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Hippocampus Magazine is an exclusively online publication set out to entertain, educate, and engage writers and readers of creative nonfiction. Each monthly issue features memoir excerpts, personal essays, reviews, interviews and craft articles. Hippocampus Magazine also produces an annual creative nonfiction conference called HippoCamp and, in 2016, launched its small press division, Hippocampus Books.

06/01/2025

ICYMI: Our first issue of 2025 will hit the virtual newsstand later this week. Until then, there's so much to explore in our November-December issues (and archives!). Happy reading!

We’re living through an era when other people’s opinions are on blast, all the time, everywhere we go. That doesn’t mean...
03/01/2025

We’re living through an era when other people’s opinions are on blast, all the time, everywhere we go. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t voice your own — it just means you might want to do so effectively, and with style.

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How-To Tuesdays are back for 2025, and we're kicking things off with Diving Into Topics that Matter to You: Writing & Publishing Op-Eds With Kelly Caldwell.

Join us Jan. 28 at 7 p.m. ET online (or watch the recording later). Event is $20 and includes the recording -- and supports or volunteer-run journal.

In this session you'll explore:

💡Blending the art of creative writing with the tools of logic, both of which are key to writing an op-ed that works;
💡Finding the right audience for your work, preferably in an outlet that pays;
💡Generating ideas for and outlining a few op-eds of your own.

Full event details at the link in the comments. We can't wait to see you there!

Our first issue of 2025 will hit the virtual newsstand the week of Jan 6th. Until then, there's so much to explore in ou...
02/01/2025

Our first issue of 2025 will hit the virtual newsstand the week of Jan 6th. Until then, there's so much to explore in our November-December issue (and the archives!). Happy reading!

"The story of Smith's alone summer and its ensuing trauma is told in small, introspective paragraphs into which she skil...
02/01/2025

"The story of Smith's alone summer and its ensuing trauma is told in small, introspective paragraphs into which she skillfully weaves threads of mathematics, science, etymology, and a lonely teenager's worst fears."

-- from Eileen Vorbach Collins' review of Everywhere the Undrowned by Stephanie Clare Smith in our Nov-Dec issue.

Link to the review in comments!

Authors in Conversation: Hollay Ghadery, book publicist and author of Fuse: A Memoir speaks with Michèle Dawson Haber."W...
01/01/2025

Authors in Conversation: Hollay Ghadery, book publicist and author of Fuse: A Memoir speaks with Michèle Dawson Haber.

"We're interested in everybody, and we try to do what makes us happy, to celebrate the people who celebrate literature and, of course, who celebrate us. The effect is like a nice, cozy community of people who respect each other and love books." -- Hollay Ghadery

Link to interview, from our Nov-Dec issue, in the comments.

"'Here come the feminists! We are your worst nightmare.'Writer Judith Barrington fondly remembers chanting these stateme...
01/01/2025

"'Here come the feminists! We are your worst nightmare.'

Writer Judith Barrington fondly remembers chanting these statements as she marched down London streets in the late 1960s and early 1970s, her arms linked with "women who refused to live in dead-end jobs, pornographic films, or dull or abusive marriages."

-- from Sarah Evans' review of Virginia's Apple: Collected Memoirs by Judith Barrington in our Nov-Dec issue. Link to full story in the comments.

The Hippocampus Magazine team is wishing all of you a happy, happy 2025 filled with inspiration, curiosity, and plenty o...
01/01/2025

The Hippocampus Magazine team is wishing all of you a happy, happy 2025 filled with inspiration, curiosity, and plenty of stories (whether you are reading or writing them -- or both). We love you!

"I wrap my hand around your hand that holds the rock. You close your eyes again and drop into sleep." - "My Rock" by Mon...
31/12/2024

"I wrap my hand around your hand that holds the rock. You close your eyes again and drop into sleep." - "My Rock" by Monika Dutt.

Link to story in comments.

"Contrary to what writers learn in writing workshops and MFA classes, there really is a single, secret ingredient to cre...
31/12/2024

"Contrary to what writers learn in writing workshops and MFA classes, there really is a single, secret ingredient to creating work that comes alive."

-- Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew in her craft column "The Secret Ingredient." Link to full story in the comments.

In "A Letter to Mother with the Long Hair," Jen Machajewski remembers, "It's funny that I should remember it as long whe...
30/12/2024

In "A Letter to Mother with the Long Hair," Jen Machajewski remembers, "It's funny that I should remember it as long when you so rarely wore it down."

Link to story in the comments.

"And here is where I cried, once more, at this book's beautiful closing. For readers like me, conditioned to be selfless...
30/12/2024

"And here is where I cried, once more, at this book's beautiful closing. For readers like me, conditioned to be selfless, to think of parents, siblings, partners, or colleagues first, Hyeseung tells us what we need to know: celebrate the fire that is inside of you."

Brian Watson reviews Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl by Hyeseung Song in our Nov-Dec issue. Link to review in the comments.

It's Pushcart Prize nomination time! Each publication is allowed six nominations, and we chose three essays and three fl...
02/12/2024

It's Pushcart Prize nomination time!

Each publication is allowed six nominations, and we chose three essays and three flash CNF pieces. Congratulations to:

➡️Holly Abbe, “Road Signs”
➡️Sydney Chaffee, “Haunting”
➡️Brian Lee Knopp, “The Toughest Texan”
➡️Jeanne Malmgren, “Day 1 of 1,000”
➡️Tom McAllister ,“When We Used to Glow”
➡️Marcos Reyna, “Streams”

Our blog post, linked in the comments, has more details, plus links to each nominated story.

"Job Description: The successful candidate will be tasked with creating the darkest something from nothing."From a new h...
29/11/2024

"Job Description: The successful candidate will be tasked with creating the darkest something from nothing."

From a new hermit crab essay by Casey Mulligan Walsh: "Help Wanted: Pre-Emptive Griever."

Link to full essay in the first comment!

Authors in Conversation: Jennifer Lang, author of Landed: A Yogi's Memoir in Pieces & Prose speaks with Michèle Dawson H...
27/11/2024

Authors in Conversation: Jennifer Lang, author of Landed: A Yogi's Memoir in Pieces & Prose speaks with Michèle Dawson Haber

"Initially, I had written one long story of my mixed marriage (bicultural and interdenominational), beginning in 1989 and ending in 2018. It was 95,000 words: dull and never-ending. If there was a narrative arc, it was buried." — Jennifer Lang

Read our full convo with Jennifer from the link in the first comment.

"Ethan was taking care of me that chemo cycle, and I asked if I could show him." -- from "Gay Boy Cuddles" by Michael Na...
27/11/2024

"Ethan was taking care of me that chemo cycle, and I asked if I could show him."

-- from "Gay Boy Cuddles" by Michael Nagle, new flash CNF from our Nov-Dec issue.

Link to full essay in the first comment.

"While I can't single-handedly change publishing's structural inequities, I can at least support some writers and add my...
26/11/2024

"While I can't single-handedly change publishing's structural inequities, I can at least support some writers and add my voice to the publishing conversation."

-- Rajpreet Heir in her the craft column, "Supporting the Nonfiction Community by Teaching Book Reviews."

Read the full craft article from the link in the first comment.

What is your father's middle name?In which city was your father born?Where has he been since 1985?-- from "Security" by ...
26/11/2024

What is your father's middle name?
In which city was your father born?
Where has he been since 1985?

-- from "Security" by Bridgette Shade, a new flash essay in our Nov-Dec issue.

Link to the full essay in the first comments.

New Book Review: Carolyn Roy-Bornstein takes a look at Rearranged: An Opera Singer's Facial Cancer and Life Transposed b...
26/11/2024

New Book Review: Carolyn Roy-Bornstein takes a look at Rearranged: An Opera Singer's Facial Cancer and Life Transposed by Kathleen Watt.

"This dry wit and humor of Rearranged: An Opera Singer's Facial Cancer and Life Transposed is part of what makes this grueling tale so compelling...."

Link to full review in first comment.

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Hippocampus Magazine is an exclusively online publication set out to entertain, educate, and engage writers and readers of creative nonfiction. Each issue features memoir excerpts and personal/flash essays, plus an articles section including reviews, and writing life and craft columns.

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