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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/
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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
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CATEGORIES:Community,Craft,Education,Hippo Organizing,Marketing/Promotion,Online,Publishing
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