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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/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
CATEGORIES:Conference,Hippo Organizing,Marketing/Promotion,Publishing
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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/
CATEGORIES:Craft,Hippo Participating
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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
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SUMMARY:STORIES ON SUNDAY: Field Guide to Writing the Lyric Essay (ed. Heidi Czerwiec & Lee Horikoshi Roriaugh)
DESCRIPTION:This Stories on Sunday explores Field Guide to Writing the Lyric Essay: Insights and Prompts for Contemporary Writers and Teachers\, edited by Heidi Czerwiec & Lee Horikoshi Roriaugh. Ticket info below the description.  \nThis is the first time we’re spotlighting a craft book on Stories on Sunday\, and we are excited to change things up a bit. We’ll learn about the lyric essay form itself\, discuss how the anthology came together\, and hear excerpts the book\, including example essays. \nAbout the Series: Stories on Sundays are bi-monthly(ish) readings from a recent/forthcoming work of creative nonfiction intertwined with an 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\nThe fifth volume in the immensely popular Field Guide series\, The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing the Lyric Essay gives readers an extraordinary window into the methods of 26 expert practitioners at the leading edge of this ever-evolving genre. \nWith original craft essays\, exercises\, and examples\, each contributor offers reflection and instruction on how lyric essays can be constructed and what makes them unique. As experts in the field\, they offer their various approaches to creative nonfiction that uses an essay form\, but is lyric in function\, meaning that it pays special attention to patterning in language and the resonances of sound and imagery. The anthology’s expertise spans possible forms (braid\, fragment\, hermit crab\, zuihitsu)\, lyric techniques (anaphora\, fractal repetition\, word associations\, use of white space)\, and lyric processes (incorporating research or visual elements\, engineering leaps\, sustaining a longform lyric essay). \nEditors Heidi Czerwiec and Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh further illuminate the genre in their introduction\, exploring the history of the lyric essay and its vital place in contemporary literature. This Field Guide is an indispensable addition to the bookshelf of any reader\, writer\, or instructor intrigued by this inventive and expressive genre. Learn more about the book and see the list of featured essayists.  \nAbout the Editors\nCzerwiec HeidiLee Horikoshi Roripaugh Head Shot 2022\nIn addition to co-editing this new craft book: \nEssayist and poet Heidi Czerwiec is the author of Crafting the Lyric Essay: Strike a Chord\, and the lyric essay collection Fluid States\, selected by Dinty W. Moore as winner of Pleiades Press’ 2018 Robert C. Jones Prize for Short Prose. She writes and teaches in Minneapolis\, where she is senior editor for Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies. Visit her at heidiczerwiec.com. \nLee Horikoshi Roripaugh (she/they) is a biracial Nisei whose most recent book\, unMothered\, unTongued: Lyric Essays—winner of the 2024 AWP Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction—was published by UGA Press in 2025. They are the author of five volumes of poetry\, most recently Tsunami vs. the Fukushima 50\, and her fiction collection\, Reveal Codes\, winner of the Moon City Press Short Fiction Award\, was published by Moon City Press in 2023. Horikoshi Roripaugh received the Association of Asian American Studies Book Award in Poetry/Prose for 2004 and was a 1998 winner of the National Poetry Series. \nAll Stories on Sundays guests have a connection to Hippocampus Magazine; Heidi is a past contributor. 
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/writing-the-lyric-essay/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
CATEGORIES:Hippo Organizing,Stories on Sunday
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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/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
CATEGORIES:Hippo Organizing,How-to Tuesdays,Publishing,Writing Life
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SUMMARY:HOW-TO TUESDAY: Writing Retreats with Vicki Mayk and Joanne Lozar Glenn - save the date
DESCRIPTION:More details to come\, including official title\, session info\, and presenter bios. We created this just so you can look ahead and save the date!
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/how-to-tuesday-writing-retreats-with-vicki-mayk-and-joanne-lozar-glenn-save-the-date/
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