Hippocampus Magazine typically accepts and publishes submissions on any topic, as long as it fits in with our motto: memorable creative nonfiction. We enjoy the variety of essays, flash CNF, and memoir excerpts this openness brings to our pages with each new issue.
Once per year, though, we produce a special theme issue. We love putting together a group of stories united by a topic — but there’s still a bit of surprise because contributors often interpret the theme in varying ways.
Many times, writers will use this theme as a challenge: a writing prompt to kick-start something new. Other times, a writer may have something that already fits perfectly with the theme. Either way, we look forward to what our annual theme issue brings to the magazine.
Read our past theme issues:
Rock-n-Roll – 2012
Road Trip – 2013
Weather & Mother Nature – 2014
Guilty Pleasures & Vices – 2015
Firsts – 2016
Stranger(s) – 2017
Keepsakes – 2018
We released our theme issues each July from 2012 to 2018, and it switched to December for 2019.
