One of the best parts of running Hippocampus Magazine is staying in touch with our contributors, our Hippocampus family! In the past, we every now and then published a blog post featuring updates from those who’ve previously published with us. We’re getting back in the habit of sharing! Last month we sent all of our contributors a brief form asking for updates. We’ve collected them, and this is the first installment. It includes all “alumni updates” submitted in July and through Aug. 2.
To make posting more efficient since we have a TON of amazing news to share, this time around we’re pasting our spreadsheet of news submitted through our update form, mostly verbatim, here. It’s sorted by first name.
A big congratulations to all of our contributors, friends, and conference speakers for their accomplishments! (Submit your news here for inclusion a future update.)
| A. A. Weiss | A Gun Story – August 2014 | Lenin’s Asylum, a travel memoir, published in June 2018 by Everytime Press |
| Alex Simand | Recipe for Salat Olivier | A poem in which Alex Simand explores his more Russian heteronym, Alexandr Simanduyev, published May 3 with Maudlin House. |
| Alexandria Peary | March 2014 | Alexandria Peary’s newest book, Prolific Moment: Theory and Practice of Mindfulness for Writing, has just been published by Routledge. The book discusses ways to use mindfulness to reduce writing blocks and increase writing fulfillment. |
| Amanda J. Crawford | “Nogales,” March 2016 | Amanda J. Crawford has joined the faculty of the University of Connecticut as an assistant professor of journalism. |
| Anita Gill | “Lesson Plans” in the April 2016 issue | My essay, “Hair,” was selected as the Nonfiction winner in The Iowa Review Awards . |
| Anne Pinkerton | March 2018 | In April, I was honored to publish a piece on Modern Loss about social media and my dead friend Kim. |
| Audrey Smith | January/February, 2018 “Tough Titties” | Audrey Smith’s essay “Impact” was published in Nat. Brut in May, 2018! |
| Aurora D. Bonner | Contributor, January/February 2018 | I am happy to have an essay, “The Night We Ate Moussaka,” published in the July 2018 issue of Under the Gum Tree. |
| Brian Broome | “God Don’t Like Ugly” Issue Sept, 2017 | Brian Broome has been chosen as a 2018 Leroy K. Irvis Scholar with a full ride in the University of Pittsburgh’s MFA Program. His story in Hippocampus was instrumental in getting his application noticed. |
| Carolyn Lochhead (was Roberts) | Sanrinsha Dec 2014 | Published a book of essays in early 2018 |
| Catherine Young | “Recipe By Heart” September 2016 | Catherine Young’s writing nominated for Pushcart and Best American Essays. Just released anthology on work and living in national parks, Permanent Vacation II , features her “Island Voices.” So far Catherine has completed a memoir and poetry collection, and her farm almanac is in progress. |
| Charnell Peters | After I Glimpse the Phenomenal Blurb on Page 153, July 2017 | Charnell’s poetry chapbook “Un-becoming” won Thirty West Publishing House’s chapbook contest & will be published by them in October. |
| Chris Arthur | “Shells” (Jan 1st 2016) | Two new essay collections: Reading Life (Negative Capability Press, 2017), and Hummingbirds Between the Pages (Ohio State University Press, 2018 – in their “21st Century Essays” series”) |
| Christine Hale | July 2014 | Christine Hale’s #MeToo piece “A Coming of Rage Story” received Notable Essay designation from Memoir Magazine. Her memoir A PIECE OF SKY, A GRAIN OF RICE was a finalist for the Housatonic Post-Publication Award. |
| Clive Collins | “Runner”, July 1, 2014 | Carried Away and Other Stories by Clive Collins, Red Bird Chapbooks (May 2018) |
| Connor Saparoff Ferguson | Leavings, January-February 2018 | My short story “The Chrysalid” appeared in the Baltimore Review’s Spring 2018 issue. |
| Dave Wheeler | “Science for Boys,” Oct 1, 2016 | His latest essay, “The Queer Fear of Aging,” was published by INTO, Grindr’s magazine this past spring. |
| David Bowne | “The Improbability of Me (and You), December 2017 | Publication in the science journal Conservation Biology on how turtles are affected by urbanization. Over 1000 undergraduates and 30 faculty across the country involved with this collaborative research. |
| Deb Hemley | Wandering May 2017, The Loyal Order October 2012 | Have been writing monthly articles about nonfiction writing for writenonfictionnow.com & published a personal essay, LiveStrong: The Golden Ticket . |
| DS Levy (Debra Levy) | “Holy Basil” – August 2014 | My #MeToo essay was published June 2018 in Persimmon Tree, and my review of Paul Beckman’s latest flash collection was published March 2018 in Fiction Southeast. |
| Edward Nugent | October, 2018 | My novel, Every Song Tells a Story, as been published. |
| Emily Brisse | “I Am Still Here” – August 2016 | Emily Brisse has new work in Sweet and Ninth Letter, and her essay “This is My Oldest Story” was published in January by Creative Nonfiction’s True Story. Another essay, “The Whole Apparatus,” was named a finalist in december magazine’s Curt Johnson Prose Award contest. |
| Gail Hosking | “Six Flash Essays” 2016 | Anthology Nothing Short of: Selected Tales From 100 Word Story edited by Faulkner, Mundall, Olsen 2018 Outpost 19 Publisher |
| J.L. Cooper | Inheritance by J.L. Cooper April 1, 2016 | New poems:
Driving at Night in October Grand Prize in Poetry: Crosswinds Poetry Journal Contest, 2018 Eulogy With Paper Lamps Finalist: Joy Harjo Poetry Contest, 2017 Cutthroat, Issue 23, Vol. 1, 2018 The Ropes on Scalloway Pier The Comstock Review (in Press, 2018) |
| James “Jim” Knisely | “Eye Contact” Sept 1, 2015 | Novelist-in-Residence at Seattle’s Legendary Blue Moon Tavern |
| Jane Hammons | Holy Tribunal July 1, 2011 and also Selected Memories anthology | Jane Hammons’ novel manuscript, Search and Rescue, was a finalist in the Mystery category of the Writer’s League of Texas 2018 Manuscript Contest |
| Jane Marcellus | “Scissors,” April 2017 | My essay, “The Growing Rock,” appeared in the Gettysburg Review, Winter 2017: 640-653. |
| Jeffrey Seitzer | Battlefield Promotion, May 2018 | I have a new essay, “How a Boy Becomes a Mom,” in the August issue of The Write Launch. |
| Jennifer Lang | Gas Masks and Wedding Vows in Firsts | Essays in Under the Sun, Ascent, The Tishman Review, The Coachella Review, Pithead Chapel, elsewhere. Twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize, once for Best American Essays and finalist in Crab Orchard Review’s Literary Nonfiction Contest. Holds MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Founded Israel Writers Studio in 2015. |
| Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman | “Advanced Placement,” November 2016 | My first book, Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir, will be published by W.W. Norton on February 12, 2019! |
| Joanna Brichetto | “Naked Ladies and Cicadas,” (May, 2017) | Joanna Brichetto’s essay “What White Tree is Blooming Now” is in The Hopper’s new print issue. In June, her urban nature essay, “Can’t Eat Just One” was at City Creatures Blog; and her piece about a Tennessee cedar glade: “Eponymous,” was published in About Place Journal. |
| Joanne Marie Lozar Glenn | Oct. 2014 and Jan. 2015 | My essay “Apologies” placed third in W.O.W.-WomenOnWriting.com’s Q3 Flash Creative Nonfiction Contest |
| Julie Marie Wade | “Only Child,” June 2012 | My new collection, Same-Sexy Marriage: A Novella in Poems, is just out from A Midsummer Night’s Press. |
| Karen Zey | “Jake.” December 2013 | My first yes from a lit mag? Hippocampus in 2013. Now have CNF in several lit mags, teaching memoir at my local library and working on a book. |
| Kat Moore | “Where Do You Go From Alston Street?” Issue April 2016 | “Where Do You Go From Alston Street?” was chosen to be in the anthology Bodies of Truth: Personal Narratives on Illness, Disability, and Medicine forthcoming from the University of Nebraska Press |
| Krista Christensen | Traction, January 2015 | Krista’s essay “Covenant” will appear in issue XVI of Waxwing on October 15, and her essay “Theories of Negativity” will appear in the fall issue of Potomac Review. Read her recent essay, “World, Heaving,” at Booth, here: http://booth.butler.edu/2017/03/03/world-heaving/ |
| Lara Lillibridge | “The Right Tap” Sept. 2016 | Lara Lillibridge’s second memoir, “Mama, Mama, Only Mama! Stories, Blogs and Hacked Recipes for the Newly Single Mother,” will be released by Skyhorse Publishing Spring 2019. |
| Linda C. Wisniewski | “Bread on the Grass,” August 2012 | Linda C. Wisniewski teaches a monthly memoir class at the historic home of Nobel prize winner Pearl S. Buck in Dublin, PA |
| Lydie Olson Raschka | “Doors that Open Shut” (Nov. 1, 2011) | Lydie Raschka had a piece in Uppercase Magazine (issue #35): “Chris Raschka: An Illustrator’s Documentation of Family, Career and Everything Else.” |
| Marsh Rose | “False Memory” in New Millennium Writings | First prize for creative nonfiction |
| Matt Jones | October 2015 | Matt was awarded the Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for 2018, along with residencies from Willowtail Springs and The Leopold Writing Program. |
| Michele Leavitt | “Kitten Sack” and “Maternity Cave” | Hi! I have a 3500-word article “Outsiders on the Inside” coming out in the September issue of Poets and Writers, which hits newsstands August 17. It profiles my sister Hippo contributor, Sandra Gail Lambert (“Laundromat” and “Rolling in the Mud”) and six other successful, self-identified “outsiders.” |
| Noriko Nakada | “Big Brother” in July 2011 and “The Coast” in Feb 2012 | Her essay, “Education in Resistance,” “Swing,” and “Late Night Phone Calls” were all published this spring/summer. |
| Patricia Perry Donovan | Second Nature, February 2016 | 2nd novel, Hurricane Sandy-inspired AT WAVE’S END, published Aug. 2017 by Lake Union. Won 2nd place in WOW Women on Writing Flash Fiction Winter 2018. |
| Rebecca Nakaba | “A Day at the Living Hoard” April 2018 | I co-curated and have work in a gallery show at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. The show is titled “Animals in Space: A Collective Memoir” and uses the history of animals sent into space for scientific research as a thematic entry to explore the complexity of human motivations, and the disconnects in empathy between human relationships and our relationship with our environment. |
| Rick Kempa | “Nothing Between Us Now But Love,” December 2011 | Having just retired after thirty years of teaching at Western Wyoming College, Rick is now pursuing his twin passions of writing and walking full-time. See rickkempa.com for links to recent work. |
| Sean Gill | “A Temporary Shelf-Life”, September 2015 | I won The Cincinnati Review’s Robert and Adele Schiff Award in Prose for my story “For Want of a Better Word” |
| Susan Rukeyser | X-rays Are My Souvenirs (winner, 2011 Remember in Nov contest, and collected in Selected Memories) | Susan Rukeyser’s chapbook SWAP / MEET was just published by Space Cowboy Books. Its 9 tiny stories are classified ads. Last year she moved home to the Mojave although she grew up in Connecticut. |
| Suzanne Kamata | “The Road to Versailles” September 1, 2013 | Mother/daughter mini travel memoir published – A GIRLS’ GUIDE TO THE ISLANDS |
| Tamzin Mitchell | June 2018: “Bathtub Dishes at the Witching Hour” | Tamzin Mitchell’s essay “Out of the Deep” was published in Cosmonauts Avenue, and her short story “Study in Charcoal” appeared in Crannóg Magazine. Her essay “Fernweh,” published in cahoodaloodaling, was nominated for 2018’s Best of the Net. |
| Terri Steel | Panel Speaker at Hippocamp 2018 | Key 2 Keys bike ride (Baltimore to Key West) for cancer |
| Terry Barr | No One’s There to Catch You When You Fall, July 2015 | My latest essay collection published: We Might As Well Eat: How to Survive Tornadoes, Alabama Football, and Your Southern Family (Third Lung Press) |
| Thomas Wells | Electric Literature | I recently wrote an essay for Electric Literature about my experience in New Orleans building houses and reading Atlas Shrugged. |
| William Dameron | “Bagging The Office Bully” May 2018 | William Dameron’s memoir, “The Lie: A Tale of Two Marriages,” is forthcoming from Little A in June of 2019. Expanding on his recent NYT Modern Love column “264 Haircuts,” about living in and out of the closet, steroid abuse, and a surprising catfish incident. It’s a sensitive and daring portrait of how a family moves on after their lives have been blasted apart. |
Wow! That’s a lot of great news, from books and essays to teaching and personal accomplishments outside of writing. We’ll share more updates (from all those submitted after Aug. 2) in September!
