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Next on STORIES ON SUNDAY (3/16, 7ET): Hear Shannon Luders-Manuel read from The One Who Loves You: Growing Up Biracial in a Black and White World. Between readings we'll chat with Shannon about her memoir, writing process & and publishing journey. Details: hippocampusmagazine.com/event/storie...

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CRAFT: "My words and a reader's response to those words are enjoying an ongoing conversation." -- Gina DeMillo Wagner https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/02/craft-using-book-publicity-to-deepen-the-author-reader-relationship-by-gina-demillo-wagner/

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Interview with Brian Lee Knopp is up now over at Hippocampus Magazine! Thanks @hippocampusmag.bsky.social for the opportunity! hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/02/inte...

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The 👏 persists (and we persist in celebrating it!) with a review of Heather Bartel's "beguiling, seductive, surreal, mind-bending" EXIT THE BODY in the latest @hippocampusmag.bsky.social 🖤https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/02/review-exit-the-body-by-heather-bartel/

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Can you believe another new month is upon us already? Our March-April 2025 edition goes live next week (look for it Wednesday-ish). Until then, our current issue is jam-packed with creative nonfiction, reviews, interviews, and articles! Read it at hippocampusmagazine.com!

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INTERVIEW: "I think I've finally accepted the dwindling attention span—or rather the diminishing attententive time and space—for even the most dedicated readers." - Brian Lee Knopp, author of D... https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/02/interview-brian-lee-knopp-author-of-dreams-i-m-never-gonna-see/

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"I want to write books that show the interconnectedness of different oppressions." - Eiren Caffall, author ... https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/02/interview-eiren-caffall-author-of-the-mourner-s-bestiary/ #essay #cnf #CreativeNonfiction #LitMag #LiteraryMagazine #HippocampusMagazine #iamwriting

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"In Exit the Body, Heather Bartel presents nine provocative, mind-bending, genre-fluid essays on the nature of identity, personhood, womanhood, reality, time, space, pain, grief, and more." - from Dorothy Rice's revie... https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/02/review-exit-the-body-by-heather-bartel/

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"What I found particularly compelling was how Bringley gave life to art and art history with his reverential and accessible prose..." from Leslie Lindsay's review of All the Beauty in the W... https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/02/review-all-the-beauty-in-the-world-by-patrick-bringley/ #BookReview

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Deadline Approaching: Our "We Love Short Shorts Contest for Creative Nonfiction" is open for subs 'til Feb. 28! Grand prize $250 + pub. 250 words. No theme. Get full details here: https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/01/we-love-short-shorts-contest-for-flash-creative-nonfiction-2025/

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Next up on How-To Tuesday: Learn how to generate a buttload of story ideas in one sitting w/ our essays editor Steph Auteri, Feb. 18 at 7 p.m. ET (or watch recording later). https://hippocampusmagazine.com/event/how-to-tuesday-finding-story-inspiration-when-youre-all-tapped-out-with-steph-auteri/

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ICYMI: Our two event series How-To Tuesdays & Stories on Sunday are back for 2025! Check out our full list of upcoming events here: https://hippocampusmagazine.com/events/

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"As he walks into the classroom, no one takes notice..." As we look ahead to this year's We Love Short Shorts Contest for #FlashCNF, here's a look back at last year's winner, "Day 1 of 1,000" by Jeanne Malmgren. https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/04/day-1-of-1-000/

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"Philip Roth is checking me out on the corner of 80th and Columbus and why should this matter?" -- from the essay "Hello, Columbus" by Catherine Lowe in our Jan-Feb issue https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/01/hello-columbus-by-catherine-lowe/ #essay

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Well hell, February really snuck up on me. Next week, I'm leading a session on how to find writing inspiration when you're all tapped out, for @hippocampusmag.bsky.social. The aim is to help you generate a buttload of story ideas in 1 sitting. Register here: hippocampusmagazine.com/event/how-to...

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"Fear of discovery, a feature of my youth, is absent from the frame." – from "Boys on Bicycles Holding Hands" by Brad Snyder in our Jan-Feb issue. https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/01/boys-on-bicycles-holding-hands-by-brad-snyder/ #FlashEssay

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"The summer of 1974, when I was four, Dad shot an intruder breaking into our house at four in the morning." – from "Subtraction" by Paula Burke, in our Jan-Feb issue. https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/01/subtraction-by-paula-burke/ #essay

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As we look ahead to this year's Short Shorts Flash CNF contest, here's a look at one of last year's two runners up: "The Great Wave" by Lisa Thornton. Read it here: https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/04/the-great-wave/

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"She said, 'Look at what you're wearing.' As if that had anything to do with it." -- from "The Right of Rescission" by Carole Vasta Folle in our Jan-Feb issue. Read it here: https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/01/the-right-of-rescission-by-carole-vasta-folley/ #essay

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"My family is the most important thing to me. It really is," said my great aunt...I believe her. Even if, according to my father, she exaggerates." –from "Traditions of a Mutt" by Kira Carson. https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/01/traditions-of-a-mutt-by-kira-carson/ #essay

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My newest review for @hippocampusmag.bsky.social explores metaphor and sensory experiences found in “The Braille Encyclopedia: Brief Essays on Altered Sight” by Naomi Cohn.

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"Two days earlier, I had held four chicks in their cardboard box, stunned that Baba let me accept them from the grinning farmer." -- from "Atlas Fledgling" by Youssef Biaz in the Jan-Feb issue https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/01/atlas-fledgling-by-youssef-biaz/ --

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As we look ahead to this year's Short Shorts Flash CNF contest, here's a look at one of last year's runners up: "And you suddenly get why adrenaline junkies chase this rush" by Abby Alten Schwartz. https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/04/and-you-suddenly-get-why-adrenaline-junkies-chase-this-rush/

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"No! I need help. Now. Please!" – from "The Race" by Jess Phoenix in our Jan-Feb issue. Read it here: https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/01/the-race-by-jess-phoenix/ #Essay

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"So that's it?" I stare one more time at the lone bandage. "Yes," the doctor says." -- from "At The One Month Visit" by Anne Falkowski in our Jan-Feb issue. Read it here: https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/01/at-the-one-month-visit-by-anne-falkowski/

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Next up on How-To Tuesday: Learn how to generate a buttload of story ideas in one sitting w/ our essays editor Steph Auteri, Feb. 18 at 7 p.m. ET (or watch recording later). https://hippocampusmagazine.com/event/how-to-tuesday-finding-story-inspiration-when-youre-all-tapped-out-with-steph-auteri/

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CRAFT: "...beyond these marketing standards, you need to decide what your personal goals are. What is most important to you?" --Angel R. Ackerman in her latest craft column "Make your Marketing Suit Your Goals." https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/01/craft-make-your-marketing-suit-your-goals/

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ICYMI: Our two event series How-To Tuesdays & Stories on Sunday are back for 2025! Check out our full list of upcoming events here: https://hippocampusmagazine.com/events/

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BOOK REVIEW: Melissa Oliveira takes a look at Immersion: A Linguist's Memoir by Linda Murphy Marshall, which "chronicles decades of the author's life in learning and working in fore... https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/01/review-immersion-a-linguist-s-memoir-by-linda-murphy-marshall/ #BookReview

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ICYMI: Our "We Love Short Shorts Contest for Creative Nonfiction" is open for subs 'til Feb. 28! Grand prize $250 + pub. 250 words. No theme. Get full details here: https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/01/we-love-short-shorts-contest-for-flash-creative-nonfiction-2025/

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"...although there are moments where [he] refers to his senescing libido, I was otherwise thrilled to join him vicariously in bed as he recalled his sexcapades." –from Brian Watson's review of The Lo... https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/01/review-the-loves-of-my-life-a-sex-memoir-by-edmund-white/

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"The first time I slept with another woman's boyfriend, I decided not to think about it." -- from Hayley Notter's essay "Again" in our latest issue. Read it here: https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/01/again-by-hayley-notter/ #essay

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Reminder! Our first How-To Tuesday of 2025 is tomorrow (1/28 @ 7ET) and it's all about writing and publishing opinion pieces (op-eds). Come learn with us and the brilliant Kelly Caldwell. (It will be recorded if you can't make it live!) hippocampusmagazine.com/event/how-to...

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Our We Love Short Shorts Contest for #FlashCNF returns for 2025. Basics: No theme/up to 250 wds/$250 grand prize/$100 to two runners-up; all 3 will be pub'd in April. Submit through Feb. 1-28. Full guidelines, submissions tips & links to last year's winners: hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/01/we-l...

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Next week! Come outline an op-ed with me, and let's talk about how to share our opinions more effectively, in this @hippocampusmag.bsky.social How To Tuesday event! hippocampusmagazine.com/event/how-to... #WritingCommunity #WriteTip

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New Flash Out Now: "Hands of a Maker" by Rayya Liebich. Read it here: https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/11/hands-of-a-maker-by-rayya-liebich/ #essay #cnf #FlashCNF #CreativeNonfiction #LitMag #LiteraryMagazine #HippocampusMagazine

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"See the river, mud toned and placid. It bends at the bosque where grandpa teaches me to fish." - from "Streams" by Marcos Reyna. Read it: https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/11/streams-by-marcos-reyna/ #essay #cnf #CreativeNonfiction #LitMag #LiteraryMagazine #HippocampusMagazine

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"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." https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/11/help-wanted-pre-emptive-griever-by-casey-mulligan-walsh/

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"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. Read it here: https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/11/gay-boy-cuddles-by-michael-nagle/ #FlashCNF

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Authors in Conversation: Jennifer Lang, author of Landed: A Yogi's Memoir in Pieces & Prose is Interviewed by Michèle Dawson Haber. Read the convo here: https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/11/interview-jennifer-lang-author-of-landed-a-yogi-s-memoir-in-pieces-prose/ #AuthorInterview

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"While I can't single-handedly change publishing's inequities, I can at least support some writers and add my voice to the publishing conversation." - Rajpreet Heir in "Su... https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/11/craft-supporting-the-nonfiction-community-by-teaching-book-reviews-by-rajpreet-heir/

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New Flash CNF: "What is your father's middle name? In which city was your father born? Where has he been since 1985?" -- from Bridgette Shade's "Security" in our Nov-Dec issue. Read it here: https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/11/security-by-bridgette-shade/ #FlashCNF

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New Book Review: Carolyn Roy-Bornstein takes a look at Rearranged: An Opera Singer's Facial Cancer and Life Transposed by Kathleen Watt. Read it here: https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/11/review-rearranged-an-opera-singer-s-facial-cancer-and-life-transposed-by-kathleen-watt/ #essay

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In "Don't Ignore the Ashes," Alison Colwell asks: "What role do bystanders play in the lives of others?" Read the essay here: https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/11/don-t-ignore-the-ashes-by-alison-colwell/ #essay

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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!

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NEW BOOK REVIEW: Diane Gottlieb reviews One of the Boys: Surviving Dartmouth, Family, and the Wilderness of Men by Lynn Lobban https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/11/review-one-of-the-boys-surviving-dartmouth-family-and-the-wilderness-of-men-by-lynn-lobban/ #BookReview

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New Flash Out Now: "Hands of a Maker" by Rayya Liebich. Read it here: https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/11/hands-of-a-maker-by-rayya-liebich/ #essay #cnf #FlashCNF #CreativeNonfiction #LitMag #LiteraryMagazine #HippocampusMagazine

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"See the river, mud toned and placid. It bends at the bosque where grandpa teaches me to fish." - from "Streams" by Marcos Reyna. Read it: https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/11/streams-by-marcos-reyna/ #essay #cnf #CreativeNonfiction #LitMag #LiteraryMagazine #HippocampusMagazine

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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 issues (and the archives!). Happy reading!

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