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SUMMARY:HippoCamp Online Weekend 2026: Multiple Events [Ticket Package Page]
DESCRIPTION: Registered attendees will get access to event recordings for 30 days\, with the exception of Deep Dives. \nHippoCamp Online Weekend\, the virtual version of our conference founded in 2015\, will include four separate webinar events\, plus evening “chill and chats\,” which will be informal Zoom meetings that allow registered attendees to connect and reflect. As an optional add-on\, there will be two Deep Dive sessions to choose from each day. \nAt a Glance: An Overview of the Weekend’s Events\nYou may register for events separately or purchase a weekend package on this page. A brief description and links to each individual event page are listed in this table. \n\n\n\nEVENT\nDAY & TIME\nall 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$30\, register or see details here\n\n\nA Night of Nonfiction: Debut CNF Author Readers & Discussion \nReadings from debut authors\, plus a featured reader\, followed by a discussion and audience Q&A.\nSaturday\, 6-8 p.m.\nFree/Donate what-you-can ($10 suggested)\, register or see details here\n\n\nHippoCamp Minis: Publishing\, Promotion & the Writing Life \nFive 10-minute sessions on getting your work out there. \nSunday\, 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.\n$30\, register or see details here\n\n\nAn Evening with the Book Champions: A Publishing & Publicity Roundtable \nA moderated discussion with publicists and agents\, followed by an audience Q&A.\nSunday\, 6-8 p.m.\n$30\, register or see details here\n\n\nOPTIONAL ADD-ONS\n(Not part of weekend ticket package)\nDAY & TIME – all times are ET\nDETAILS & REGISTRATION\n\n\nDeep Dives  (purchase separately) \n90-minute\, interactive session in meeting format. Seating limited. These are live only\, not recorded. \nSaturday & Sunday\n2 to 3:30 p.m.\n($50 each; not part of weekend package; sharing here as FYI) \nSaturday\, Option 1\nScenes that Work: Choosing What Stays in Your Memoir & What Goes w/ Ronit Plank \nSaturday\, Option 2\nPostmarked: Modern Takes on the Ancient Art of Letters w/ Brenda Miller \nSunday\, Option 1\nMaking a Newsletter Work for You w/ Allison K Williams \nSunday\, Option 2\nMining Your Obsessions: Writing (Nearly) Endless Essays On One Subject w/ Elizabeth Austin\n\n\n\nPURCHASE WEEKEND PACKAGE TICKETS\nYou may purchase a ticket for the entire weekend on this page. You will get individual Zoom invites by for EACH webinar closer to the event. Note: First\, select quantity using (+) sign and then add to cart. \nIf you prefer to only attend one or two events\, you may purchase tickets a la carte at the individual page for each event\, linked above or see the full list at our main calendar page.
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/hippocamp-online-weekend-2026-multiple-events-ticket-package-page/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
CATEGORIES:Community,Conference,Craft,Hippo Organizing,Marketing/Promotion,Online,Publishing,Reading
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SUMMARY:A Night of Nonfiction 2026: Debut CNF Author Readings & Discussions
DESCRIPTION: Registration includes access to the recording for 30 days. \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 a group of debut CNF authors\, followed by a special guest reading and then a panel discussion and audience Q&A. Learn more about (or purchase!) their books at our Bookshop affiliate site (coming soon). \nThis is ONE OF FOUR main events we’re hosting the weekend of the 15-16th! Read about all of them here. \n\nThe 2026 Night of Nonfiction will feature:\n[Additional authors and moderator to be confirmed soon] \nGaar Adams\nGaar Adams is the author of Guest Privileges: Queer Lives and Finding Home in the Middle East\, winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Nonfiction in 2026. The book was also longlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize as well as runner-up for a Forward INDIES Book of the Year and the Norbert Blei/August Derleth Nonfiction Book Award. \nHis reporting from the Middle East and South Asia has been featured in The Atlantic\, Foreign Policy\, Rolling Stone\, Al Jazeera and elsewhere. He received his Doctorate of Fine Arts from the University of Glasgow\, teaches creative writing at Falmouth University\, and lives in London\, UK. \n\nCourtney Kocak\nCourtney Kocak is a writer\, podcaster\, and comedian who splits time between Austin and Los Angeles. She wrote for Amazon’s Emmy-winning animated series Danger & Eggs and Netflix’s Know It All. She’s produced a slew of highly-ranked podcasts and currently hosts three of her own with over two million downloads to date. Her bylines include The New York Times\, The Cut\, The Washington Post\, The Los Angeles Times\, Cosmopolitan\, Slate\, Business Insider\, and more. Her debut memoir\, Girl Gone Wild\, with Trio House Press\, is out now! For more\, check out her website at courtneykocak.com. \n\nAmanda McCracken\nAmanda McCracken is the author of When Longing Becomes Your Lover. She is an award-winning journalist passionate about experiences that highlight the intersection of wellness\, travel\, and relationships. Her work has appeared in The New York Times\, Washington Post\, Guardian\, Vogue\, National Geographic\, Runner’s World\, and many others. \nAmanda published her first article about longing in 2013\, which led to additional articles featuring personal anecdotes and deep research and interviews with the BBC\, Katie Couric\, and USA Today. Her 2023 TED Talk\, “How Longing Keeps Us From Healthy Relationships\,” and her podcast\, The Longing Lab\, highlight how longing can become self sabotaging and shares how to change our patterns of longing. To learn more\, visit her website:  www.amandajmccracken.com. \n\nShanda McManus\nShanda McManus\, MD\, is a physician and writer whose work lives at the intersection of medicine\, memory\, and the stories we carry in our bodies. A 2021 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow and 2023 Baldwin For The Arts Fellow\, her debut memoir\, Brother Epistles: A Sister’s Memoir (Split/Lip Press; June 2026)\, is a series of letters to her late brother Monir. A book about grief\, Black family love\, and the structures that took him. Jacqueline Woodson writes that it will “grab your heart\, hold it gently\, then hand it lovingly back to you.” \n\nFEATURED GUEST READER: Brenda Miller\nBrenda Miller’s most recent book is Love You\, Bye: A Daughter’s Journey in Essays and Poems (Skinner House Books\, 2026). She is the author of six essay collections\, including A Braided Heart: Essays on Writing and Form. She co-wrote\, with Suzanne Paola\, the popular textbook Tell it Slant\, and her work has received seven Pushcart Prizes. \n(Brenda is also leading a Deep Dive session on Saturday afternoon called Postmarked: Modern Takes on the Ancient Art of Letters.) \n\nMODERATOR: Brendan O’Meara\, host of the Creative Nonfiction Podcast\nBrendan O’Meara is the host of the Creative Nonfiction Podcast and the author of The Front Runner: The Life of Steve Prefontaine. Subscribe to Pitch Club\, where writers audio annotate their pitches that led to publication and Rage Against the Algorithm\, Brendan’s monthly\, up-to-11 newsletter. You can follow him @creativenonfictionpodcast on Instagram and @brendanomeara.bsky.social on Bluesky. Learn more at brendanomeara.com. \n\n\nTICKET OPTIONS\nYou may reserve a ticket for just this event by making a donation of any size (including a free ticket) OR you may register for the entire weekend\, here ($75).
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/a-night-of-nonfiction-2026/
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