Terese Marie Mailhot reflects on the challenges of negotiating the gap between the ugly truth and the art she hopes to make out of it
Review: Heart Berries: A Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot
Category: 2018 issues
Review: Finding Stillness in a Noisy World by Jana Richman
Richman explores the sanctity and desire for solitude in fifteen essays on varying topics…
Review: When History Is Personal by Mimi Schwartz
Among Schwartz’s most thought-provoking pieces is “In The Land of Double Narrative.”
CRAFT: Truth is Elusive — The Art of the Suppose by Beth Kephart, a special to Hippocampus Magazine
[Editor’s note: This essay was excerpted from Beth Kephart’s Aug. 25 opening address at HippoCamp 2018, Hippocampus Magazine’s annual conference for creative nonfiction writers.] We live in a truth-imperiled world. We live among fakers and relativists, liars and cheats, embellishers and subjectivists. We live afraid that the truth could be anything, or will remain forever…
Hippocampus Family & Alumni Updates: September 2018
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…
WRITING LIFE: How Not to Get an MFA – A Step by Step Guide by Ann Klotz
For some, the idea of pursuing an MFA degree is overwhelming, complicated, or impossible.
Life and Death at the T.J. Maxx by Anna Anderson
T.J. Maxx is not necessarily the type of place where you expect to encounter moments of searing emotional honesty with complete strangers.
Gender Rolls: An Academic How-to-Skate Guide for Girls by Lexi Castiglione
Newcomers are not entertained. This notion will dawn on you gracelessly when the Tony Hawk decal on your deck beckons…wheezing laughter….
Winter from a Second Floor Window by Casey Gentry Quinn
Some hills are harder to sled than others. A slope is needed. Some snow is important.
Onslaught by Kami Westhoff
My mother lost the tip of her finger to the cutting lip of a drill bit when she was six.
