We held séances during fifth-grade recess, on the picnic table where the janitors took their cigarette breaks.
Fifty of us walked, fingertip to gloved fingertip, through the sodden snow….
I lean on the deck rail and savor dusk’s drift toward night — the glitter-caps rippling Kachemak Bay….
After high school ended for the day, my younger brother and I would go to a nearby park to practice hopping fences.
I lean on the deck rail and savor dusk’s drift toward night — the glitter-caps rippling Kachemak Bay….
Nights in the desert we sped down soft roads.
He’s fallen again. I am in the bathtub, hooking my arms under my father and dragging him up….
I watched from the kitchen doorway as my aunt Marge taught my mother how to carve the moose …
After high school ended for the day, my younger brother and I would go to a nearby park to practice hopping fences.
I want to tell one thing, one perfect thing. I was a 12-year-old kid in the Garden of Eden. At the center of the garden, a perfect natural spring boiled up from a deep subterranean source, its waters as clear as a glass of club soda. Fish flashed through the water silver and quick. Too…
Visible through the window: light sun, little squirrels scurrying down cement steps, empty-handed.
We held séances during fifth-grade recess, on the picnic table where the janitors took their cigarette breaks.
Fifty of us walked, fingertip to gloved fingertip, through the sodden snow….
Stalvey’s gorgeous illustrations, playful sense of humor, and clear-eyed criticisms of purity culture …. make this book a worthwhile read.
…it has been a while since a book of essays astounded me on every level…
Winter is a beautifully meandering journey through childhood, local history, and a writer’s life.
I thought I knew a lot about racism. Then I read The Mixed Marriage Project.
..a beautiful combination of elegy and manifesto.
… a book that you can read through, like a more typical memoir, and also cook your way through.
Tracey exquisitely weaves queer beauty into a narrative that is also about the death of the ecosystems around salt lakes.
How do you review a car wreck?
More sociological study than memoir, Rehab examines the U.S. model of addiction recovery through four people.
Allen-Paisant juxtaposes his childhood in Jamaica with his current middle-class life in Leeds, UK….
Radical Cartography’s best achievement is explaining what maps can do and why it’s worthwhile to learn more about them.
…a masterclass in how the ordinary of everyday life can lead to the extraordinary.
As a student of football and of writing about it, I was first drawn to the simplicity of the title.
Like Eurie Dahn, many of my memories are wrapped up in food.
For those of us who aspire to write micro, Fennelly shows us how it’s done ….
If I were to use one word to describe Governing Bodies, it would be tender.
Griffiths’ accounting of her life since marrying fellow author Salman Rushdie in 2021 is Biblical.
The timing of this book is impeccable, as America’s gargantuan fascist elephant keeps tromping his way around the global room….
Woman House: Essays and Assemblages is, among other things, a book about secrets.
Anywhere Else: Essays on Florida by Rachel Knox is part love letter to the author’s home state and part reckoning.
One Bad Mother: In Praise of Psycho Housewives, Stage Parents, Momfluencers, and Other Women We Love dives into many tropes.
Metronome is part historical retelling, part sociological examination of the place of the little object’s presence in our lives.
Dementia Widow is first and foremost a beautifully crafted love story.
Cave Mountain: A Disappearance and a Reckoning in the Ozarks by Benjamin Hale blends true-crime, memoir, and cultural history.
I spent five years on the book before that essay was published… I’d largely given up.
We speak to CNN anchor Carol Lin about her new book, When News Breaks: A Memoir of Love and War
…an alternately excruciating and lyrical memoir of being lost for 18 years in the complexities of a hard to diagnose condition…
…the book is heartbreaking. But it is also filled with joy, beauty, tension, conflict; it’s a great read.
I didn’t expect Map of a Heart to be a page turner, like a mystery, but it is.
Some of us don’t write just to document; we write to survive.
A mixtape is a compilation telling the narrative you want to tell.
Music can be closely tied to our memories, and this can be a boon when we write about our past experiences.
It may seem old-fashioned these days, but my daily writing practice revolves around a personal blog.
Our amazing reading team has finished reviewing entries in Hippocampus Magazine’s third annual We Love Short Shorts Contest for Flash Creative Nonfiction, and we are thrilled to announce this year’s winners. During the month of February, we received 308 entries, each one up to 250 words. This year’s stories explored moments of kindness, friendship, parental…
A recap of Hippocampus Magazine’s journey to AWP 2026 and our launch party for Selected Memories Vol. 2.
The 2026 We Love Short Shorts Contest for Flash Creative Nonfiction is open for Feb. 1-28, 2026. Prize: $250 + publication.
