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SUMMARY:HippoCamp Minis: Publishing & Promotion - 5 CNF Topics in a Flash (2025)
DESCRIPTION: **If you are having trouble checking out** you may now also purchase a registration at our Books website — this is a temporary workaround until our magazine website issue is resolved. Registered attendees will get access to event recordings for 30 days. \nSome conferences call these fast-paced events lightning round talks. In honor of the short CNF subgenre\, we call them flash sessions! These have always been a popular and fun part of our in-person HippoCamp conference and\, this year\, we’re once again bringing their magic online. \nIn our Sunday HippoCamp Minis sessions\, you’ll hear from five speakers (including Hippocampus Magazine editors) who will share bite-sized wisdom with practical takeaways on a topic they’re passionate about\, all related to promoting and publishing creative nonfiction. \nThis is ONE OF FOUR events we’re hosting the weekend of the 16-17th! Read about all of them here. \nThis webinar session will feature: \nInbox Hero: How to Write a Newsletter People Love (Steph Auteri)\nIn a world in which publications fold on the regular and social media platforms come and go (RIP Twitter)\, an email newsletter remains one of the best ways to reach readers. But do you REALLY need to bother with all that? And if you do\, well… what should it even BE? What does one even put into a newsletter? How does one build a newsletter that serves their writing life on both a personal and a professional level? \nIn this flash session\, you’ll learn: \n\nwhy producing a newsletter is totally worth your time\nwhat to write about in your newsletter\nbest practices for building a readership\n…and whatever the heck else we can manage to fit into 10 minutes\n\nAbout the speaker: Steph Auteri\, our essays editor\, has written for everyone from the Atlantic\, Pacific Standard\, and Rewire News Group to Poets & Writers\, Creative Nonfiction\, and Cutleaf Journal. But one of her favorite things to write is her email newsletter\, Thunder Thighs\, which has been going out to subscribers for god knows how long. She also launched a side newsletter\, Guerrilla Sex Ed\, and has written email campaigns for a number of clients. Learn more at stephauteri.com. \n\nGetting the Word Out: How to Pitch Your Book to Local Journalists (Molly Bilinski)\nGetting the word out about a new book can be daunting\, but leveraging local news outlets can help. There are still many community-focused journalists hungry for stories\, and sending the right pitch at the right time can benefit both the author and the journalist. \nIn this flash session\, focused on pitching books to journalists\, Hippocampus Magazine Articles Editor Molly Bilinski shares strategies and tips for authors seeking local news coverage. \nDuring this session\, participants will learn how to: \n\nIdentify the local news writers they can pitch their books to\nCapture the attention of local journalists through timing and positioning\nDraft a pitch email to local journalists\n\nAttendees will leave the session with a better understanding of the local media landscape\, as well as how to pitch their book to local journalists for coverage. \nAbout the speaker: Molly Bilinski is an award-winning journalist and storyteller based in Monroe County\, Pa. The environment and science reporter for LehighValleyNews.com\, her bylines have also appeared in the Reading Eagle\, The Press of Atlantic City and The Morning Call. She holds a masters of fine arts in creative nonfiction from Wilkes University’s Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing. A member of the Society of Environmental Journalists and Kutztown University’s English Advisory Board\, she also serves as Hippocampus Magazine’s articles editor. \n\nBe a Literary Citizen: How to Create Community and Why it Matters (Jamie Beth Cohen)\nSome writers are introverts\, some are not. Introverts and extroverts alike may crave the community and support of other writers\, but don’t always know how to find their people. \nThis session will highlight \n\nthe benefits of being part of a writing community\nthe different kinds of writing communities\nhow to find or create a writing community\n\nAbout the speaker: Jamie Beth Cohen writes fiction\, creative nonfiction\, and poetry. Her words have appeared in the New York Times\, Washington Post\, Hippocampus Magazine\, and many other outlets. Wasted Pretty\, her debut novel\, was published in 2019 and its sequel\, Liminal Summer came out in 2021. Jamie enjoys coaching new writers and has been mentoring an award-winning incarcerated journalist for the past five years. In 2015\, Jamie co-founded Write Now Lancaster\, a monthly writing meet-up. She’s a proud extroverted writer who believes much of what she has accomplished with words is thanks to her community. \n\nBe Your Book's Matchmaker: Writing the Proposal (Vicki Mayk)\nBook proposals are a business plan for your book and a marketing tool to sell your manuscript to agents and publishers. A good proposal helps to attract the best agent\, publisher\, and readers. In this session writers will learn: \n\nThe basic components of a book proposal.\nWays that the content can help you find the right agent and/or publisher.\nHow it provides insights about readers and identifies markets.\nWays the proposal gives writers a head start on marketing and planning a book launch.\n\nAbout the speaker: Vicki Mayk is a writer\, editor\, and teacher whose work has appeared in the Brevity Blog\, Cleaver\, Hippocampus\, Literary Mama\, The Manifest-Station\, Bending Genres\, the anthology Air and others. Her narrative nonfiction book\, Growing Up on the Gridiron: Football\, Friendship and the Tragic Life of Owen Thomas\, was published by Beacon Press. Catch up with her at vickimayk.com. \n\nSearch Matters: SEO & Discovery Tips for CNF Writers (Donna Talarico)\nMost people turn to search engines or a specific website’s search feature to find what they’re looking for — including books. Getting found — showing up in a Google or other search engine results/listings — is crucial in a day of information overload\, short attention spans\, evolving algorithms\, and AI advancements. \nIn this flash session\, Donna Talarico shares tips from her day job in content strategy about how SEO can help you build and sustain your platform. This session will: \n\ngive a primer on search engine optimization (SEO) and debunk some myths\ncover how to research what users (aka potential readers) are actually searching for (hint: it’s probably not your name)\nshare how to use that data to inform content creation choices across mediums and platforms\nexplore how AI and voice assistants are affecting the ways people find things on the internet\nlook ahead to anticipated challenges and trends for SEO\n\nAbout the speaker: Donna Talarico is founder/publisher of Hippocampus Magazine. By day\, she’s a content strategist in higher education and B2B. \n\n\nTICKET OPTIONS\nYou may purchase a ticket for just this event ($25) or register for the entire weekend ($75); choose your option below. (If this form is giving you difficulty\, you can alternatively purchase a ticket at our books website\, here.) \n\n	\n\n		\n		\n		\n\n		\n\n\n		\n\n\n\n	Tickets\n\n		\n	\n	\n		The numbers below include tickets for this event already in your cart. Clicking "Get Tickets" will allow you to edit any existing attendee information as well as change ticket quantities.	\n\n\n		\n		\n		\n	\n		Tickets are no longer available
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/hippocamp-minis-publishing/
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SUMMARY:An Evening With the Editors 2025: A Lit Mag & Small Press Roundtable
DESCRIPTION: **If you are having trouble checking out** you may now also purchase a registration at our Books website — this is a temporary workaround until our magazine website issue is resolved. Registered attendees will get access to event recordings for 30 days. \nJoin us for an evening of all things CNF publishing. Hippocampus Magazine associate editor Rae Pagliarulo will moderate a discussion with five literary magazine/small press editors and other publishing professionals. \n\nget a behind-the-scenes look at the submissions process\nfind out what they’re looking for their respective publications\nlearn a bit about the writer-editor relationship\n….and so much more\n\nThere will be plenty of time for audience questions at the end. \nThis is ONE OF FOUR main events we’re hosting the weekend of the 16-17th! Read about all of them here. \nThis webinar session will feature: \nAthena Dixon (Split/Lip Press and Fourth Genre)\nAthena Dixon is an essayist and editor originally from Northeast Ohio. She is the author of the books The Incredible Shrinking Woman and The Loneliness Files. She serves as the nonfiction/hybrid editor for Split/Lip Press and as a consulting editor for Fourth Genre magazine. \n\nWendy Fontaine (Hippocampus Magazine)\nWendy Fontaine’s work has appeared in American Scholar\, Jet Fuel Review\, Oyster River Pages\, Sweet Lit\, Sunlight Press and elsewhere. She has received nonfiction prizes from Identity Theory\, Hunger Mountain and Tiferet Journal\, along with nominations to the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net anthologies. She lives in southern California with her husband and her daughter (who is now in college) and serves as flash editor at Hippocampus Magazine. Find her online at www.wendyfontaine.com or on Bluesky @wendyfontaine. \n\nSteph Liberatore (In Short)\nSteph Liberatore (she/her) is a writer and professor at George Mason University and the founding editor of In Short: A Journal of Flash Nonfiction. Her essays have appeared in Short Reads\, River Teeth\, Inside Higher Ed\, and elsewhere and been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. When Steph isn’t writing or editing or chasing after her two young kids\, she’s working on her first book\, an investigative memoir. Find her online at www.stephliberatore.com. \n\nTom McAllister (Barrelhouse)\nTom McAllister is the author of four books\, including the novel How to Be Safe and the new essay collection It All Felt Impossible. His short work has been published in many places\, including The New York Times\, The Sun\, Black Warrior Review\, Cincinnati Review\, and more. He is the nonfiction editor at Barrelhouse and teaches in the MFA program at Rutgers-Camden. \n\nAlexis Paige (Vine Leaves Press)\nAlexis Paige is the author of Work Hard\, Not Smart: How to Make a Messy Literary Life; and Not a Place on Any Map — two memoirs by Vine Leaves Press\, where she is the nonfiction editor. Her work appears in various journals\, including Longform\, Hippocampus\, Fourth Genre\, The Rumpus\, and Brevity\, where Paige was an assistant editor. Winner of the New Millenium Writings Nonfiction Prize and twice a Best American Essays “Notable\,” she has also received four Pushcart Prize nominations. Paige teaches in the Wilkes University Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing and is an associate Ppofessor of literature & writing at Vermont State University. \n\nRae Pagliarulo\, moderator (Hippocampus Magazine)\nRae Pagliarulo\, our associate editor\, works as a nonprofit fundraising consultant in her lifelong home of Philadelphia. Her essays\, poems\, and articles have appeared in Full Grown People\, bedfellows\, Hippocampus\, The Manifest-Station\, r.kv.r.y. quarterly\, the Brevity Blog\, and numerous others. Her work is anthologized in The Best of Philadelphia Stories: 10th Anniversary Edition. She is the 2014 recipient of the Sandy Crimmins National Poetry Prize\, a 2019 Best of the Net nominee\, and a graduate of Rosemont College’s MFA program. \n\n\nTICKET OPTIONS\nYou may purchase a ticket for just this event ($25) or register for the entire weekend ($75); choose your option below. (If this form is giving you difficulty\, you can alternatively purchase a ticket at our books website\, here.) \n\n	\n\n		\n		\n		\n\n		\n\n\n		\n\n\n\n	Tickets\n\n		\n	\n	\n		The numbers below include tickets for this event already in your cart. Clicking "Get Tickets" will allow you to edit any existing attendee information as well as change ticket quantities.	\n\n\n		\n		\n		\n	\n		Tickets are no longer available
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