippo Organizing,Online
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SUMMARY:HippoCamp Minis Part One: 5 CNF Topics in a Flash!
DESCRIPTION: Registration closes at 9 a.m. eastern\, 8/13.  \nSome conferences call these fast-paced events lightning round talks. In honor of the short CNF subgenre\, we call them flash sessions! These have always been a popular and fun part of our in-person conference and\, this year\, we’re bringing them online. \nYou’ll hear from five speakers who will share bite-sized wisdom with practical takeaways on a topic they’re passionate about. Stay tuned for the line-up! \nNote: This is ONE OF THREE events we’re hosting the weekend of the 12-13th! Read about all of them here. \n(events will be recorded and made available to registered attendees for 30 days) \nThis webinar session will feature: \n\nThe Excavation of Glimmers with Anita GillGlimmers\, a concept coined by Pam Houston\, is a method of collecting random observances in the world and finding them as sources for inspiration or enhancement in one’s writing. In this flash session\, we will uncover our own glimmers and how they offer an innovative approach to generating new work and/or enhancing revision. \nAbout the speaker: Anita Gill is a Fulbright Scholar whose work has appeared in The Iowa Review\, Kweli\, Prairie Schooner\, Coachella Review\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, The Rumpus\, and elsewhere. Her writing has been listed as Notable in Best American Essays and has won The Iowa Review Award in Nonfiction. She holds an MA in Literature from American University\, and an MFA in writing from Pacific University. She currently serves as nonfiction editor for Hypertext Review while working on a novel. Find her online at www.anitagill.ink. \n\nThe First Book Vulnerability Hangover with Megan J. KaleitaHere’s everything I did wrong when it came to my first book being published: All of it. I did everything wrong. I didn’t have a community where I lived. I moved across the country when I should have been doing readings and networking. I thought my job came first (the one that paid the bills\, not the one I liked). I didn’t understand the impact my book would have on the right people and was too worried about the people who wouldn’t like it. In truth\, I had a vulnerability hangover and was running from it. This is everything I’d do differently. \nAbout the speaker: Megan J. Kaleita is the author of This Book is Brought to You By My Student Loans\, and has comedic essays in McSweeny’s\, LitReactor\, LadySpike\, Daily Drunk Mag\, and the upcoming anthology Isn’t She Great: Writer’s On Women Led Comedies from 9-5 to Booksmart. She has a BA from Hartwick College and an MA from Wilkes University\, and has had a jumble of careers including medical receptionist\, marketing manager\, professional blog writer\, and more. She currently lives in Boise\, Idaho but please don’t judge her for that. \n\nOn Chaos and the Researched Braided Memoir with Jennifer LundenContemporary memoir is becoming more multidisciplinary\, incorporating research and original reporting on subjects as wide-ranging as science\, history\, social justice\, cultural criticism\, and more. Finding the form for these complex\, non-linear narratives can feel chaotic and overwhelming. How do people pull it off? How does a writer decide what goes where? In this talk Jennifer Lunden will discuss her process in structuring her book American Breakdown: Our Ailing Nation\, My Body’s Revolt\, and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Who Brought Me Back to Life\, and how she came to recognize the role of chaos theory as both subject and inspiration. \nAbout the speaker: The recipient of the 2019 Maine Arts Fellowship for Literary Arts and the 2016 Bread Loaf–Rona Jaffe Foundation Scholarship in Nonfiction\, Jennifer Lunden writes at the intersection of health and the environment. Her essays have been published in Creative Nonfiction\, Orion\, River Teeth\, DIAGRAM\, Longreads\, and other journals; selected for several anthologies; and praised as notable in Best American Essays. A former therapist\, she was named Maine’s Social Worker of the Year in 2012. She and her husband\, the artist Frank Turek\, live in a little house in Portland\, Maine\, where they keep several chickens\, two cats\, and some gloriously untamed gardens. \n\nSetting as Character: When Place Enlivens Narrative with Suzanne Ohlmann To keep the your reader on the page\, you must invite them immediately into a sense of place. At times\, a well-written place elicits not just setting\, but morphs into its own character. This flash session will take a brief but colorful dive into the technical skills that launch the magical blurring between character and setting\, and create a more tangible experience of place for the reader. \nAbout the speaker: Suzanne Ohlmann is a writer and registered nurse who lives in Nebraska and San Antonio\, Texas. She and her husband\, a firefighter\, share their home with a community of dogs\, cats\, the occasional opossum\, and their son. She works with rural heart failure patients who would otherwise not have access to advanced health care\, and who love to remind her that they’d rather be frying frog legs or fixing fence line than listening to her advice. \n\nWriting Beyond Shame: 5 Steps to Exposing Yourself on the Page with Paul ZakrzewskiMemoir and essays often hinge on the power of your narrator—a version of you—to tell a compelling story. But for writers recovering from trauma\, the effects of toxic shame can overwhelm our desire to get our voice and inner journey down on the page. Drawing from findings and tools in contemporary psychology (ie. Internal Family Systems)\, 12-step recovery\, and writing teachers like Peter Elbow and Julia Cameron\, we’ll explore several ways to recover and (re)center your authentic self in your work. \nAbout the speaker: Since 2005 Paul Zakrzewski has helped writers to dig deep and tell their most authentic life stories through the application of craft and insight. He currently works 1:1 to help authors finish market-ready drafts\, proposals\, query letters\, and more. His writing has appeared in the New York Times\, Washington Post\, Brevity\, Essay Daily and elsewhere. The recipient of an MFA from VCFA\, he edited the prize-winning anthology Lost Tribe: Jewish Fiction from the Edge (Perennial) and currently hosts The Book I Had to Write show\, available wherever you listen to podcasts. \n\nThis is ONE OF THREE events we’re hosting the weekend of the 12-13th! Read about all of them here.  \n(events will be recorded and made available to registered attendees for 30 days)
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/hippocamp-minis-part-one-5-cnf-topics-in-a-flash/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
CATEGORIES:Craft,Hippo Organizing,Online
ORGANIZER;CN="Hippocampus Magazine and Books":MAILTO:hippocampusmagazine@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:A Night of Nonfiction: Debut CNF Author Readings & Discussions - Summer 2023
DESCRIPTION: Registration is closed.  \nThis is the online version of our ever-popular in-person event! It will feature readings from debut CNF authors\, followed by a special guest reading and then a panel discussion\, led by Hippocampus Magazine’s interviews editor Lara Lillibridge. \nNote: This is ONE OF THREE events we’re hosting the weekend of the 12-13th! Read about all of them here. \nThe evening will feature: \nAlyssa Graybeal (Floppy: Takes of a Genetic Freak of Nature at the End of the World) Alyssa Graybeal  is a writer and cartoonist whose work explores the emotional landscape of chronic illness and disability\, which can be funnier than it sounds. Her memoir Floppy: Tales of a Genetic Freak of Nature at the End of the World (2023) won the Red Hen Press Nonfiction Award\, and it is one of the first books about living with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome from a patient’s perspective. She works as an editor and writing coach in Astoria\, Oregon. \nAnne Pinkerton (Were You Close? A Sister’s Quest to Know the Brother She Lost)  Anne Pinkerton’s memoir\, Were You Close? A sister’s quest to know the brother she lost\, published in April 2023 through Vine Leaves Press. Her poetry and essays have appeared in Hippocampus Magazine\, Modern Loss\, “Beautiful Things” at River Teeth Journal\, Entropy\, Lunch Ticket\, among other journals and anthologies. Anne holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from Bay Path University and studied poetry as an undergrad at Hampshire College. She grew up in Texas and lives in western Massachusetts. \nAnthony J. Mohr (Every Other Weekend: Coming of Age With Two Different Dads) Anthony J. Mohr served for twenty-six years as a judge on the Superior Court of California\, County of Los Angeles. He also sat as a judge pro tem on the California Court of Appeal. In January 2021\, Anthony became a fellow at the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University and is now a senior editor of the Harvard ALI Social Impact Review. His stories and essays have received five Pushcart Prize nominations. He has worked on the staffs of Evening Street Review\, Fifth Wednesday Journal\, Hippocampus Magazine\, and Under the Sun. \nSean Enfield (Holy American Burnout!)  Sean Enfield is a writer and educator from Dallas\, Texas. His debut collection of essays\, Holy American Burnout!\, is forthcoming from Split/Lip Press in December 2023. His work has been published in Reed Magazine\, Hayden’s Ferry\, Witness Magazine\, Terrain.org\, Tahoma Literary Review\, and The Rumpus\, among others\, and he was the 2020 recipient of the Fourth Genre’s Steinberg Memorial Essay Prize. Sean received his MFA in creative writing from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks where he served as the editor-in-chief of Permafrost Magazine. Now\, he serves as an assistant nonfiction editor at Terrain.org. \nAthena Dixon\, special guest reader (The Loneliness Files)  Born and raised in Northeast Ohio\, Athena Dixon is a poet\, essayist\, and editor. She is the author of the forthcoming essay collection The Loneliness Files (Tin House 2023)\, The Incredible Shrinking Woman (Split/Lip Press 2020) and No God In This Room (Winner of the Intersectional Midwest Chapbook Contest\, Argus House Press 2018). Her work also appears in The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic (Haymarket Books) and Getting to the Truth: The Practice and Craft of Creative Nonfiction (Books by Hippocampus; 2021). \n\nAthena’s work has appeared in various publications both online and in print. She has been nominated for three Pushcart Prizes for both poetry and creative nonfiction as well as a Best of the Net nomination for poetry. She is a fellow of Callaloo and V.O.N.A. as well as a Tin House Winter Workshop attendee. Additionally\, she has presented at AWP\, HippoCamp\, and The Muse and the Marketplace among other panels and conferences across the nation. Athena was the Founder of Linden Avenue Literary Journal\, which published from 2012-2021. She writes\, edits\, and resides in Philadelphia. \n\nLearn more about (or purchase!) these titles at our Bookshop affiliate site. (Sean Enfield’s book can be preordered directly from Split/Lip here. \nThis is ONE OF THREE events we’re hosting the weekend of the 12-13th! Read about all of them here.  \n(events will be recorded and made available to registered attendees for 30 days) \n Registration is closed. 
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/night-of-nonfiction-2023/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
CATEGORIES:Hippo Organizing,Online,Reading
ORGANIZER;CN="Hippocampus Magazine and Books":MAILTO:hippocampusmagazine@gmail.com
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