BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Hippocampus Magazine - ECPv6.17.4//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
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: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:20260815T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260815T200000
DTSTAMP:20260815T062356Z
CREATED:20260614T011647Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260815T062356Z
UID:67335-1786816800-1786824000@www.hippocampusmagazine.com
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/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
CATEGORIES:Conference,Hippo Organizing,Online,Reading
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Night-of-nonfiction-event--e1751927227767.png
ORGANIZER;CN="Hippocampus Magazine and Books":MAILTO:hippocampusmagazine@gmail.com
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261004T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261004T203000
DTSTAMP:20260910T181924Z
CREATED:20260910T180236Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260910T181924Z
UID:68832-1791140400-1791145800@www.hippocampusmagazine.com
SUMMARY:STORIES ON SUNDAY: The Allure of Elsewhere: A Memoir of Going Solo (Karen Babine)
DESCRIPTION:Enjoy readings and hear the story behind the stories during this Stories on Sunday. Registration form follows event description.  \nThis edition of Stories on Sunday features Karen Babine and her most recent book\, The Allure of Elsewhere: A Memoir of Going Solo. She’ll read a few excerpts from the memoir\, interspersed with a conversation led by Hippocampus Magazine founder/publisher Donna Talarico. \nAbout the Series: Stories on Sundays are bi-monthly(ish) readings from a recent/forthcoming work of creative nonfiction followed by an author interview + audience Q&A. This is event is free or by donation; Your registration helps fund our contributor payments and other costs associated with running our journal. \nABOUT THE BOOK\nOne woman’s cross-country journey to explore the hold family history has on our lives\, and the power of new stories to shape what lies ahead. \nIn her mid-thirties and happily single\, Karen Babine hitches up her tiny Scamp camper and sets out with her two unenthusiastic cats\, Galway and Maeve\, on a journey from her home in Minnesota to Nova Scotia to explore the place where her French-Acadian ancestors settled in North America some four centuries ago. \nAs the miles roll by\, she wonders: “Why do we carry this need to belong to an established history? What happens when that can’t–or shouldn’t–happen?” The road reveals more questions than answers about her history\, identity\, and belonging\, about the responsibilities of stories and silence\, about her life choices as a solo woman\, and what it means to be driven by both a strong sense of kinship to a very close-knit family on one hand and a deep desire for independence on the other. \nCapturing the joy\, freedom\, and powerful pull of the open road\, The Allure of Elsewhere is about the stories we’re told\, the stories we tell\, and the way those stories make us who we are\, often in surprising ways. Intimate\, curious\, and candid\, written with wry wit and warmth\, this is a courageous and inspiring memoir. \nAbout the Author\nKaren Babine is the two-time Minnesota Book Award-winning author of The Allure of Elsewhere: A Memoir of Going Solo\, All the Wild Hungers: A Season of Cooking and Cancer\, and Water and What We Know: Following the Roots of a Northern Life. She is the founder and editor of Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies. \nForthcoming books include the first edited collection of Assay work\, Beyond Truth and Fact: Innovations in the Craft of Creative Nonfiction\, and Updraft: the lift\, drag\, craft\, and flight of creative nonfiction. She is a UC Foundation associate professor of English at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga. \nAll Stories on Sundays guests have a connection to Hippocampus Magazine; Karen is a past contributor. 
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/stories-on-sunday-karen-babine/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
CATEGORIES:Hippo Organizing,Reading,Stories on Sunday
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/sunday-karen-web-e1789064759316.png
ORGANIZER;CN="Hippocampus Magazine and Books":MAILTO:hippocampusmagazine@gmail.com
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR