BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Hippocampus Magazine - ECPv6.16.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Hippocampus Magazine X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Hippocampus Magazine REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20270314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20271107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250128T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250128T203000 DTSTAMP:20260607T142429 CREATED:20240705T222821Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250128T214159Z UID:61785-1738090800-1738096200@www.hippocampusmagazine.com 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/how-to-tuesday-kelly-web-e1735597771892.png ORGANIZER;CN="Hippocampus Magazine and Books":MAILTO:hippocampusmagazine@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250513T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250513T203000 DTSTAMP:20260607T142429 CREATED:20250412T210325Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250513T213331Z UID:64062-1747162800-1747168200@www.hippocampusmagazine.com 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/how-to-tuesday-rae-web-500-x-500-px.png ORGANIZER;CN="Hippocampus Magazine and Books":MAILTO:hippocampusmagazine@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250817T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250817T153000 DTSTAMP:20260607T142429 CREATED:20250703T203634Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250808T020639Z UID:64861-1755439200-1755444600@www.hippocampusmagazine.com 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/deep-dives-500-x-500-px.png ORGANIZER;CN="Hippocampus Magazine and Books":MAILTO:hippocampusmagazine@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250817T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250817T153000 DTSTAMP:20260607T142429 CREATED:20250707T214506Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250731T192213Z UID:64906-1755439200-1755444600@www.hippocampusmagazine.com 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/deep-dives-500-x-500-px.png ORGANIZER;CN="Hippocampus Magazine and Books":MAILTO:hippocampusmagazine@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260321 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260323 DTSTAMP:20260607T142429 CREATED:20251024T193818Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251024T193947Z UID:65766-1774051200-1774223999@www.hippocampusmagazine.com 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/gothamCNF.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260630T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260630T203000 DTSTAMP:20260607T142429 CREATED:20260528T215143Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260528T220612Z UID:67220-1782846000-1782851400@www.hippocampusmagazine.com 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/How-to-tuesday-evergreen-web.png ORGANIZER;CN="Hippocampus Magazine and Books":MAILTO:hippocampusmagazine@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260815 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260817 DTSTAMP:20260607T142429 CREATED:20260429T014104Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260429T014241Z UID:67014-1786752000-1786924799@www.hippocampusmagazine.com 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/2026-online-event-.png ORGANIZER;CN="Hippocampus Magazine and Books":MAILTO:hippocampusmagazine@gmail.com END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR