Remember in November Contest for Creative Nonfiction 2012
Category: Hippocampus News
A Giveaway a Day: Happy Birthday Hippo!
We’re giving away a prize a day in honor of our first birthday! Our wonderful literary friends and business-owner pals donated an assortment of goodies to help us celebrate our birthday! Please visit our donors’ websites to learn more about their work and/or publications and products. We’re still looking to fill a few more days…
2012 Reader Survey Results and More by Donna Talarico
As a lit mag editor (and a marketer/PR person by trade), I was curious to know more about our audience. So between January and March 2012, Hippocampus Magazine surveyed its readers; seventy-three people responded to the anonymous survey. As promised, I’m sharing the results with our community. (view PDF of all charts here) Before delving…
Editor’s Notes: May 2012 – The Birthday Issue
While it has been more than a year since Hippocampus Magazine entered the literary magazine scene—we launched our website in January 2011 seeking submissions—this month marks our one-year milestone of publishing fresh creative nonfiction, and in working toward our three-fold mission of entertaining, educating and engaging readers and writers of creative nonfiction. I am beaming…
Prompts: Oops. I Wasn’t Supposed to See That.
Readers respond to “Oops! I wasn’t supposed to see that!”
Insider Tips: Sydney L. Keniston
Our reading panel and editorial staff share advice about submitting to Hippocampus Magazine.
Editor’s Notes: April 2012
I thought about making an April Fool’s Day joke in our monthly email or hidden somewhere in the new issue, but I am terrible at making things up – that’s why I love nonfiction. It’s the brilliant stuff you CAN’T make up!
Prompts: Oh. My. God. What is that smell?
Everyone can get involved with Hippocampus Magazine with {prompts}! About each month, we’ll post a new creative nonfiction prompt, inspired by a real-life event. Fact is stranger than fiction–if we experience something unbelievable, others must have a similar story. From January 2011 “Oh. My. God. What is that smell?” Join the fun with our current…
March 2012: Editor’s Notes
Happy March! It’s been unseasonably warm in my neck of the woods this winter. And I’m not complaining. It’s not spring yet, but it sure feels like it. Just yesterday at my day job, at Elizabethtown College, I snapped a picture of an art class having class outside. As I write this, I am procrastinating…
The Rock ‘n’ Roll Issue: Seeking Submissions
Music and memories: two words closely related. In July 2012, our online magazine will turn into a mix tape of sorts, belting out originals from an array of wordsmiths. Hippocampus Magazine invites you to share your music-inspired story in our first rock ‘n’ roll issue. There’s a reason so many timeless hits are those story-songs…
