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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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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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SUMMARY:STORIES ON SUNDAY: Penny Guisinger (Shift: A Memoir of Identity and Other Illusions)
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. \nJoin Penny Guisinger for a reading from Shift: A Memoir of Identity and Other Illusions\, followed by a conversation led by Alexis Paige and an audience Q&A. (Paige is author of Work Hard\, Not Smart: How to Make a Messy Literary Life and Not a Place On Any Map and the nonfiction acquisitions editor at Vine Leaves Press.) \nAbout the Book: Penny Guisinger was not always attracted to women. In Shift she recounts formative relationships with women and men\, including the marriage that produced her two children and ultimately ended in part due to her affair with her now-wife. Beginning her story as straight and ending as queer\, she struggles to make sense of how her identity changed so profoundly while leaving her feeling like the same person she’s always been. Shift examines sexual and romantic fluidity while wrestling with the ways past and present mingle rather than staying in linear narratives. Under scrutiny\, Guisinger’s sense of her own identity becomes like a Mobius strip or Penrose triangle—an optical illusion that challenges the dimensions and possibilities of the world. \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. \nAbout Our Speaker\nPenny Guisinger is the author of Postcards from Here and the forthcoming Shift: A Memoir of Identity and Other Illusions. All of our speakers have a connection to Hippocampus Magazine; she’s not only a past contributor to the magazine\, but she also co-authored (with Alexis Paige) a chapter for Getting to the Truth: The Craft and Practice of Creative Nonfiction. \nPenny’s work has also appeared in Fourth Genre\, River Teeth\, Under the Gum Tree\, and others. Pushcart nominated\, a Maine Literary Award winner\, and a three-time notable in Best American Essays\, she is a co-director of Iota Short Forms and a former assistant editor at Brevity. Penny is a graduate of the Stonecoast MFA Program.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240317T190000
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SUMMARY:STORIES ON SUNDAY: Lara Lillibridge (The Truth About Unringing Phones)
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. \nJoin us for a reading and conversation with Lara Lillbridge\, author of the new collection The Truth About Unringing Phones: Essays on Yearning. Lara will share excerpts from book and\, interspersed with the readings will be a conversation with Hippocampus Magazine founder/publisher Donna Talarico. We’ll talk about things like: \n\nHow to decide the order of essays in a collection\nWhen/how to change already-published essays to fit the collection\nUsing real names vs. aliases when writing about family\nThe hybrid elements in this collection\, whether sketches\, charts or unique forms\nWriting multiple books with overlapping themes/characters/life events\nSelf-preservation of writer-Lara while writing about the self-preservation of character-Lara\nAnd more — because there will be plenty of time for audience questions at the end!\n\nAbout the Book: When Lara was four years old\, her father moved from Rochester\, New York\, to Anchorage\, Alaska\, a distance of over 4\,000 miles. She spent her childhood chasing after him\, flying a quarter of the way around the world to tug at the hem of his jacket. Now that he is in his eighties\, she contemplates her obligation to an absentee father. \nThe Truth About Unringing Phones (March 2024; Unsolicited Press) is an exploration of responsibility and culpability told in experimental and fragmented essays. ​ \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. \nAbout Our Speaker\nAll of our Stories on Sunday authors have a connection to Hippocampus Magazine. Lara Lillibridge (she/they) is a past contributor who has since joined our team as interviews editor. A champion for other writers\, Lara also won our inaugural Literary Citizen of the Year award presented at HippoCamp: A Conference for Creative Nonfiction Writers. She also has a chapter in our own craft anthology\, Getting to The Truth\, which is about blending genres and getting experimental with your CNF. \nIn addition to her new collection\, Lara is the author of Mama\, Mama\, Only Mama: An Irreverent Guide for the Newly Single Parent; Girlish: Growing Up in a Lesbian Home\, and she is co-editor of the anthology\, Feminine Rising.
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/stories-on-sunday-lara-lillibridge/
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SUMMARY:STORIES ON SUNDAY: Chantha Nguon & Kim Green (Slow Noodles)
DESCRIPTION:Kicking off our Stories on Sundays series is Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love\, Loss\, and Family Recipes by Chantha Nguon with Kim Green. \nIn this online event that’s sure to be packed with flavor\, you will hear readings from this much-anticipated memoir\, then hear the story behind the book and much more in a Q&A with Chantha\, along with co-author Kim Green. Chantha’s daughter Clara Kim\, who wrote the book’s epilogue and narrated the audio book\, will also join in on the discussion. \nThis event is especially meaningful for us: In 2021\, Hippocampus Magazine published “The Gradual Extinction of Softness” by Chantha Nguon with Kim Green\, an essay which was later named a best essay of the year (and republished) by Longreads. \nSlow Noodles has been getting much praise in recent weeks\, so we’re updating this event listing to share these accolades\, such as: \n\nThe 30 New Books We Can’t Wait to Read (Reader’s Digest)\nWashington Post’s Book Suggestions for 2024\nThese New Books Could Be Some of the Best Reads of 2024 (San Francisco Chronicle)\nZibby Owens’ Predictions for the 2024 Bestseller Lists\n\nAbout the book: In Slow Noodles\, Chantha Nguon recounts her life as a Cambodian refugee who loses everything and everyone—home\, family\, and country—all but the remembered tastes and aromas of her mother’s kitchen. She takes us back to the quiet rhythms of 1960s Battambang\, her provincial hometown\, before the dictator Pol Pot tore her country apart and exterminated more than a million Cambodians\, including ethnic Vietnamese like Nguon and her family. Then\, as an emigrant in Saigon\, the author loses her mother\, brothers\, and sister and eventually flees to a refugee camp in Thailand. For two decades in exile\, she survives by cooking in a brothel\, serving drinks in a nightclub\, making and selling street food\, becoming a suture nurse\, and weaving silk. \nNguon’s irrepressible spirit and determination come through in this lyrical and inspirational memoir that includes more than twenty family recipes for dishes like chicken lime soup\, green papaya pickles\, and pâté de foie\, as well as Khmer curries\, stir-fries\, and handmade bánh canh noodles. Through it all\, recreating the dishes from her childhood becomes an act of resistance\, of reclaiming her place in the world\, of upholding the values the Khmer Rouge sought to destroy\, and of honoring the memory of her beloved mother\, whose “slow noodles” approach to healing and to cooking prioritized time and care over expediency. \nYou can pre-order the book here. \nBonus: Watch the Slow Noodles Book Trailer\n\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. \n\nABOUT THE SPEAKERS\nChantha Nguon\nChantha Nguon was born in Cambodia and spent two decades as a refugee\, until she was finally able to return to her homeland. She is the co-founder\,of the Stung Treng Women’s Development Center\, a social enterprise that offers a living wage\, education\, and social services to women and their families in rural northeastern Cambodia. A frequent public speaker\, she has appeared at universities and on radio and TV news programs\, including NPR’s Morning Edition. She cooks often for friends\, family\, and for private events. (Image by Stacey Irvin c.2014) \nKim Green\nKim Green is an award-winning writer and public radio producer and contributor based in Nashville. Her work has appeared in Fast Company\, the New York Times\, and on NPR’s Weekend Edition\, Marketplace\, and The New Yorker Radio Hour. A licensed pilot\, she was formerly a flight instructor.\nClara Kim\nClara Kim graduated from Sewanee – The University of the South with degrees in math and economics\, and from the London School of Economics with a master’s in statistics. She learned Cambodian cooking from her mother\, Chantha\, and is collecting dozens of her mom’s recipes in a book. Clara runs the U.S. sales division of Mekong Blue; she wrote the epilogue to SLOW NOODLES. \nClara lives and works in London.
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/stories-on-sunday-chantha-nguon-kim-green-slow-noodles/
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SUMMARY:STORIES ON SUNDAY: Jennifer Lang (Places We Left Behind)
DESCRIPTION:Hear Jennifer Lang read from Places We Left Behind: A Memoir in Miniature\, followed by a discussion with our flash editor Rae Pagliarulo and an audience Q&A. \nMore about the book: When American-born Jennifer falls in love with French-born Philippe during the First Intifada in Israel\, she understands their relationship isn’t perfect. Both 23\, both Jewish\, they lead very different lives: she’s a secular tourist\, he’s an observant immigrant. Despite their opposing outlooks on two fundamental issues — country and religion — they are determined to make it work. For the next 20 years\, they root and uproot their growing family\, each longing for a singular place to call home. \nIn Places We Left Behind\, Jennifer puts her marriage under a microscope\, examining commitment and compromise\, faith and family while moving between prose and poetry\, playing with language and form\, daring the reader to read between the lines. \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\nAn American-French-Israeli hybrid\, Jennifer writes about identity\, language\, home. While raising kids in the San Francisco Bay Area at the dawning of the internet\, she worked as copy editor/editor/content writer for BabyCenter\, PlanetRx\, and many other now obsolete .coms. But Jennifer dreamed of seeing her name on paper\, in print\, eventually writing for Parenting\, Parents\, Natural Solutions\, Scholastic\, Woman’s Day\, Real Simple. \nThen\, in the early 2000s\, something else caught her eye: the back-page essays. Who were these first-person voices and how did they tell such moving stories? Curious and on the opposite coast\, Jennifer enrolled in a creative nonfiction class: one\, which led to another\, and then another\, finally culminating in an MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts.
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/stories-on-sunday-jennifer-lang-places-we-left-behind/
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SUMMARY:A Night of Nonfiction: Debut CNF Author Readings & Discussions - Summer 2023
DESCRIPTION: Registration is closed.  \nThis is the online version of our ever-popular in-person event! It will feature readings from debut CNF authors\, followed by a special guest reading and then a panel discussion\, led by Hippocampus Magazine’s interviews editor Lara Lillibridge. \nNote: This is ONE OF THREE events we’re hosting the weekend of the 12-13th! Read about all of them here. \nThe evening will feature: \nAlyssa Graybeal (Floppy: Takes of a Genetic Freak of Nature at the End of the World) Alyssa Graybeal  is a writer and cartoonist whose work explores the emotional landscape of chronic illness and disability\, which can be funnier than it sounds. Her memoir Floppy: Tales of a Genetic Freak of Nature at the End of the World (2023) won the Red Hen Press Nonfiction Award\, and it is one of the first books about living with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome from a patient’s perspective. She works as an editor and writing coach in Astoria\, Oregon. \nAnne Pinkerton (Were You Close? A Sister’s Quest to Know the Brother She Lost)  Anne Pinkerton’s memoir\, Were You Close? A sister’s quest to know the brother she lost\, published in April 2023 through Vine Leaves Press. Her poetry and essays have appeared in Hippocampus Magazine\, Modern Loss\, “Beautiful Things” at River Teeth Journal\, Entropy\, Lunch Ticket\, among other journals and anthologies. Anne holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from Bay Path University and studied poetry as an undergrad at Hampshire College. She grew up in Texas and lives in western Massachusetts. \nAnthony J. Mohr (Every Other Weekend: Coming of Age With Two Different Dads) Anthony J. Mohr served for twenty-six years as a judge on the Superior Court of California\, County of Los Angeles. He also sat as a judge pro tem on the California Court of Appeal. In January 2021\, Anthony became a fellow at the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University and is now a senior editor of the Harvard ALI Social Impact Review. His stories and essays have received five Pushcart Prize nominations. He has worked on the staffs of Evening Street Review\, Fifth Wednesday Journal\, Hippocampus Magazine\, and Under the Sun. \nSean Enfield (Holy American Burnout!)  Sean Enfield is a writer and educator from Dallas\, Texas. His debut collection of essays\, Holy American Burnout!\, is forthcoming from Split/Lip Press in December 2023. His work has been published in Reed Magazine\, Hayden’s Ferry\, Witness Magazine\, Terrain.org\, Tahoma Literary Review\, and The Rumpus\, among others\, and he was the 2020 recipient of the Fourth Genre’s Steinberg Memorial Essay Prize. Sean received his MFA in creative writing from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks where he served as the editor-in-chief of Permafrost Magazine. Now\, he serves as an assistant nonfiction editor at Terrain.org. \nAthena Dixon\, special guest reader (The Loneliness Files)  Born and raised in Northeast Ohio\, Athena Dixon is a poet\, essayist\, and editor. She is the author of the forthcoming essay collection The Loneliness Files (Tin House 2023)\, The Incredible Shrinking Woman (Split/Lip Press 2020) and No God In This Room (Winner of the Intersectional Midwest Chapbook Contest\, Argus House Press 2018). Her work also appears in The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic (Haymarket Books) and Getting to the Truth: The Practice and Craft of Creative Nonfiction (Books by Hippocampus; 2021). \n\nAthena’s work has appeared in various publications both online and in print. She has been nominated for three Pushcart Prizes for both poetry and creative nonfiction as well as a Best of the Net nomination for poetry. She is a fellow of Callaloo and V.O.N.A. as well as a Tin House Winter Workshop attendee. Additionally\, she has presented at AWP\, HippoCamp\, and The Muse and the Marketplace among other panels and conferences across the nation. Athena was the Founder of Linden Avenue Literary Journal\, which published from 2012-2021. She writes\, edits\, and resides in Philadelphia. \n\nLearn more about (or purchase!) these titles at our Bookshop affiliate site. (Sean Enfield’s book can be preordered directly from Split/Lip here. \nThis is ONE OF THREE events we’re hosting the weekend of the 12-13th! Read about all of them here.  \n(events will be recorded and made available to registered attendees for 30 days) \n Registration is closed. 
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/night-of-nonfiction-2023/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
CATEGORIES:Hippo Organizing,Online,Reading
ORGANIZER;CN="Hippocampus Magazine and Books":MAILTO:hippocampusmagazine@gmail.com
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