
The gray mattress the officer gave me almost slid out of my sweaty hands.
We almost said no when they asked if we had space for a newborn. We had been foster parents for only a few months….
The gray mattress the officer gave me almost slid out of my sweaty hands.
Our pre-calculus teacher called us the “Loquacious Lilies” — bright-eyed and giggling at girlhood’s perimeter.
Six years old, I’m having a standoff with the small, polished red Advil my father gives me….
We make music in our house, though none of us are particularly gifted. We sing each other to sleep and plink on children’s tiny pianos.
We’re always pleased to share updates from our family of contributor-alumni and HippoCamp presenters. Here’s what we’ve collected between our last update now. We’d really LOVE to grow this feature, so please submit your news here for inclusion in a future update. Rachel Cann, who had a story in our inaugural issue, reported that she’s…
Hippocampus Magazine is thrilled to share that Carmen Maria Machado, author of the acclaimed memoir In the Dream House, will be the headlining keynote at this year’s HippoCamp: A Conference for Creative Nonfiction Writers. This annual writing conference is scheduled for Aug. 12-14, 2022, at the Downtown Marriott in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and Carmen’s keynote will…
Hippocampus Magazine (and Books) and our annual conference, HippoCamp, is so proud to have been a home and community for so many amazing voices in the creative nonfiction world. Many of them will be part of AWP – The Association of Writers and Writing Programs – Annual Conference this year. In this post, we share…