Hippocampus Magazine is delighted to announce our six Pushcart Prize nominations for 2025, which include three essays and three flash essays.
Hippocampus Magazine Announces 2025 Pushcart Prize Nominees for Creative Nonfiction
Hippocampus Magazine Announces 2025 Best of the Net Nominees
Congratulations to our 2025 Best of the Net nominees.
WRITING LIFE: Writing With AI Without Losing My Voice by Heather Gemmen Wilson
This week’s writing frenzy started with a single line — a line that wasn’t mine.
REVIEW: Rehearsals for Dying: Digressions on Love and Cancer by Ariel Gore
One of the best aspects of Rehearsals for Dying is Ariel’s focus on expanding the reader’s understanding … of breast cancer itself.
REVIEW: Somebody is Walking on Your Grave: My Cemetery Journeys by Mariana Enriquez
Enriquez takes the reader on a wild and expansive tour across four continents featuring 21 cemeteries.
REVIEW: Queer Devotion: Spirituality Beyond the Binary in Myth, Story, and Practice by Charlie Claire Burgess
While it deals with historical representations of gods and goddesses, Queer Devotion also connects to modern day religions…
REVIEW: Song So Wild and Blue: A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell by Paul Lisicky
Lisicky and Mitchell forge a life engulfed in appreciation for the power of language that aids in his newfound love of prose.
REVIEW: The Lab: Experiments in Writing Across Genre by Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante
… a hearty reference guide, a study in craft, a pep talk, an instructional manual and good for all writers of all levels.
REVIEW: All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation by Elizabeth Gilbert
Gilbert’s honesty about sex and love addiction is rare.
REVIEW: The Tilling by Matthew Morris
The fragmentation Morris feels when it comes to his racial identity comes through in the many rhythmic tangents on which he takes his readers….
