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SUMMARY:(Sold Out!) Deep Dive: Mining Your Obsessions: Writing (Nearly) Endless Essays On One Subject (Elizabeth Austin)
DESCRIPTION: Note: This Deep Dive is sold out. If you would like to join the waiting list\, please email conference@hippocampusmagazine.com. Or peruse our other amazing Deep Dive options! \nDeep Dives are intensive/generative 90-minute workshops\, with two options to choose from each day during HippoCamp Weekend; these are NOT included in the main ticket package and require separate registration. Registration is limited to 20 attendees; we suggest signing up early.   This format is intentionally designed to be live; it will not be recorded.  \n\nAbout the Session\nWe all have obsessions: the subjects\, relationships\, and questions we can’t stop writing toward\, whether we mean to or not. In this generative workshop\, we’ll treat these topics as a renewable resource. Through a structured exploration\, you’ll dig into the patterns hiding in your existing work — recurring images\, emotional landscapes — and turn them into a visual thematic map you can mine for years. \nIn this session\, writers will: \n\nexcavate patterns\, working to surface recurring images\, tensions\, and questions.\nbuild personal thematic maps\, placing a core focus at the center with 3–5 satellite themes radiating out\, then spotting the intersections where unexpected new essays are born.\ngenerate at least five fresh essay ideas using six concrete strategies\, plus tactics for matching themes to submission calls\nstudy how the pros do it\, looking at writers who’ve mined the same territory for decades across forms and genres\n\nOpen to writers at all levels\, whether you’re assembling an essay collection\, hunting for the through line in a memoir\, or simply tired of feeling like you write “the same things.” No pre-class reading required. \nAbout the speaker: \n  \nElizabeth Austin’s writing has appeared in The New York Times\, TIME\, Harper’s Bazaar\, Electric Literature\, Narratively\, McSweeney’s\, and others. She has been awarded residencies including Sewanee\, Hedgebrook\, and Turning Points. She holds an M.F.A. from Vermont College of Fine Arts\, writes a newsletter on her writing and post-cancer family life\, and lives outside of Philly with her two kids and many pets. \n\n\nTICKET INFO\nYou may register for this event a la carte\, independent of the full HippoCamp Online Weekend. (But if you would like to attend other sessions or the entire event\, you can learn more here.) \nThis session is limited to 20 attendees for optimal engagement with speaker and each other; we suggest signing up as early as possible to secure your seat. Note: Deep Dives are using the Zoom meeting format where all attendees will be on screen.
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SUMMARY:Book Champions: Meet the Agents and Publicists -- A Publishing & Publicity Roundtable
DESCRIPTION: Registered attendees will get access to event recordings for 30 days. \nJoin us for an evening of all things CNF publishing and publicity. This year\, we’re putting a new spin on what we typically called An Evening with the Editors. We’re still focusing on book champions\, but we’re centering the conversation on what literary agents are looking for — and how to get your book noticed with the help of an in-house or independent publicist. \nHippocampus Magazine associate editor Rae Pagliarulo will moderate a discussion with a group of publicists\, literary agents\, and other publishing professionals. You will: \n\nget a behind-the-scenes look at the book submissions process\nfind out what they’re looking for their respective lists and agencies\ndiver into the writer-agent and writer-publicist relationship\nexplore a timeline for book publicity\nlearn the various moving parts of a book marketing/publicity campaign\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 15-16th! Read about all of them here. \n\nMeet Our Panelists\nMichelle Blankenship\nMichelle Blankenship spent 16 years as an in-house publicist working at John Wiley & Sons\, Picador USA\, Harcourt Trade Publishers\, and Bloomsbury Publishing specializing in literary fiction\, poetry\, and a variety of nonfiction topics. During her time as an in-house publicist\, she served as director of publicity for Harcourt and as an associate director of publicity at Bloomsbury. She has worked with Jesmyn Ward\, Eimear McBride\, Barney Frank\, Martha S. Jones\, Senator Sherrod Brown\, Ana Castillo\, James Forman Jr.\, Drew Gilpin Faust\, and Mitchell S. Jackson\, among others. Blankenship has also been on the board of the Publishers Publicity Association (PPA) since 2007\, and she currently serves as the PPA president. \n  \n\nAshley Lopez\nAshley Lopez is a literary agent at Massie McQuilkin & Altman Literary Agents with over a decade of publishing experience. She received her MFA in Fiction from Sarah Lawrence College and represents both adult fiction and nonfiction as well as select Young Adult and poetry titles. \n\nCassie Mannes Murray\nCassie Mannes Murray believes in cold emails and cold pizza. She is the founder and director of Pine State Publicity\, a publicity firm for independent and small press books. You can always find what she’s up to in the Pine State newsletter. Her mom calls it “weirdly rambling.” Before launching Pine State she was a literary agent\, earned her MFA in creative nonfiction\, designed book interiors\, edited for literary mags\, taught high school\, and once even worked as a laundromat drive-thru gal. When she isn’t talking books\, she’s a mom to three kids\, married to the guy she met on Myspace in high school\, and living under some big oaks in North Carolina. \n\nIsabella Nugent\nIsabella Nugent (she/her) is a senior publicist at Page One Media\, where she manages publicity campaigns for authors and experts across a wide range of subject areas\, including history\, philosophy\, sociology\, and more. Some of her recent campaigns include Relinquished by Gretchen Sisson\, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction\, McNamara at War by Philip Taubman and William Taubman\, winner of the Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History\, and Making the Presidency by Lindsay Chervinsky. \n\nEric Smith\nEric Smith is an award-winning Young Adult author and literary agent living in Philadelphia. He’s worked with New York Times and USA Today bestselling and critically acclaimed authors across genres and categories\, and is the founder of Neighborhood Literary. \n  \n\nTICKET OPTIONS\nYou may purchase a ticket for just this event ($30) below\, or register for the entire weekend\, here ($75).
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/book-champions-2026/
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SUMMARY:Language Arts: Creative Nonfiction 101/Memoirs & Moments - (Donna Talarico for Paper Kite Press)
DESCRIPTION:This is a non-Hippo event\, but somewhere you can engage with a member of our editorial team. This is in person\, so it’s ideal for those living near Lancaster\, PA.  \nLanguage Arts\, from Paper Kite Press\, is designed as a day-long exploration of writing\, reading\, and creative community.  \nThe featured writer for the month of September is Donna Talarico\, who is bringing us a workshop in creative nonfiction.  The workshop is followed by an evening reading (6-7:30 p.m.) that features Donna and the writers from her workshop. We will have a very limited open mic for community members who would like to share their work.  \nLocation: Tenfold\, 308 E King St #1\, Lancaster\, PA 17602\, USA \nLearn more about the event and register on the Language Arts event page.
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/creative-nonfiction-101-memoirs-moments-donna-talarico-for-paper-kite-press/
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SUMMARY:HOW-TO TUESDAY: Unlock Your Creative Energy for 2027 with Janna Maron
DESCRIPTION:Write in alignment with your energy\, not against it. \nYou don’t need more discipline. You don’t need another productivity system. You don’t need to force yourself to write like someone else. \nYou need a writing practice that fits your energetic design. \nHosted by Janna Maron\, book coach & editor\, Unlock Your Creative Energy is a workshop designed to help you understand how you are meant to create\, focus\, and move words onto the page. This is not about fixing yourself. It’s about remembering how you work—and letting your writing flow from there. \nIn this session you will: \n\nIdentify your Human Design energy type and understand how it influences your writing process.\nRecognize why common productivity and writing advice may not work for you—and what to do instead.\nLeave with practical strategies for creating a more sustainable\, aligned vision & writing practice for the new year.\n\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\nJanna Marlies Maron is a book coach and editor with 20+ years of experience helping writers to complete their projects and produce the best work possible. Her experience includes time as a magazine editor\, college professor\, agency editorial director\, and content director for a leading online business brand. She has worked on a number of book projects from self-published Amazon bestsellers to traditionally published New York Times bestsellers. Since starting her business\, More to the Story\, in 2020\, nine of her clients have books published or forthcoming. She’s also the founding editor and publisher of Under the Gum Tree\, a literary arts magazine publishing creative nonfiction and visual art.
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/how-to-tuesday-unlock-your-creative-energy-for-2027-janna-maron/
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