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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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SUMMARY:Nonfiction Authors Association Online Conference 2024
DESCRIPTION:Note: This is not our event\, but we’re posting it to our event calendar because our involvement; we’re always happy to share news and opportunities from other creative nonfiction organizations!  \nHippocampus Magazine founder/publisher Donna Talarico is joining past HippoCamp speaker Joey Garcia for a session about diversity\, equity\, and inclusion at the 2024 Nonfiction Writers Conference. Donna’s portion of the session will expand upon the HippoCamp Mini presentation she gave in 2023\, which was all about the ways you can make your web and social media content more accessible to all users. \nThe conference\, run by the Nonfiction Authors Association\, is Weds. May 8 through Friday\, May 10\, and Donna and Joey kick things off for Thursday morning. \nGet more details about the event here. \n  \nOUR FULL SESSION DESCRIPTION: \nTips for Creating Accessible\, Inclusive Content & Reducing Bias in Your Writing \nBefore you hit send\, post\, or publish\, are you certain that the content you’re about to share will be accessible\, equitable\, and inclusive? In the first half of this session\, Donna Talarico will cover the basics of web accessibility—what it is and why it matters (geared toward non-techies!). During the session’s second half\, Joey Garcia will help you identify and prepare to overcome implicit bias\, understand when you need to hire a sensitivity reader\, and how to take proactive steps that create positive change. You’ll leave this session feeling more mindful about the written and multimedia content you create or share online\, whether with other writers or a broader audience of readers.
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/nonfiction-authors-association-online-conference-2024/
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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. 
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LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
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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/
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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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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: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: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. 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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: 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: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:HOW-TO TUESDAY: Diving Into Topics that Matter to You: Writing & Publishing Op-Eds With Kelly Caldwell
DESCRIPTION:We’re living through an era when other people’s opinions are on blast\, all the time\, everywhere we go. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t voice your own —  it just means you might want to do so effectively\, and with style. \nIn this session\, we’ll discuss how to go beyond downloading our thoughts to crafting a good op-ed\, one where writers share their expertise and weigh-in on the most critical issues of the day. \nIn this session\, together we’ll explore: \n\nBlending the art of creative writing with the tools of logic\, both of which are key to writing an op-ed that works;\nFinding the right audience for your work\, preferably in an outlet that pays;\nGenerating ideas for and outlining a few op-eds of your own.\n\nOp-eds are a good way for new writers to break into publishing and for established ones to expand their brand or promote forthcoming books. And in the fever swamp of our current public life\, you don’t want to write something sloppy that\, three news cycles later\, you’re apologizing for on social media. \nWe hope you will join us! Note: All registered attendees will get a link to the recording\, so be sure to register even if you cannot make it life. \nAbout the series: How-To Tuesdays are monthly talks on the craft of creative nonfiction\, publishing\, marketing and the writing life led by Hippocampus Magazine editors & contributors. Your registration helps fund our contributor payments and other costs associated with running our journal. \nABOUT THE SPEAKER \nKelly Caldwell’s essays\, articles\, and op-eds have appeared in Vox\, House Beautiful\, The Writer\, sugarsugarsalt\, Pacific Standard\, the Huffington Post\, and Newsday\, among others. She teaches creative nonfiction and is dean of faculty for Gotham Writers Workshop in New York City. So far\, she hasn’t published anything that’s prompted Neil DeGrasse Tyson to mock her on social media.  \nAll of our speakers have a connection to Hippocampus Magazine. Her work also appears in our craft anthology\, Getting to the Truth: The Craft and Practice of Creative Nonfiction (Hippocampus Books).
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/how-to-tuesday-writing-op-eds-caldwell/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
CATEGORIES:Craft,Hippo Organizing,How-to Tuesdays,Online
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SUMMARY:HOW-TO TUESDAY: Exploring Forms in CNF: What's a Hermit Crab Doing in My Essay? 
DESCRIPTION:In this How-To Tuesday\, we’ll talk about one of the most fun experimental forms of creative nonfiction: the hermit crab essay! \nThese forms can also be an effective way to approach sensitive topics with levity and wit. Your essay could take the form of anything\, from a recipe or personals ad to a corporate memo or a weather report! Think outside the box! \nTogether\, in this session we will: \n\ntalk about what they are and how they work\nlook at great examples of hermit crab essays\nstart thinking about how to create our own\n\nIf you’ve always been curious about experimental forms creative nonfiction — or you just want a refresher! — this session will leave you inspired and ready to write. \nAbout the series: How-To Tuesdays are monthly(ish) talks on the craft of creative nonfiction\, publishing\, marketing\, and the writing life led by Hippocampus Magazine editors & contributors. Your registration helps fund our contributor payments and other costs associated with running our journal. \nAbout Our Speaker\n \nRae Pagliarulo is associate editor of Hippocampus Magazine. She works as a nonprofit fundraising consultant in her lifelong home of Philadelphia. Her essays\, poems\, and articles have appeared in Full Grown People\, bedfellows\, Hippocampus\, The Manifest-Station\, r.kv.r.y. quarterly\, the Brevity Blog\, and numerous others. Her work is anthologized in The Best of Philadelphia Stories: 10th Anniversary Edition. \nRae is the 2014 recipient of the Sandy Crimmins National Poetry Prize\, a 2019 Best of the Net nominee\, and a graduate of Rosemont College’s MFA program.
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/how-to-tuesday-whats-a-hermit-crab-doing-in-my-essay/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
CATEGORIES:Craft,Hippo Organizing,How-to Tuesdays,Online
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SUMMARY:Deep Dive: Can’t Draw? Let’s Make Comics! Exploring Graphic & Hybrid Memoir (Sunday\, Option 1)
DESCRIPTION:New this year\, we’re holding two intensive/generative 90-minute workshops each day; these are NOT included in the main ticket package and require separate registration. \n **If you are having trouble checking out** you may now also purchase a registration at our Books website — this is a temporary workaround until our magazine website issue is resolved.  \n\nAre you a writer who needs to get unstuck? \nAre you comics-curious? \nLove graphic memoirs but no idea how to start? \nIn this workshop\, no drawing skills are needed – come as you are. We’ll dive into how to start making comics\, gently explore areas of resistance\, and build our capacity for vulnerability. Together\, we’ll discuss what graphic memoir is and practice making some work together. You’ll leave with: \n\na how-to toolbox about the language and construction of comics\nprompts to help you tenderly approach moments of resistance in your creative practice\nstrategies for starting a regular comics practice\n\nCome join me! Let’s draw together! \nThis session is limited to 20 attendees for optimal engagement with instructor and each other. Note: Deep Dives are using the Zoom meeting format where all attendees will be on screen.  \n\nAbout the speaker: Cara Gormally (they/them) is a cartoonist\, researcher\, and professor. Cara’s narrative nonfiction comics remix autobiographical stories with research to make science relatable. Their comics have appeared in the Washington Post\, Mutha Magazine\, and other places. Their debut graphic memoir\, Everything is Fine\, I’ll Just Work Harder\, is a story about an unexpected healing journey to come home to themself\, was published in April from Street Noise Books. A D.C. metro area resident\, Cara is an avid morning person\, loves nerdy research deep dives\, and has more questions than answers. \n\nTICKET INFO
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/deep-dive-comics/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
CATEGORIES:Craft,Hippo Organizing,Online
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SUMMARY:Deep Dive: Writing from the Heart: Where Grief Becomes Art (Sunday\, Option 2)
DESCRIPTION:New this year\, we’re holding two intensive/generative 90-minute workshops each day; these are NOT included in the main ticket package and require separate registration.  \n **If you are having trouble checking out** you may now also purchase a registration at our Books website — this is a temporary workaround until our magazine website issue is resolved.  \n\nGrief\, though universal\, makes us uncomfortable\, especially when complicated by circumstances associated with shame or stigma. During this ninety-minute workshop\, memoirists Melanie Brooks and Eileen Vorbach Collins\, will discuss how giving words to hard stories — one about suicide loss\, the other about HIV/AIDS — allowed them to remap their losses\, process their experiences\, and explore life in the new normal after loss. \nModerated by Lisa Cooper Ellison\, a trauma-informed writing coach\, the session will open with short readings by the authors. Together\, they’ll discuss the personal and cultural challenges of telling grief stories\, how they used writing to process their experiences\, and the writing lessons they learned along the way. The workshop will include a short\, guided writing exercise\, time for participants to share\, and a Q&A session. \nAbout the speakers:  \nMelanie Brooks\nMelanie Brooks is the author of A Hard Silence and Writing Hard Stories. She teaches creative nonfiction in the MFA programs at Bay Path University and Western Connecticut State University and professional writing at Northeastern University. She holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Southern Maine and a certificate in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University. Her essays and interviews have been published in The Boston Globe\, HuffPost\, Yankee\, The Washington Post\, Ms.\, Psychology Today\, The Globe and Mail\, and other notable publications. She lives in New Hampshire. \n\nEileen Vorbach Collins\nEileen Vorbach Collins writes true stories she wishes were fiction and fairy tales she wishes were true. Her essays have received the Diana Woods Memorial Award for Creative Nonfiction\, The Gabriele Rico Challenge Award\, a Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award\, and two Pushcart Prize nominations.  Her essay collection\, Love in the Archives\, a Patchwork of True Stories About Suicide Loss\, published in 2023\, was a Foreword Indies Finalist and received a Pencraft Award for Literary Excellence and the Sarton Women’s Book Award for memoir. \n\nLisa Cooper Ellison\nLisa Cooper Ellison is an author\, speaker\, trauma-informed writing coach\, and host of the Writing Your Resilience podcast. She works at the intersection of storytelling and healing\, blending personal experience with suicide loss and complex PTSD with clinical training to help writers transform difficult experiences into powerful art. Her essays and stories have appeared on Risk! and in The New York Times\, HuffPost\, Hippocampus Magazine\, Kenyon Review Online\, and other notable outlets. \n\nThis session is limited to 20 attendees for optimal engagement with speakers and each other. Note: Deep Dives are using the Zoom meeting format where all attendees will be on screen.  \n\nTICKET INFO
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/deep-dive-grief-2025-sunday/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
CATEGORIES:Conference,Craft,Hippo Organizing,Online
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SUMMARY:Gotham Writers Nonfiction Conference
DESCRIPTION:Gotham Writers hosts a variety of workshops and conferences each year\, both in New York City and virtually. \nAmong them is the Gotham Writers Nonfiction Conference\, slated for March 21-22\, 2025. This online\, two-day event will feature a variety of TBA sessions and panels. Donna Talarico\, our founder and publisher\, will be part of a nonfiction book marketing panel. \nGet all the details at the Gotham Writers website.
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/gotham-writers-nonfiction-conference/
CATEGORIES:Hippo Participating,Marketing/Promotion,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260630T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260630T203000
DTSTAMP:20260607T092839
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SUMMARY:HOW-TO TUESDAY: What is Evergreen Content? Tips for Getting the Most Out of Your Material
DESCRIPTION:Description coming soon. We just wanted to make sure you knew it was happening since we’re linking to this in our May newsletter. So\, save the date and prepare for some marketing goodness! \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 \n\n		\n			\n						\n				   \n					 						 \n							Donna TalaricoFounder\, Publisher & Managing Editor\n							\n								Donna Talarico is the founder of Hippocampus Magazine and Books and its conference\, HippoCamp. Her creative nonfiction appears in The Superstition Review\, The Los Angeles Review\, The Los Angeles Times\, The New York Times (Modern Love’s Tiny Love Stories)\, Wanderlust Journal\, and The Writing Disorder (from which her essay “A Prequel to My Sister’s” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2022). \nWhile running Hippocampus is a full-time effort in itself\, it’s a volunteer position; her *actual* job is as an independent writer and content strategist in higher education. Donna has more than two decades of experience in marketing\, communications\, writing and media\, and about half of that time has been in higher education. She speaks at higher education and publishing conferences\, 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. \nDonna teaches or has taught about branding and digital identity in several graduate creative writing programs\, including Wilkes University and Rosemont College\, as well as at Pennsylvania College of Art & Design. She earned an MFA in creative writing from Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre\, Pa. (2010)\, and\, later\, she returned to Wilkes to pursue a master’s in literary publishing (2016). She also has an MBA from Elizabethtown College and a bachelor’s degree in communication studies from Wilkes. \nShe lives Lancaster\, Pa. with her husband\, Kevin Beerman and their cat. She loves road trips\, national parks\, board games\, greasy-spoon diner breakfasts\, and museums.
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/how-to-tuesday-what-is-evergreen-content-tips-for-getting-the-most-out-of-your-material/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
CATEGORIES:Hippo Organizing,How-to Tuesdays,Marketing/Promotion,Online
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260815
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260817
DTSTAMP:20260607T092839
CREATED:20260429T014104Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260429T014241Z
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SUMMARY:Save the Date: HippoCamp Online Weekend 2026
DESCRIPTION:Information to come! We just created this event as a placeholder so it shows up on our online calendar. \nTwo days of CNF goodness. HippoCamp Online Weekend features mini sessions\, our signature night of nonfiction\, an publishing roundtable\, and optional deep dives. \nGET UPDATES: \nWe’ll share updates via social media and our newsletter; if you don’t get emails from us yet\, you can sign up here.
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/save-the-date-hippocamp-online-weekend-2026/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
CATEGORIES:Hippo Organizing,Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="Hippocampus Magazine and Books":MAILTO:hippocampusmagazine@gmail.com
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