The first time I cooked rice by myself, at five years old, I burned it to a tarry blackness.
We build a ramp on the road outside our house using cinder blocks and a long sheet of plywood…
The dog shows up on my doorstep one February night.
Tell me about a time when you felt safe, she says to me.
This is not a story of faith, let’s get that straight right away.
We build a ramp on the road outside our house using cinder blocks and a long sheet of plywood…
This is not a story of faith, let’s get that straight right away.
Earlier, in class, the teacher had been screaming at us about our stomachs.
The dog shows up on my doorstep one February night.
Tell me about a time when you felt safe, she says to me.
Four moons in the night sky. This is planet Earth.
When I was 10, my mom began teaching me and my older brother German.
Wayside crosses often serve as markers to represent dangerous places.
Buddha’s first teachings started with the Four Noble Truths. But the first of my four noble lies started with pig’s blood.
On the floor of Aunt Rosalie’s closet: in a plastic trash bag, the new slacks and matching shirts, still with tags…
The first time I cooked rice by myself, at five years old, I burned it to a tarry blackness.
Brian Broome, author of Punch Me Up to The Gods: A Memoir, speaks to Hippocampus Magazine’s Lara Lillibridge.
We spoke with Laraine about speculative memoir, ancestral roots, grief, empathy, structure, and putting it all together on paper.
Halket’s book explains, from a personal perspective, what having OCD is like—debilitating.
The collection reads like life itself with the simple unpredictable connection of every moment.
In this collection the natural world exists as a place of solace where lessons can be learned from natural cycles.
Through the ebb and flow of one young man’s year, we are urged to confront ourselves, to linger, learn, and grow.
The book focuses, not on the horrors of the Holocaust, but on the small stories that have no place in history.
Darrel McLeod’s story moves beyond the personal and offers insights into the injustices suffered by Canada’s indigenous peoples.
The problem with the “Write every day” advice is that it assumes all writers are the same.
Hippocampus Magazine is pleased to share its 2021 Best of the Net creative nonfiction nominations.
News and updates from Hippocampus contributors.
During HippoCamp 2021’s closing session, we recognized Allison K Williams as our second honoree of this award.
… I was lucky to attend Jeannine Oullette’s “Unleashing Your Hardest Truths….” for the wake-up call I needed…
