One of the best parts of running Hippocampus Magazine is staying in touch with our contributors, our Hippocampus family! We love hearing about the continued achievements of these writers, as well as our staff members and past conference speakers. Each month, or as often as we have enough updates to create post, we like to share their good news!
A big congratulations to all! (Submit your news here for inclusion a future update.)
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Updates received during October and November 2018:
Gail Anderson says 2018 was a good year: Winchester Writers’ Fest – 1st prize in both the Memoir and Poetry competitions, 2nd prize Fish Publishing Flash Fiction, Bridgeport shortlisted, published in 2018 and 2019 Aesthetica CW annuals, TSR: The Southampton Review, and the Bath Flash Fiction Annual. Nicole Breit, a regular craft article contributor launched new website featuring writing programs and resources for CNF writers.
Eileen Cunniffe had a recent flurry of essays published in The Voices Project, Door Is a Jar, Emrys Journal Online and bioStories.
Joanna Brichetto’s personal essay “What White Tree is Blooming Now” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by The Hopper, and she has a cedar-glade essay at The Common: “It Was a Yellow-Billed Cuckoo.”
On the day Shane Cashman’s son was born he began to write a series of small essays centered around the walks he’d take around the city or through the woods. he was honored to see this installment run in The Common’s Dispatches series.
Marc Frazier’s new poetry collection, Willingly, will be published January 2019 by Adelaide Books New York.
Randon Billings Noble presented “On Failure” at the NonfictioNOW conference in Phoenix, Arizona. Her essay “Assemblage” was nominated by Creative Nonfiction Magazine for Pushcart Prize.
Anthony J. Mohr has upcoming work appearing in Glint Literary Journal and North Dakota Quarterly; in 2018, he’s been published in Magnolia Review (short story, which was nominated for the Pushcart Prize). Last year, he was published in Superstition Review, Evening Street Review, and Golden State (anthology of California writers); he also received honorable mention in Sequestrum’s Editor’s Reprint Award 2016.
Randon Billings Noble presented “On Failure” at the NonfictioNOW conference in Phoenix, Arizona. Her essay “Assemblage” was nominated by Creative Nonfiction Magazine for Pushcart Prize.
One of Lisa Romeo’s essays is included in the Notables list of Best American Essays 2018: “An Attractive Portal to Uncertainty,” which appeared in Harpur Palate (vol. 16, # 1).
Her article, offering 11 reasons to consider (traditional) publishing with a small or university press, is on the Nonfiction Authors Association website.
Todd Sformo had a piece in Crique, “Gray”
Michele Sharpe (f/k/a Michele Leavitt) had an opinion piece published in The Washington Post, “Who’s a victim? Who’s an ‘accuser’? The loaded language of sexual assault.”
Isaac Yuen Rhythm has a piece of flash nonfiction,”Lodestone,” in Issue 13 of Tahoma Literary Review.
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