Upcoming Events: Where You Can Find Us
Here’s a look at our upcoming online events, plus third-party event where you can find our authors and editors! [You may also view past events by using the month view and scrolling back.]
HOW-TO TUESDAY: What’s a Hermit Crab Doing in My Essay?
May 13 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm EDT
$20.00
In this How-To Tuesday, we’ll talk about one of the most fun experimental forms of creative nonfiction: the hermit crab essay!
These forms can also be an effective way to approach sensitive topics with levity and wit. Your essay could take the form of anything, from a recipe or personals ad to a corporate memo or a weather report! Think outside the box!
Together, in this session we will:
- talk about what they are and how they work
- look at great examples of hermit crab essays
- start thinking about how to create our own
If you’ve always been curious about experimental forms creative nonfiction — or you just want a refresher! — this session will leave you inspired and ready to write.
About the series: How-To Tuesdays are monthly(ish) talks on the craft of creative nonfiction, publishing, marketing, and the writing life led by Hippocampus Magazine editors & contributors. Your registration helps fund our contributor payments and other costs associated with running our journal.
Rae Pagliarulo is associate editor of Hippocampus Magazine. She works as a nonprofit fundraising consultant in her lifelong home of Philadelphia. Her essays, poems, and articles have appeared in Full Grown People, bedfellows, Hippocampus, The Manifest-Station, r.kv.r.y. quarterly, the Brevity Blog, and numerous others. Her work is anthologized in The Best of Philadelphia Stories: 10th Anniversary Edition.
Rae is the 2014 recipient of the Sandy Crimmins National Poetry Prize, a 2019 Best of the Net nominee, and a graduate of Rosemont College’s MFA program.
