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- [Fantasy Drafts by Jim Parisi](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/07/fantasy-drafts-by-jim-parisi/) - "In the first draft of your wildest fantasy, the stick flies past your ear...." -- from the flash essay "Fantasy Drafts" by Jim Parisi.
- [Between the Sink and the Door by Eric Goldfarb](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/07/between-the-sink-and-the-door-by-eric-goldfarb/) - "At sixty, I bought hearing aids." -- from the flash essay "Between the Sink and the Door" by Eric Goldfarb in the July-August 2026 issue of Hippocampus.
- [The Bedsheet by Victoria Windsor](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/07/the-bedsheet-by-victoria-windsor/) - "The stretcher wouldn’t make the turns up our narrow Tudor stairs..." from "The Bedsheet" by Victoria Windsor in the July-August 2026 issue of Hippocampus.
- [Daisies by Ofrit Peres](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/07/daisies-by-ofrit-peres/) - "Jen's lips are sticky from glittery gloss when we kiss." -- from the flash essay "Daisies" by Orfit Peres.
- [Slip 'n Slide by Jane Ann Valentine](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/07/slip-n-slide-by-jane-ann-valentine/) - "We tried to make the most of our time by doing nothing at all." -- from the essay "Slip 'n Slide" by Jane Ann Valentine.
- [My Guys by Andrew Miller](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/07/my-guys-by-andrew-miller/) - "In prisons, Toastmasters Clubs are called gavel clubs." -- from the essay "My Guys" by Andrew Miller in the July-August 2026 issue of Hippocampus.
- [Punctuated. by Julie Rackliffe Lucey](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/07/punctuated-by-julie-rackliffe-lucey/) - "Punctuate: verb (T) to regularly interrupt something that is happening." -- from the essay "Punctuate." by Julie Rackliffe Lucey.
- [The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale Fourth Edition (WAIS-IV) in Heartbroken Young Adult Populations: A Selected Review by Jessica Kinuyo Bakar](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/07/the-wechsler-adult-intelligence-scale-fourth-edition-wais-iv-in-heartbroken-young-adult-populations-a-selected-review/) - "If the fifteenth floor of the McGill psychology building were a person, she’d be really into direct communication." -- Jessica Kinuyo Bakar
- [Lightkeeping by Joy V.](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/07/lightkeeping-by-joy-v/) - "Two years ago, the phone rang, the number unlisted." -- from the essay "Lightkeeping" by Joy V. in the July-August 2026 issue of Hippocampus.
- [noise. by Elisa Jay](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2015/07/noise-by-elisa-jay/) - I like to pretend this isn’t me on the other side of the mirror, listening to my neighbor unclasping the lid from a jar of face cream. After all, isn’t this a pastime reserved for serial killers, serial creeps?
- [You Can Rehome a Cat But Not a Kid by Tracie Adams](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/05/you-can-rehome-a-cat-but-not-a-kid-by-tracie-adams/) - "Maybe those petty people are just being catty when they say adopt a cat instead." --from You Can Rehome a Cat But Not a Kid by Tracie Adams, 2026 contest finalist.
- [A Statement from the Editors Concerning a 2026 Contest Finalist](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/06/statement-flash-contest-26/) - This statement on this page expands on the editors’ note on this essay. We are grateful for a group of concerned readers who reached out about the content of an essay named as a runner-up in our 2026 We Love Short Shorts Contest for Creative Nonfiction. Their letter to us was crafted with care and
- [Contest Announcement: The 2026 We Love Short Shorts Finalists & Special Mentions](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/04/contest-announcement-the-2026-we-love-short-shorts-finalists-special-mentions/) - Announcing the finalists and honorable mentions/shortlist for the 2026 We Love Short Shorts Contest for Flash Creative Nonfiction.
- [WRITING LIFE: The Writing Instructor Trio: Confidant, Coach & Critic by Olga Katsovskiy](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/06/writing-life-the-writing-instructor-trio-confidant-coach-and-critic-by-olga-katsovskiy/) - I don’t think instructors talk enough about the emotional toll it takes, how hard it is to juggle and hold up all those voices on the table. -- Olga Katsovskiy
- [INTERVIEW: Jason Prokowiew, Author of War Boys: A Father and Son Memoir](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/06/interview-jason-prokowiew-author-of-war-boys-a-father-and-son-memoir/) - "The world of War Boys is a creation of my father’s descriptions, my creativity, and a lot of research." -- Jason Prokowiew, in our interview
- [REVIEW x2: Take It From Me by Alia Hannah Habib & Verb Your Enthusiasm by Sarah L. Kaufman](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/06/review-take-it-from-me-by-alia-hannah-habib-and-verb-your-enthusiasm-by-sarah-l-kaufman/) - In this dual review, Brian Watson looks at Take it From Me: An Agent's Guide to Building a Nonfiction Writing Career by Alia Hannah Habib & Verb Your Enthusiasm by Sarah L. Kaufman.
- [REVIEW: A Prescription for Burnout by Carolyn Roy-Bornstein](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/06/review-a-prescription-for-burnout-restorative-writing-for-healthcare-professionals-by-carolyn-roy-bornstein/) - "This book is the culmination of this lifetime of care." -- from our review A Prescription for Burnout: Restorative Writing for Medical Professionals by Carolyn Roy-Bornstein
- [REVIEW: Writing During the Apocalypse: Reflections on the Great Unraveling by Ed Simon](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/06/review-writing-during-the-apocalypse-reflections-on-the-great-unraveling-by-ed-simon/) - Ed Simon uses a remarkable breadth of research: history, technology, climate change, health, to dig deeply into why it’s important to write during the apocalypse. -- Sarah Boon
- [REVIEW: United States of Rejection: A Story of Love, Hate, and Hope by Alison Kinney](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/06/review-united-states-of-rejection-a-story-of-love-hate-and-hope-by-alison-kinney/) - United States of Rejection by Alison Kinney is "...stories and analysis meant to push your thinking about how much of American life centers on the idea of rejecting others."
- [REVIEW: Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change by Ben Austen](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/06/review-correction-parole-prison-and-the-possibility-of-change-by-ben-austen/) - In Correction, Ben Austen, incorporates stunning statistics and thoughtful analysis to tell the story of America’s long, sordid infatuation with incarceration.
- [REVIEW: Bitter, Sweet: How to Heal Yourself When Your Family Is Broken by Stephanie Weaver](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/06/review-bitter-sweet-how-to-heal-yourself-when-your-family-is-broken-by-stephanie-weaver/) - Bitter, Sweet by Stephanie Weaver is a hybrid self-help memoir that explores the devastating impact of child sexual abuse.
- [REVIEW: Relative Strangers: Inheritance, Identity and the Meaning of Kinship, Edited by B.K. Jackson](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/06/review-relative-strangers-inheritance-identity-and-the-meaning-of-kinship-edited-by-bk-jackson/) - Amy Roost reviews the anthology, Relative Strangers: Inheritance, Identity and the Meaning of Kinship, Edited by B.K. Jackson.
- [REVIEW: Take This For the Pain: Essays on Writing and Life by Alex Boyd](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/06/review-take-this-for-the-pain-essays-on-writing-and-life-by-alex-boyd/) - "...[Alex Boyd 's] book **is** the art and life of writing, and understanding it that way changes what you expect from it." - reviewer Renée K. Nicholson
- [REVIEW: Rough House by Alison Lyn Miller](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/06/review-rough-house-a-father-a-son-and-the-pursuit-of-wrestling-glory-by-alison-lyn-miller/) - Rough House raises some troubling questions even as it artfully and diligently provides answers to many others. -- reviewer Brian Knopp on Rough House by Alison Lyn Miller.
- [REVIEW: Monster of a Land: On the Road in Search of Modern America by Lauren Hough](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/06/review-monster-of-a-land-on-the-road-in-search-of-modern-america-by-lauren-hough/) - Monster of a Land by Lauren Hough is "a book about looking, really looking, at a country and its people." -- reviewer Elizabeth Austin
- [REVIEW: Other People’s Mothers by Julie Marie Wade](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/06/review-other-people-s-mothers-by-julie-marie-wade/) - "These nine essays stand like identical houses on identical lots: the magic is in each interior." -- Amy Wise Rothschild on Other People’s Mothers by Julie Marie Wade
- [CRAFT: The Accidental Shamanic Journey: Listening to the Stories of our Images by Tara DaPra](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/06/craft-the-accidental-shamanic-journey-listening-to-the-stories-of-our-images/) - "...when a powerful message appears by way of a potent detail, you must not push it away. You must listen." -- Tara DaPra
- [INTERVIEW: Timothy J. Hillegonds, Author of And You Will Call It Fate](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/06/interview-timothy-j-hillegonds-author-of-and-you-will-call-it-fate-a-memoir/) - Penny Guisinger chats with Timothy J. Hillegonds about And You Will Call It Fate, which examines toxic masculinity in this current political and social context.
- [INTERVIEW: Rose McLarney, Author of Rubble Masonry](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/06/interview-rose-mclarney-author-of-rubble-masonry/) - "I suppose there’s a hopelessness to wanting the past, since we can’t go back, yet we must progress forward...." -- Rose McLarney
- [The Last Snowstorm by Katerina Smith](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/05/the-last-snowstorm-by-katerina-smith/) - Do it.” You hand me the shaver and kneel, facing away from the mirror. -- from the flash essay The Last Snowstorm by Katerina Smith.
- [REVIEW: Western Star: The Life and Legends of Larry McMurtry by David Streitfeld](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/05/review-western-star-the-life-and-legends-of-larry-mcmurtry-by-david-streitfeld/) - "...an entertaining and affectionate, though unsentimental, examination of a complicated writer with a complicated career." -- on Western Star: The Life and Legends of Larry McMurtry
- [REVIEW: No Contact: Writers on Estrangement, Edited by Jenny Bartoy](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/05/review-no-contact-writers-on-estrangement-edited-by-jenny-bartoy/) - "I’ve been in group therapy, officially, twice in my life. I count reading No Contact [ed. by Jenny Bartoy] as an unofficial third round." -- Renee Reese
- [REVIEW: When Longing Becomes Your Lover by Amanda McCracken](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/05/review-when-longing-becomes-your-lover-amanda-mccracken/) - REVIEW: When Longing Becomes Your Lover: A True Story of Overcoming Limerence by Amanda McCracken, from our May-June 2026 issue.
- [REVIEW: Healing Through Wonder: How Awe Restores Us Through Trauma and Loss by Val Walker](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/05/review-healing-through-wonder-how-awe-restores-us-through-trauma-and-loss-by-val-walker/) - "[Val Walker] makes an argument for wonder because it can actually help survivors of many life circumstances...." -- Melissa Oliveira on Healing Through Wonder
- [REVIEW: The Allure of Elsewhere: A Memoir of Going Solo by Karen Babine](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/05/review-the-allure-of-elsewhere-a-memoir-of-going-solo-by-karen-babine/) - "I felt a deep kinship with Babine as I read." -- Melissa Gallerani reviews The Allure of Elsewhere: A Memoir of Going Solo by Karen Babine
- [REVIEW: This Land is Your Land: A Road Trip Through U.S. History by Beverly Gage](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/05/review-this-land-is-your-land-a-road-trip-through-us-history-by-beverly-gage/) - "Beverly Gage sets out on a journey of epic proportions, visiting thirteen different destinations in pursuit of answering a question once posed by Benjamin Franklin..."
- [REVIEW: Backtalker: An American Memoir by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/05/review-backtalker-an-american-memoir-by-kimberle-williams-crenshaw/) - As a fellow Black woman with an aversion to hypocrisy and injustice, it was transformative to read the journey of the scholar who coined the terms “intersectionality."
- [REVIEW: The Light Between Apple Trees by Priyanka Kumar](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/05/review-the-light-between-apple-trees-priyanka-kumar/) - "...part botany & zoology, part ecology & climate, and part loving portrait of the author’s life..." -- Brian Watson on The Light Between Apple Trees by Priyanka Kumar.
- [REVIEW: Tell Me How You Eat: Food, Power, and the Will to Live by Amber Husain](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/05/review-tell-me-how-you-eat-food-power-and-the-will-to-live-by-amber-husain/) - "A full spectrum of eating styles gets put under a microscope..." -- Nan J. Bauer reviews Tell Me How You Eat: Food, Power, and the Will to Live by Amber Husain.
- [INTERVIEW: A Conversation with Brenda Miller, Author of Love You, Bye: A Daughter's Journey in Essays and Poems](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/05/interview-a-conversation-with-brenda-miller/) - "We need very specific and personal stories more than ever, and we need new forms to keep developing and evolving." -- Brenda Miller, author of Love You, Bye.
- [REVIEW: Everything in Color: A Love Story by Stephanie Stalvey](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/04/review-everything-in-color-a-love-story-by-stephanie-stalvey/) - "Stephanie Stalvey and I grew up in similar strains of evangelicalism, both of us learning at a young age that we were sinners who deserved to spend eternity in hell." --McKenzie Watson-Fore
- [INTERVIEW: Emily Rapp Black, Author of I Would Die If I Were You: Notes on Art and Truth-Telling](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/05/interview-emily-rapp/) - "If you didn’t love, you wouldn’t grieve." -- Emily Rapp Black, suthor of I Would Die If I Were You: Notes on Art and Truth-Telling, from our interview.
- [INTERVIEW: Mandi Fugate Sheffel, Author of The Nature of Pain: Roots, Recovery & Redemption Amid the Opioid Crisis](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/05/interview-mandi-fugate-sheffel/) - "Talking about my name gave me an entry point to describe my parents and my crippling shyness." -- Mandi Fugate Sheffel, author of The Nature of Pain.
- [INTERVIEW: Jayne Anne Phillips, Author of Small Town Girls: A Writer’s Memoir](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/05/interview-jayne-anne-phillips-author-of-small-town-girls-a-writer-s-memoir/) - "As for the question of small-town girls, they are underestimated." -- Jayne Anne Phillips, Small Town Girls: A Writer’s Memoir. Interviewed by Leslie-Ann Murray.
- [INTERVIEW: Sarah Hoover, Author of The Motherload: Episodes from the Brink of Motherhood](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/05/interview-sarah-hoover/) - "Postpartum depression (PPD) is so stark — I thought my story would be more compelling if there were some entertainment value to it as well." -- Sarah Hoover
- [REVIEW: Hit Repeat Until I Hate Music: The March Xness Anthology, Edited by Ander Monson and Megan Campbell](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/05/review-hit-repeat-until-i-hate-music-the-march-xness-anthology-ander-monson-and-megan-campbell/) - Brian Lee Knopp reviews Hit Repeat Until I Hate Music: The March Xness Anthology, edited by Ander Monson and Megan Campbell.
- [REVIEW: The Badge Between Us: Duty, Marriage, and Family by Terrence P Dwyer](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/05/review-the-badge-between-us-duty-marriage-and-family-by-terrence-p-dwyer/) - Terrence P. Dwyer’s The Badge Between Us: Duty, Marriage, and Family courageously confronts institutional problems embedded in the culture/career of policing.
- [WRITING LIFE: Notes on a Debut: Engaging Community Through a Book Launch by Melanie Pappadis Faranello](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/05/writing-life-notes-on-a-debut-engaging-community-through-a-book-launch-melanie-pappadis-faranello/) - "Connecting people through self-expression is something I care deeply about." -- Melanie Pappadis Faranello in her WRITING LIFE column.
- [WRITING LIFE: 20 Minutes of Daily, Focused Freewriting is Responsible for My Sanity By Helene Kiser](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/05/writing-life-helene-kiser-20-minutes-of-daily-focused-freewriting-is-responsible-for-my-sanity/) - "I admire writers who have the stamina to spend daily disciplined hours on their writing. That’s not me." -- Helene Kiser in her WRITING LIFE column.
- [Socks by Joe Kapitan](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/05/socks-by-joe-kapitan/) - "The visitation room at Highland Springs is packed by the time I arrive." -- from the flash essay Socks by Joe Kapitan, a finalist in our 2026 flash CNF contest
- [Blue Light by Erin Jean](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/05/blue-light-by-erin-jean/) - "I shouldn’t be here and I know it." -- from the essay Blue Light by Erin Jean in our May-June 2026 issue.
- [Moose Parts by Sandra Carlson Khalil](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/05/moose-parts-by-sandra-carlson-khalil/) - "There’s an island in the middle of Lake Superior that’s home to moose and wolves. I spent a week there once..." -- from Moose Parts by Sandra Carlson Khalil
- [This House is a Body, This Body is a Home by Joanna Rotkin](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/05/this-house-is-a-body-this-body-is-a-home-by-joanna-rotkin/) - "The doctor sat on the edge of the hospital bed and said, 'Glen, you have a tumor in your brain.'” -- from This house is a Body, This Body is a Home by Joanna Rotkin
- [Fistful of Flowers by Jane Wren](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/05/fistful-of-flowers-by-jane-wren/) - "When I first learned that pain could look like love, it arrived in the form of a man who sent roses and left bruises." -- from Fistful of Flowers by Jane Wren
- [The Monitor Keeps Perfect Time by Robin Koczerginski](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/05/the-monitor-keeps-perfect-time-by-robin-koczerginski/) - "Bodies sweep in, gloves snap, lights flare, and someone says she’s ten centimeters" -- from the essay The Monitor Keeps Perfect Time by Robin Koczerginski
- [Fishing Lessons by Michael Copperman](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/05/fishing-lessons-by-michael-copperman/) - "Mist hung over the green-blue water of the McKenzie, hiding the boat-ramp from the island of rocks..." from the essay "Fishing Lessons" by Michael Copperman.
- [The Return Pantry by Amy Grace McLean](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/05/the-return-pantry-by-amy-grace-mclean/) - "When I remember wanting, I remember shoes." -- from the flash essay The Return Pantry by Amy Grace McLean, in our May-June 2026 issue.
- [Identity on the Rocks by Aubrey Rebecca](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/05/identity-on-the-rocks-by-aubrey-rebecca/) - "'So, you just travel around the world rock climbing?' a voice behind me asks." -- from the flash essay Identity on the Rocks by Aubrey Rebecca.
- [Tag by Noah Lane Browne](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/05/tag-by-noah-lane-browne/) - "All my friends are over. Like it’s my birthday, only it’s not" -- from the flash essay Tag by Noah Lane Browne, a finalist in our 2026 flash contest.
- [INTERVIEW: Jennifer Case, Author of We Are Animals: On the Nature and Politics of Motherhood](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/11/interview-jennifer-case-author-of-we-are-animals-on-the-nature-and-politics-of-motherhood/) - "The book as a whole offered a space for me to untangle what it means to have control or choice." -- Jennifer Case, author of We Are Animals
- [AWP 2026 & Selected Memories Vol. 2 Launch Party Recap](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/04/awp-2026-selected-memories-vol-2-launch-party-recap/) - A recap of Hippocampus Magazine's journey to AWP 2026 and our launch party for Selected Memories Vol. 2, held in Baltimore. Thanks to all contributors and volunteers.
- [The Butcher of Walthamstow by Amrita C](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2018/06/the-butcher-of-walthamstow-by-amrita-c/) - For a second he’d be distracted and the salami slicer would cut right through his thumb, I imagined.
- [CRAFT: The Things I Carried Out of Suburbia: Using Classic Structure to Write Memoir by Lori Lackland](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/04/craft-the-things-i-carried-out-of-suburbia-using-classic-structure-to-write-memoir-by-lori-lackland/) - Some of us don’t write just to document; we write to survive. -- Lori Lackland in The Things I Carried Out of Suburbia: Using Classic Structure to Write Memoir.
- [CRAFT: An Erasure Essay is Really Just a Mixtape by Kristine Langley Mahler](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/04/craft-an-erasure-essay-is-really-just-a-mixtape/) - "A mixtape is an erasure.... A mixtape is a compilation telling the narrative you want to tell." -- from Kristine Langley Mahler in her craft column
- [REVIEW: The Mixed Marriage Project: A Memoir of Love, Race, and Family by Dorothy Roberts](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/04/review-the-mixed-marriage-project-a-memoir-of-love-race-and-family-by-dorothy-roberts/) - "I thought I knew a lot about racism. Then I read The Mixed Marriage Project: A Memoir of Love, Race, and Family by Dorothy Roberts." -- Amy Roost
- [REVIEW: To See Beyond by Anna Badkhen](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/04/review-to-see-beyond-by-anna-badkhen/) - "...it has been a while since a book of essays astounded me on every level..." from Renée K. Nicholson's review of To See Beyond: Essays by Anna Badkhen
- [INTERVIEW: Benjamin Hale, Author of Cave Mountain: A Disappearance and a Reckoning in the Ozarks](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/04/interview-benjamin-hale-author-of-cave-mountain-a-disappearance-and-a-reckoning-in-the-ozarks/) - Leslie Lindsay interviews Benjamin Hale, author of Cave Mountain: A Disappearance and a Reckoning in the Ozarks, a book that blends true-crime, memoir, and cultural history.
- [INTERVIEW: Karen Palmer, Author of She’s Under Here: A Memoir](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/04/interview-karen-palmer-author-of-she-s-under-here-a-memoir/) - "I spent five years on the book before that essay was published...and at that point, I’d largely given up." Karen Palmer, author of She’s Under Here: A Memoir.
- [REVIEW: Radical Cartography: How Changing Our Maps Can Change Our World by William Rankin](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/04/review-radical-cartography-how-changing-our-maps-can-change-our-world-by-william-rankin/) - Radical Cartography’s best achievement is explaining what maps can do and why it’s worthwhile to learn more about them. -- Anthony J. Mohr, reviewing William Rankin
- [REVIEW: Winter: The Story of a Season by Val McDermid](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/04/review-winter-the-story-of-a-season-by-val-mcdermid/) - "Winter [by Val McDermid] is a beautifully meandering journey through childhood, local history, and a writer’s life." -- from Charmaine Lam's review.
- [REVIEW: What Ever Happened to Eddy Crane? A Memoir and a Murder Investigation By Kate Crane](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/04/review-what-ever-happened-to-eddy-crane-kate-crane/) - "a beautiful combination of elegy and manifesto." -- Amy Goldmacher in her review of What Ever Happened to Eddy Crane? A Memoir and a Murder Investigation by Kate Crane
- [REVIEW: Will This Make You Happy: Stories & Recipes From a Year of Baking by Tanya Bush](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/04/review-will-this-make-you-happy-stories-recipes-from-a-year-of-baking-by-tanya-bush/) - Will This Make You Happy is fundamentally a coming-of-age story in which Tanya Bush becomes a professional baker. -- Melissa Oliveira
- [REVIEW: Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History by Caroline Tracey](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/04/review-salt-lakes-an-unnatural-history-by-caroline-tracey/) - In Salt Lakes, Caroline Tracey exquisitely weaves queer beauty into a narrative that is also about the death of the ecosystems around salt lakes.
- [REVIEW: Character Witness: A Memoir by Jason Brown](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/04/review-character-witness-a-memoir-by-jason-brown/) - Character Witness: A Memoir by Jason Brown held me in awe.... How do you review a car wreck? -- Brian Watson, in his review
- [REVIEW: Rehab: An American Scandal by Shoshana Walter](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/04/review-rehab-an-american-scandal-by-shoshana-walter/) - More sociological study than memoir [it] examines the U.S. model of addiction recovery through four people. -- review of Rehab: An America Scandal by Shoshana Walter
- [REVIEW: The Possibility of Tenderness: A Jamaican Memoir of Plants and Dreams by Jason Allen-Paisant](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/04/review-the-possibility-of-tenderness-a-jamaican-memoir-of-plants-and-dreams-by-jason-allen-paisant/) - In The Possibility of Tenderness: A Jamaican Memoir of Plants and Dreams, Jason Allen-Paisant juxtaposes his childhood with his current middle-class life in Leeds, UK.
- [REVIEW: Frog and Other Essays by Anne Fadiman](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/04/review-frog-and-other-essays-by-anne-fadiman/) - Frog and Other Essays by Anne Fadiman is a masterclass in how the ordinary of everyday life can lead to the extraordinary. -- reviewer Sara Pisak
- [REVIEW: Governing Bodies: A Memoir, a Confluence, a Watershed by Sangamithra Iyer](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/03/review-governing-bodies-a-memoir-a-confluence-a-watershed-by-sangamithra-iyer/) - "If I were to use one word to describe Governing Bodies: A Memoir, a Confluence, a Watershed by Sangamithra Iyer, it would be tender." -- Amy Roost's review
- [Monkey Bars by Andreea Boboc](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/03/monkey-bars-by-andreea-boboc/) - "He’s fallen again. I am in the bathtub, hooking my arms under my father and dragging him up...." from Monkey Bars by Andreea Boboc.
- [Inside Was The Present Where Young Boys Die by Kathryn Smith](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/03/inside-was-the-present-where-young-boys-die-by-kathryn-smith/) - "Fifty of us walked, fingertip to gloved fingertip, through the sodden snow..." -- from the essay Inside Was The Present Where Young Boys Die by Kathryn Smith
- [Raise Your Body to the Sky by Annmarie Kelly](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/03/raise-your-body-to-the-sky-by-annmarie-kelly/) - "We held séances during 5th grade recess, on the picnic table where the janitors took their cigarette breaks." -from Raise Your Body to the Sky by Annmarie Kelly-Harbaugh
- [WRITING LIFE: Who Says Blogging is Passé? For Me, It Rocks by Dorothy Dean Walton](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/03/writing-life-who-says-blogging-is-passe-for-me-it-rocks-by-dorothy-dean-walton/) - It may seem old-fashioned — especially since the advent of Substack— but my daily writing practice revolves around a personal blog. -- Dorothy Dean Walton
- [CRAFT: Music and Meaning in Memoir by John Garrison](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/03/craft-music-and-meaning-in-memoir-by-john-garrison/) - Music can be closely tied to our memories, and this can be a boon when we write about our past experiences. -- John Garrison in his CRAFT column, March 2026.
- [Moose Bones by Susan Pope](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/03/moose-bones-by-susan-pope/) - "I watched from the kitchen doorway as my aunt Marge taught my mother how to carve the moose my father brought home..." - from Moose Bones by Susan Pope.
- [Side By Side by Annette L. Brown](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/03/side-by-side-by-annette-brown/) - "I lean on the deck rail and savor dusk’s drift toward night — the glitter-caps rippling Kachemak Bay..." -- from Side By Side by Annette L. Brown
- [REVIEW: One Bad Mother by EJ Dickson](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/03/review-one-bad-mother-in-praise-of-psycho-housewives-stage-parents-momfluencers-and-other-women-we-love-to-hate-by-ej-dickson/) - In One Bad Mother: In Praise of Psycho Housewives, Stage Parents, Momfluencers, and Other Women We Love to Hate EJ Dickson dives into many tropes.
- [WRITING LIFE: Crazy Like A Superpower by David Fowler](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/02/writing-life-crazy-like-a-superpower-by-david-fowler/) - "Collecting, or notetaking, was rigorous and compulsive but it forced me to deeply note events as I lived them..." -from Crazy Like A Superpower by David Fowler
- [CRAFT: React or Respond: A Writer’s Choose Your Own Adventure by Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/02/craft-react-or-respond-a-writer-s-choose-your-own-adventure-by-elizabeth-jarrett-andrew/) - "Challenging as it is, we writers can meet the firehose of reactivity with equanimity." -- Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew in her writing life column.
- [INTERVIEW: Carol Lin, Author of When News Breaks: A Memoir of Love and War](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/03/interview-carol-lin-author-of-when-news-breaks-a-memoir-of-love-and-war/) - Leslie Lindsay interviews CNN anchor Carol Lin about her new book, When News Breaks: A Memoir of Love and War for our March-April 2026 edition.
- [INTERVIEW: Rachel Weaver, Author of Dizzy: A Memoir](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/03/interview-rachel-weaver-author-of-dizzy-a-memoir/) - J. Michael Lennon interviews Rachel Weaver, author of Dizzy: A Memoir, an excruciating and lyrical memoir of the complexities of a hard to diagnose condition.
- [INTERVIEW: Jill Christman, Author of The Heart Folds Early: A Memoir](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/03/interview-jill-christman-author-of-the-heart-folds-early-a-memoir/) - "[The Heart Folds Early] is heartbreaking. But it is also filled with joy, beauty, tension, conflict; it’s a great read." -- Nan J. Bauer
- [INTERVIEW: Jacque Gorelick, Author of Map of a Heart: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Finding the Way Home](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/03/interview-jacque-gorelick-author-of-map-of-a-heart-a-memoir-of-love-loss-and-finding-the-way-home/) - "I didn’t expect Map of a Heart: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Finding the Way Home (to be a page turner, like a mystery, but it is." -- Morgan Baker's interview
- [REVIEW: Football by Chuck Klosterman](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/03/review-football-by-chuck-klosterman/) - "As a student of football and of writing about it, I was first drawn to the simplicity of the title." -- Sara Pisak in her review of Football by Chuck Klosterman.
- [REVIEW: Snack by Eurie Dahn](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/03/review-snack-by-eurie-dahn/) - "Like Eurie Dahn, many of my memories are wrapped up in food." -- reviewer Emily Webber, on Snack, a new title from the Object Lessons series from Bloomsbury.
- [REVIEW: The Irish Goodbye: Micro-Memoirs by Beth Ann Fennelly](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/03/review-the-irish-goodbye-micro-memoirs-by-beth-ann-fennelly/) - "For those of us who aspire to write micro, Beth Ann Fennelly shows us how it’s done in a book that brilliantly leverages the shortest of forms..." - Vicki Mayk
- [REVIEW: The Flower Bearers by Rachel Eliza Griffiths](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/03/review-the-flower-bearers-by-rachel-eliza-griffiths/) - "Griffiths' accounting of her life since marrying fellow author Salman Rushdie in 2021 is Biblical." -- a review of The Flower Bearers by Rachel Eliza Griffith
- [REVIEW: This Ain’t Rock ’n’ Roll: Pop Music, the Swastika, and the Third Reich by Daniel Rachel](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/03/review-this-ain-t-rock-n-roll-pop-music-the-swastika-and-the-third-reich-by-daniel-rachel/) - The timing of This Ain't Rock 'n' Roll by Daniel Rachel is impeccable, as America’s gargantuan fascist elephant keeps tromping his way around the global room...
- [REVIEW: Woman House: Essays and Assemblages by Lauren Westerfield](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/03/review-woman-house-essays-and-assemblages-by-lauren-westerfield/) - The memoir in essays, Woman House: Essays and Assemblages by Lauren Westerfield is, among other things, a book about secrets.
- [REVIEW: Anywhere Else: Essays on Florida by Rachel Knox](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/03/review-anywhere-else-essays-on-florida-by-rachel-knox/) - Anywhere Else: Essays on Florida by Rachel Knox is part love letter to the author’s home state and part reckoning. -- from our review by Lindsay Bennett
- [REVIEW: Metronome by Matthew H. Birkhold](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/03/review-metronome-by-matthew-h-birkhold/) - Metronome by Matthew H. Birkhold is part historical retelling, part sociological examination of the place of the little object’s presence in our lives.
- [REVIEW: Dementia Widow: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Survival by Fay Martin](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/03/review-dementia-widow-a-memoir-of-love-death-and-survival-by-fay-martin/) - Dementia Widow: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Survival by Fay Martin first and foremost a beautifully crafted love story. -- reviewer Amy Fish
- [REVIEW: How the Rhino Lost His Horn: Cautionary Tales from Appalachia to Africa by Jack Rathmell](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/03/review-how-the-rhino-lost-his-horn-cautionary-tales-from-appalachia-to-africa-by-jack-rathmell/) - Even the very title of Jack Rathmell’s memoir, How the Rhino Lost His Horn: Cautionary Tales from Appalachia to Africa warns this book might not be for the faint of heart.
- [A Day of Caregiving by Michael Anthony Ventura](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/03/a-day-of-caregiving-by-michael-anthony-ventura/) - "Visible through the window: light sun, little squirrels scurrying down cement steps, empty-handed." -- from A Day of Caregiving by Michael Anthony Ventura
- [Under the Catclaw Bush by JR Fenn](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/03/under-the-catclaw-bush-by-jr-fenn/) - "Nights in the desert we sped down soft roads." -- from the flash essay Under the Catclaw Bush by JR Fenn in our March-April 2026 issue.
- [Hopping and Fences by Rob Bianco](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/03/hopping-and-fences-by-rob-bianco/) - "After high school ended for the day, my younger brother and I would go to a nearby park to practice hopping fences." -- from Hopping and Fences by Rob Bianco
- [The Garden of Eden by Michael Horton](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/03/the-garden-of-eden-by-michael-horton/) - I want to tell one thing, one perfect thing. I was a 12-year-old kid in the Garden of Eden. At the center of the garden, a perfect natural spring boiled up from a deep subterranean source, its waters as clear as a glass of club soda. Fish flashed through the water silver and quick. Too The Garden of Eden by Michael Horton
- [REVIEW: This Incredible Longing: Finding My Self in a Near-Cult Experience by Blair Glaser](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/02/review-this-incredible-longing-finding-myself-in-a-near-cult-experience-by-blair-glaser/) - In the Incredible Longing: Finding Myself in a Near-Cult Experience, Blair Glaser excels at world-building, using vivid imagery and evocative sensory description to conjure the environment of the ashram.
- [The 2026 We Love Short Shorts Contest for Flash Creative Nonfiction Open for Submissions Feb. 1-28](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/01/2026-contest-for-flash-creative-nonfiction/) - The 2026 We Love Short Shorts Contest for Flash Creative Nonfiction is open for Feb. 1-28, 2026. Prize: $250 + pub. Submit your best flash CNF up to 250 words.
- [REVIEW: Hide and Sikh: Letters from a Life in Brown Skin by Sunny Dhillon](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/02/review-hide-and-sikh-letters-from-a-life-in-brown-skin-by-sunny-dhillon/) - The hiding Sunny Dhillon speaks of in the title of his deceptively charming, but searingly frank memoir, begins right out of the gate, in the preface.
- [REVIEW: The Way Around: A Field Guide to Going Nowhere by Nicholas Triolo](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/02/review-the-way-around-a-field-guide-to-going-nowhere-by-nicholas-triolo/) - In the opening pages of The Way Around: A Field Guide to Going Nowhere, Nicholas Triolo describes the scene of his collapse at the finish line of the Western States 100.
- [REVIEW: Fit Into Me: A Novel: A Memoir by Molly Gaudry](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/02/review-fit-into-me-a-novel-a-memoir-by-molly-gaudry/) - All over Fit Into Me are the holes in our lives made by grief, changing self, fear, and the unknown.
- [REVIEW: Lights In Cold Rooms: A Psychologist Reflects on Family, Aging, Love & Loss by Joan Cusack Handler](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/02/review-lights-in-cold-rooms-a-psychologist-reflects-on-family-aging-love-loss-by-joan-cusack-handler/) - Most of the short essays and reflections in Lights In Cold Rooms were written with Joan Cusack Handler nearing 80 and the COVID pandemic gaining momentum.
- [REVIEW: Humble Pie: Sober Menopause, Sugar Addiction, and the Sweetness of Recovery by Dana R Bowman](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/02/review-humble-pie-sober-menopause-sugar-addiction-and-the-sweetness-of-recovery-by-dana-r-bowman/) - Humble Pie: Sober Menopause, Sugar Addiction, and the Sweetness of Recovery is laugh-out-loud funny and highly relatable across a wide spectrum of issues and ages.
- [REVIEW: Motion Dazzle: A Memoir of Motherhood, Loss, and Skating on Thin Ice by Jocelyn Jane Cox](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/02/review-motion-dazzle-a-memoir-of-motherhood-loss-and-skating-on-thin-ice-by-jocelyn-jane-cox/) - Motion Dazzle by Jocelyn Jane Cox is a tribute to her mother, a love letter to her son, and a testament to resilience as a caregiver.
- [REVIEW: Better: A Memoir of Wanting To Die by Arianna Rebolini](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/02/review-better-a-memoir-of-wanting-to-die-by-arianna-rebolini/) - Arianna Rebolini's Better: A Memoir of Wanting To Die is an extraordinary hybrid, weaving confessional narrative, exhaustive research, and cultural analysis.
- [REVIEW: Ravelings: Essays on Love, Loss, and Wonder by Lisa Knopp](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/02/review-ravelings-essays-on-love-loss-and-wonder-by-lisa-knopp/) - "Throughout the book, Lisa Knopp is braiding, raveling. She braids past with present and future." -- from our review of Raveling: Essays on Love, Loss and Wonder
- [REVIEW: Second Skin: Inside the Worlds of Fetish, Kink, and Deviant Desire by Anastasiia Fedorova](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/02/review-second-skin-inside-the-worlds-of-fetish-kink-and-deviant-desire-by-anastasiia-fedorova/) - Second Skin by Anastasiia Fedorova has a sociological framework that interrogates the paradox between private expressions of sexuality and their depictions in larger culture.
- [REVIEW: Uncanny Valley Girls: Essays on Horror, Survival, and Love by Zefyr Lisowski](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/02/review-uncanny-valley-girls-essays-on-horror-survival-and-love-by-zefyr-lisowski/) - "As a trans, disabled, and mentally ill woman, Zefyr Lisowski shares how she only saw girls like her being punished." -- from our review of Uncanny Valley Girls
- [REVIEW: The Company of Owls: A Memoir by Polly Atkin](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/02/review-the-company-of-owls-a-memoir-by-polly-atkin/) - Written in short essays, The Company of Owls by Polly Atkin weaves together themes of isolation, chronic pain, and the restorative power of quiet observation.
- [We Love Short Shorts Contest for Flash Creative Nonfiction 2025 - Open for Subs Feb. 1-28](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/01/we-love-short-shorts-contest-for-flash-creative-nonfiction-2025/) - The 2025 We Love Short Shorts Contest for Flash Creative Nonfiction is looking for stories up to 250 words. Prize: $250 + pub. Send us your best flash CNF!
- [FL-110 by Ross Flournoy](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/01/fl-110-by-ross-flournoy/) - "The room is stuffy — almost suffocating. It’s a few degrees too warm and there’s nary a window in sight...." from the essay "FL-100" by Ross Flournoy.
- [House Music by Betsy Boyd](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/01/house-music-by-betsy-boyd/) - "“Ay, Edward will use women…honorably!” proclaims my 88-year-old dad..." from the essay "House Music" by Betsy Boyd.
- [INTERVIEW: Maddie Ballard, author of Patchwork: A Sewist’s Diary](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/01/interview-maddie-ballard-author-of-patchwork-a-sewist-s-diary/) - Patchwork: A Sewist’s Diary by Maddie Ballard is a collection of essays structured around the making of seventeen garments
- [Big Announcement: Selected Memories, Vol. 2: 15 Years of Hippocampus Magazine is on the Way](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/01/big-announcement-selected-memories-vol-2-15-years-of-hippocampus-magazine-is-on-the-way/) - Selected Memories Vol. 2: Fifteen Years of Creative Nonfiction from Hippocampus Magazine will be release in March 2026. It features 30+ essays and flash pieces.
- [Alumni Updates - Late 2025/Early 2026](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/01/alumni-updates-late-2025-early-2026/) - We’re always pleased to share updates from our family of contributor-alumni and HippoCamp presenters. Here's our Fall 2025/Early 2026 edition.
- [CRAFT: Writing with Pictures by E.H. Jacobs](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/01/craft-writing-with-pictures-by-e-h-jacobs/) - "As a writer, I fancy myself a wordsmith, but visual and spatial abilities are areas in which I have never been skilled." -- E.H. Jacobs
- [CRAFT: The Scientific (Memoir) Method by Sarah Boon](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/01/craft-the-scientific-memoir-method-by-sarah-boon/) - "Science memoir is an important sub-genre of memoir, and has a lot to offer readers." -- Sarah Boon in her craft column "The Scientific (Memoir) Method."
- [INTERVIEW: Kim Danielson author of Piece by Piece: A Life Remembered through Things Lost](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/01/interview-kim-danielson-author-of-piece-by-piece-a-life-remembered-through-things-lost/) - Read Leslie Lindsay's interview with Kim Danielson author of Piece by Piece: A Life Remembered through Things Lost in our Jan-Feb 2026 edition.
- [REVIEW: Trying: A Memoir by Chloe Caldwell](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/01/review-trying-a-memoir-by-chloe-caldwell/) - "On its surface, the memoir is about the time Chloe Caldwell spent "trying" for a baby, but as with all the best memoirs, it's so much more than that." - Rae Pagliarulo
- [INTERVIEW: Kerry Neville, Author of Momma May Be Mad](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/01/interview-kerry-neville-author-of-momma-may-be-mad/) - Read our interview with Kerry Neville, author of Momma May Be Mad: A Memoir (interviewed by Vicki Mayk in our Jan-Feb 2026 issue.)
- [INTERVIEW: Cindy Eastman, Editor of Grief Like Yours: A Story Collection of Life After Loss](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/01/interview-cindy-eastman-editor-of-grief-like-yours-a-story-collection-of-life-after-loss/) - "Not only have I lost humans I love, I’ve also lost dogs and places. And, I know only too well what anticipatory grief is like, so talking to Cindy Eastman was like talking to a good friend..."
- [REVIEW: Ghosts of Distant Trees by Erica Watson](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/01/review-ghosts-of-distant-trees-by-erica-watson/) - "There are books that understand something fundamental about place, not just as backdrop...but as a living force that shapes us" --on Ghosts of Distant Trees by Erica Watson
- [REVIEW: Just Another Meat-Eating Dirtbag by Michael Anthony and Chai Simone](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/01/review-just-another-meat-eating-dirtbag-by-michael-anthony-and-chai-simone/) - "I cracked open Just Another Meat-Eating Dirtbag without preconceived notions of what a graphic memoir could or should be." --Dorothy Rice
- [REVIEW: Black Genius: Essays on an American Legacy by Tre Johnson](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/01/review-black-genius-essays-on-an-american-legacy-by-tre-johnson/) - "...Tre Johnson writes about... about the ways his families and communities have created joy despite everything in America that works to tamp that joy down."
- [Wild Horses by Derek Maiolo](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/01/wild-horses-by-derek-maiolo/) - "At sixteen, I stand before the mirror in my room, door locked, practicing." -- from the flash essay "Wild Horses" by Derek Maiolo.
- [Bodies by Peter Cohen](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/01/bodies-by-peter-cohen/) - "They said it wasn't bodies. The adults. The teachers. The ones who were supposed to know." -- from the flash essay "Bodies" by Peter Cohen
- [To the Little Girl Crying in the Snow at the Corner of Cascade and West 24th Street by Clayton Bradshaw-Mittal](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/01/to-the-little-girl-crying-in-the-snow-at-the-corner-of-cascade-and-west-24th-street-by-clayton-bradshaw-mittal/) - "My dog is pulling too hard on his leash...." -- To the Little Girl Crying in the Snow at the Corner of Cascade and West 24th Street by Clayton Bradshaw-Mittal
- [Death and Barbers by William F. Schulz](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/01/death-and-barbers-by-william-f-schulz/) - "Paul Milligan was buried at the very hour he was supposed to be cutting my hair." -- from the essay Death and Barbers by William F. Schulz.
- [Portsmouth Street by Deanna Benjamin](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/01/portsmouth-street-by-deanna-benjamin/) - "For years, I would tell my friends — real friends because I’d never tell just anyone — how my mother prayed, " -- from Portsmouth Street by Deanna Benjamin.
- [Processing by Sarah Barbo Nielsen](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/01/processing-by-sarah-barbo-nielsen/) - ""I hope we aren't late. We can't be late...." -- from the flash essay "Processing" by Sarah Barbo Nielsen.
- [Night Sonata by Miriam Mandel Levi](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/01/night-sonata-by-miriam-mandel-levi/) - "I’d never told my mother that I love her, and she’d never told me." -- from the essay Night Sonata by Miriam Mandel Levi.
- [REVIEW: The Sound Atlas by Michaela Vieser and Isaac Yuen](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/12/review-the-sound-atlas-a-guide-to-strange-sounds-across-landscapes-and-imagination-by-michaela-viser-and-isaac-yuen/) - A review of The Sound Atlas: A Guide to Strange Sounds Across Landscapes & Imagination by Michaela Vieser and Isaac Yuen, from Lindsay Pharr in our Nov-Dec 2025 issue.
- [2025 Recap: A Reflection on a Year of CNF and Community](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/12/2025-hipppocampus-magazine-recap/) - Some year-end stats and facts from Hippocampus Magazine, including number of stories published, page views, and most read pieces in 2025.
- [WRITING LIFE: 5 Things 20 Years of Yoga Taught Me About Writing (and Life) by Talia Vestri](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/12/writing-life-5-things-20-years-of-yoga-taught-me-about-writing-and-life-by-talia-vestri/) - The consistency of practicing yoga — and writing — lets big and small shifts arrive unannounced. -- Talia Vestri, in her writing life column.
- [WRITING LIFE: Writing through Trauma to Live as a Working Writer by Moriah Hampton](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/12/writing-life-writing-through-trauma-to-live-as-a-working-writer-by-moriah-hampton/) - Sometimes, when I try to relax, traumatic memories resurface, but I have found that .... writing helps me work through the experience... - Moriah Hampton
- [INTERVIEW: Ignacio M Sanchez Prado, Author of Object Lessons: Taco](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/12/interview-ignacio-m-sanchez-prado-author-of-object-lessons-taco/) - In Taco, Ignacio M Sanchez Prado offers a deeply researched guidebook for readers who want to better appreciate this nearly ubiquitous and widely misunderstood food.
- [INTERVIEW: Shigeko Ito, Author of The Pond Beyond the Forest](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/12/interview-shigeko-ito-author-of-the-pond-beyond-the-forest/) - In her debut memoir, The Pond Beyond the Forest, Shigeko Ito delves into her Japanese upbringing, marked by obedience and self-sacrifice... -- Leslie Lindsay
- [REVIEW: At the Corner of Past and Future: A Collection of Life Stories by Pamela Carter Joern](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/12/review-at-the-corner-of-past-and-future-a-collection-of-life-stories-by-pamela-carter-joern/) - [At the Corner of Past & Future by Pamela Carter Joern] is beautiful exploration of intersections that exist between the things we understand and the things we never will.
- [REVIEW: The River’s Daughter by Bridget Crocker](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/12/review-the-river-s-daughter-by-bridget-crocker/) - "When Bridget discovers rafting, it stirs something deep within her. " -- from our review of The River's Daughter: A Memoir by Bridget Crocker.
- [REVIEW: Famished: On Food, Sex, and Growing Up as a Good Girl by Anna Rollins](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/12/review-famished-on-food-sex-and-growing-up-as-a-good-girl-by-anna-rollins/) - Famished by Anna Rollins offers a fresh perspective for unpacking the ways that society influences and sublimates the appetites of women. -- from our review.
- [REVIEW: Cipher: Decoding My Ancestor’s Scandalous Secret Diaries by Jeremy B. Jones](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/12/review-cipher-decoding-my-ancestor-s-scandalous-secret-diaries-by-jeremy-b-jones/) - "[Cipher by Jeremy B. Jones] is a book like no other — part history, part-mystery, part-memoir..." -- from Leslie Lindsay's review in our Nov-Dec issue.
- [REVIEW: Nightbird: A Memoir by Shavaun Scott](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/12/review-nightbird-a-memoir-by-shavaun-scott/) - Nightbird by Shavaun Scott addresses themes of unresolved childhood trauma, domestic violence, religious indoctrination, and mental illness,
- [REVIEW: Camouflage: How I Emerged from the Shadows of a Military Marriage by Heather Sweeney](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/12/review-camouflage-how-i-emerged-from-the-shadows-of-a-military-marriage-by-heather-sweeney/) - Camouflage by Heather Sweeney is an eye-opening primer on the complexities of military life and the indignities of military divorce. -- from Karen DeBonis' review.
- [REVIEW: Poets Square: A Memoir in Thirty Cats by Courtney Gustafson by Courtney Gustafson](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/12/review-poets-square-a-memoir-in-thirty-cats-by-courtney-gustafson-by-courtney-gustafson/) - "... Gustafson illustrates how the system fails animals and us." -- from Emily Webber's review of Poets Square: A Memoir in 30 Cats by Courtney Gustafson
- [Hippocampus Magazine Announces 2025 Pushcart Prize Nominees for Creative Nonfiction](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/12/hippocampus-magazine-2025-pushcart-prize-nominees/) - Hippocampus Magazine is delighted to announce our six Pushcart Prize nominations for 2025, which include three essays and three flash essays.
- [The Honey Bucket by Laura Joyce-Hubbard](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2020/11/the-honey-bucket-by-laura-joyce-hubbard/) - I piloted a $34 million aircraft, and there was no place onboard where I could pee.
- [Love and Milk Duds by Kerry Leddy Malawista](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/11/love-and-milk-duds-by-kerry-leddy-malawista/) - "Previously, I could find humor almost anywhere, but after Sarah died, laughter came to a halt." -- from "Love and Milk Duds" by Kerry Leddy Malawista
- [Thrilled to Announce by C.E. McKenna](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/11/thrilled-to-announce-by-c-e-mckenna/) - "There she is: white girl drunk on the dance floor of the Reed student union" -- from the essay "Thrilled to Announce" by C.E. McKenna in the Nov-Dec 2025 issue.
- [Correction by Wanda Hurren](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/11/correction-by-wanda-hurren/) - "Everyone said Mrs. Harper was a strapper, but we hadn’t yet witnessed her in action." -- from the flash essay "Correction" by Wanda Hurren. (Nov-Dec 2025 issue.)
- [REVIEW: If You Say So by Michelle Herman](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/11/review-if-you-say-so-by-michelle-herman/) - If You Say So by Michelle Herman offers an insightful reflection on aging, grief, and finding unexpected community later in life. -- Emily Webber
- [REVIEW: A Silent Treatment: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/11/review-a-silent-treatment-a-memoir-by-jeannie-vanasco/) - A Silent Treatment by Jeannie Vanasco is a brave, relatable testament to one daughter’s commitment to stay in relationship with her mother.... -- Dorothy Rice
- [Commentary from an Eldest Daughter Regarding TSA Approved/Prohibited Items When Traveling by Airplane with a Grieving Father by Sharon Colby](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/11/commentary-from-an-eldest-daughter-regarding-tsa-approved-prohibited-items-when-traveling-by-airplane-with-a-grieving-father-by-sharon-colby/) - New flash CNF: "Commentary from an Eldest Daughter Regarding TSA Approved/Prohibited Items When Traveling by Airplane with a Grieving Father" by Sharon Colby
- [REVIEW: Walking With Beth: Conversations With My Hundred-Year-Old Friend by Merilyn Simonds](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/11/review-walking-with-beth-conversations-with-my-hundred-year-old-friend-by-merilyn-simonds/) - Walking With Beth: Conversations With My 103-Year-Old Friend by Merilyn Simonds is testament to the enduring nature of female and intergenerational friendship.
- [REVIEW: Giving Up the Ghost: A Daughter’s Memoir by Samantha Rose](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/11/review-giving-up-the-ghost-a-daughter-s-memoir-by-samantha-rose/) - "At first, Rose’s grief journey is solitary, but she is buttressed by her younger, can-do sisters...." -- our review of Giving Up the Ghost by Samantha Rose.
- [REVIEW: Bigger: Essays by Ren Cedar Fuller](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/11/empty-push-to-nov-review-bigger-essays-by-ren-cedar-fuller/) - "In each of her essays, Fuller peels back layer after layer of her family’s ways." -- from our review of Bigger: Essays by Ren Cedar Fuller.
- [REVIEW: Getting Dressed in the Dark by Gabriella D’Italia](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/11/review-getting-dressed-in-the-dark-by-gabriella-d-italia/) - "When Getting Dressed in the Dark opens, we find Gabriella D’Italia in a period of deep emotional turmoil." -- from our review of the memoir
- [REVIEW: The Loss of a Lifetime, Edited by Lynn L. Shattuck and Alyson Shelton](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/11/review-the-loss-of-a-lifetime-edited-by-lynn-l-shattuck-and-alyson-shelton/) - The Loss of a Lifetime is not just for “forgotten mourners.” It provides a balm for anyone who has lost a loved one. (Edited by by Lynn L. Shattuck and Alyson Shelton)
- [The Prison of Misunderstanding by Candace Lamb](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/11/the-prison-of-misunderstanding-by-candace-lamb/) - "We were almost late this morning because I begged Mama to stop at Grandma’s house and get my pageant dress." -- The Prison of Misunderstanding by Candace Lamb
- [Someone got too drunk one morning and drove their truck into the side of my car by Charles Michael Pawluk](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/11/someone-got-too-drunk-one-morning-and-drove-their-truck-into-the-side-of-my-car-by-charles-michael-pawluk/) - A new flash CNF piece by Charles Michael Pawluk, "Someone got too drunk one morning and drove their truck into the side of my car by" in our Nov-Dec 2025 issue.
- [The Ward Flowers by Timo Teräsahjo](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/11/the-ward-flowers-by-timo-terasahjo/) - "The flowers on the oncology ward balcony are dry and wilted." -- from "The Ward Flowers" by Timo Teräsahjo in our Nov-Dec 2025 edition.
- [Grief always has a future by JJ Peña](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/grief-always-has-a-future-by-jj-pena/) - "... the day’s weeping heat, you’re driving over the speed limit down a random highway..." -- from the flash essay "Grief always has a future" by JJ Peña.
- [Hippocampus Magazine Announces 2025 Best of the Net Nominees](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/10/hippocampus-magazine-announces-2025-best-of-the-net-nominees/) - Congratulations to our 2025 Best of the Net nominees. The Best of the Net Anthology is published by Sundress Publications. We nominate contributors each year.
- [WRITING LIFE: Balancing Passions as an Author and College Student By McKenna Graf](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/writing-life-balancing-passions-as-an-author-and-college-by-mckenna-graf/) - "How could a 21-year-old publish two books? Surely that’s not enough time to know what you’re doing." -- McKenna Graf
- [REVIEW: Somebody is Walking on Your Grave: My Cemetery Journeys by Mariana Enriquez](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/10/review-somebody-is-walking-on-your-grave-my-cemetery-journeys-by-mariana-enriquez/) - In Somebody is Walking on Your Grave, Mariana Enriquez takes the reader on a wild and expansive tour across four continents featuring 21 cemeteries.
- [REVIEW: The Tragedy of True Crime by John J Lennon](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/10/review-the-tragedy-of-true-crime-four-guilty-men-and-the-stories-that-define-us-by-john-j-lennon/) - "Now that I’ve read The Tragedy of True Crime: Four Guilty Men & The Stories That Define Us by John J. Lennon, I’ll never think about true crime in the same way." -- Vicki Mayk
- [REVIEW: Living Proof: How Love Defied Genetic Legacy by Tiffany Graham Charkosky](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/10/review-living-proof-how-love-defied-genetic-legacy-by-tiffany-graham-charkosky/) - "The book is strongest when the clear-eyed, wise-minded author reflects upon the journey her mom must have made..." -- on Living Proof by Tiffany Graham Charkosky.
- [INTERVIEW: Muriel A Murch, Author of Harvesting History While Farming the Flats](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/10/interview-muriel-a-murch-author-of-harvesting-history-while-farming-the-flats/) - Harvesting History While Farming the Flats (by Muriel A Murch), is a gorgeous, thoughtful book inside and out. -- Leslie Lindsay in her interview introduction.
- [REVIEW: Cat by Rebecca van Laer](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/10/review-cat-by-rebecca-van-laer/) - "...if you are... a cat lover to a mere cat appreciator, you will find what I did in this book: pure delight." -- from our review of Cat by Rebecca van Laer.
- [REVIEW: Held: Essays in Belonging by Kathryn Nuernberger](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/10/review-held-essays-in-belonging-by-kathryn-nuernberger/) - "Held is a smart book, intermingling facts with personal narrative, yet Kathryn Nuernberger remains humble in her reflections" -- Lara Lillibridge on Held.
- [REVIEW: Midlife Private Parts, Edited by Dina Alvarez and Dina Aronson](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/10/review-midlife-private-parts-revealing-essays-that-will-change-the-way-you-think-about-aging-edited-by-dina-alvarez/) - "The stories are as unique and varied as they are representative of this inevitably shared phase of life. " - from our review of Midlife Private Parts.
- [REVIEW: Ring of Salt by Betsy Cornwell](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/10/review-ring-of-salt-a-memoir-of-finding-home-and-hope-on-the-western-coast-of-ireland-by-betsy-cornwell/) - "There are books you read, and then there are books that read you...." -- Elizabeth Austin in her review of Ring of Salt: A Memoir... by Betsy Cornwell
- [REVIEW: Rehearsals for Dying: Digressions on Love and Cancer by Ariel Gore](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/10/review-rehearsals-for-dying-digressions-on-love-and-cancer-by-ariel-gore/) - One of the best aspects of Rehearsals for Dying is Ariel Gore 's focus on expanding the reader’s understanding of breast cancer itself....
- [WRITING LIFE: Writing With AI Without Losing My Voice by Heather Gemmen Wilson](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/10/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." -- Heather Gemmen Wilson in "Writing With AI Without Losing My Voice"
- [WRITING LIFE: There’s This Part of Me That AI, That Medication, Can’t Stifle by Liv Albright](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/10/writing-life-there-s-this-part-of-me-that-ai-that-medication-can-t-stifle/) - "Every day, it started the same way. I logged on to Word. I saw the request from AI..." from from a writing life column by by Liv Albright.
- [INTERVIEW: Robin Hemley, Author of How to Change History: A Salvage Project](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/interview-robin-hemley-author-of-how-to-change-history-a-salvage-project/) - "Robin Hemley reminds us that life is just as equally absurd as it is heartbreaking, as silly as it is serious – and that it is all worthy of a writer’s observing eyes. " --Hillary Moses Mohaupt
- [REVIEW: How the Hell Did I Not Know That? by Lucie Frost](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/review-how-the-hell-did-i-not-know-that-my-midlife-year-from-couch-to-curiosity/) - "How The Hell Did I Not Know [by Lucie Frost] has come along to remind me that memoirs can also teach you ... in ways that will keep you laughing." -- Brian Watson
- [INTERVIEW: Jennifer Crystal, Author of One Tick Stopped the Clock](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/07/interview-jennifer-crystal-author-of-one-tick-stopped-the-clock/) - One Tick Stopped the Clock: A Memoir by Jennifer Crystal chronicles the author's struggle with Lyme and other tick-borne diseases. Read her interview with Morgan Baker.
- [REVIEW: The Lab: Experiments in Writing Across Genre by Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/review-the-lab-experiments-in-writing-across-genre-by-alice-laplante/) - [The Lab by Matthew Clark Davison & Alice LaPlante] is a hearty reference guide, a study in craft, a pep talk, an instructional manual ... for all writers of all levels.
- [REVIEW: All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation by Elizabeth Gilbert](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/review-all-the-way-to-the-river-love-loss-and-liberation-by-elizabeth-gilbert/) - "[All the Way to the River by Elizabeth Gilbert is] at times it’s almost too raw to bear, but that’s also what makes it so powerful." -- reviewer Kris Wessel
- [REVIEW: Queer Devotion: Spirituality Beyond the Binary in Myth, Story, and Practice by Charlie Claire Burgess](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/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 [by Charlie Claire Burgess] also connects to modern day religions...
- [REVIEW: Song So Wild and Blue: A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell by Paul Lisicky](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/review-song-so-wild-and-blue-a-life-with-the-music-of-joni-mitchell-by-paul-lisicky/) - "Together Paul Lisicky and Mitchell forge a life engulfed in appreciation for the power of language that aids in his newfound love of prose." -- Sara Pisak in her review.
- [REVIEW: The Tilling by Matthew Morris](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/review-the-tilling-by-matthew-morris/) - "The fragmentation Matthew Morris feels when it comes to his racial identity comes through in the many rhythmic tangents on which he takes his readers..." -- Anri Wheeler
- [REVIEW: Apartness: A Memoir in Essays and Poems by Judy Kronenfeld](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/review-apartness-a-memoir-in-essays-and-poems-by-judy-kronenfeld/) - Apartness: A Memoir in Essays and Poems by Judy Kronenfeld, is a cultural, intellectual, historical and, at times, emotional ride through the author’s life.
- [REVIEW: Hotshot: A Life on Fire by River Selby](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/review-hotshot-a-life-on-fire-by-river-selby-2/) - "Wildland firefighting in Hotshot is a brutal endeavour, one that often goes unseen and underappreciated." -- from our review of Hotshot by River Selby.
- [Lost by Shoshana Ray](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/lost-by-shoshana-ray/) - "We flag a cab to the Bronx. Mama is downright giddy." -- from the essay "Lost" by Shoshana Ray in our Sept-Oct 2025 issue.
- [Double Dutch by Margaret Luongo](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/double-dutch-by-margaret-luongo/) - "The fine metal sweat-stink of thirteen." -- from "Double Dutch," a flash essay by Margaret Luongo in our Sept-Oct 2025 issue.
- [WRITING LIFE: Guerrilla Writing by Gary Smothers](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/writing-life-guerrilla-writing-by-gary-smothers/) - "My sworn enemy, the laptop battery, reminded me I had ninety minutes to write this." -- Gary Smothers in his column "Guerilla Writing."
- [INTERVIEW: Tania Richard, Author of Black Girl from a White Suburb: Finding My Light, Using My Voice](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/interview-tania-richard-author-of-black-girl-from-a-white-suburb-finding-my-light-using-my-voice/) - "While her life as an actress is fascinating, her point of view about what it’s like to be the only black person in the room as a child is a voice that is necessary." -- Amy Eaton in her interview w/ Tania Richard
- [INTERVIEW: Peter Mendelsund, Author of Exhibitionist](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/interview-peter-mendelsund-author-of-exhibitionist/) - "Exhibitionist is at once a memoir — a journal — and an art book." -- Leslie Lindsay in her intro to her interview with Peter Mendelsund.
- [INTERVIEW: Jennifer Pastiloff, Author of Proof of Life: Let Go, Let Love, and Stop Looking for Permission to Live Your Life](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/interview-jennifer-pastiloff-author-of-proof-of-life-let-go-let-love-and-stop-looking-for-permission-to-live-your-life/) - Proof of Life [by Jennifer Pastilloff] imparts meaning simultaneously obvious and revelatory. -- Michele Dawson Haber in her interview intro.
- [Foghorn 1980 by Beth Tillman](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/foghorn-1980-by-beth-tillman/) - "The sound of the foghorn blowing low floats up the Mississippi..." -- from the flash essay "Foghorn 1980" by Beth Tillman in our Sept-Oct 2025 issue.
- [Pistol Whipped by Aimee Seiff Christian](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/pistol-whipped-by-aimee-seiff-christian/) - "Johnny told me he never saw the gun. He didn’t know what hit him, people say. " -- Aimee Seiff Christian in "Pistol Whipped" in our Sept-Oct 2025 issue.
- [At the Beginning of Autumn I Remember the Last Days of 6th Grade by Gregory Emilio](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/at-the-beginning-of-autumn-i-remember-the-last-days-of-6th-grade-by-gregory-emilio/) - "...a time of kick-flips, bottle-rockets, first kisses in closets..." -- from At the Beginning of Autumn I Remember the Last Days of 6th Grade by Greg Emilio.
- [Mink by Kathryn Ganfield](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/mink-by-kathryn-ganfield/) - "Driving a wooded road wreathed with fern and bramble, I spot a dark divot ahead." -- from the flash essay "Mink" by Kathryn Ganfield.
- [A Transplanted Midwestern Chinese-Filipina’s Theories of Life by Ann Guy](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/a-transplanted-midwestern-chinese-filipina-s-theories-of-life-by-ann-guy/) - "Theory of Welcome: Boredom opens doors." -- Ann Guy in her essay "A Transplanted Midwestern Chinese-Filipina’s Theories of Life" in our Sept-Oct 2025 issue.
- [CRAFT: Using the Lesson of the Rose to Write Detail as Narrative by Ellen Blum Barish](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/08/craft-using-the-lesson-of-the-rose-to-write-detail-as-narrative-by-ellen-blum-barish/) - "Too much detail can distract your reader and slow the pace of the action." -- Eileen Blum Barish in her craft column, "Using the Lesson of the Rose to Write Detail."
- [REVIEW: Imagine a Door by Laura Stanfill](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/08/review-imagine-a-door-by-laura-stanfill/) - Imagine A Door by Laura Stanfill is a valuable go-to for those times when writers lose the path forward. -- from Dorothy Rice's review.
- [WRITING LIFE: Publishing and Infertility by Amy Gallo Ryan](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/08/writing-life-publishing-and-infertility-by-amy-gallo-ryan/) - There’s a well-worn trope in the literary world that publishing a book is an act of creation analogous to producing a human life. -- Amy Gallo Ryan
- [REVIEW: Body: My Life in Parts by Nina B. Lichtenstein](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/08/review-body-my-life-in-parts-by-nina-b-lichtenstein/) - In Body: My Life in Parts, Nina B. Lichtenstein reckons with middle age, menopause, and the uncertainty of health and wellness in this phase of life.
- [REVIEW: No Offense: A Memoir in Essays by Jackie Domenus](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/08/review-no-offense-a-memoir-in-essays-by-jackie-domenus/) - No Offense is a coming-out memoir that details the many twists and turns Jackie Domenus experiences as they grapple with their own authentic identities
- [REVIEW: Crafting the Lyric Essay: Strike a Chord by Heidi Czerwiec](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/08/review-crafting-the-lyric-essay-strike-a-chord-by-heidi-czerwiec/) - Crafting the Lyric Essay by Heidi Czerwiec serves as a kind of hybrid craft book and anthology of the lyric essay, and I can’t recommend it enough.
- [REVIEW: Slip: Life in the Middle of Eating Disorder Recovery by Mallary Tenore Tarpley](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/08/review-slip-life-in-the-middle-of-eating-disorder-recovery-by-mallary-tenore-tarpley/) - In Slip, Mallary Tenore Tarpley seamlessly connects her lived experience to past and present scientific research.
- [REVIEW: Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P Johnson by Tourmaline](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/08/review-marsha-the-joy-and-defiance-of-marsha-p-johnson-by-tourmaline/) - "Tourmaline assembles facts as if they were small tiles that create a glorious mosaic of Marsha." - from Nan Bauer's review of The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson
- [REVIEW: Uncorked: A Memoir of Letting Go and Starting Over by Mary Alice Stephens](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/08/review-uncorked-a-memoir-of-letting-go-and-starting-over-by-mary-alice-stephens/) - In her debut memoir, Uncorked, Mary Alice Stephens shares her deeply personal story of embarking on the path to sobriety, transitioning from Fun Mary to Sober Mary.
- [REVIEW: Alias Agnes: The Notorious Tale of a Gilded Age Spy by Elizabeth A. DeWolfe](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/08/review-alias-agnes-the-notorious-tale-of-a-gilded-age-spy-by-elizabeth-a/) - In a well-paced narrative, Elizabeth A. DeWolfe shows what happened [during a historic lawsuit and trial] in Alias Agnes: The Notorious Tale of a Gilded Age Spy
- [REVIEW: Thank You for Staying With Me: Essays by Bailey Gaylin Moore](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/08/review-thank-you-for-staying-with-me-by-bailey-gaylin-moore/) - Thank You for Staying with Me: Essays by Bailey Gaylin Moore is full of wonder and sharp observations. -- from Elizabeth Austin's review.
- [REVIEW: Abbreviate by Sarah Fawn Montgomery](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/08/review-abbreviate-by-sarah-fawn-montgomery/) - Sarah Fawn Montgomery has a way with words. In her memoir of mini-essays, Abbreviate, she uses them in unique and startling ways.
- [REVIEW: Almanac: A Murmuration by Christine Gelineau](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/08/review-almanac-a-murmuration-by-christine-gelineau/) - "Christine Gelineau is a helluva writer, and Almanac is her masterpiece." -- from Ben Winderman's review of this ecclectic essay collection.
- [INTERVIEW: Julie Brill, Author of Hidden in Plain Sight](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/08/interview-julie-brill-author-of-hidden-in-plain/) - "I was taught only two types of Holocaust stories: a hidden child story like Anne Frank’s and the stories of the trains and the camps. My father’s was different." -- Julie Brill
- [INTERVIEW: Melissa Fraterrigo, Author of The Perils of Girlhood: A Memoir in Essays](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/08/interview-melissa-fraterrigo-author-of-the-perils-of-girlhood/) - "I like the messiness of letting myself figure some things out on the page." -- Melissa Fraterrigo, in her interview with Hippocampus Magazine.
- [INTERVIEW: Sarah Boon, Author of Meltdown: The Making and Breaking of a Field Scientist](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/07/interview-sarah-boon-author-of-meltdown-the-making-and-breaking-of-a-field-scientist/) - "To do her work, Boon must battle the threats of polar bears and patriarchal systems alike." - Hillary Moses Mohaupt in convo w/ Sarah Boon, author of Meltdown.
- [REVIEW: The Sun Won’t Come Out Tomorrow: The Dark History of American Orphanhood by Kristen Martin](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/07/review-the-sun-won-t-come-out-tomorrow-the-dark-history-of-american-orphanhood-by-kristen-martin/) - Carolyn Roy-Bornstein reviews The Sun Won’t Come Out Tomorrow: The Dark History of American Orphanhood by Kristen Martin in our July-August 2025 issue.
- [REVIEW: The Boat Not Taken: A North Korean Daughter and Her Mother’s Story by Joanna Choi Kalbus](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/07/review-the-boat-not-taken-a-north-korean-daughter-and-her-mother-s-story-by-joanna-choi-kalbus/) - Dorothy Rice reviews the memoir The Boat Not Taken: A North Korean Daughter and Her Mother’s Story (Betty; May 2025) by Joanna Choi Kalbus.
- [Glossary of Inversions by A.N. Weissman](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/07/glossary-of-inversions-by-a-n-weissman/) - "When I was three, I cut my hair with safety scissors just to hear the sound of the blade." -- from the flash essay "Glossary of Inversions" by A.N. Weissman.
- [REVIEW: Because I Knew You: How Some Remarkable Sick Kids Healed a Doctor’s Soul by Robert Macauley](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/07/review-because-i-knew-you-how-some-remarkable-sick-kids-healed-a-doctor-s-soul-by-robert-macauley/) - "This is a book that insists we look closely at what most people would rather not see." -- from Elizabeth Austin's review of Because I Knew You by Robert Mcauley.
- [REVIEW: Frontier: A Memoir & a Ghost Story by Erica Stern](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/07/review-frontier-a-memoir-a-ghost-story-by-erica-stern/) - "Frontier: A Memoir & A Ghost Story [by Erica Stern] seamlessly blend[s] fiction with memoir with research in the most artful and imaginative manner." - Leslie Lindsay
- [REVIEW: Rearranged: An Opera Singer’s Facial Cancer and Life Transposed by Kathleen Watt](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/11/review-rearranged-an-opera-singer-s-facial-cancer-and-life-transposed-by-kathleen-watt/) - "...dry wit and humor are part of what makes this grueling tale so compelling a read..." -- from our review of Rearranged, a by Kathleen Watt
- [REVIEW: The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex by Melissa Febos](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/07/review-the-dry-season-a-memoir-of-pleasure-in-a-year-without-sex-by-melissa-febos/) - "The writing in The Dry Season is smart and funny, and it blooms on the page like acres of flowers..." reviewer Brian Watson on the new memoir by Melissa Febos.
- [REVIEW: Shattered: A Memoir by Hanif Kureishi](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/07/review-shattered-a-memoir-by-hanif-kureishi/) - Shattered: A Memoir (Ecco; February 2025) starts with Hanif Kureishi recounting the accident that changed his life. -- from Sara Pisak's review in our July-August 2025 issue.
- [Cacao by Ceridwen Lee](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/07/cacao-by-ceridwen-lee/) - "The stove is hot enough to hiss. Around me, the house shifts in its sleep." -- from the essay "Cacao" by Ceridwen Lee.
- [The Ice in Spring by Matthew Trumbull](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/07/the-ice-in-spring-by-matthew-trumbull/) - "It was late April and I was nine, roaming the muddy woods near Lake Minnewashta with Aaron and Michael..." -- from "The Ice in Spring" by Matthew Trumbull.
- [WRITING LIFE: Fit Submitting into Your Writing Life (Without Totally Losing It) by Benjamin Davis](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/07/writing-life-fit-submitting-into-your-writing-life-without-totally-losing-it/) - "Submitting to lit mags is, you might say, the absolute worst." -- Benjamin Davis in "Fit Submitting into Your Writing Life (Without Totally Losing It)"
- [CRAFT: Turning Your Story into Art by Anne Gudger](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/07/craft-turning-your-story-into-art/) - "My first draft/not draft of my memoirwas pretty much me typing up my journals...." - Anne Gudger in her craft column, "Turning Your Story Into Art."
- [Empty Nesting by Melanie McGehee](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/07/empty-nesting-by-melanie-mcgehee/) - "She came to me looking like a dried-up ball of rotting twine." -- from the flash creative nonfiction piece "Empty Nesting" by Melanie McGehee
- [Lightly buttered toasts, with strawberry jam by Andrea Lius](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/07/lightly-buttered-toasts-with-strawberry-jam-by-andrea-lius/) - "I turned on my side when I heard the gentle flick of the light switch." -- from the flash essay "Lightly buttered toasts, with strawberry jam" by Andrea Lius.
- [The Weight of Wood by Alexa Livingston](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/07/the-weight-of-wood-by-alexa-livingston/) - "There used to be a fireplace in the living room of what had become just my dad’s house..." -- from the essay "The Weight of Wood" by Alexa Livingston.
- [There There by Sonja Larsen](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/07/there-there-by-sonja-larsen/) - "There there, my father says to the crying baby he is rocking in his arms..." -- from the flash essay "There There" by Sonja Larsen.
- [Long Morning by Diana Toubassi](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/07/long-morning-by-diana-toubassi/) - "Hyperemesis gravidarum. It had received only passing mention in medical school." -- from the essay "Long Morning" by Diana Toubassi.
- [The Woman in Unit 2 by Rachel Veznaian](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/07/the-woman-in-unit-2-by-rachel-veznaian/) - "...I receive four texts from Gretchen, my upstairs neighbor and self-appointed building manager. " -- from "The Woman in Unit 2" by Rachel Veznaian
- [From the Archives: A Father’s Day Round-Up — Creative Nonfiction About Dads by D. Nicholas Penglase](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/06/from-the-archives-a-fathers-day-round-up-creative-nonfiction-about-dads-by-d-nicholas-penglase/) - We collected a few stories from our archives that examine the often complex relationships we have with our dads, and how they shape us and follow us throughout our lives.
- [INTERVIEW: Bonny Reichert, Author of How to Share An Egg](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/06/interview-bonny-reichert-author-of-how-to-share-an-egg/) - Amy Fish speaks with Bonny Reichert, author of the culinary memoir, How to Share an Egg: A True Story of Hunger, Love, and Plenty.
- [INTERVIEW: Michelle Yang, Author of Phoenix Girl: How a Fat Asian with Bipolar Found Love](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/06/interview-michelle-yang-author-of-phoenix-girl/) - A staunch and highly vocal advocate for mental health awareness, Michelle Yang has made a name for herself in the national conversation about bipolar disorder
- [REVIEW: Everything is Fine, I’ll Just Work Harder by Cara Gormally](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/06/review-everything-is-fine-ill-just-work-harder-by-cara-gormally/) - In Everything is Fine by Cara Gormally delivers a quietly radical graphic memoir that explores how trauma embeds itself in the body, mutates into perfectionism.
- [CRAFT: Not Too Small to Matter: Using Form and Structure to Create Meaning by Sarah Fawn Montgomery](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/06/craft-not-too-small-to-matter-using-form-and-structure-to-create-meaning-by-sarah-fawn-montgomery/) - "I was told my tales were unimportant. I was told little girls should be seen and not heard." - Sarah Fawn Montgomery in her CRAFT columnMay-June 2025 issue.
- [INTERVIEW: Elissa Altman, Author of Permission: The New Memoirist and the Courage to Create](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/06/interview-elissa-altman-author-of-permission-the-new-memoirist-and-the-courage-to-create/) - In Permission, Elissa Altman shares the creative wisdom she gained from the painful experience of releasing her first memoir, which is a gift to the reader.
- [INTERVIEW: Marty Ross-Dolen, Author of Always There, Always Gone: A Daughter’s Search for Truth](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/06/interview-marty-ross-dolen-author-of-always-there-always-gone-a-daughters-search-for-truth/) - Told with a poet’s precision for language, and a novelist’s eye for storytelling, Marty Ross-Dolen takes a slightly unconventional approach to this memoir.
- [REVIEW: Held Together by Rebecca N. Thompson](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/06/review-held-together-by-rebecca-n-thompson/) - Held Together by Rebecca N. Thompson presents a broad spectrum of experiences and a diverse group of women from different backgrounds and nontraditional families.
- [REVIEW: Human/Animal: A Bestiary in Essays by Amie Souza Reilly](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/06/review-human-animal-a-bestiary-in-essays-by-amie-souza-reilly/) - Human/Animal: A Bestiary in Essays by Amie Souza Reilly, says reviewer Sarah Rosenthal, is an ambitious, braided collection that resists easy answers.
- [REVIEW: What My Father and I Don’t Talk About, Edited by Michele Filgate](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/06/review-what-my-father-and-i-dont-talk-about-edited-by-michelle-filgate/) - In What My Father and I Don’t Talk About, editor Michele Filgate builds on the success of her earlier anthology, What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About.
- [The Shipwreck by Anne Giordano](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/05/the-shipwreck-by-anne-giordano/) - "I am determined to reach the shipwreck before we leave." -- from the flash essay "Shipwreck" by Anne Giordano in our May-June 2025 issue.
- [From the Archives: A Mother's Day Round-Up — Creative Nonfiction About Moms by D. Nicholas Penglase](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/05/from-the-archives-a-mothers-day-round-up-creative-nonfiction-about-moms-by-d-nicholas-penglase/) - An archives round-up featuring 5 pieces of creative nonfiction about moms, which explore the diverse range of relationships and experiences we have with our mothers.
- [INTERVIEW: Shannon Luders-Manuel, Author of The One Who Loves You](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/05/interview-shannon-luders-manuel-author-of-the-one-who-loves-you-a-memoir-of-growing-up-biracial-in-a-black-and-white-world/) - "I had my black family and my white family, and I talk about the black side of town and the white side of town." -- Shannon Luders-Manuel, on the subtitle of her memoir.
- [Like Momma by Lonette Stayton](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2014/03/like-momma-by-lonette-stayton/) - I want hair like Momma's. Big and fluffy, it looks like one of the clouds that floats across the sky.
- [A Storybook Ending by Emily Madison](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/05/a-storybook-ending-by-emily-madison/) - "I am supposed to admit I was reckless. " from the essay "A Storybook Ending" by Maddie Ramsell in our May-June 2025 issue.
- [CRAFT: Now What? How Patience & Building Relationships Can Pay Off for CNF Writers by Angel R. Ackerman](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/05/craft-now-what-how-patience-and-building-relationships-can-pay-off-for-cnf-writers/) - "Writing is as much about waiting as it is about words." -Angel R. Ackerman in "Now What? How Patience & Building Relationships Can Pay Off for CNF Writers."
- [INTERVIEW: Suzanne Cope, Author of Women of War: The Italian Assassins, Spies, and Couriers Who Fought the Nazis](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/05/interview-suzanne-cope-author-of-women-of-war-the-italian-assassins-spies-and-couriers-who-fought-the-nazis/) - "We would call them feminists today. I don’t know if all four would have used that exact term, but they all really fought for women’s rights." --Suzanne Cope
- [INTERVIEW: Jill Bialosky, Author of The End is the Beginning: A Personal History of My Mother](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/05/interview-jill-bialosky-author-of-the-end-is-the-beginning/) - "As a writer and a reader, I’m searching for truth, honesty, ways of making sense of difficult experiences." — Jill Bialosky in an interview with Leslie A. Lindsay.
- [INTERVIEW: Caroline Eden, Author of Cold Kitchen: A Year of Culinary Travels](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/05/interview-caroline-eden-author-of-cold-kitchen-a-year-of-culinary-travels/) - "For this memoir, I wanted to bring the reader into my home, and to Edinburgh where I live." - Caroline Eden in her interview w/ Amy Fish on our May-June 2025 issue.
- [REVIEW: Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told by Jeremy Atherton Lin](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/05/review-deep-house-the-gayest-love-story-ever-told-by-jeremy-atherton-lin/) - ...in Deep House, Jeremy Atherton Lin unleashes the full breadth of his research skills, unraveling the history of same-sex unions and the marriage equality movement...
- [REVIEW: Son of a Bird by Nin Andrews](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/05/review-son-of-a-bird-by-nin-andrews/) - “Son of a bird” was what Andrews’s Black nanny called her when she’d been naughty. -- from our review of "Son of a Bird" by Nin Andrews.
- [REVIEW: It All Felt Impossible: 42 Years in 42 Essays by Tom McAllister](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/05/review-it-all-felt-impossible-42-years-in-42-essays-by-tom-mcallister/) - Tom McAllister pulls off something wonderful, connecting ordinary life moments to the larger political and cultural perspectives of the time he’s writing about.
- [REVIEW: Eminent Jews: Bernstein, Brooks, Freidan, Mailer by David Denby](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/05/review-four-eminent-jews-by-david-denby/) - Fairly presenting the event-laden, controversy-crammed lives of this talented quartet...is a task that would intimidate, if not discourage entirely any sensible biographer. - J. Michael Lennon
- [Contest Announcement: The 2025 We Love Short Shorts Finalists & Special Mentions](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/05/contest-announcement-the-2025-we-love-short-shorts-finalists-special-mentions/) - Announcing our finalists and winners of the 2025 We Love Short Shorts Contest for Flash Creative Nonfiction from Hippocampus Magazine.
- [Say the Word by Annamaria Formichella](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/05/say-the-word-by-annamaria-formichella/) - "Two neighborhood girls arrive. A few years older than me, they’re here to smoke and look cool..." -- Say the Word" by Annamaria Formichella. 2025 Flash contest winner.
- [Greed by Tori Walters](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/05/greed-by-tori-walters/) - "I want the shorts, the sweatshirts, the hairbands, the half empty packets of gum, the index cards with illegible scribbles..." -- "Greed" by Tori Walters. Flash contest finalist.
- [Ghouls by Hillary Wentworth](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/05/ghouls-by-hillary-wentworth/) - "That earthy smell, cotton starched stiff by the sun. A sheet on the line." -- from "Ghouls" by Hillary Wentworth. Finalist in our 2025 flash CNF contest.
- [Avoid Windows by Michael Gutierrez](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/05/avoid-windows-by-michael-gutierrez/) - "The official text comes a few minutes later.... Go inside now; avoid windows.” -- from the flash essay "Avoid Windows" by Michael Gutierrez. May-June 2025.
- [Highway Arithmetic by Chuck Rybak](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/05/highway-arithmetic-by-chuck-rybak/) - "My father is the compass that bleeds. 'Turn left here. Another left up ahead.'" -from the flash essay "Highway Arithmetic" by Chuck Rybak. May-June 2025 issue.
- [The Postpartum Survey by Stephanie M. Wytovich](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/05/the-postpartum-survey-by-stephanie-m-wytovich/) - "My husband carries our one-week-old into the waiting room." -- from the essay "The Post Partum Survey" by Stephanie M. Wytovich in our May-June 2025 issue.
- [The Telling by Melissa Fraterrigo](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/05/the-telling-by-melissa-fraterrigo/) - "It was a simple black velvet cocktail dress with long sleeves and a deep V in the front and back." -- from the essay "The Telling" by Melissa Fraterrigo.
- [How You Become a Girl by Lauren L. Cisneros](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/05/how-you-become-a-girl-by-lauren-l-cisneros/) - "You are ten and your gender is fat." -- from the essay "How to Become a Girl" by Lauren L. Cisneros in our May-June 2025 issue.
- [She is Crying by Allya Yourish](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/05/she-is-crying-by-allya-yourish/) - "I am trying to speak sense into a seven-year-old." -- from the flash CNF essay "She is Crying" by Allya Yourish in our May-June 2025 issue.
- [REVIEW: Happy to Help: Adventures of a People Pleaser by Amy Wilson](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/03/review-happy-to-help-adventures-of-a-people-pleaser-by-amy-wilson/) - "When Amy Wilson was in eighth grade, she decided to stop raising her hand, even when she knew the answers. " -- from Angela L. Eckhart's review of Happy to Help
- [INTERVIEW: Amy Fish, Author of One In Six Million](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/04/interview-amy-fish-author-of-one-in-six-million/) - We talk to Amy Fish about her researched nonfiction book, One in Six Million: The Baby by the Roadside and the Man Who Retraced a Holocaust, released in April '25.
- [INTERVIEW: Lidia Yuknavitch, Author of Reading the Waves](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/04/interview-lidia-yuknavitch-author-of-reading-the-waves/) - Organized in 15 titled, nonlinear, braided essays, Reading the Waves: A Memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch is a book about holding on and letting go. Mostly letting go.
- [WRITING LIFE: Finding the “Right” Way to Write by E.H. Jacobs](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/04/writing-life-finding-the-right-way-to-write-by-eh-jacobs/) - "There are so many ways for a writer to feel inadequate." -- E.H. Jacobs in his Writing Life column, Finding the “Right” Way to Write.
- [How to Write a Review of the Shell Game: A REVIEW of The Shell Game, edited by Kim Adrian](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2018/05/how-to-write-a-review-of-the-shell-game-a-review-of-the-shell-game-edited-by-kim-adrian/) - It is best, when writing a book review of The Shell Game: Writers Play with Borrowed Forms, to be an active reader of the book.
- [Upload Your Personal Essay Below by Amy Yao](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2013/06/upload-your-personal-essay-below-by-amy-yao/) - COMMON APPLICATION FOR UNDERGRADUATE COLLEGE ADMISSION Please write an essay on a topic of your choice or on one of the options listed below. This personal essay helps us to become acquainted with you as a person and student, apart from courses, grades, test scores, and other objective data. It will also demonstrate your ability
- [REVIEW: Forest Walk on a Friday by Lynne Golodner](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/04/review-forest-walk-on-a-friday-by-lynne-golodner/) - In Forest Walk on a Friday: Essays on Love, Home and Finding My Voice at Midlife Lynne Golodner takes us with her down her path in a beautiful collection.
- [She Came To Stay by Heather Bryant](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/03/she-came-to-stay-by-heather-bryant/) - "When Dad told us the new name, we were in the kitchen of our house on Norfolk Road." -- Heather Bryant in "She Came to Stay" in our March-April '25 issue.
- [REVIEW: Snapshots: An Album of Essay and Image edited by Dinah Lenney](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/04/review-snapshots-an-album-of-essay-and-image-edited-by-dinah-lenney/) - In Snapshots: An Album of Essay and Image, editor Dianah Lenney presents 36 provocative, genre-fluid micro essays by a diverse and powerful cast of writers.
- [REVIEW: Portrait of a Feminist: A Memoir in Essays by Marianna Marlowe](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/04/review-portrait-of-a-feminist-a-memoir-in-essays-by-marianna-marlowe/) - In Portrait of a Feminist Marianna Marlowe walks us through her life in vignettes that trace her forming and evolving feminist viewpoint of the world.
- [REVIEW: Rage: On Being Queer, Black, Brilliant… and Completely Over It by Lester Fabian Brathwaite](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/04/review-rage-on-being-queer-black-brilliant-and-completely-over-it-by-lester-fabian-brathwaite/) - Lester Fabian Brathwaite inhabits an intersection — a mother lode of bias — where racism, homophobia, ableism, and xenophobia collide.
- [REVIEW: Cellar Rat by Hannah Selinger](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/04/review-cellar-rat-by-hannah-selinger/) - In Cellar Rat, Hannah Selinger gives voice to the unseen labor and emotional toll that the restaurant industry takes on its workers....
- [INTERVIEW: Joanna Rubin Dranger, Author of Remember Us to Life: A Graphic Memoir](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/04/interview-joanna-rubin-dranger-author-of-remember-us-to-life/) - Joanna Rubin Dranger’s graphic memoir Remember Us to Life ... is a sobering, stunning chronicle of her Jewish family past and present.
- [INTERVIEW: Caroline Topperman, Author of Your Roots Cast a Shadow](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/03/interview-caroline-topperman-author-of-your-roots-cast-a-shadow-and-hybrid-publisher-at-mountain-ash-press/) - "It was in 2015, after I had moved to Poland, that I started writing. But it was not this book at all." - Caroline Topperman, author of Your Roots Case a Shadow
- [REVIEW: Alligator Tears: A Memoir in Essays by Edgar Gomez](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/03/review-alligator-tears-a-memoir-in-essays-by-edgar-gomez/) - "In seven sentences, just seventy-six words, I am haunted by my 1987 coming out moment." -- from Brian Watson's Review of Alligator Tears by Edgar Gomez
- [INTERVIEW: Teresa Wong, Author of the Graphic Memoir, All Our Ordinary Stories](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/03/interview-teresa-wong-author-of-all-our-ordinary-stories/) - "Sometimes I joke that making a graphic is probably the hardest, longest way to write a book. " -- memoirist Teresa Wong in her interview with Hippocampus Mag.
- [Clear Cut by Jen Gilman Porat](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/03/clear-cut-by-jen-gilman-porat/) - "I’m not good at cutting cake. I never pick the right knife." -- Jen Gilman Porat in the flash essay "Clear Cut" in our March-April 2025 issue.
- [CRAFT: Thinking, Writing, Selling Your Naughty Thoughts by Ralph Greco Jr.](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/03/craft-thinking-writing-selling-your-naughty-thoughts/) - "Naughty stuff, a political screed, a recipe, an email — it all comes down to you." -- Ralph Greco Jr. in "Thinking, Writing, Selling Your Naughty Thoughts"
- [REVIEW: The Full Catastrophe: All I Ever Wanted… Everything I Feared by Casey Mulligan Walsh](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/03/review-the-full-catastrophe-all-i-ever-wanted-everything-i-feared-by-casey-mulligan-walsh/) - "Casey Mulligan Walsh makes a stunning authorial debut with her new memoir The Full Catastrophe: All I Ever Wanted…Everything I Feared." -- Melissa Greenwood
- [REVIEW: Mothers and Other Fictional Characters: A Memoir in Essays by Nicole Graev Lipson](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/03/review-mothers-and-other-fictional-characters-a-memoir-in-essays-by-nicole-graev-lipson/) - Nicole Graev Lipson brilliantly mines stories from her own life to reveal the truth, pain, and beauty that mark the experiences all women share...
- [REVIEW: In My Boots: A Memoir of Five Million Steps Along the Appalachian Trail by Amanda K. Jaros](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/03/review-in-my-boots-a-memoir-of-five-million-steps-along-the-appalachian-trail-by-amanda-k/) - "Amanda K. Jaros not only tells us about developing self-trust — she invites us to lace up our own boots and cultivate it within our own journey."
- [REVIEW: Loveland: A Memoir of Romance and Fiction by Susan Ostrov](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/01/review-loveland-a-memoir-of-love-and-fiction-by-susan-ostrov/) - In Loveland by Susan Ostrov, the author's lived experience converge to challenge traditional boundaries between the academic and the anecdotal.
- [INTERVIEW: Deborah Derrickson Kossmann, Author of Lost Found Kept: A Memoir](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/03/interview-deborah-derrickson-kossmann-author-of-lost-found-kept-a-memoir/) - "It was critical to the narrative to capture what it was like to be a child and experience what I did." -- Deborah Derrickson Kossmann, author of Lost Found Kept.
- [Clear Sky by Chutian Shi](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/03/clear-sky-by-chutian-shi/) - "The first time I ever saw a sky full of stars, we were in the Maldives. I was six, maybe seven." -- Chutian Shi in his essay "Clear Sky"
- [Last Trip by Lori White](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/03/last-trip-by-lori-white/) - "This is the last trip with your brother, the last time you have to do his bidding..." -- Lori White in her flash essay, "Last Trip."
- [Crazy Annie's Girl by Patricia Pease](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/03/crazy-annie-s-girl-by-patricia-pease/) - "I heard her before I saw her. She was singing at the top of her lungs." -- Patricia Pease in her flash essay "Crazy Annie's Girl."
- [Lifesavers by Victoria Morsell Hemingson](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/03/lifesavers-by-victoria-morsell-hemingson/) - "He’s not exactly handsome, more like a rugged pair of work boots than shiny new oxfords." -- Victoria Morsell Hemingson in her essay "Lifesavers."
- [The Ones Who Walk Away by Erica Peterson](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/03/the-ones-who-walk-away-by-erica-peterson/) - "I’m sleeping on the blow-up mattress tonight; it’s my little brother’s turn to sleep on the....Murphy bed." -- Erica Peterson in "The Ones Who Walk Away."
- [Lessons in Meditative Thinking by Laura Waldrop](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/03/lessons-in-meditative-thinking-by-laura-waldrop/) - "When my mom takes her cancer to chemotherapy, I bring my anxiety to yoga class." -- from the flash essay "Lessons in Meditation" by Laura Waldrop.
- [Three Envelopes by Carrie Mac](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/03/three-envelopes-by-carrie-mac/) - "This guy has had his paramedic license less than a month, yet he swaggers around the station like he’s about to retire." --from "Three Envelopes" by Carrie Mac
- [CRAFT: Using Book Publicity to Deepen the Author-Reader Relationship by Gina DeMillo Wagner](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/02/craft-using-book-publicity-to-deepen-the-author-reader-relationship-by-gina-demillo-wagner/) - Gina DeMillo Wagner talks about using book publicity to deepen the author-reader relationship in the February 2025 craft column at Hippocampus Magazine.
- [REVIEW: All the Beauty in the World by Patrick Bringley](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/02/review-all-the-beauty-in-the-world-by-patrick-bringley/) - In his exquisite debut memoir Patrick Bringley walks us through—quite literally—the decade he spent as a guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- [INTERVIEW: Brian Lee Knopp, Author of Dreams I'm Never Gonna See](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/02/interview-brian-lee-knopp-author-of-dreams-i-m-never-gonna-see/) - Brian Lee Knopp is not so much confiding in the readers of his new essay collection, Dreams I’m Never Gonna See as he is inviting us to conspire.
- [REVIEW: Exit the Body by Heather Bartel](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/02/review-exit-the-body-by-heather-bartel/) - In Exit the Body, Heather Bartel presents nine provocative, mind-bending, genre-fluid essays on the nature of identity, personhood, womanhood, and more.
- [INTERVIEW: Eiren Caffall, Author of The Mourner’s Bestiary](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/02/interview-eiren-caffall-author-of-the-mourner-s-bestiary/) - “I can’t be on the barricades in the way that I might have been able to when I was really healthy. I can write books.” — from our interview with Eiren Caffall
- [From the Archives: A New Year Round-up by D. Nicholas Penglase](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/01/from-the-archives-a-new-year-round-up-by-d-nicholas-penglase/) - Five pieces from the Hippocampus Magazine archives which explore ideas of change, new beginnings, and the ways in which we let go, or carry with us, the past.
- [The Right of Rescission by Carole Vasta Folley](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/01/the-right-of-rescission-by-carole-vasta-folley/) - She said, “Look at what you’re wearing.” As if that had anything to do with it. -- from The Right of Rescission by Carole Vasta Folley
- [Boys on Bicycles Holding Hands by Brad Snyder](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/01/boys-on-bicycles-holding-hands-by-brad-snyder/) - "The boys’ tires rotate in sync, a graceful choreography performed in morning sunlight..." --from the flash essay Boys on Bicycles Holding Hands by Brad Snyder.
- [REVIEW: Immersion: A Linguist's Memoir by Linda Murphy Marshall](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/01/review-immersion-a-linguist-s-memoir-by-linda-murphy-marshall/) - Immersion: A Linguist’s Memoir by Linda Murphy Marshall chronicles decades of the author’s life in learning and working in foreign languages.
- [At The One Month Visit by Anne Falkowski](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/01/at-the-one-month-visit-by-anne-falkowski/) - "The bandage used to bind Sam’s chest after top surgery lays crumpled on the exam room table." --from the flash essay "At the One Month Visit" by Anne Falkowski
- [The Race by Jess Phoenix](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/01/the-race-by-jess-phoenix/) - I had joined up with a group of other Americans to share the adventure and misery of the world’s longest horse race. (Jess Phoenix in "The Race")
- [Again by Hayley Notter](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/01/again-by-hayley-notter/) - "The first time I slept with another woman’s boyfriend, I decided not to think about it." -- from the essay "Again" by Hayley Notter
- [Atlas Fledgling by Youssef Biaz](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/01/atlas-fledgling-by-youssef-biaz/) - "The first one died in my hands an hour after coming home. I mishandled it." - from Atlas Fledgling by Youssef Biaz
- [Hello, Columbus by Catherine Lowe](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/01/hello-columbus-by-catherine-lowe/) - "Philip Roth is checking me out on the corner of 80th and Columbus..." from the essay "Hello, Columbus" by Catherine Lowe.
- [Subtraction by Paula Burke](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/01/subtraction-by-paula-burke/) - "The summer of 1974, when I was four, Dad shot an intruder breaking into our house at four in the morning." -- from the essay "Subtraction" by Paula Burke
- [Traditions of a Mutt by Kira Carson](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/01/traditions-of-a-mutt-by-kira-carson/) - "In 2017, I returned to British Columbia and straight back to work, straight back to the status of regular white girl. " -- Traditions of a Mutt by Kira Carson
- [CRAFT: Make your Marketing Suit Your Goals by Angel R. Ackerman](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/01/craft-make-your-marketing-suit-your-goals/) - "As you make the transition from writer to published author, you are faced with a lot of decisions." -Angel R. Ackerman in "Make Your Marketing Suit Your Goals"
- [REVIEW: The Braille Encyclopedia: Brief Essays on Altered Sight by Naomi Cohn](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/01/review-the-braille-encyclopedia-brief-essays-on-altered-sight-by-naomi-cohn/) - The Braille Encyclopedia: Brief Essays on Altered Sight by Naomi Cohn functions as an encyclopedic guided tour through Cohn’s diagnosis and worsening eyesight. Accompanying her on this tour is an unlikely companion, the inventor of braille, Louis Braille. Together Cohn and Braille offer the reader a unique understanding of their lived experiences. Braille, a 19th
- [REVIEW: The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir by Edmund White](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/01/review-the-loves-of-my-life-a-sex-memoir-by-edmund-white/) - "Edmund White, the author who first taught me to come out to my parents...." writes Brian Watson in his review of The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir.
- [Alumni Updates: Fall/Winter 2024](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/12/alumni-updates-fall-winter-2024/) - We’re always pleased to share updates from our family of contributor-alumni and HippoCamp presenters. Here's our Fall/Winter 2024 edition.
- [INTERVIEW: Hollay Ghadery, Book Publicist and Author of Fuse: A Memoir](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/12/interview-hollay-ghadery-author-of-fuse-a-memoir/) - We speak with Hollay Ghadery, a Canada-based book publicist and author of Fuse: A Memoir about promotion, PR, and writing.
- [REVIEW: Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl by Hyeseung Song](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/12/review-docile-memoirs-of-a-not-so-perfect-asian-girl-by-hyeseung-song/) - Hyeseung Song is a first-generation American, born to Korean immigrant parents, and struggled with the unique culture shock that can result ....
- [CRAFT: The Secret Ingredient by Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/12/craft-the-secret-ingredient/) - Contrary to what writers learn in writing workshops and MFA classes, there really is a single, secret ingredient to creating work that comes alive. -- Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew
- [REVIEW: Everywhere the Undrowned by Stephanie Clare Smith](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/12/review-everywhere-the-undrowned-by-stephanie-clare-smith/) - In her stunning debut memoir, Everywhere the Undrowned, Stephanie Clare Smith walks us through the summer she spent on her own, at fourteen, in a New Orleans....
- [REVIEW: Virginia's Apple: Collected Memoirs by Judith Barrington](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/12/review-virginia-s-apple-collected-memoirs-by-judith-barrington/) - Judith Barrington gives readers an up-close look at England’s second-wave feminist movement. -- Sarah Evans, in a review of Virginia's Apple: Collected Memoirs.
- [Hippocampus Magazine Announces 2024 Pushcart Prize Nominees for Creative Nonfiction](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/12/hippocampus-magazine-pushcart-prize-nominees-2024/) - Hippocampus Magazine is delighted to announce our six Pushcart Prize nominees from our 2024 publishing year.
- [Hippocampus Magazine's 2022 Creative Nonfiction Pushcart Nominees](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/12/hippocampus-magazines-2022-creative-nonfiction-pushcart-nominees/) - Hippocampus Magazine is pleased to announce its 2022 Pushcart nominees for creative nonfiction.
- [Help Wanted: Pre-Emptive Griever by Casey Mulligan Walsh](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/11/help-wanted-pre-emptive-griever-by-casey-mulligan-walsh/) - "Seeking someone compelled to obsess on the possibility of a tragic outcome in all situations...." from the flash essay "Help Wanted" by Casey Mulligan Walsh.
- [INTERVIEW: Jennifer Lang, Author of Landed: A Yogi's Memoir in Pieces & Prose](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/11/interview-jennifer-lang-author-of-landed-a-yogi-s-memoir-in-pieces-prose/) - There are so many reasons to love Landed: A yogi’s memoir in pieces & poses by Jennifer Lang, her second experimental prose memoir.
- [My Rock by Monika Dutt](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/11/my-rock-by-monika-dutt/) - "Camp is all my idea, not yours. I imagine you in a canoe, hiking through forests, making friendships that will last a lifetime"-- Monika Dutt in "My Rock"
- [Call Us By Our Names by Kate Lu Sedor](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/11/call-us-by-our-names-by-kate-lu-sedor/) - "When I was about 5, I stopped calling my mother’s dad 'goong-goong.' Grandpa was what grandfathers were called on TV." -Kate Lu Sedor in "Call Us By Our Names"
- [A Letter to Mother with the Long Hair by Jen Machajewski](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/11/a-letter-to-mother-with-the-long-hair-by-jen-machajewski/) - "It’s funny that I should remember it as long when you so rarely wore it down." -- from the essay "A Letter to Mother with the Long Hair" by Jen Machajewski.
- [Streams by Marcos Reyna](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/11/streams-by-marcos-reyna/) - "See the river, mud toned and placid. It bends at the bosque where grandpa teaches me to fish." -- Marcos Reyna in his essay "Streams"
- [Don't Ignore the Ashes by Alison Colwell](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/11/don-t-ignore-the-ashes-by-alison-colwell/) - "My husband, John, worked hard to isolate me...." -- Alison Colwell in her essay "Don't Ignore the Ashes."
- [Security by Bridgette Shade](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/11/security-by-bridgette-shade/) - "If his kidneys fail and you have his nose, will your kidneys fail?" -- from "Security," a flash essay by Bridgette Shade.
- [Hands of a Maker by Rayya Liebich](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/11/hands-of-a-maker-by-rayya-liebich/) - "I would like to know the hands of the woman in Palestine who plunged her needle with saffron and marigold thread..." from "Hands of a Maker" by Rayya Liebach.
- [Gay Boy Cuddles by Michael Nagle](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/11/gay-boy-cuddles-by-michael-nagle/) - "I’d thought gay love was about fu**king." -- from the flash CNF piece "Gay Boy Cuddles" by Michael Nagle.
- [REVIEW: One of the Boys: Surviving Dartmouth, Family, and the Wilderness of Men by Lynn Lobban](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/11/review-one-of-the-boys-surviving-dartmouth-family-and-the-wilderness-of-men-by-lynn-lobban/) - Lynn Lobban her story of breaking through cultural and personal barriers in her feisty and moving memoir One of the Boys: Surviving Dartmouth....
- [REVIEW: The Body Alone: A Lyrical Articulation of Chronic Pain by Nina Lohman](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/11/review-the-body-alone-a-lyrical-articulation-of-chronic-pain-by-nina-lohman/) - “How much pain can you handle?” Repeated multiple times throughout Nina Lohman’s The Body Alone this question guides the narrative, -- from Sara Pisak's review
- [INTERVIEW: Joanne De Simone, Author of Fall and Recovery: Raising Children with Disabilities through Lessons Learned in Dance](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/11/interview-joanne-de-simone-author-of-fall-and-recovery-raising-children-with-disabilities-through-lessons-learned-in-dance/) - In Fall and Recovery, Joanne De Simone marries her dance story with her mother story, In our interview, she talks about dancing, parenting, and writing.
- [CRAFT: Supporting the Nonfiction Community by Teaching Book Reviews by Rajpreet Heir](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/11/craft-supporting-the-nonfiction-community-by-teaching-book-reviews-by-rajpreet-heir/) - While I can’t single-handedly change publishing’s structural inequities, I can at least support writers and add my voice to the conversation. -- Rajpreet Heir
- [Creative Nonfiction Can Be Spooky, Too: 5 Memoirs That Will Keep You in Suspense by Steph Auteri](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/10/creative-nonfiction-can-be-spooky-too-5-memoirs-that-will-keep-you-in-suspense-by-steph-auteri/) - Creative nonfiction can be spooky too. Here are a few CNF books from recent history that bring the enchanting, the uncanny, and the creepy.
- [CRAFT: Say “Yes, And”: How the Rules of Improvisation Can Make You a Better Writer by Mandy Pennington](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/04/craft-say-yes-and-how-the-rules-of-improvisation-can-make-you-a-better-writer/) - Improv, or the performance art of unplanned invention, can be a magical art form when done well. -- Mandy Pennington in her craft column.
- [REVIEW: Tap Dancing on Everest: A Young Doctor's Unlikely Adventure by Mimi Zieman](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/10/tap-dancing-on-everest/) - While pitched as an adventure story, Tap Dancing on Everest is so much more than that: It’s a “finding one’s “own voice and learn[ing] to trust it story.
- [REVIEW: Revelation at the Foodbank by Merrill Joan Gerber](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/10/review-revelation-at-the-foodbank-by-merrill-joan-gerber/) - Merrill Joan Gerber is a writer’s writer, sharing memories of more than 60 years of working at the craft. - Vicki Mayk in a review of Revelation at the Foodbank
- [INTERVIEW: Summer Stewart, Co-founder & Publisher of Unsolicited Press](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/10/interview-summer-stewart-co-founder-publisher-of-unsolicited-press/) - My peers and I were finding that it was hard to find places to our send work. So initially I co-founded a literary journal with a few friends. -- Summer Stewart
- [INTERVIEW: Kim Liao, Author of Where Every Ghost Has a Name: A Memoir of Taiwanese Independence](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/10/interview-kim-liao-author-of-where-every-ghost-has-a-name-a-memoir-of-taiwanese-independence/) - In Where Every Ghost Has a Name, Kim Liao travels to Taiwan 60+ years after her grandfather, the leader of the Taiwanese independence movement, was arrested.
- [Switch by Natasha Singh](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/09/switch-by-natasha-singh/) - "You have been assigned to work with a white woman who, for each day of this course, has worn a different flower in her hair." -- Natasha Singh in "Switch"
- [CRAFT: Break the Blocks, Find the Brilliance and Get Back to Writing by Karen Carnabucci](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/09/craft-break-the-blocks-find-the-brilliance-and-get-back-to-writing-by-karen-carnabucci/) - When your writing is stalled, stale or simply not inspired, the task is to break through the writing block -- Karen Carnabucci
- [Kansas by Melissa Goodnight](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/09/kansas-by-melissa-goodnight/) - "The carnival lights enticed. Purple and red reflecting off the wet blacktop. Freshly tarred." -- from "Kansas," a flash essay by Melissa Goodnight.
- [INTERVIEW: Sylvia Brownrigg, Author of The Whole Staggering Mystery](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/09/interview-sylvia-brownrigg-author-of-the-whole-staggering-mystery/) - The Whole Staggering Mystery by Sylvia Brownrigg is a memoir of fathers lost and found, and of children rebuilding bridges burned by their own parents.
- [INTERVIEW: Kyo Maclear author of Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/06/kyo-maclear-author-of-unearthing-a-story-of-tangled-love-and-family-secrets/) - Kyo Maclear is the only child of a Japanese mother and British Canadian father. Or that’s what she understood about herself for the first 49 years of her life.
- [Haunting by Sydney Chaffee](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/09/haunting-by-sydney-chaffee/) - "Your mother still comes to the soccer game every spring, the one we started in your honor the year you died..." from "Haunting" by Syndey Chaffee
- [REVIEW: Fungal: Foraging in the Urban Forest by Ariel Gordon](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/08/review-fungal-foraging-in-the-urban-forest-by-ariel-gordon/) - "By letting us walk alongside her through her words, [Ariel] Gordon creates an intimacy with the reader that makes us sit up and take notice..." - from our review of Fungal
- [INTERVIEW: Karen Salyer McElmurray, Author of I Could Name God in 12 Ways: Essays](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/09/interview-karen-salyer-mcelmurray-author-of-i-could-name-god-in-12-ways-essays/) - "Risk is in the very landscape of Eastern Kentucky, where I’m from." -- Karen Salyer McElmurray in an interview with Lara Lillibridge of Hippocampus Magazine.
- [An Index for Motherhood by Tiffany Doerr Guerzon](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/09/an-index-for-motherhood-by-tiffany-doerr-guerzon/) - "anxiety / in all of us, see also: allergy..." from "Index of Motherhood," unique hermit crab essay by Tiffany Doerr Guerzon
- [Road Signs by Holly Abbe](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/09/road-signs-by-holly-abbe/) - "My nineteen-year-old daughter leads me up the carpeted stairs." -- from "Road Signs" by Holly Abbe in our September-October 2024 issue
- [Like a Flock of Homesick Cranes by Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/09/like-a-flock-of-homesick-cranes-by-tanya-bellehumeur-allatt/) - "No matter how much pressure I applied, Maman and Daddy maintained that Beirut was too dangerous for sleepovers." -- Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt. "Like a Flock of Homesick Cranes"
- [Mr. Abenshein by Kristian Sean O'Hare](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/09/mr-abenshein-by-kristian-sean-o-hare/) - "You can’t remember the punchline, or if there even was one. You just remember how he stood in front of the class..." -- Kristian Sean O'Hare in "Mr. Abenshein"
- [Year of the Rabbit by Alida Miranda-Wolff](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/09/year-of-the-rabbit-by-alida-miranda-wolff/) - "Fergus’s stiff body lay prone on the vinyl floor of our bunny room." -- Alida Miranda-Wolff in her essay "Year of the Rabbit"
- [Spring Training by Deborah Heimann](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/09/spring-training-by-deborah-heimann/) - "You sit in the living room of your mother’s small apartment, a mug of ginger tea growing cold in your hands." -- Deborah Heimann in her essay "Spring Training"
- [Squatter's Rights by Ryen Nielsen](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/09/squatter-s-rights-by-ryen-nielsen/) - "So, I’m reclined in this dentist meets serial killer torture chair, knees pressed to chest, heels in stirrups..." -- from "Squatter's Rights" by Ryen Nielsen
- [REVIEW: What Kind of Bird Can’t Fly: A Memoir of Resilience and Resurrection by Dorsey Nunn](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/09/review-what-kind-of-bird-cant-fly-a-memoir-of-resilience-and-resurrection-by-dorsey-nunn/) - Dorsey Nunn never forgot the question a friend asked him on the day he walked out of San Quentin Prison after serving 10 years.
- [REVIEW: A Year of Plenty: A Family’s Season of Grief by B.J. Hollars](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/09/review-a-year-of-plenty-a-familys-season-of-grief-by-b-j-hollars/) - "When someone is alive...it is easy to think you have all the time in the world to say everything you need." -- from our review of A Year of Plenty by B.J. Hollars
- [INTERVIEW: Tamara J. Walker, Author of Beyond the Shores: A History of African Americans Abroad](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/09/interview-tamara-j-walker-author-of-beyond-the-shores-a-history-of-african-americans-abroad/) - "These content creators....know something that has always been obvious to them, and has escaped the attention of the mainstream media..."
- [A Special Community Update: Former Contributors in National Spotlight this Month](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/08/a-special-community-update-former-contributors-in-national-spotlight-this-month/) - We're sharing a bonus blog post in between our semi-regular Alumni Updates to help celebrate some good news: A pair of former contributors were in the national spotlight this month. Nicole Piasecki Essay on This American Life If you’re a fan of storytelling, you’re likely a fan of This American Life, a long-running public radio program
- [INTERVIEW: Jesse Lee Kercheval, Author of French Girl](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/08/interview-jesse-lee-kercheval-author-of-french-girl/) - “I always think with a poem, if I knew where it was going, it wouldn’t be a good poem.” — Jesse Lee Kercheval, author of French Girl
- [REVIEW: American Boomer by Steven Fisher](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/08/review-american-boomer-by-steven-fisher/) - "Steve Fisher is a reliable narrator, full of honesty." -- from our review of American Boomer: The Journey of a Mid-Century Boy Who Didn't Get Old
- [REVIEW: The Trauma Mantras: A Memoir in Prose Poems by Adrie Kusserow](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/08/review-the-trauma-mantras-a-memoir-in-prose-poems-by-adrie-kusserow/) - "It’s a gift to learn from others’ disciplines—and discipline—from their careful, thoughtful study & observation." -from our review of The Trauma Mantras by Adrie Kusserow
- [Meet the Team: 5 Questions With Marsh Rose](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/08/meet-the-team-5-questions-with-marsh-rose/) - In this installment of Meet the Hippocampus Magazine Team we talk to Marsh Rose, a freelance writer, novelist, psychotherapist, and college educator.
- [CRAFT: 6 Questions for Authors on the Path to Publication by Angel R. Ackerman](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/08/craft-6-questions-for-authors-on-the-path-to-publication-by-angel-r-ackerman/) - In her craft column, Angel R. Ackerman says, "Now that I’m on the other side of the desk, I encourage you to ask these questions before you submit your work..."
- [INTERVIEW: Jonathan Corcoran, Author of No Son of Mine: A Memoir](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/08/interview-jonathan-corcoran-author-of-no-son-of-mine-a-memoir/) - Jonathan Corcoran, born and raised in rural West Virginia, writes about the messy estrangement from his mother in No Son of Mine: A Memoir.
- [Alumni & Contributor Updates: Summer 2024](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/07/alumni-contributor-updates-summer-2024/) - We’re always pleased to share updates from our family of contributor-alumni and HippoCamp presenters. Here's our Summer 2024 edition.
- [REVIEW: Hell Gate Bridge: A Memoir of Motherhood, Madness, and Hope by Barrie Miskin](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/07/review-hell-gate-bridge-a-memoir-of-motherhood-madness-and-hope/) - Barrie Miskin courageously breaks this silence [about mental health stigma] in Hell Gate Bridge: A Memoir of Motherhood, Madness, and Hope. -- from our review
- [Meet the Team: 6 Questions with Annie Rehill, Reader](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/07/meet-the-team-6-questions-with-annie-rehill-reader/) - Meet the Team is a recurring series to introduce, celebrate, and elevate our amazing crew of volunteers. In this installment we talk to Annie Rehill.
- [INTERVIEW: Ellen van Neerven, Author of Personal Score: Sport, Culture, Identity](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/07/interview-ellen-van-neerven-author-of-personal-score-sport-culture-identity/) - Personal Score by Ellen van Neerven is a meditation on learning to play soccer on stolen land and within a culture where expectations related to race, gender, and sexuality are toxic at best and dangerous at worst
- [Sex Boxers by Ben Decter](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/07/sex-boxers-by-ben-decter/) - "It’s been two years since my wife and I have had sex." -- from the essay "Sex Boxers" by Ben Decter in our July-August 2024 issue.
- [WRITING LIFE: Get Thee to a Writer’s Conference: How Attending Both Did and Did Not Change My Life by Lori D'Angelo](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/07/writing-life-get-thee-to-a-writers-conference-how-attending-both-did-and-did-not-change-my-life-by-lori-dangelo/) - "Like many new MFA grads, I had a lot of questions." -- Lori D'Angelo in her writing life column, "Get Thee to a Writer's Conference."
- [Mourning the Unknown by LuLu Grant](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/07/mourning-the-unknown-by-lulu-grant/) - "I grew up hearing about my adoption, how I had a Chinese mama and papa." -- from the essay "Mourning the Unknown" by LuLu Grant.
- [This Side of Silence by AV Bruce](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/07/this-side-of-silence-by-av-bruce/) - "David has AIDS, the letter says. He went into hospital last week with pneumonia." -- from the essay "This Side of Silence" by AV Bruce.
- [CRAFT: On Writing Trauma in Creative Nonfiction by Travis Harman](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/07/craft-on-writing-trauma-in-creative-nonfiction-by-travis-harman/) - "I mined my brain, every crevice, searching for parts of me that only I knew." -- Travis Harman in his CRAFT column "On Writing Trauma in Creative Nonfiction"
- [When We Used To Glow by Tom McAllister](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/07/when-we-used-to-glow-by-tom-mcallister/) - "When we say there used to be more lightning bugs, I’m afraid we’re really talking about how our parents used to be alive." -- Tom McAllister in "When We Used to Glow"
- [One Last Bite by L.C. Button](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/07/one-last-bite-by-l-c-button/) - "He takes care of his body well into his eighties. Then his brain betrays him, a stroke." -- from the essay "One Last Bite" by L.C. Button
- [Some Measure of Comfort by Belinda J. Kein](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/07/some-measure-of-comfort-by-belinda-j-kein/) - "I should have....seen it coming those last days when we barely moved from that garish yellow sofa..." from "Some Measure of Comfort" by Belinda J. Kein
- [It Is Particularly Requested by Katherine Rawson](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/07/it-is-particularly-requested-by-katherine-rawson/) - "'It is particularly requested that no flowers be sent.' This is the newspaper notice written by the doctor’s only surviving son..." -- Katherine Rawson
- [Radishes by Amber Burke](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/07/radishes-by-amber-burke/) - "One winter in my early 20s, I coat checked at a French bistro in Chelsea where there were radishes in bowls on the zinc bartop." -- Amber Bruce in "Radishes"
- [Eggs by Shannon Purdy Jones](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/07/eggs-by-shannon-purdy-jones/) - "Her clay brown body would have blended in with the tile if not for black and gold eyes ....." -- from "Eggs" by Shannon Purdy Jones.
- [REVIEW: Take Back the Magic: Conversations With the Unseen World by Perdita Finn](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/07/review-take-back-the-magic-by-perdita-finn/) - "...she received her inheritance in the mail: a small jet-black rock circled by twisted iron rods..." -- from our review of Take Back the Magic by Perdita Finn
- [Our August Online Creative Nonfiction Events: Announcing Our 2024 Night of Nonfiction Line-Up + Other Teasers](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/05/august-events-2024-night-cnf/) - On the weekend of August 10 & 11, Hippocampus Magazine is hosting severalonline creative nonfiction events: readings, craft talks, and discussions and more.
- [The Last Ride by Carol E. Anderson](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/05/the-last-ride-by-carol-e-anderson/) - "We speed, Mauree and I, through the streets of Seattle in an ambulance." -- from the flash essay "The Last Ride" by Carol E. Anderson
- [WRITING LIFE: Through Line by Katie McDougall](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/06/writing-life-through-line-by-katie-mcdougall/) - When a story is dismissed as cliché, trite and uninteresting, it’s easy to redirect the indictment to oneself. -- Katie McDougall
- [INTERVIEW: Jessica Fein, Author of Breath Taking: A Memoir of Family, Dreams & Broken Genes](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/06/interview-jessica-fein-author-of-breath-taking-a-memoir-of-family-dreams-broken-genes/) - There is a lot of loss in [Breath Taking by Jessica Fein], but you’ll be surprised by how much love, joy, hope, and even humor is also there.
- [INTERVIEW: Molly Giles, Author of Life Span: Impressions of a Lifetime Spent Crossing and Recrossing the Golden Gate Bridge](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/06/interview-molly-giles-author-of-life-span/) - Dorothy Rice speaks to Molly Giles on the eve of the launch of Life Span: Impressions of a Lifetime Spent Crossing and Recrossing the Golden Gate Bridge.
- [PROFILE: Jeannine Ouellette, Author of The Part That Burns & Creator of Writing in the Dark](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/06/profile-jeannine-ouellette-author-of-the-part-that-burns-creator-of-writing-in-the-dark/) - Part of my desire to profile Jeannine Ouellette sprang from my curiosity to dissect what she’s doing .... that differentiates her from others in her field.
- [Meet the Team: A Q&A With Sarah Evans, Reviewer](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/06/meet-the-team-a-qa-with-sarah-evans-reviewer/) - In this installment of Meet the Team, we talk to Sarah Evans, from the Hippocampus Magazine reviews team.
- [INTERVIEW: Barrie Miskin, Author of Hell Gate Bridge](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/06/interview-barrie-miskin-author-of-hell-gate-bridge/) - It’s summer 2016 when Barrie Miskin decides to go off her low-dose antidepressant in order to conceive
- [REVIEW: Thunder Song: Essays, by Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/06/review-thunder-song-essays-by-sasha-taqʷsəblu-lapointe/) - What pushes Sasha LaPointe’s essays to another level are the themes distinctive to her individual story as an Upper Skagit and Nooksack Indian Tribe punk rocker.
- [REVIEW: I Sing to Use the Waiting by Zachary Pace](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/06/review-i-sing-to-use-the-waiting-by-zachary-pace/) - Emily Webber reviews I Sing to Use the Waiting by Zachary Pace: "Even though we have vastly different experiences, we both have experienced being an outcast..."
- [REVIEW: The Hurricane Book: A Lyric History by Claudia Acevedo-Quiñones](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/03/review-the-hurricane-book-a-lyric-history-by-claudia-acevedo-quinones/) - The Hurricane Book: A Lyric History by Claudia Acevedo-Quiñones, a hybrid memoir and history of her family and Puerto Rico. Read our review by Emily Webber
- [REVIEW: Starry Field: A Memoir of Lost History by Margaret Juhae Lee](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/06/review-starry-field-a-memoir-of-lost-history-by-margaret-juhae-lee/) - Although Margaret Juhae Lee was born in the United States and raised in Houston, she never felt at home. -- from our review of Starry Field
- [REVIEW: American Mother by Colum McCann with Diane Foley](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/06/review-american-mother-by-colum-mccann-with-diane-foley/) - As a fan of Colum McCann’s fiction, I was anxious to read his first nonfiction book. I was not disappointed. -- from Vicki Mayk's review of American Mother
- [INTERVIEW: Kristine S. Ervin, Author of Rabbit Heart: A Mother’s Murder, A Daughter’s Story](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/05/interview-kristine-s-ervin-author-of-rabbit-heart-a-mothers-murder-a-daughters-story/) - Rabbit Heart was a slow write, a slow journey. I wrote at a slow pace and I haven’t let go of that pace.
- [INTERVIEW: Michelle Ephraim, Author of Green World](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/05/interview-michelle-ephraim-author-of-green-world/) - "Michelle's delivery is everything you want in a memoir: chatty, warm but makes you think." -- from Amy Fish's interview with author Michelle Ephraim
- [Transits by Andi Beierman](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/05/transits-by-andi-beierman/) - "I realize I am middle-aged when I meet Destiny." -- from the flash essay "Transits" by Andi Beierman
- [INTERVIEW: Ona Gritz, Author of Everywhere I Look: A Memoir](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/05/interview-ona-gritz-author-of-everywhere-i-look/) - I read Everywhere I Look by Ona Gritz in a single sitting, and I hadn’t done that in years. It is both detective story and memoir and utterly entrancing.
- [REVIEW: The French Ingredient: Making a Life in Paris, One Lesson at a Time by Jane Bertch](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/05/review-the-french-ingredient-making-a-life-in-paris-one-lesson-at-a-time-by-jane-bertch/) - The French Ingredient by Jane Bertch is a testimony for the magic that ensues when you’re willing to embrace the unknown.
- [INTERVIEW: Erin Zimmerman, Author of Unrooted: Botany, Motherhood, and the Fight to Save an Old Science](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/05/interview-erin-zimmerman-author-of-unrooted-botany-motherhood-and-the-fight-to-save-an-old-science/) - "We're at a time of unprecedented awareness of science on the part of the public." -- Erin Zimmerman, Author of Unrooted
- [Trickster Laughs by Staci Mercado](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/05/trickster-laughs-by-staci-mercado/) - "Twelve miles from the Montana border, the car quit." -- from the flash essay "Trickster Laughs" by Staci Mercado in the May-June 2024 issue of Hippocampus Mag.
- [Frill by Rebecca Tiger](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/05/frill-by-rebecca-tiger/) - "I wheel her from room 105 out to the Café Bistro at Menorah Village Memory Care Center." -- from the flash essay "Frill" by Rebecca Tiger
- [Lai Lai Dance Hall by Shinichi Terada](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/05/lai-lai-dance-hall-by-shinichi-terada/) - "The dance hall was like a cave, the dim light obscuring its guests." -- from the essay "Lai Lai Dance Hall" by Shinichi Terada
- [Braiding Shapes by Gabriella Graceffo](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/05/braiding-shapes-by-gabriella-graceffo/) - "After the divorce, my father teaches me how to braid bread." --from "Braiding Shapes" by Gabriella Graceffo in the May-June 2024 issue of Hippocampus Magazine.
- [Dispatched from the Ice by Whitney Brown](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/05/dispatched-from-the-ice-by-whitney-brown/) - "I had joined a group of about 20 people, mostly archaeologists, at a location we all promised not to disclose." -- Dispatched from the Ice by Whitney Brown
- [Alone and Adrift in a Birthing Tub by Elizabeth Savage](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/05/alone-and-adrift-in-a-birthing-tub-by-elizabeth-savage/) - "The warm water lapped at my enormous belly as I leaned back and attempted to float." -- from the essay "Alone and Adrift in a Birthing Tub" by Elizabeth Savage
- [The Facts of Your Body by Ava Robinson](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/05/the-facts-of-your-body-by-ava-robinson/) - "They recorded your irises being hazel, even though you always said they were brown." -- from the flash essay "The Facts of Your Body" by Ava Robinson
- [REVIEW: First Love: Essays on Friendship by Lilly Dancyger](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/05/review-first-love-essays-on-friendship-by-lilly-dancyger/) - First Love by Lilly Dancyger begins with a title essay so moving, complex, and powerful that I had to put the book down just to let the work settle...
- [Meet the Team: 6 Questions with Anthony J. Mohr, Essays Reader](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/05/meet-the-team-6-questions-with-anthony-j-mohr-essays-reader/) - In this installment of the Meet the Team series we talk to devoted and long-time Hippocampus Magazine reader Anthony J. Mohr
- [CRAFT: Happy Birthday Book (And Me) by Morgan Baker](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/05/craft-happy-birthday-book-and-me-by-morgan-baker/) - "A year ago, I was turning 65 and sending my debut memoir out into the world at the same time." -- Morgan Baker, in her craft column "Happy Birthday Book (And Me)"
- [WRITING LIFE: The Small, Accessible World of Publishing by Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/05/writing-life-the-small-accessible-world-of-publishing-by-elizabeth-jarrett-andrew/) - "One woman, a quintessential Lutheran church lady, described her writing process. Every Sunday while she curls her hair, she composes a haiku." ~Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew
- [Meet the Team: 6 Questions With Steph Auteri, Essays Editor](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/04/meet-the-team-6-questions-with-steph-auteri-essays-editor/) - This is a recurring series to introduce, celebrate, and elevate our amazing crew of volunteers. This month, we feature essays editor Steph Auteri.
- [Day 1 of 1,000 by Jeanne Malmgren](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/04/day-1-of-1-000/) - As he walks into the classroom, no one takes notice.
- [INTERVIEW: Penny Guisinger, Author of Shift: A Memoir of Identity and Other Illusions](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/04/interview-penny-guisinger-author-of-shift-a-memoir-of-identity-and-other-illusions/) - Shift by Penny Guisinger examines sexual and romantic fluidity while wrestling with the ways past and present mingle rather than staying in linear narratives.
- [INTERVIEW: Estelle Erasmus, Author of Writing That Gets Noticed](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/04/interview-with-estelle-erasmus-author-of-writing-that-gets-noticed/) - Estelle Erasmus takes readers through the process, from writing to querying to everything that you need to know about contracts.
- [INTERVIEW: Suzanne Scanlon, Author of Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/04/interview-suzanne-scanlon-author-of-committed-on-meaning-and-madwomen/) - The act of writing helps, being a writer helps.... But that doesn’t mean it ended my grief. -- author Suzanne Scanlon
- [Alumni & Contributor Updates: Early 2024](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/04/alumni-contributor-updates-early-2024/) - 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; most of these were submitted via our form, but we also try to keep an eye for exciting news you share on social and your own newsletters. But we can’t catch everything,
- [WRITING LIFE: Deadlines > Doors: Writing Can Happen Anywhere by Annabelle Tometich](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/04/writing-life-deadlines-doors-writing-can-happen-anywhere-annabelle-tometich/) - Learning to write as a journalist felt like being tossed into a raging cauldron. -- Annabelle Tometich in her Writing Life column Deadlines > Doors.
- [REVIEW: The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting by Lee Gutkind.](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/04/review-the-fine-art-of-literary-fist-fighting-by-lee-gutkind/) - I was struck then and am struck now...by the notion that confessional writing is subversive: Christy Moore in a review of The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting
- [INTERVIEW: Steve Almond, Author of Truth is the Arrow, Mercy is the Bow: A DIY Manual for the Construction of Stories](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/04/interview-steve-almond-author-of-truth-is-the-arrow-mercy-is-the-bow-a-diy-manual-for-the-construction-of-stories/) - I want the reader to feel like they are in conversation with, and spending time with, someone as neurotic as they are. -- author Steve Almond
- [INTERVIEW: Jessica J. Lee, Author of Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/04/interview-jessica-j-lee-author-of-dispersals-on-plants-borders-and-belonging/) - The main thing is to think carefully about the power of language. -- author Jessica J. Lee in conversation with Sarah Boon.
- [And you suddenly get why adrenaline junkies chase this rush by Abby Alten Schwartz](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/04/and-you-suddenly-get-why-adrenaline-junkies-chase-this-rush/) - You’re on your knees, breathing hard, heel of one hand against the center of his chest...
- [We Love Short Shorts Contest for Flash Creative Nonfiction: Finalists & Short List Announced](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/03/flash-contest-finalists-24/) - Announcing our flash creative nonfiction contest finalists and winner for the inaugural We Love Short Shorts contest for CNF.
- [The Great Wave by Lisa Thornton](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/04/the-great-wave/) - Three boats toss in a storm with Mt. Fuji in the background.
- [We Love Short Shorts: Flash Creative Nonfiction Contest](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/01/we-love-short-shorts-flash-creative-nonfiction-contest/) - We love short shorts! In our first-ever contest for flash creative nonfiction, we're looking for short essays up to 250 words. $250 prize, plus publication.
- [Cold Ramen by S. N. Rodriguez](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/03/cold-ramen-s-n-rodriguez/) - "When I was younger, I’d cup my palms together to collect my father’s change." -- from the flash essay "Cold Ramen" by S. N. Rodiguez
- [Things I Did In Our Tiny Alcove Of The Emergency Department While We Waited For The On-Call Psychiatrist To Assess Whether He Thought My Daughter Would Attempt Suicide Again If We Brought Her Home by Lina Herman](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/03/things-i-did-in-our-tiny-alcove-lina-herman/) - "Found my youngest child a ride home from swim practice." -- from a new flash essay by Lina Herman
- [Illiterati by Luke Reiter](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/03/illiterati-by-luke-reiter/) - "Lately, I’ve been having a lot of trouble with Ks." -- from the essay "Illiterati" by Luke Reiter
- [WRITING LIFE: I’m a Writer with Mental Illness: How I Work Through, With It by Molly Bilinski](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/03/writing-life-im-a-writer-with-mental-illness-how-i-work-through-with-it-by-molly-bilinski/) - "Falling asleep after my mother died was difficult." -- from "I'm a Writer With Mental Illness," a writing life column from Molly Bilinksi
- [REVIEW: Splinters by Leslie Jamison](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/03/review-splinters-by-leslie-jamison/) - "Jamison’s desires are contextualized via a kaleidoscope of powerful scenes.." -- from our review of Splinters by Leslie Jamison.
- [The Combover by Judy Harju Galliher](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/03/the-combover-judy-harju-galliher/) - "You fidget as your eighth-grade homeroom teacher starts handing out school portraits." -- from the flash essay "Combover" by Judy Harju Galliher
- [The Shape of Grief by Melanie Faranello](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/03/the-shape-of-grief-by-melanie-faranello/) - "We were sixteen and we knew everything. It was 1989...." -- from "The Shape of Grief" by Melanie Faranello.
- [INTERVIEW: Mimi Zieman, Author of Tap Dancing on Everest : A Young Doctor’s Unlikely Adventure](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/03/interview-mimi-zieman-author-of-tap-dancing-on-everest-a-young-doctors-unlikely-adventure/) - Read our interview with Mimi Zieman, author of Tap Dancing On Everest: A Young Doctor's Unlikely Adventure.
- [INTERVIEW: Peg Alford Pursell, Founder of Betty Books](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/03/interview-peg-alford-pursell-founder-of-betty-books/) - Our interview with publisher Peg Alford Pursell gives a peek into the process at Betty Books, an imprint of WTAW Press.
- [Behind the Microphone by Sue Fagalde Lick](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/03/behind-the-microphone-sue-fagalde-lick/) - "It’s hard to go unnoticed when you’re carrying a guitar..." -- from the flash essay "Behind the Mic" by Sue Fagalde Lick.
- [The Toughest Texan by Brian Lee Knopp](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/03/the-toughest-texan-by-brian-lee-knopp/) - "The phone messages had been intriguing. Funny, even." -- from "The Toughest Texan" by Brian Lee Knopp
- [Willy: One in Ten by Beth Ann Mathews](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/03/willy-one-in-ten-by-beth-ann-mathews/) - "I was training to be the swing keeper at Mesker Park Zoo in Evansville, Indiana...." -- from "Willy: One in Ten" by Beth Ann Mathews.
- [INTERVIEW: Susannah Kennedy, Author of Reading Jane: A Daughter’s Memoir](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/02/interview-susannah-kennedy-author-of-reading-jane-a-daughters-memoir/) - "One of the reasons I’m so drawn to memoir is I learn so much by reading the journeys of others." -- Susannah Kennedy, author of Reading Jane: A Daughter's Memoir.
- [CRAFT: Sentiment & Sentimentality by Ellen Bass](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/02/craft-sentiment-sentimentality-by-ellen-bass/) - ...although we want to evoke sensation and make it possible for the reader to feel, we don’t want to fall into sentimentality. -- Ellen Bass
- [INTERVIEW & REVIEW: Sue William Silverman, Author of Acetylene Torch Songs](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/02/interview-review-sue-william-silverman-author-of-acetylene-torch-songs/) - There’s a difference between truth and fact. Sure, we can’t just make stuff up, so CNF is rooted in actual experience. -- Sue William Silverman
- [REVIEW: The Sky Was Falling: A Young Surgeon’s Notes on Bravery, Survival, and Hope by Dr. Cornelia Griggs](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/02/review-the-sky-was-falling-a-young-surgeons-notes-on-bravery-survival-and-hope-by-dr-cornelia-griggs/) - The Sky Was Falling, by Dr. Cornelia Griggs, is an uncompromising account from healthcare’s front lines during the first 6 months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- [INTERVIEW: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Author of Touching the Art](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/02/interview-mattilda-bernstein-sycamore-author-of-touching-the-art/) - “Family is of course one of the original myth-making machines. As long as people believe the myth, then it punishes telling the truth.”—Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
- [INTERVIEW: Suzette Mullen, Author of The Only Way Through is Out](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/02/interview-suzette-mullen-author-of-the-only-way-through-is-out/) - "One of the things I've learned in this process is the importance of advocating for yourself." -- Suzette Mullen, author of "The Only Way Through is Out."
- [Our Joint CNF Offsite Reading at AWP 2024: Join Fourth Genre, Hippocampus, River Teeth & Under the Gum Tree in Kansas City](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/01/awp-2024-offsite-cnf/) - Together, the editorial teams of Fourth Genre, Hippocampus Magazine, River Teeth, and Under the Gum Tree announce the line-up for what's become a much-awaited annual offsite event at the AWP — our affectionate shorthand for the annual conference sponsored by the Association for Writers and Writing Programs. This 2024 AWP Conference & Book Fair takes
- [Here with You by Paige Lammers](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/01/here-with-you-by-paige-lammers/) - "You’re a big horse, all eighteen hands of you." -- from "Here With You," an essay by Paige Lammers.
- [2023 Year-End Recap: A Look Back & A Look Ahead](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/01/2023-year-end-recap-a-look-back-a-look-ahead/) - As we settle into the new year, we're taking a moment to reflect on 2023. We're so proud of the work our volunteer team has done to produce six amazing issues.
- [REVIEW: A Petit Mal: A Mother’s Healing Love Song by Ana María Caballero](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/01/review-a-petit-mal-a-mothers-healing-love-song-by-ana-maria-caballero/) - The prize-winning memoir A Petit Mal by Ana María Caballero pushes the boundaries of creative nonfiction form as a mother examines her child's seizure disorder.
- [Among the Rocks by Cathy Mellett](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/01/among-the-rocks-by-cathy-mellett/) - I’m eleven years old and in fifth grade. I live with my grandmother because my mother Marie cannot take care of me. -- from "Among the Rocks" by Cathy Mellett
- [Short by Anne Kenner](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/01/short-anne-kenner/) - Being short meant you couldn’t see over people who sat in front of you at the movies, and you didn’t stand out in a crowd. -- from "Short" by Anne Kenner
- [Stones by Donna Obeid](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/01/stones-by-donna-obeid/) - The boy dazedly but dutifully stood up, following behind her down the stairs, unquestioningly... -- from "Stones" by Donna Obeid
- [INTERVIEW: Zachary Pace, Author of I Sing to Use the Waiting](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/01/interview-zachary-pace-author-of-i-sing-to-use-the-waiting/) - The essay collection I Sing to Use the Waiting forms a mosaic of Zachary Pace as an individual along with the 1980s-2000s so familiar to many of us.
- [REVIEW: Cacophony of Bone: The Circle of a Year by Kerri ní Dochartaigh](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/01/review-cacophony-of-bone-the-circle-of-a-year-by-kerri-ni-dochartaigh/) - Cacophony of Bones by Kerri ni Dochartaigh is a fragmented, lyrical exploration of the natural world, the idea of home, motherhood, and surviving the unknown.
- [INTERVIEW: Susan Kiyo Ito, Author of I Would Meet You Anywhere](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/01/interview-susan-kiyo-ito-author-of-i-would-meet-you-anywhere/) - In a boundary-breaking memoir I Would Meet You Anywhere, Susan Kiyo Ito unveils the truth of her origins, perhaps, at the chagrin of those around her.
- [REVIEW: Hell If We Don’t Change Our Ways by Brittany Means](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/01/review-hell-if-we-dont-change-our-ways-by-brittany-means/) - Hell if We Don't Change Our Ways: A Memoir by Brittany Means reconstructs a complicated past, ordering a life of contradictions amid the fallibility of memory.
- [Ringing in the Rain by Callie Arnold Dinolfo](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/01/ringing-in-the-rain-by-callie-arnold-dinolfo/) - Still, despite the evidence around me, the evidence I have co-created, a proposal feels abstract, far off. -- from "Ringing in the Rain" by Callie Arnold Dinolfo
- [The Spin Society by Rachel Moscovich](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/01/the-spin-society-by-rachel-moscovich/) - "At the Spin Society, the room is dark, the music cranked, the bass pulses." -- from a flash essay by Rachel Moscovich
- [Something to Do With Peanut Butter by Ery Caswell](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/01/something-to-do-with-peanut-butter-ery-caswell/) - This moniker was a smooth, discrete measure of intimacy spread thin between two people. -- from "Something to Do With Peanut Butter" by Ery Caswell.
- [1, 2, 3, Breathe by Ridghaus](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/01/1-2-3-breathe-by-ridghaus/) - At the top of my inhale, I wonder, is this the last one? -- from the flash essay "1, 2, 3, Breathe" by Ridghaus
- [Daniel by Leah Glennon](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/01/daniel-by-leah-glennon/) - There's a guy at my dentist’s office named Daniel, a dental hygienist, who has been there for a long time.... -- from "Daniel," a flash essay by Leah Glennon.
- [REVIEW: All Things Edible, Random and Odd: Essays on Grief, Love & Food by Sheila Squillante](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/12/review-all-things-edible-random-and-odd-essays-on-grief-love-food-by-sheila-squillante/) - Food is the narrative thread used to make sense of grief, relationships and family in the collection All Things Edible, Random & Odd by Sheila Squillante.
- [INTERVIEW: Agata Izabela Brewer, Author of The Hunger Book: A Memoir from Communist Poland](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/12/interview-agata-izabela-brewer-author-of-the-hunger-book-a-memoir-from-communist-poland/) - The Hunger Book by Agata Izabela Brew, which includes recipes, is an unforgettable meditation on motherhood and addiction, resilience and love.
- [INTERVIEW: Jami Nakamura Lin, Author of The Night Parade: A Speculative Memoir](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/12/interview-jami-nakamura-lin-author-of-the-night-parade-a-speculative-memoir/) - In The Night Parade: A Speculative Memoir, Jami Nakamura Lin pushes the boundaries of craft as she struggles with the loss of her father to cancer.
- [REVIEW: Awakenings: Stories of Body & Consciousness edited by Diane Gottlieb](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/12/review-awakenings-stories-of-body-consciousness-edited-by-diane-gottlieb/) - The voice of the body and the need to listen to it runs through the collection Awakenings: Stories of Body & Consciousness, edited by Diane Gottlieb.
- [REVIEW: Love in the Archives: A Patchwork of True Stories About Suicide Loss by Eileen Vorbach Collins](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/11/review-love-in-the-archives-by-eileen-vorbach-collins/) - Eileen Vorbach Collins cracks open her grief from her daughter Lydia’s death and spills it onto the table for us to observe and to absorb in this memoir in essays.
- [REVIEW: Disequilibria: Meditations on Missingness by Robert Lunday](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/10/review-disequilibria-meditations-on-missingness-by-robert-lunday/) - Disequilibria: Meditations on Missingness by Robert Lunday is a deeply researched and thoughtful collection of essays on the disappeared.
- [CRAFT: You’re Writing for Search Engines, Too: SEO Tips for Writers by Donna Talarico](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/11/craft-youre-writing-for-search-engines-too-seo-tips-for-writers-to-help-you-get-found-online/) - In a day of info overload, it’s vital to make ourselves known beyond friends, family, colleagues, and folks we know online. - Donna Talarico on SEO for writers.
- [INTERVIEW: Meg Kissinger, Author of While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/11/interview-meg-kissinger-author-of-white-you-were-out/) - "No doubt I was drawn to writing about mental illness because of my family circumstances." -- Meg Kissinger, author of While You Were Out
- [Contributor Updates: Fall 2023](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/11/contributor-updates-fall-2023/) - 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; most of these were submitted via our form, but we also try to keep an eye for exciting news you share on social and your own newsletters. But we can’t catch everything,
- [Hippocampus Magazine's 2023 Best of the Net & Pushcart Prize Nominees](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/11/hippocampus-magazines-2023-best-of-the-net-pushcart-prize-nominees/) - This year at Hippocampus Magazine we published 50+ pieces of creative nonfiction from emerging and established writers, and we are extremely proud of the brave, unique, and compelling voices we get to share with our readers in each issue. And every year, as award nomination deadlines loom, we're faced with an incredible challenge. We are
- [What to do When You Grow Tired of Everything by Marti Trgovich](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2011/10/what-to-do-when-you-grow-tired-of-everything-by-marti-trgovich/) - I piled everything into a boxy folding cart, the kind only New Yorkers use because we don’t have cars to haul junk in, and pushed it to Goodwill, around the corner on Second Avenue. It was my seventh trip that week.
- [INTERVIEW: Clancy Martin, Author of How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of a Suicidal Mind](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/11/interview-clancy-martin-author-of-how-not-to-kill-yourself-a-portrait-of-a-suicidal-mind/) - "If the line of work you’ve chosen involves emotional sensitivity, you have to be very careful with yourself." - Clancy Martin in convo w/ Michèle Dawson Haber
- [Heart Broken by Jade Lin](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/11/heart-broken-by-jade-lin/) - "When I was seven, the pediatrician caught an irregular heartbeat thumping in my chest." — from the essay "Heart Broken" by Jade Lin.
- [Ghostcard by Ann de Forest](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/11/ghostcard-by-ann-de-forest/) - "My sister lives outside of Seattle and has never been to Italy. This postcard came from elsewhere." -- Ann de Forest in her essay "Ghostcard."
- [Down to the Valley by Molly Bolton](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/11/down-to-the-valley-by-molly-bolton/) - "I thought about where I would be if my babies had lived...." from the flash essay "Down to the Valley" by Molly Bolton.
- [When Wishes Turn Real by Melissa Greenwood](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/11/when-wishes-turn-real-by-melissa-greenwood/) - "My parents want me to start taking medicine. They say I'm just like my grandma. The one who's dead." - Melissa Greenwood in "When Wishes Turn Real" (flash CNF)
- [Everything is Going to Be Alright by Victoria Mack](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/11/everything-is-going-to-be-alright-by-victoria-mack/) - "My mother is looking at the television, which is on mute, and her small mouth is open." -- from "Everything is Going to Be Alright" by Victoria Mack
- [INTERVIEW: Kathryn K. Abdul-Baki, Author of Dancing Into the Light: An Arab-American Girlhood in the Middle East](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/11/interview-kathryn-k-abdul-baki-author-of-dancing-into-the-light/) - "The book only goes to a certain point in my life, to where the lights went out in my life, and then restarted." - Kathryn K. Abdul-Baki
- [INTERVIEW: Janna Marlies Maron, Founding Editor of Under the Gum Tree, on Coordinating AWP Offsite Events](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/11/interview-janna-marlies-maron-founding-editor-of-under-the-gum-tree-on-coordinating-awp-offsite-events/) - Dorothy Rice speak to Janna Maron about organizing annual CNF-infused offsite events at the annual AWP conference.
- [WRITING LIFE: One Letter at a Time by Vanessa Stirling](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/11/writing-life-one-letter-at-a-time-by-vanessa-stirling/) - "A rhythm develops as I maneuver across five lanes of I-66." -- from the writing life column "One Letter at a Time" by Vanessa Stirling
- [REVIEW: incurable optimist: living with illness and chronic hope by Jennifer Cramer-Miller](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/11/review-incurable-optimist-living-with-illness-and-chronic-hope-by-jennifer-cramer-miller/) - "What would you do if you were 22 years old and heard the word “incurable?” from our review of the memoir Incurable Optimist by Jennifer Cramer-Miller
- [He Said, I Said by Cindy Dean Jones](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/11/he-said-i-said-by-cindy-dean-jones/) - "I am seeing someone else and we are done, he announced, over the phone." -- Cindy Dean Jones in her flash CNF piece "He Said, I Said."
- [Mass by Craig Holt](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/11/mass-by-craig-holt/) - "Earlier today, they cut the growth from my throat." -- from the touching essay "Mass" by Craig Holt.
- [Returns by Laurie Granieri](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/11/returns/) - "When I encounter Michael’s lookalike, for a few moments he feels a little less dead." -- from the flash essay "Returns" by Laurie Granieri
- [going to iowa by Christine Fugate](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/11/going-to-iowa-by-christine-fugate/) - "There are two types of people who ride the train at three in the morning." -- from the essay "going to iowa" by Christine Fugate.
- [The Chronology of My Body by Josie Kochendorfer](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/11/the-chronology-of-my-body-by-josie-kochendorfer/) - "When I am six, my nana begins taking me to her weekly Weight Watchers meetings." -- Josie Kochendorfer in the flash essay "The Chronology of My Body"
- [Thrift Store Stories by Leighton Schreyer](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/01/thrift-store-stories-by-leighton-schreyer/) - "These are the sweatpants I wore; when I tried to end my life......" from the essay "Thrift Store Stories" by Leighton Schreyer
- [Cats Gymnastics by Brittany Ackerman](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/09/cats-gymnastics-by-brittany-ackerman/) - No one had ever had a birthday party like mine. I was allowed to invite 10 girls from my class to an overnight party at Cats Gymnastics. -- Brittany Ackerman
- [Flinch by Sonja Livingston](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/09/flinch-sonja-livingston/) - The point was to hide your fear. Feel afraid but don’t flinch. -- from the essay "Flinch" by writer Sonja Livingston
- [REVIEW & INTERVIEW: The Loneliness Files by Athena Dixon](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/10/review-interview-the-loneliness-files-by-athena-dixon/) - Anri Wheeler reviews The Loneliness Files and then speaks with author Athena Dixon about the memoir in essays in this double feature.
- [INTERVIEW: Lilly Dancyger, Writer, Editor, Teacher](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/10/interview-with-lilly-dancyger-writer-editor-teacher/) - Lara Lillibridge talks with Lilly Dancyger about her career as an independent developmental editor and writing teacher.
- [WRITING LIFE: Book Midwifery by Diane Zinna](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/10/writing-life-book-midwifery-by-diane-zinna/) - A client-friend has taken to calling me her book’s “midwife.” I love that. -- Diane Zinna in her writing life column about book midwifery.
- [INTERVIEW: Ann Batchelder, Author of Craving Spring](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/10/interview-ann-batchelder-author-of-craving-spring/) - We talk to Ann Batchelder, author of the memoir Craving Spring: A mother’s quest, a daughter’s depression, and the Greek myth that brought them together.
- [INTERVIEW: Mary Helen Stefaniak, Author of The Six-Minute Memoir](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/10/interview-mary-helen-stefaniak-author-of-the-six-minute-memoir/) - We interview Mary Helen Stefaniak about her book The Six-Minute Memoir: Fifty-Five Short Essays on Life
- [REVIEW: Touched Out by Amanda Montei](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/10/review-touched-out-by-amanda-montei/) - Touched Out by Amanda Montei is a hybrid of memoir, cultural criticism and theory explores themes of motherhood, misogyny, consent, and control.
- [REVIEW: Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of The Exorcist by Marlena Williams](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/10/review-night-mother-a-personal-and-cultural-history-of-the-exorcist-by-marlena-williams/) - Night Mother is, as the title suggests, a personal and cultural history of The Exorcist, successfully weaving a first-person narrative with broader film criticism.
- [INTERVIEW: Lamya H, Author of Hijab Butch Blues](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/10/interview-lamya-h-author-of-hijab-butch-blues/) - We interview Lamya H, author of the memoir-in-essays Hijab Butch Blues, a searingly intimate, coming-of-age book.
- [New Event Series Launches: Readings, Craft Talks & More](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/09/new-event-series-launches-readings-craft-talks-more/) - HippoCamp: A Conference for Creative Nonfiction may be on hiatus (aiming for a 2025 return), but the team at Hippocampus Magazine is still bringing CNF knowledge and know-how to you through a trio of event series. Individual events will be listed on our Events Calendar about a quarter in advance, allowing you to plan ahead
- [INTERVIEW: Jane Wong, Author of Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City: A Memoir](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/09/interview-jane-wong-author-of-meet-me-tonight-in-atlantic-city-a-memoir/) - We speak to Jane Wong about her approach to memoir as a poet, her deliberate reluctance toward resilience, craft as it relates to violence, and more.
- [INTERVIEW: Melanie Brooks, Author of A Hard Silence](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/09/interview-melanie-brooks-author-of-a-hard-silence/) - I wrote this book almost 20 years after my father's death. So I had the insight in hindsight to be able to ... understand what I was experiencing back then. - Melanie Brooks
- [How to Treat Migraines with Acupuncture by Jennifer Gallo Gaites](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/09/how-to-treat-migraines-with-acupuncture/) - Imagine you are a pincushion. A soft landing spot. A tufted gathering place for sharp objects. -- Jennifer Gallo Gaites in How to Treat Migraines w Acupuncture
- [CRAFT: Elevate Your Essays: Writing By Bringing the Interior to the Exterior by Estelle Erasmus](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/09/craft-elevate-your-essays-writing-by-bringing-the-interior-to-the-exterior-by-estelle-erasmus/) - The best way to get into the underlying emotions of a story is to start with action. -- Estelle Erasmus in her Hippocampus Magazine craft column
- [This is a Drill by Katie Burgess](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/09/this-is-a-drill/) - It’s a gray morning close to Halloween when the alarm goes off. We’ve been expecting it. -- from "This is a Drill," an essay by Katie Burgess
- [Decomposition by Sara Mann](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/09/decomposition-by-sara-mann/) - The night before my mother died, I sat on a stool beside her bed writing the artist statement for her last show. -- Sara Mann in "Decomposition"
- [In the Senate We Read Dante and I Loved Him by Donovan Dennis](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/09/in-the-senate-we-read-dante-and-i-loved-him-by-donovan-dennis/) - We—the U.S. Senate’s 30 teenage pages—were divided according to our sponsoring senator’s party. - Donovan Dennis, "In the Senate We Read Dante, and I Loved Him"
- [St. Anthony's Mistake by Olivia Flaherty-Lovy](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/09/st-anthonys-mistake-by-olivia-flaherty-lovy/) - Last fall, I learned my mother had stopped praying. -- from the essay "St. Anthony's Mistake" by Olivia Flaherty-Lovy
- [Antennae Twitching with Precision by Remi Recchia](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/09/antennae-twitching-with-precision/) - Bright lights girl-not-girl examined by nurse in clean clean clean. Looking for cuts, looking for bruises, looking for something unseen. -- Remi Recchia
- [The Ponytail by Wendy Besel Hahn](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/09/the-ponytail/) - Alone in the backseat, I studied my three-year-old sister’s golden-brown ringlets as she rode on Mom’s lap. -- from "The Ponytail" by Wendy Besel Hahm
- [October 20 by Margaret Ozmet](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2013/04/october-20-by-margaret-ozmet/) - Why are they whispering? Wait, why is he looking at me? They’re both looking at me. I didn’t do anything. I totally didn’t do anything. Stop looking at me.
- [When the Light Changes by Christine Cooper](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2013/08/when-the-light-changes-by-christine-cooper/) - When the light turns green, no one else is at the intersection. My hands cross one over the other to round the corner.
- [Burn by Cheryl Diane Kidder](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2013/10/burn-by-cheryl-diane-kidder/) - "Not so fast," he said, reaching across me and pushing the lock down. He undid the buttons on his jeans and told me, "Suck it. Then you can leave."
- [Bob's Keys the the Kingdom by Alexandria Peary](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2014/03/bobs-keys-the-the-kingdom-by-alexandria-peary/) - He lived in a 20-by-20 foot studio apartment for fifteen years. He washed his clothing in the sink, and the hallway reeked of his bathroom...
- [Thesis by Thomas Wells](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2014/03/thesis-by-thomas-wells/) - He walked to the front of the class, wisps of hair swirling around his head like tiny ghosts and looked at us with abysmatic blue eyes. I noticed that his hands were shaking.
- [Psychiatry, Tokyo Style by Jonathan Mack](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2014/03/psychiatry-tokyo-style-by-jonathan-mack/) - It must be difficult to work all day beside a storeroom full of mind-altering drugs. Certainly it would be hard for me.
- [Still Recovering: A Junkie Confession by Kerin Sommer](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2014/04/still-recovering-a-junkie-confession-by-kerin-sommer/) - Just the recognition of the name, the queen of synthetic opioids, fills me with anticipation, guilt, and fear.
- [Zwischenzug by Paul Rotter](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2014/04/zwischenzug-by-paul-rotter/) - Some nights after a long day, I skip dinner and escape to the screened patio with a glass of whiskey in hand.
- [Lady Business by Megan Romo](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2014/04/lady-business-by-megan-romo/) - “I missed you last week,” I said, staring at a water spot on the speckled ceiling.
- [American Dream, 2013 by Sydney Lea](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2014/04/american-dream-2013-by-sydney-lea/) - The literary symposium is over for the day. Wanting a bit of time to myself, I have come to this pleasant restaurant overlooking Lake Bled, that jewel of Slovenia.
- [Hands by Betty Jo Buro](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2014/04/hands-by-betty-jo-buro/) - I draw morphine from a tiny glass bottle into a needleless syringe so it can be expelled quickly under her tongue.
- [No Sign of Daddy by Darrelyn Saloom](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2014/05/no-sign-of-daddy-by-darrelyn-saloom/) - Mama said the reason she tossed Daddy to the curb was because he’d been living in a Georgia prison for getting lassoed into a counterfeiting scheme.
- [Is This a Date? by Huda Al-Marashi](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2014/05/is-this-a-date-by-huda-al-marashi/) - Dr. Farber bounced a black, leather whip in her palm when she said the ladies in our classroom would find Taoist sexual philosophy especially interesting.
- [Partitions by Morgan Christie](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2014/06/partitions-by-morgan-christie/) - We heard her scream first. Spanking the cleft concrete before ricocheting off rusted gutters and tin lampposts...
- [Twenty Questions by Jim Brega](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2014/06/twenty-questions-by-jim-brega/) - What if you hadn’t died. What if it hadn’t been two weeks before I found out.
- [Fabric by Andrea Fox](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2014/06/fabric-by-andrea-fox/) - My father came home every night with a pack of Pall Malls in his shirt pocket, beer on his breath and several rubber bands around his wrist.
- [Runner by Clive Collins](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2014/07/runner-by-clive-collins/) - “I dreamed rain,” she said, sitting up in the bed. | “It’s raining outside. Chucking it down. Must have got into your dream.”
- [Distance by Matthew Brennan](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2014/07/distance-by-matthew-brennan/) - I wanted to stand in the potential of harm’s way, feel closer than the breadth of this shared water allowed.
- [Water by Janee J. Baugher](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2014/07/water-by-janee-baugher/) - An elderly woman trapped in a nursing home called and said, “Are you coming, son? Is somebody coming?” “Yeah, Mama, somebody’s coming to get you on Tuesday.”
- [Butterfly Kaddish by Iris Anixter](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2014/08/butterfly-kaddish-by-iris-anixter/) - Hiking long ago along Paradise’s flowering meadows, I found a broken-winged butterfly stuck to the spring mud.
- [The Inland Empire by Adriana Gonzalez](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2014/08/the-inland-empire-by-adriana-gonzalez/) - You slid a daisy stem behind your ear. We were fifteen, and you were well, and your bangs were always in your face.
- [Memorial Day by Carrie Flynn](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2014/09/memorial-day-by-carrie-flynn/) - I slouched at the end of the exam table in the crepe-paper robe, and to avoid crying uncontrollably, I spoke ill of my sister-in-law: “She’s an 18-year old dropout and just had a baby.”
- [Memories of His Father by Sean Prentiss](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2014/09/memories-of-his-father-by-sean-prentiss/) - Robert turns to me—he and I sit at the Saloon’s long bar with unopened Pabst tall boys in our hands. We’ve sat here many days already.
- [Secrets of the Suddenly Single by Joanne M. Lozar Glenn](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2014/10/secrets-of-the-suddenly-single-by-joanne-m-lozar-glenn/) - Grocery stores are problematic. Butchers shrink wrap pairs of salmon steaks, slap on gold foil labels that say “Dinner for Two.”
- [The View From the Moon by Susan Kieffer](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2014/10/the-view-from-the-moon-by-susan-kieffer/) - A projector screen lit up in the front of the cavernous room, and the teacher told us to pay attention. There was a white tower in the center of the screen. An announcer’s voice droned, counting down by seconds.
- [Bare by Jason Griffith](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2014/10/bare-by-jason-griffith/) - At home we give clean and comfortable nicknames. Bathroom. Restroom. We hide them away in caverns lit by Yankee candles.
- [The Mint Farm by Liesl Nunns](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2014/10/the-mint-farm-by-liesl-nunns/) - She knows I love the Amish—in the way one loves all things experienced theoretically and from the perspective of novelty: with casual abandon.
- [How to Attend an Indian Funeral by Allison Williams](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2014/11/how-to-attend-an-indian-funeral-by-allison-williams/) - The color of mourning is white. Not knowing you were going to a funeral, your violet Punjabi dress will have to do.
- [Another Version of Us by Suzanne Farrell Smith](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2014/11/another-version-of-us-by-suzanne-farrell-smith/) - It’s raining when we exit Saks on 49th and Fifth, so I pull umbrellas from my tote. The walk sign blinks, and I move quickly. He blocks my way.
- [An End Not of Hope But Horizon by Joe Kraus](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2015/01/an-end-not-of-hope-but-horizon-by-joe-kraus/) - My father, dying, held out two days to say goodbye to Tommy and Karolyn Burkett, returning as quickly as they could from England.
- [Traction by Krista Christensen](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2015/01/traction-by-krista-christensen/) - Today, like hundreds of yesterdays, he prepares for work, clipping closed his knife bag after donning standard culinary regalia.
- [Bereaved by Bernard Grant](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2015/01/bereaved-by-bernard-grant/) - ... I step outside and meet a squirrel standing between my car’s back tire and the curb.
- [What I Learned Instead by Debbie Bradford](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2015/02/what-i-learned-instead-by-debbie-bradford/) - Houses, trees, telephone poles blur. I close my eyes, but they open. To see how I’m going to die.
- [Stalking My Ex-Boyfriend's Girlfriend on Facebook by Amanda Miska](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2015/02/stalking-my-ex-boyfriends-girlfriend-on-facebook-by-amanda-miska/) - She is beautiful—like, princess-of-some-obscure-country beautiful or my-dad-is-a-B-list-celebrity-and-my-mom’s-a-performance-artist beautiful.
- [My Dad's Hats by Warren Rawson](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2015/03/my-dads-hats-by-warren-rawson/) - Of course, he would have called them "caps," but what he kept on the rack in the hallway were, to me, always "hats."
- [Keening by Marin Heinritz](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2015/03/keening-by-marin-heinritz/) - Only movement soothes me still. Swimming laps at the city pool I am in my mother’s womb—in liquid, in liquid, in liquid, in motion.
- [Toxicology by Stacey Resnikoff](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2015/03/toxicology-by-stacey-resnikoff/) - Lola still asks daily what day it is. She asks when her sister Faye, not yet two, will be big. She asks when I will be all better...
- [Palestines by Alison B. Hart](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2015/03/palestines-by-alison-b-hart/) - We’re all on the A train to Brooklyn. The disturbed man is telling us, too loudly, that he spent time in a Puerto-Rican prison.
- [4/20 by Scott Loring Sanders](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2015/04/420-by-scott-loring-sanders/) - Something horrible doesn’t happen every year, but the number of personal occurrences and international news events is haunting.
- [Comeback by Maggie Pahos](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2015/04/comeback-by-maggie-pahos/) - It’s Saturday morning in Bordo, a 500-year-old village in the Italian Alps where I’m working for two weeks in exchange for food and a place to sleep...
- [Canterbury Cathedral by Alex Grasseschi](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2015/05/canterbury-cathedral-by-alex-grasseschi/) - Her eyes flicker open in the quiet. She tries to count the chimes, and an irrational panic surges for a moment as they clang far past nine...
- [Wick of a Prayer by Brantlee Reid](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2015/05/wick-of-a-prayer-by-brantlee-reid/) - I have a boyfriend now, Cory Christopherson; he claims to be a serial killer.
- [A Study of Hands by Jennifer Dane Clements](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2015/05/a-study-of-hands-by-jennifer-dane-clements/) - Stare at them long enough and they don’t belong to you anymore. Wings of naked flesh.
- [Bite by Aimee Liu](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2015/05/bite-by-aimee-liu/) - My brother is fed up. Our ninety-five-year-old father refuses to open his eyes, so instead of confronting him directly, Marc leads me outside.
- [Knots by Todd Sformo](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2015/06/knots-by-todd-sformo/) - I see heart attack in wood, eddies and contrails, white noise and signals, where an entire plank of pine is an oscilloscope...
- [Night Attack by Peter M. Ives](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2015/06/night-attack-by-peter-m-ives/) - You woke up gasping for air... When the pain starts at 3:30 a.m., you suddenly remember your family medical history...
- [To Covet - Anonymous](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2015/07/to-covet-anonymous/) - He looks up and our eyes dance—his gaze intensifies, mine goes soft-focus. We’ve never spoken...
- [Dear Granny by Elizabeth Syson](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2015/08/dear-granny-by-elizabeth-syson/) - Remember when I was nine, when I wrote that atrocious four-page story, and you read it and told me it was beautiful?
- [Death and a Missed Morning Coffee by Laura Johnson Dahlke](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2015/08/death-and-a-missed-morning-coffee-by-laura-johnson-dahlke/) - When a young woman dies in an automobile accident, someone knows what to do.
- [Eye Contact by James Knisely](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2015/09/eye-contact-by-james-knisely/) - You see these people everywhere, anywhere you may have to stop or slow down: the freeway entrance, the freeway exit, the on-ramp here, the off-ramp there. Everywhere.
- [Little Bitch Rising by Charlotte Gullick](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2015/09/little-bitch-rising-by-charlotte-gullick/) - It’d been almost two years since I’d moved to Colorado, two years since my father had laid eyes on me.
- [Too Long Tea by Richard LeBlond](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2015/09/too-long-tea-by-richard-leblond/) - She waved her arm along a cabinet adjacent to the counter, filled with maybe 15 clear glass containers of loose tea, most with names I had never heard of.
- [Words with the Hospital Chaplain by Asha Dore](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2015/09/words-with-the-hospital-chaplain-by-asha-dore/) - I keep thinking about this word: bifurcates. It means to split, like the heart splits into different valves or the bronchi split into separate lungs.
- [Losing Weight by Melanie Brooks](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2015/10/losing-weight-by-melanie-brooks/) - At the end of each visit, I leave something behind. A scrap of memory. A knot of sadness. A shard of fear.
- [Ode to a Sugar Cloud by Maria Ivkovic Manuccia](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2015/10/ode-to-a-sugar-cloud-by-maria-ivkovic-manuccia/) - The dish is simple: raw egg yolks and equal parts sugar beat vigorously by hand or with an electric mixer, until the mixture is light and frothy.
- [Rat Trailer by Amy Elisabeth Smith](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2015/10/rat-trailer-by-amy-elisabeth-smith/) - When I used a dustpan to swish all the mice and rats to one side of the box, I thought about all the different ways to be a mom.
- [Hunger and Sleep by Matt Jones](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2015/10/hunger-and-sleep-by-matt-jones/) - If I want bread in this household, I have to go to my wife’s bed. I don’t mean to imply an economy of sex for grains, because that’s not the case.
- [Spring Break, Freshman Year by Julie Stotz-Ghosh](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2015/10/spring-break-freshman-year-by-julie-stotz-ghosh/) - I’m alone in my parent’s house, painting the first floor bedrooms where my grandmother and parents usually sleep.
- [String Theory by Lisa Rivero](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2015/12/string-theory-by-lisa-rivero/) - The ball of string fits reassuringly in my hand, smaller than a softball but just bigger than a baseball. Its perfect sphericity seems impossible against my palm, testament to the care and diligence with which it was wound.
- [Build and Build and Build Again by Ronnie K. Stephens](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2015/12/build-and-build-and-build-again-by-ronnie-k-stephens/) - Here is a town that has learned from its history; a town that does not fight the mountain, does not fight the river. The mine shaft opens its mouth. Holds two bodies in its teeth until they are wet and blue and soft. Come back.
- [When All Her Hair Is Gone by Jaclyn Moyer](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2016/01/when-all-her-hair-is-gone-by-jaclyn-moyer/) - This Thursday when Leah comes to my farm to pick up her weekly produce box, all her hair is gone. Just like that.
- [Genotype by Sarah M. Wells](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2016/01/genotype-by-sarah-m-wells/) - When I walk into the Hitch’n Post for a gallon of milk, the cashier behind the counter calls out, “You must be a Fugman… you Roger’s daughter?”
- [Here But Not Here by Jennifer S. Brown](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2016/01/here-but-not-here-by-jennifer-s-brown/) - We sit in the harbor and I stare out, regretting my departure before I’ve even left. Haifa spreads out in front of me, teasing me. I think of him, the boy I left behind...
- [Second Breakfast by Kay Marie Porterfield](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2016/01/second-breakfast-by-kay-marie-porterfield/) - He smiles at the small white bag in my hand. I place it on his lap, and he clutches the top while I wheel him down the hallway to the empty nursing home cafeteria.
- [Inheritance by Allison Coffelt](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2016/02/inheritance-by-allison-coffelt/) - When I drive back into the Missouri humidity after a few weeks away from home, I roll down my window and inhale. For a moment, I’d almost forgotten what we mean here when we say “hot.”
- [Valentine's Day by Andy Harper](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2016/02/valentines-day-by-andy-harper/) - ...I was eleven years old, and six of those eleven years had been spent hopelessly in love with Audrey Kerr, the “little red-haired girl” of Clark County R-1
- [Hair of the Dog by Kelly Shire](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2016/03/hair-of-the-dog-by-kelly-shire/) - When David Lee Roth drops his voice low to growl about the road and the heat and reaching between his legs to ease the seat back, I listen hard, so hard I'm there, speeding on a two-lane desert highway at dusk when the air goes silky and I see myself, steering with my knees, one
- [Shame Shame by Nicole Breit](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2016/03/shame-shame-by-nicole-breit/) - Raindrops pelt your umbrella like pebbles. It's October, late afternoon, a charcoal sky. We're standing an inch apart; you're shivering.
- [Nogales by Amanda J. Crawford](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2016/03/nogales-sonora-by-amanda-j-crawford/) - Don’t think about germs as you grip the gray carousel gate into Mexico. Consider why you didn’t bring hand sanitizer. Consider whether considering makes you racist.
- [Ice Breaker by Lisa Laughlin](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2016/03/ice-breaker-by-lisa-laughlin/) - None of us should be alive right now, you know. This is how the story begins. It is my father who tells me this story...
- [Auteur by Lynne Nugent](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2016/04/auteur-by-lynne-nugent/) - I point my cameraphone at the boy who is chasing a pair of robins across the park with his newly minted stagger-walk. The robins, unconcerned, barely rouse themselves to fly a few yards away...
- [Inheritance by  J.L. Cooper](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2016/04/inheritance-by-j-l-cooper/) - By the time I was eight, I'd come to know of a cigar box my father kept in our garage, filled to the top with various nuts and bolts, washers, grommets, and screws.
- [A Midnight Burning by Katrina Knebel](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2016/05/a-midnight-burning-by-katrina-knebel/) - She couldn’t say how she had come to burn her hands that night. I forgot too.
- [Beach Tires by Harriet Heydemann](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2016/05/beach-tires-by-harriet-heydeman/) - Four over-inflated rubber wheels stared at me from the top shelf in our garage. Smooth and grey, the tires looked like fat, curled up seals. Gary bought them online for our daughter’s wheelchair.
- [What Chu Tryin’ ta Say, Doe? by Damara Martin](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2016/05/what-chu-tryin-ta-say-doe-by-damara-martin/) - You want to know what engenders me to write. I ask my hands: what can possibly engender me not to?
- [At the Fence by Christi Craig](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2016/05/at-the-fence-by-christi-craig/) - After the storm settles and all that remains is the smell of wet dirt .... your mother asks you to go for a walk in the pasture behind your house.
- [Not Pretending by Meg Stone](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2016/05/not-pretending-by-meg-stone/) - In a domestic violence shelter, Christmas is the most peaceful day of the year.
- [Memorial Day Weekend 2015 by Irving A. Greenfield](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2016/06/memorial-day-weekend-2015-by-irving-a-greenfield/) - It's a beautiful pre-summer's day with the temperature going to the mid-eighties. A welcome relief after a harsh winter and a spring that was more like autumn.
- [Shame by Judy Kronenfeld](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2016/06/shame-by-judy-kronenfeld/) - My father’s eyes stayed closed. Standing behind him, as he lay in his narrow bed, I stroked his warm, almost hairless scalp.
- [Period by Gretchen Clark](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2016/08/period-by-gretchen-clark/) - In sixth grade, I came home to find a book at the end of my bed. Its title, Period, was written in big white letters, punctuated by a bright red dot.
- [I Am Still Here by Emily Brisse](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2016/08/i-am-still-here-by-emily-brisse/) - A three o’clock school bus. Early autumn. Monday. The sun seeps through glass and sizzles against the black seats, burning the backs of arms and legs...
- [The Waiting Rooms by Michael Henry](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2016/08/the-waiting-rooms-by-michael-henry/) - My mother is in the bedroom, its atmosphere a fog of cigarette smoke. She works through the good book of crosswords, lying on her stomach on the creaky queen bed.
- [Q and A by William Thompson](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2016/08/q-and-a-by-william-thompson/) - People approach me on the street. They ask me if I need help. Sometimes they help without asking, and sometimes they just ask questions.
- [Butterfly by Magin LaSov Gregg](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2016/09/butterfly-by-magin-lasov-gregg/) - My mother makes no sound when the needle tip enters her skin. I expect her to cry, as I do, each time my pediatrician approaches me with a needle.
- [Americana by Sharmaine Ong](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2016/10/americana-by-sharmaine-ong/) - I’m picking at artificial tuna. Sticky grains of brown rice crumble beneath the prodding of my chopsticks.
- [Charges by Klayton Kasperbauer](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2016/10/charges-by-klayton-kasperbauer/) - I stand over two grievously injured calves, rifle in hand⎯a lever-action .22, the only rifle we owned at the time⎯my younger brother at my side.
- [Distance by J.R. Lara](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2016/10/distance-by-j-r-lara/) - ...the sound of a deer approaching is like a pulse: equal parts soft thudding clod and ground shake. For a moment, you think it might be a heartbeat. You think it might be your own.
- [Science for Boys by Dave Wheeler](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2016/10/science-for-boys-by-dave-wheeler/) - With small but steady hands, the care of a surgeon, I bring my Swiss Army knife to the center of my latest subject: a faded green rabbit of matted velveteen...
- [Six Flash Essays from 'Leaving Instructions' by Gail Hosking](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2016/10/six-flash-essays-from-leaving-instructions-by-gail-hosking/) - I offer you these two cups of air, said the rabbi under the chuppa. One for you, and one for you. Though I’ll not tell you whose is whose.
- [Release by Candace Forrest Jaffe](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2016/12/release-by-candace-forrest-jaffe/) - Meeting the puppy for the first time, my brother shook his head and looked at me like I’d made another bad decision.
- [Eavesdropping by Susan Lilley](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2016/12/eavesdropping-by-susan-lilley/) - ...your dad put on a Bossa nova record and the other dads clustered by the stereo, talking about vacations, real estate, cars, baseball, their icy old-fashioneds jingling like tambourines.
- [After the Accident by Kathleen Boyle](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2017/01/after-the-accident-by-kathleen-boyle/) - You have to use the other hand, your left hand. Everything is different...
- [Rhythm by Isaac Yuen](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2017/01/rhythm-by-isaac-yuen/) - I discovered truth one day during my seventh shot with a tennis ball machine, as imparted by a one-handed topspin backhand. At the time no thought was given...
- [After I Glimpse the Phenomenal Blurb on Page 153 by Charnell Peters](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2017/01/after-i-glimpse-the-phenomenal-blurb-on-page-153-by-charnell-peters/) - We move to page 154. The walls moan like a grandmother who has walked up too many steps. Then they settle back into their braces. No one else seems to feel the shift...
- [Big Wigs by Colter Jackson](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2017/03/big-wigs-by-colter-jackson/) - After they went home at night, my mother brought me with her to the factory to clean up after the Big Wigs, not to teach me how to clean, but to teach me how not to spend my life...
- [Newborn Sparrow by Teri McDowell Ott](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2017/03/newborn-sparrow-by-teri-mcdowell-ott/) - Heading out the driveway, my finger searched for the START button on my sports watch as I prepared to stretch my body into a long mid-morning run.
- [A Mother’s Guide to Leukemia and Its Aftermath by Cindy Winetroub Rogers](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2017/02/a-mothers-guide-to-leukemia-and-its-aftermath-by-cindy-winetroub-rogers/) - It’s true what they say. It’s rarely good when your phone rings after midnight.
- [Grocery Stories by Shaun Turner](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2017/03/grocery-stories-by-shaun-turner/) - On Tuesdays, old Appalachian men swarm the Kroger parking lot. In pairs, the old men wear polo shirts or plaid button-ups in primary colors.
- [The Trouble with Loving Poets by Elizabeth Zaleski](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2017/02/the-trouble-with-loving-poets-by-elizabeth-zaleski/) - The trouble with loving poets is that they leave a long paper trail. They want you to read it, too.
- [The Saturday Before and After the Wednesday In Between by Joe Oswald](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2017/02/the-saturday-before-and-after-the-wednesday-in-between-by-joe-oswald/) - The convenience store is five blocks from home. I stop there often after work, and the manager smiles at me when I enter because I’m one of those husbands who after filling up with gas, stops in for soda, snacks, or anything else...
- [A Cloud the Shape of Kentucky by Ryan Kauffman](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2017/05/a-cloud-the-shape-of-kentucky-by-ryan-kauffman/) - ...he played poker and I tried to understand why an Ace, a card with no face on it, was considered superior to the King.
- [I Take It Back by Warren Merkel](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2017/04/i-take-it-back-by-warren-merkel/) - We make eye contact. What looks like raw fear is slicked across your face. I want to say, It’s okay, I won’t hurt you...
- [Scissors by Jane Marcellus](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2017/04/scissors-by-jane-marcellus/) - My mother called her brother’s scissors “the scissors” because they were the only ones we had.
- [Recipe for Salat Olivier by Alex Simand](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2017/04/recipe-for-salat-olivier-by-alex-simand/) - Mothers are responsible for salads. Dozens of salads in a motley crew of bowls dug from the back of the cabinet for the occasion...
- [Before Lent by Jane Murray Bird](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2017/04/before-lent-by-jane-murray-bird/) - I killed the birds the day I left my husband. Three of them; no stones
- [Anticipation by Geoff Watkinson](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2017/06/anticipation-by-geoff-watkinson/) - A young woman sits up in bed. She’s 25-years-old, 5’1”, tan, sericeous blonde hair—brown at the roots. You’re 25-years-old, too, both naked.
- [Smoking or Non by Eben S. Schwartz](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2017/06/smoking-or-non-by-eben-schwartz/) - ... I am stranded in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The system of highways and buses that brought me here has shut down after a storm draped everything in an inch of snow.
- [You Look Like Your Daddy by Anjali Enjeti](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2017/05/you-look-like-your-daddy-by-anjali-enjeti/) - The metal bars on the merry-go-round heat like curling irons. I sit criss-crossed at its center, the pupil of an eye.
- [Wandering by Deb Hemley](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2017/05/wandering-by-deb-hemley/) - ..he told me about an upcoming exhibit of Ansel Adam’s photographs. “If you’ve never seen them in person,” he said, “ you should come. It’ll be fun.”
- [Naked Ladies and Cicadas by Joanna Brichetto](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2017/05/naked-ladies-and-cicadas-by-joanna-brichetto/) - For twenty-three Nashville summers they've surprised us in the front yard: pink megaphones on a stick.
- [Sounds by Rita Ciresi](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2017/08/sounds-by-rita-ciresi/) - Niantic, Willimantic. Pattagansett, Hammonasset. Naugatuck, Saugatuck, Aspetuck. Shetucket.... I am seven years old. Our second grade teacher makes us memorize the Connecticut rivers.
- [On Top of His Double Bed in Fes, Morocco by Kendell Newman Sadiik](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2017/08/on-top-of-his-double-bed-in-fes-morocco-by-kendell-newman-sadiik/) - It is so humid-hot that we’ve made a game of not touching each other...
- [Body Economy by Audrey Granger Perry](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2017/07/body-economy-by-audrey-granger-perry/) - The dressing room is full of smoke, half-naked girls, and overly sweet smells of cotton-candy confections and temptation.
- [Eastern Parkway by Ed Doerr](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2017/06/eastern-parkway-by-ed-doerr/) - For a while after it happened, I would snap awake at night, clawing my stomach to staunch the blood I had dreamed was spurting out of me.
- [Forever Blonde by Brenna Womer](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2017/06/forever-blonde-by-brenna-womer/) - We were together for a summer, the first one he’d ever spent away from his two little girls who were downstate with their mother...
- [God Don’t Like Ugly by Brian Broome](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2017/09/god-dont-like-ugly-by-brian-broome/) - Queeta’s butt from behind was a threatening avalanche. It rumbled and shook and gave the impression that, at any moment, it could break...
- [Trespassing in Rural Iowa by Shane Griffin](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2017/09/trespassing-in-rural-iowa-shane-griffin/) - I’m not sure why I stopped today. Maybe I’m searching for something from my past, some recognizable relic left over from the demolition.
- [Things Moms Say by Mary Roberson Wiygul](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2017/09/things-moms-say-by-mary-roberson-wiygul/) - Today I found out my mother is not my real mom. Without any kind of introduction or apology, she just blurted it out.
- [We’re Nowhere Near the End by Paul Crenshaw](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2017/08/were-nowhere-near-the-end-by-paul-crenshaw/) - The son stood across the small creek, 40 yards from the father. The father, 28 or 30, held a football, preparing to punt. I’ll say now the boy seemed tense.
- [God Waits in the Thunder by Lee Huttner](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2017/08/god-waits-in-the-thunder-by-lee-huttner/) - He waits in the summer-thunder, in the tremble and quake, the ecstatic eruption of rain, in the wetting and staining of dirt and roads.
- [Ride by Dan Rousseau](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2018/01/ride-by-dan-rousseau/) - I sit on a dark stage at the Elmhurst College Jazz Festival. A motionless ride cymbal obstructs my view of the audience.
- [On Potatoes by Karen Babine](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2018/01/on-potatoes-by-karen-babine/) - When you spend enough time with a potato, you learn the differences between waxy and starchy by feel and instinct, not trivia.
- [How to Wrestle Loneliness (and Win) by Gaetan Sgro](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2018/01/how-to-wrestle-loneliness-and-win-by-gaetan-sgro/) - The first thing is, it takes toughness. A certain edge. And you wouldn’t necessarily think edge if you’d seen my Grama Alice towards the end of her life.
- [My Mother at Georg Jensen by John A. McDermott](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2017/10/my-mother-at-georg-jensen-by-john-a-mcdermott/) - The girl steps quickly down the store’s back stairwell, her vision blurry with tears, her skin flushed with shame.
- [A Paean to Change by Ed Nugent](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2017/10/a-paean-to-change-by-ed-nugent/) - I live in a dynamic topography. To my east, the cerulean waters of the Gulf of California fill the rent in the Earth’s crust...
- [And So Begins, in Slow Motion, the Care of Him by Sara Michas-Martin](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2018/04/and-so-begins-in-slow-motion-the-care-of-him-by-sara-michas-martin/) - After all that measured breath and surge, the hours of nothing, then something, then more terrible pause....
- [The Mumbi by Amelia Fulbright](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2018/04/the-mumbi-by-amelia-fulbright/) - Carving a narrow vein of lifeblood across the dry earth, the Mumbi is a clear, swift-moving stream....
- [A Personal History of Dogs by Beverly Donofrio](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2018/03/a-personal-history-of-dogs-by-beverly-donofrio/) - When I was two I’d dress our black puppy in my doll’s yellow dress, tuck him into the doll carriage, and sing “Rock-a-bye Baby”...
- [Forgive Me South Dakota by Vivé Griffith](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2018/03/forgive-me-south-dakota-by-vive-griffith/) - I traveled with my grandmother’s journal as my guide. She drove your roads in 1946 when she and three friends set out after the war.
- [Feed by Ksenia Panova](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2018/01/feed-by-ksenia-panova/) - I licked buttercream frosting off my fingers and didn’t have a panic attack.
- [Onslaught by Kami Westhoff](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2018/08/onslaught-by-kami-westhoff/) - My mother lost the tip of her finger to the cutting lip of a drill bit when she was six.
- [Swiss Army Knife by Mindy Haskins Rogers](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2018/07/swiss-army-knife-by-mindy-haskins-rogers/) - Candy red, packed tight with stainless implements, it is a utilitarian masterpiece.
- [Hair(y) and Lovely, Sometimes by Suchita Chadha](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2018/05/hairy-and-lovely-sometimes-by-suchita-chadha/) - ...you suddenly catch a glance of the tuft of hair that’s peeking out from the confines of your armpit...
- [A Day at the Living Hoard by Rebecca Nakaba](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2018/04/a-day-at-the-living-hoard-by-rebecca-nakaba/) - On a damp day, the loudest thing at the zoo is the AT&T Endangered Species carousel.
- [The Lesson by Christopher P. Collins](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2018/04/the-lesson-by-christopher-p-collins/) - ...his snippy “No” validates his teenage indignation. He looks back to his game. “Hold on guys,” he radios into the mic. "It's my dad."
- [Montana by Tara Roberts](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2018/10/montana-by-tara-roberts/) - Sometimes it's a Saturday afternoon and you lie down to take a nap, and after 20 minutes you get up and say you want to drive to Montana....
- [In the Hostel by Lukas Lom](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2018/09/in-the-hostel-by-lukas-lom/) - He advises you to take the lower bunk. It will be easier, he says, when you stagger home drunk...
- [Freckled Boy, Small Wrists by Meg Rodriguez](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2018/09/freckled-boy-small-wrists-by-meg-rodriguez/) - The first refugee that I came to know in Greece was a small boy whose name I could not at first pronounce.
- [Age of Discovery by Matt W. Miller](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2018/09/age-of-discovery-by-matt-w-miller/) - We did nothing to make those kids hate us....
- [Winter from a Second Floor Window by Casey Gentry Quinn](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2018/08/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.
- [Slur by Karim Lakhani](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2019/03/slur-by-karim-lakhani/) - I turn to see three skinheads perched on a wall behind a jumble of forsaken cardboard boxes.
- [The Broken Bird by Elizabeth Hart Bergstrom](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2019/03/the-broken-bird-by-elizabeth-hart-bergstrom/) - In this story, you and I sat beside a shallow pool that shone like a mirror. We saw a young boy chasing a dove that couldn’t fly.
- [Steps to Becoming Fine: As Lived By My Mother by Raksha Vasudevan](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2019/01/steps-to-becoming-fine-as-lived-by-my-mother-by-raksha-vasudevan/) - Get married too young. Forget finishing your Master’s, forget becoming a professor like your father.
- [Comorbidity by Margie Sarsfield](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2019/01/comorbidity-by-margie-sarsfield/) - When I was twelve I asked Jeeves how much grass I needed to eat to make myself sick.
- [Sharp Memories by Roberta Gibson](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2018/12/sharp-memories-by-roberta-gibson/) - You are four. The tops of meadow grasses and wildflowers brush your shoulders as you wander. Mid-stride, you yelp and look down...
- [Floaters by Chris J. Bahnsen](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2018/10/floaters-by-chris-j-bahnsen/) - It was my twelfth summer on earth, and I was drifting along the river on a raft I’d found in the lagoon.
- [12/21/12 by Carly Mastroni](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2019/03/12-21-12-by-carly-mastroni/) - Zoe and I were not afraid when they announced the world was going to end.
- [How to Leave Home by Lorraine Avila](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2019/03/how-to-leave-home-by-lorraine-avila/) - Pretend the section 8 apartment your mother fought to put over your head is no longer enough. You grown, you gotta go.
- [How to Say Goodbye to Your Mother by Damhnait Monaghan](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2019/03/how-to-say-goodbye-to-your-mother-by-damhnait-monaghan/) - Always say ‘Love you Mom,’ before you hang up the phone.
- [Ischemia by Sarah Kilch Gaffney](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2019/03/ischemia-by-sarah-kilch-gaffney/) - By all physiological accounts, my heart is fine, but there will always be evidence of where the blood flow was cut off for too long.
- [How to Sleep in an Airport by Jenny O’Connell](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2019/05/how-to-sleep-in-an-airport-by-jenny-oconnell/) - If you have a sleeping bag, you are lucky. If you don’t, make one out of a scarf and a pair of shorts...
- [What Happened to the Dishes in the Divorce by Ann Vallee](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2019/05/what-happened-to-the-dishes-in-the-divorce-by-ann-vallee/) - ...there were dishes sorted and stacked into piles: those I would keep, and those I would not.
- [Brothers by Sasha Watson](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2019/05/brothers-by-sasha-watson/) - “Oh, the boys, forget it. The boys loved their drink. I don’t know when that started.”
- [Night Watchman by Melinda Brasher](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2019/05/night-watchman-by-melinda-brasher/) - He rode his bicycle through the dark and quiet streets armed with a whistle.
- [Art and the Dying Time by Lee Reilly](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2019/03/art-and-the-dying-time-by-lee-reilly/) - We are stuck on the Magritte. There’s a background. The tree is in front of the background and much of the horse is in front of the tree...
- [Things I Might Say to Spider-Man if He Ever Rescues Me from a Mugger by Sara Solberg](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2019/07/things-i-might-say-to-spider-man-if-he-ever-rescues-me-from-a-mugger-by-sara-solberg/) - This isn’t at all how I expected my trip to New York to go...
- [Mexican Blue by Judith Padow](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2019/07/mexican-blue-by-judith-padow/) - In a dusty village outside Mexico City, the sun blistering hot, I fell doggedly in love with a pale blue ceramic dinner dish
- [Light Therapy by Helen Collins Sitler](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2019/07/light-therapy-by-helen-collins-sitler/) - During the first summer of widowhood, I took refuge at the back of the house, in the prism of flowers that bloomed up the hillside...
- [Lost in Time by Jenna Dorian](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2019/07/lost-in-time-by-jenna-dorian/) - My mother sat behind me in a chair, probably wearing her purple jacket and probably covered with a blanket, but I can't quite remember. And then I heard her. "Where is little Jenna?"
- [Northbound by Wendy Fontaine](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2019/05/northbound-by-wendy-fontaine/) - Follow the three-lane highway through the southern part of the state. Be patient when it narrows to just two.
- [On Dogs and Dictators by Joanna Greenberg](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2019/09/on-dogs-and-dictators-by-joanna-greenberg/) - My mother frequently told me she wasn’t sure if she loved me, but she sure did love her schnauzers.
- [K is for Keep Swinging - Violet Defiant Livingston](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2019/09/k-is-for-keep-swinging-violet-defiant-livingston/) - No one can reach me up here, where the air blows my ponytail back. My mind calms, remembering the familiar song of swinging.
- [Embers by Kandi Maxwell](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2019/09/embers-by-kandi-maxwell/) - It’s been three months since the Camp Fire in Paradise, California...
- [Optimism by Paul Crenshaw](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2019/07/optimism-by-paul-crenshaw/) - This morning I wanted to buy a book about space travel, but the cold outside depressed me.
- [Smoke by Mandie Caroll](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2019/09/smoke-by-mandie-caroll/) - I don’t like football, but I want my dad to like me, so I stay. I am six.
- [Welcome to the College of Parenting by Jennie Badger](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2019/09/welcome-to-the-college-of-parenting-by-jennie-badger/) - Dear New Parents: Congratulations on the birth of your precious daughter!
- [The Elusive Element by Jean Coco](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2019/09/the-elusive-element-by-jean-coco/) - I wanted what my older brothers got after the dentist filled their cavities: mercury.
- [The Die-Off by Marysa LaRowe](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2019/09/the-die-off-by-marysa-larowe/) - Lake Michigan is not the same as the ocean—no crashing waves, no salt wind, no tidal pools...
- [The Contender by Peter E. Murphy](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2019/09/the-contender-by-peter-e-murphy/) - Wasn’t it young Johnny Malloy who... said that Father Smith was queer?
- [How to Respond to a Friend’s Bad News by Liz Charlotte Grant](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2020/01/how-to-respond-to-a-friends-bad-news-by-liz-charlotte-grant/) - When I casually mention that a cloud has appeared in my vision, do not call me a hypochondriac...
- [Nice Day for It by Kristin Griffin](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2020/01/nice-day-for-it-by-kristin-griffin/) - There’d be an alert on my weather app—severe thunderstorm watch, flash flood warning, excessive heat until 8 p.m.
- [Twilight by Cristina Flores](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2019/12/twilight-by-cristina-flores/) - It was your idea. When we had already done all there was to do in a summer.
- [The Comfort of Despair by Laura Young](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2019/12/the-comfort-of-despair-by-laura-young/) - The first time I saw Bill after his boy went, we were in the check-out line.
- [Immortal Acts by Paul Van Dyke](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2019/09/immortal-acts-by-paul-van-dyke/) - I believe in the moon landing. That while the rest of the world gazed into the sable night, spacemen bounded untethered of planetary gravity.
- [Submerged by Elaine van der Geld](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2020/01/submerged-by-elaine-van-der-geld/) - Four years after boys from my class held me underwater and wormed their fingers inside my swimsuit...
- [Forever by Harmony Hazard](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2020/01/forever-by-harmony-hazard/) - The baby shower is swarming with children. I am one of only two women here without babies.
- [How Was Your Trip? by Rachel Rueckert](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2020/01/how-was-your-trip-by-rachel-rueckert/) - This time, I want to say I missed my flight and got locked out of the sketchy hostel in Bogotá...
- [Potato by Patrick McNeil](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2020/01/potato-by-patrick-mcneil/) - Once our father finally came out, six years after the divorce and fifty-something years old, she was anxious to rebuild a life for herself...
- [Netflix by Rebecca Merrill](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2020/01/netflix-by-rebecca-merrill/) - You know I’ve been watching a lot of Murder, She Wrote, but you don’t know that it’s the show I turn to when I’m lonely.
- [Vocabulary by Leta Rebecca Cunningham](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2020/03/vocabulary-by-leta-rebecca-cunningham/) - Let me try to say it out loud. Roll the phrase around in my mouth. Taste the words and let them melt under my tongue.
- [Blue As In by Matthew Morris](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2020/03/blue-as-in-by-matthew-morris/) - One of the guards calls out, Who you got? and his teammate says, Skinny nigga. He means me.
- [Comfort by Sarah Barnett](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2020/03/comfort-by-sarah-barnett/) - Judy takes comfort in the feathers her dead husband leaves for her to find.
- [Patience by Rich Furman](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2020/03/patience-by-rich-furman/) - My lover is from Ulleungdo, Korea, an isolated island of craggy rocks and squid fisherman and a population of just over ten thousand people.
- [Double Consciousness by Herb Harris](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2020/01/double-consciousness-by-herb-harris/) - 23andMe reports that 70% of my genome is of European origin, and 30% is of African origin.
- [Shorthand by Donna M. Magnotta](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2020/05/shorthand-by-donna-m-magnotta/) - When I was ten years old, I came across a note written in some kind of secret code.
- [The Simplest Recipe Jess Flarity](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2020/05/the-simplest-recipe-jess-flarity/) - Try not to cry into the batter or the cookies will be too salty.
- [My Husband Got a Bad Haircut by Jillian Pretzel](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2020/05/my-husband-got-a-bad-haircut-by-jillian-pretzel/) - “Why don’t I cut your hair next time?” I asked.
- [Lost by Betsy Johnson](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2020/03/lost-by-betsy-johnson/) - when it came time to go home my grandfather couldn’t find the car or anything familiar, only identical trees standing straight in an evergreen platoon
- [Persuasion by Ona Gritz](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2020/03/persuasion-by-ona-gritz/) - My list of worries also included ... if my clothes were right for the small artsy school I'd chosen that had, miraculously, chosen me too.
- [Denial by Jane Rucker](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2020/03/denial-by-jane-rucker/) - July 31 is my youngest daughter’s 21st birthday. I don’t know where she is.
- [Election Day by Ashley Cowger](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2020/07/election-day-by-ashley-cowger/) - Four years from now, you will ask me what happened to the female presidential candidates.
- [From the Objects of Your Abandonment by Lisa K. Buchanan](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2020/07/from-the-objects-of-your-abandonment-by-lisa-k-buchanan/) - No matter how bad it got between the two of you, your mother could always knit you a sweater.
- [Fill Me With Flowers by Jenna McGuiggan](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2020/07/fill-me-with-flowers-by-jenna-mcguiggan/) - I'm worrying about the planting schedule. Winter was so mild; did the farmers move up their timetable?
- [In My Garden by Megan Verwelst](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2020/05/in-my-garden-by-megan-verwelst/) - In my garden there is the oregano plant they gave you at dialysis. The catnip seeds we planted and forgot about...
- [Fog Effects by Ann Beman](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2020/05/fog-effects-by-ann-beman/) - As I paddle, our canoe glides through the water. I feel rather than see this motion, because a thick morning fog envelops us...
- [Tiny Twin Step-Mother by K. G. Wright](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2020/05/tiny-twin-step-mother-by-k-g-wright/) - He’s been married before, my ex; now he’s marrying again. I learn her name from my 8-year-old son...
- [To the Miami University Payroll Lady by Frenci Nguyen](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2020/07/to-the-miami-university-payroll-lady-by-frenci-nguyen/) - You might not remember me, but I’m the dark-haired, Texas-born, Asian-American graduate student who visited the Payroll Office the other day...
- [Inside My Mother's Mouth by AM Roselli](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2020/07/inside-my-mothers-mouth-by-am-roselli/) - Last night the stars fell down and landed on my mother's fingertip, specifically her right index finger where her dream occurred.
- [In Transit by Erica Plouffe Lazure](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2020/07/in-transit-by-erica-plouffe-lazure/) - Here at the St. Thomas airport in mid-March, we feel the urgency of the transition, the awareness of how we position our bodies...
- [Congestion by Michael Cuglietta](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2020/09/congestion-by-michael-cuglietta/) - He called the nitroglycerin tablets his “lifesavers,"... He kept them, always, within reach.
- [Gui Hua by Erica Cao](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2020/09/gui-hua-by-erica-cao/) - Ten seasons of gui hua have passed since I last walked with Uncle.
- [All the Life That I've Known by Will McMillan](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2020/09/all-the-life-that-ive-known-by-will-mcmillan/) - The shower in my motel room heats quickly, so I don’t have to be wet, cold and naked for long.
- [Foresight by Gwen Niekamp](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2020/09/foresight-by-gwen-niekamp/) - Watch closely as I walk the three blocks up to Horton’s Hardware by myself while my parents are at work.
- [Earth Is the Answer by Daniel K Miller](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2020/09/earth-is-the-answer-by-daniel-k-miller/) - “Should I mark ‘Earth’ for ‘Which planet in our solar system can support life?’” the boy asks.
- [How to be a Writer in Residence by Brad Wetherell](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2020/09/how-to-be-a-writer-in-residence-by-brad-wetherell/) - The only other adults you’ll see most days will be the two dorm parents—both named Chuck.
- [I’ll Be Seeing You: A Black Woman Travels in 2017 by DW McKinney](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2020/11/ill-be-seeing-you-a-black-woman-travels-in-2017-by-dw-mckinney/) - Follow the best travel route for your Black skin. A route that passes through major cities and thoroughfares.
- [Currency by Jessica Ripka](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2021/01/currency-by-jessica-ripka/) - My dad’s wallet is empty except for the ten dollars I tuck inside when he’s not looking.
- [Cloud Hands by Vivian Lee Croft](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2021/01/cloud-hands-by-vivian-lee-croft/) - She begins to count. Rhythmically. Softly. “One, two, three,” until she reaches thirty or so.
- [The Gift of Lilies by Sayuri Ayers](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2021/01/the-gift-of-lilies-by-sayuri-ayers/) - As he circled the bright fields, I imagine him whispering the name he gave me: Little Lily.
- [Literary No Body by Stephany Wilkes](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2021/01/literary-no-body-by-stephany-wilkes/) - “You nod like you know what I’m talking about,” our workshop teacher, the famous novelist, says
- [Indian Clinic by Josh Parish](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2021/01/indian-clinic-by-josh-parish/) - Here in this lobby, waiting for my name, I’m aware of my pale face.
- [Mysteries by Lish Troha](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2021/03/mysteries-by-lish-troha/) - I know my father died on his bathroom floor. I know this because his landlady said that’s where she found him.
- [The Last Pictures by Bethany Kaylor](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2021/03/the-last-pictures-by-bethany-kaylor/) - I used to keep letters from my girlfriends in a shoebox beneath my bed. “Ex-girlfriends,” my roommate reminded me
- [Salisbury Steak Day by Michelle Strausbaugh](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2021/03/salisbury-steak-day-by-michelle-strausbaugh/) - Surprised to see a woman in her early thirties in pigtails and pajamas. They hand me a warm Styrofoam clamshell.
- [October by Anya Liftig](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2021/03/october-by-anya-liftig/) - “How much is it going to cost me to get rid of you?” I’m watching his mouth as he says this, as my beloved husband says this...
- [Salsa Night by Francisco Martínezcuello](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2021/03/salsa-night-by-francisco-martinezcuello/) - There is no rank, relationship status, or labels on the dance floor.
- [Dolphin by Hailey Rose Hanks](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2021/05/dolphin-by-hailey-rose-hanks/) - My wife tells me I’m a dolphin cutting through the water. Sleek. Smooth. Small.
- [Côtes du Rhône Rosé Xavier Vignon 2019 by Chapin Cimino](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2021/05/cotes-du-rhone-rose-xavier-vignon-2019-by-chapin-cimino/) - We haven’t seen these friends in a while and no-one knows how to socialize.
- [Shadows by Abigail Rose](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2021/05/shadows-by-abigail-rose/) - Before our parents’ broken marriage separated you and me and I no longer called you my step-brother...
- [A Measure of Men by SJ Sindu](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2021/05/a-measure-of-men-by-sj-sindu/) - The first time I dressed in men's clothes, I looked in the mirror and cried.
- [Back Seat by Brian Benson](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2021/05/back-seat-by-brian-benson/) - I sit, quiet, clutching my bony elbows, watching Jason’s dark arm hairs dance in the wind...
- [My Grandma Picks Fights with the Contestants on The Price is Right by K.B. Carle](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2021/05/my-grandma-picks-fights-with-the-contestants-on-the-price-is-right-by-k-b-carle/) - She wears Lederhosen though she doesn’t know it’s Lederhosen.
- [11,000 people lying facedown on the Burnside Bridge by Benjamin McPherson Ficklin](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2021/07/11000-people-lying-facedown-on-the-burnside-bridge-by-benjamin-mcpherson-ficklin/) - ...there’s 11,000 people lying facedown on the Burnside Bridge, now we’ve halted Portland’s traffic...
- [Sharp by Vanessa Chan](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2021/07/sharp-by-vanessa-chan/) - The thing about chronic back pain isn’t just that pain, which of course is sharp...
- [Small by Stephanie Cuepo Wobby](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2021/07/small-by-stephanie-cuepo-wobby/) - Once, on the way home from a party, we argued about microaggressions...
- [Psycho Bitches by Anna B. Moore](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2021/07/psycho-bitches-by-anna-b-moore/) - It is Friday night, and you are a fresh person, a new underage drinker...
- [April 28, 1994 by Jess Payne](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2021/09/april-28-1994-by-jess-payne/) - Mom said we had to come to the shelter because she and Dad fought too much....
- [I Don't Know How to Tell You by Hillary Wentworth](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2021/09/i-dont-know-how-to-tell-you-by-hillary-wentworth/) - ...How one left, and they all followed, until the blue of the sky was blotted with black....
- [Dave Thomas by Morgan Eklund](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2021/09/dave-thomas-by-morgan-eklund/) - It’s hard to reconcile that Dave Thomas had three daughters but only named his restaurant after one.
- [The Flight by Nita Noveno](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2021/09/the-flight-by-nita-noveno/) - As the plane reaches cruising altitude, we listen to the pilot’s brief welcome.
- [After by Sophie Scolnik-Brower](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2021/09/after-by-sophie-scolnik-brower/) - After Sam dies, pieces of him embed themselves in every man I date.
- [What I Took After She Died in the Memory Care Wing by Irene Fick](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2021/11/what-i-took-after-she-died-in-the-memory-care-wing-by-irene-fick/) - On the floor of Aunt Rosalie’s closet: in a plastic trash bag, the new slacks and matching shirts, still with tags...
- [German Lessons by Sue Mell](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2021/11/german-lessons-by-sue-mell/) - When I was 10, my mom began teaching me and my older brother German.
- [Before the Horses Stopped Running by Rebecca Snow](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2021/11/before-the-horses-stopped-running-by-rebecca-snow/) - Four moons in the night sky. This is planet Earth.
- [Rewind by Jennifer Fliss](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2021/11/rewind-by-jennifer-fliss/) - Tell me about a time when you felt safe, she says to me.
- [Room for Troubled Dogs by Alison Miller](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2021/11/room-for-troubled-dogs-by-alison-miller/) - The dog shows up on my doorstep one February night.
- [Patches by Farah Habib](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/01/patches-by-farah-habib-2/) - I’m hopeful that my son’s tiny fingers, so plump and soft, will one day grow to be strong and sturdy.
- [These Should Be the Real Marriage Vows by Tatyana M. Sussex](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/01/these-should-be-the-real-marriage-vows-by-tatyana-m-sussex/) - I do solemnly swear, that I will give you your afternoon nap.
- [Betrayed by Ali Kojak](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/01/betrayed-by-ali-kojak/) - The first time I had a word for what happened to me, I was squatting over a toilet, trying not to touch the seat.
- [Foxfire by Shell St. James](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/01/foxfire-by-shell-st-james/) - We were caught in the storm, crossing Aziscohos Lake in your beat-up aluminum canoe
- [How I Make a Cheese Omelet by Michelle DeLiso](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/01/how-i-make-a-cheese-omelet-by-michelle-deliso/) - At 7:13 a.m., crack two eggs into a bowl. Their shells shatter silently...
- [Asterisks by Karen Winn](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/01/asterisks-by-karen-winn/) - My father was on hospice for a short time, just a couple of days.
- [Screwdriver by Deb Fenwick](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/05/screwdriver-by-deb-fenwick/) - My father tells me to come to the hardware store with him because my brother’s too busy playing with dolls.
- [This is Not Baby Weight by Adina Ferguson](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/05/this-is-not-baby-weight-by-adina-ferguson/) - I often catch myself doing that thing pregnant women do as their hands rest just below the tip of their bosoms....
- [Under Bolton Mountain by Mikaela Osler](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/03/under-bolton-mountain-by-mikaela-osler/) - It’s five o’clock in the morning and you are on your way to work at the country store.
- [The End by Laura Stanfill](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/03/the-end-by-laura-stanfill/) - Your mother meant it, she really meant it, when she told you to stop whining.
- [A Knot in Constellation by Sophie Ezzell](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/03/a-knot-in-constellation-by-sophie-ezzell/) - You thought you’d be more prepared for the email. You knew it was coming.
- [Starving by Danielle Joffe](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/03/starving-by-danielle-joffe/) - I stand before an array of gurgling and spitting pots loaded with this summer’s bounty...
- [Shades of Orange by Celeste Hankins](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/03/shades-of-orange-by-celeste-hankins/) - According to the internet, orange increases oxygen supply to the brain to produce an invigorating effect and stimulate mental activity.
- [De-escalation by Lauren Woods](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/07/de-escalation-by-lauren-woods/) - My son expertly held a tube of wrapping paper over one shoulder... pulled with his trigger finger, and aimed it toward me.
- [Bathymetry by Sally Jonson](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/07/bathymetry-by-sally-jonson/) - It isn’t that your memory is full of holes, it’s a hole where your memory should be.
- [What I Wrote Was Congratulations What I Meant to Say Was by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/07/what-i-wrote-was-congratulations-what-i-meant-to-say-was-by-rachel-lincoln-sarnoff/) - We never thought we would stay in this city, did we? But I’m still turning the same corners....
- [Bells by Ashley Bethard](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/05/bells-by-ashley-bethard/) - I sat alone on a chair in a soundproof booth.... Heavy headphones were placed on my head.
- [Swallow by Candice May](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/05/swallow-by-candice-may/) - Six years old, I’m having a standoff with the small, polished red Advil my father gives me....
- [Your Wife Knows You Are Here by Helene Kiser](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/05/your-wife-knows-you-are-here-by-helene-kiser/) - I don’t know this yet, but I will remember this moment always. Our heads pressed together, M’s face in my hands, breathing each other’s breath...
- [Why is a Door a Plate? by Aiysha Jahan](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/09/why-is-a-door-a-plate-by-aiysha-jahan/) - When would a door ever be a plate? It is when I look across the road and say: Hey, they’ve dumped two plates outside. - Aiysha Jahan in "Why is a Door a Plate?"
- [Baptism by Sarah M. Clifford](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/09/baptism-by-sarah-m-clifford/) - They show me how to do it on carpet first. Bare feet and basketball shorts. Plug your nose and dad will dip you. See? -- from "Baptism" by Sarah M. Clifford
- [Home is a Feeling by Sara Streeter](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/09/home-is-a-feeling-by-sara-streeter/) - A crooked but sturdy wood fence, gray with age, guides my daughter and me along until we emerge from the path... -- from "Home is a Feeling" by Sara Streeter
- [Everything Goes by Susan Morehouse](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/09/everything-goes-by-susan-morehouse/) - She forgets things. Where her jewelry is. Where home is. Where she is. Christmas came and went, but Mom thought it was May. ("Everything Goes," Susan Morehouse)
- [We Had No Woman by Ronit Plank](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/07/we-had-no-woman-by-ronit-plank/) - We were smoking Dad’s cigarette butts (okay just me) before he got home from work.... New flash CNF from Ronit Plank.
- [Origin Myths by Susan V. Meyers](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/07/origin-myths-by-susan-v-meyers/) - On the day when I should have been inseminated, but am not, I find myself instead making up my mother’s face...
- [Another Day in Sales by Vincent Antonio Rendoni](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/01/another-day-in-sales-by-vincent-antonio-rendoni/) - "My father comes in late from work, real late, humming the bars of Black Magic Woman.." from the essay "Another Day in Sales" by Vincent Antonio Rendoni.
- [Blind Spots I Have (Not) Known by Judith Katzman](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/01/blind-spots-i-have-not-known-by-judith-katzman/) - "The drinking fountain on the left is a humming machine. The one on the right looks like a bathroom sink..." -- Judith Katzman in "Blind Spots I Have (Not) Known
- [Kamikazes (for Tina) by Nicolas Poynter](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/11/kamikazes-for-tina-by-nicolas-poynter/) - "mostly I don’t know where I’m going in my dreams. I’m just moving, walking or hurtling through the nothingness of space." - from "Kamikazes" by Nicolas Poynter
- [on certainty by Shannon Ratliff](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/11/on-certainty-by-shannon-ratliff/) - "After the river rose, a kid ran screaming into town..." -- from the flash essay "on certainty" by Shannon Ratliff
- [On a New Life by Michael Levan](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/11/on-a-new-life-by-michael-levan/) - ...It’s not his fault or hers, not the three-year-old boy’s... - from "On a New Life," flash creative nonfiction by Michael Levan
- [Promise by Carol D. Marsh](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/11/promise-by-carol-d-marsh/) - I must have heard her screams, though I don’t remember. I’m flinging open the hallway door, racing to her mother’s room. - from "Promise" by Carol D. Marsh
- [Tutored by Rick Brown](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/09/tutored-by-rick-brown/) - When we veer from the lighted street to cut through an alleyway, I just know something is about to happen...-- from "Tutored." a flash essay by Rick Brown
- [6 Things You Didn't Know About Martha's Vineyard by Karissa Venne](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/03/6-things-you-didn-t-know-about-martha-s-vineyard-by-karissa-venne/) - The summer I turned seventeen, I was helicoptered off Martha’s Vineyard to Boston Children’s Hospital due to a Crohn’s flare. -- Karissa Venne
- [You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover by Jason Morales](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/03/you-can-t-judge-a-book-by-its-cover-by-jason-morales/) - "I remembered seeing men in white paint over the black graffiti...It once read “R.I.P. Sleepy.” -- from a flashy essay by Jason Morales
- [What a Widow Needs to Know by Lisa Sparrell](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/03/what-a-widow-needs-to-know/) - The doctor handed me brochures from two local hospice providers and said, “Pick one. Call tonight." -- from "What a Widow Needs to Know" by Lisa Sparrell
- [How to Cook for Your Mother by Marian Rogers](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/03/how-to-cook-for-your-mother-by-marian-rogers/) - "When you begin to prepare dinner, invite your mother to sit at the kitchen table and keep you company..." from "How to Cook for Your Mother" by Marian Rogers.
- [The Cake by Michaela Evanow](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/01/the-cake-by-michaela-evanow/) - "I want to make an extravagant birthday cake that I won’t eat." -- from The Cake, an essay on grief by Michaela Evanow
- [It's Not Hospice by Jeffrey G. Moss](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/07/it-s-not-hospice-by-jeffrey-g-moss/) - The cacophony is not so distracting that I miss the social worker’s pitch for end of life palliative care... -- from "It's Not Hospice" by Jeffrey G. Moss
- [Bird Bouquet by Syrah Linsley](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/05/bird-bouquet-by-syrah-linsley/) - "You remember hearing how your ancestry traces back to mountain dwellers in Japan. When we ask your father...he blinks, nothing to say..." -- Syrah Linsley
- [A Bed as a Memory, a Nap as Foreshadowing by Jamie Murnane](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/05/a-bed-as-a-memory-a-nap-as-foreshadowing-by-jamie-murnane/) - "In my memory, the sheets are crisp and white, but that doesn’t make sense to me now." -- Jamie Murnane in "A Bed as a Memory, a Nap as Foreshadowing."
- [Skin by Doug Smith](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/05/skin-by-doug-smith/) - "Your father died of melanoma when he was thirty-nine. Now forty, you have moles all over your body..." from the essay "Skin" by Doug Smith.
- [The Source by J B Allen](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/05/the-source-by-j-b-allen/) - "At fifty-nine, prostate cancer migrated to the brain, Ray Allen fell asleep..." -- from the flash CNF piece, "The Source" by J B Allen.
- [Catching the Bus by Laila Miller](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/05/catching-the-bus-by-laila-miller/) - "My brother took the school bus once. It was after he’d quit school, on a Monday in May when his Galaxie 500 wouldn’t start." Laila Miller in "Catching the Bus"
- [We Live Here Now by Sarah Marty-Schlipf](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/07/we-live-here-now-by-sarah-marty-schlipf/) - I am kneeling between rows of kale and carrots when a thin cry pierces the quiet of my garden. -- Sarah Marty-Schlipf in "We Live Here Now."
- [List of Interventions: Age 4-6 by Heidi Stuber](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/07/list-of-interventions-age-4-6-by-heidi-stuber/) - Homeopathic mini white spheres that shoot out of a small blue vial like pellets. Ashwagandha. L-Theanine. Magnesium. Methylated B-Vitamins. -- Heidi Stuber
- [Why Deny the Obvious Child by Camille U. Adams](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/07/why-deny-the-obvious-child-by-camille-u-adams/) - In Trinidad, when my mother tells the story of why how she finally left her two-year-old baby, she regales, she relates, she details... -- Camille U. Adams
- [How Does the Heart Function? by Paula Kupchak Hall](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/07/how-does-the-heart-function-by-paula-kupchak-hall/) - The room is filled with rows of tables, each with a brightly decorated cardboard trifold backdrop on top. -from "How Does the Heart Function?" by Paula Kupchak Hall
- [INTERVIEW: L.L. Kirchner, Author of Blissful Thinking](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/09/interview-ll-kirchner-author-of-blissful-thinking/) - We speak to award-winning screenwriter and best-selling memoirist L.L. Kirchner about Blissful Thinking: A Memoir of Overcoming the Wellness Revolution.
- [INTERVIEW: Liz Kinchen, Author of Light in Bandaged Places](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/09/interview-liz-kinchen-author-of-light-in-bandaged-places/) - We interview author Liz Kinchen about her coming-of-age memoir, Light in Bandaged Places: Healing in the Wake of Young Betrayal..
- [INTERVIEW: Alice Carrière, Author of Everything/Nothing/Someone: A Memoir](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/09/interview-alice-carriere-author-of-everything-nothing-someone-a-memoir/) - Leslie Lindsay and Alice Carrière (Everything/Nothing/Someone) talk about intergenerational trauma, art and architecture, and the mangled psychiatric system.
- [REVIEW: Places We Left Behind: a memoir in miniature by Jennifer Lang](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/09/review-places-we-left-behind-a-memoir-in-miniature-by-jennifer-lang/) - Places We Left Behind, a memoir-in-miniature by Jennifer Lang, explores storytelling outside of traditional forms.
- [REVIEW: The Male Gazed by Manuel Betancourt](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/09/review-the-male-gazed-by-manuel-betancourt/) - The Male Gazed, a memoir in essays by Manuel Betancourt , examines how media and celebrities impact perceptions of same-sex desires and identity.
- [REVIEW: Junk Shop Window: Essays on Myth, Life, and Literature by James J. Patterson](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/09/review-junk-shop-window-essays-on-myth-life-and-literature-by-james-j-patterson/) - Junk Shop Window by James J. Patterson is an essay collection marked by lyrical language, honesty, and humor, invites readers to remain open to experience.
- [WRITING LIFE: Riding the Waves by Zina Zeigler](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/09/writing-life-riding-the-waves-by-zina-zeigler/) - Will Ms. Procrastination, Ms. Overwhelm, Ms. Imposter Syndrome or Ms. Muse win? Read more in this month's writing life column by Zina Zeigler.
- [REVIEW: Drawing Breath: Essays on Writing, the Body, and Loss by Gayle Brandeis](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/02/review-drawing-breath-essays-on-writing-the-body-and-loss-by-gayle-brandeis/) - Drawing Breath, a lyrical collection by Gayle Brandies, features essays exploring life’s losses, transformations, and the challenges of being a memoirist.
- [INTERVIEW: Jennifer Lunden, Author of American Breakdown](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/08/interview-jennifer-lunden-author-of-american-breakdown/) - In her genre-blending masterpiece, Lunden shares her journey to understand an illness that left her bedridden beginning at age 21.
- [INTERVIEW: Esther Bergdahl, Independent Fact-Checker](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/08/interview-esther-bergdahl-independent-fact-checker/) - In this interview with Esther Bergdahl, we dive into a topic relevant to most, if not all, creative nonfiction writers: fact-checking.
- [INTERVIEW: Maeve DuVally, Author of Maeve Rising: Coming Out Trans in Corporate America  ](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/08/interview-maeve-duvally-author-of-maeve-rising-coming-out-trans-in-corporate-america/) - In Maeve Rising: Coming Out Trans in Corporate America DuVally pairs her struggles with alcoholism with her trans journey.
- [WRITING LIFE: Winks from the Universe by Linda Maria Steele](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/08/writing-life-winks-from-the-universe-by-linda-maria-steele/) - "Whenever I am unsure about where to go next with my writing, I remember to always look for the signs or even ask the Magic 8 Ball." -- Linda Maria Steele
- [REVIEW: Everything is Perfect: A Memoir by Kate Nason](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/08/review-everything-is-perfect-a-memoir-by-kate-nason/) - A woman’s personal hell with a philandering husband intersects with a national scandal playing out in the media in Everything is Perfect: A Memoir by Kate Nason
- [REVIEW: The Sound of Undoing: A Memoir in Essays by Paige Towers](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/08/review-the-sound-of-undoing-a-memoir-in-essays-by-paige-towers/) - Sound – how it can hurt, heal and evoke memory – is the unifying element in The Sound of Undoing, researched memoir in essays by Paige Towers
- [REVIEW: It's Fun to Be a Person I Don't Know by Chachi D. Hauser](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/08/review-its-fun-to-be-a-person-i-dont-know-by-chachi-d-hauser/) - Searching for personal identity as part of a famous family is the focus of It's Fun to Be a Person I Don't Know, a deeply textured memoir by Chachi D. Hauser.
- [INTERVIEW: Nicole Chung, Author of A Living Remedy](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/07/interview-nicole-chung-author-of-a-living-remedy/) - For there to be love in a story, there also has to be some amount of levity and joy and humor." —Nicole Chung in our July 2023 interview
- [REVIEW: Every Other Weekend: Coming of Age with Two Different Dads by Anthony J. Mohr](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/07/review-every-other-weekend-coming-of-age-with-two-different-dads-by-anthony-j-mohr/) - In his memoir Every Other Weekend, Anthony J. Mohr navigates the love and loyalties of two sets of parents against the backdrop of mid-century Hollywood.
- [REVIEW: You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/07/review-you-could-make-this-place-beautiful-by-maggie-smith/) - Self discovery forms a counterpoint with everyday family interactions in the hopeful memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith.
- [INTERVIEW: M.B.F. Wedge, Author of Knickpoint: A Memoir](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/07/interview-m-b-f-wedge-author-of-knickpoint-a-memoir/) - I...prefer to zoom text on a digital device, but Knickpoint (a collage memoir) by M.B.F. Wedge had physical presence and demanded I find my reading glasses.
- [Picardo Pilgrimage by Adrienne Ross Scanlan](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/07/picardo-pilgrimage-by-adrienne-ross-scanlan/) - It’s been two years since I walked during Yom Kippur...fasting and light-headed and hungry amid temptations of raspberries....- Adrienne Ross Scanlan
- [I'm OK by Harrison Reed](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/07/i-m-ok-by-harrison-reed/) - When the world shut down, we made Old Fashioneds. -- from the essay "I'm OK" by Harrison Reed.
- [Seder Night by Sabena Stark](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/07/seder-night-by-sabena-stark/) - One of us was going to get smacked. My sister Susie and I knew it and were kicking each other under the table to keep from laughing... - "Seder Night" by Sabena Stark
- [My Mother's Bath Time Story by Yuko Iida Frost](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/07/my-mother-s-bath-time-story-by-yuko-iida-frost/) - My mother and father packed soap and towels into their wooden buckets, we slipped on our winter jackets, and the three of us walked to the nearest bath house. -- Yuko Iida Frost
- [WRITING LIFE “Navel Gazing” for Good by Andrea Askowitz](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/07/writing-life-navel-gazing-for-good-by-andrea-askowitz/) - "Maybe I haven’t been wasting my time all these years." - Andrea Askowitz is her writing life column "'Navel Gazing' for Good"
- [INTERVIEW: John West, Author of Lessons and Carols: A Meditation on Recovery](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/05/interview-with-john-west-author-of-lessons-and-carols-a-meditation-on-recovery/) - The borderline between prose and poetry is one of those fog-shrouded literary minefields where the wary explorer gets blown to bits before ever seeing anything clearly.
- [INTERVIEW: Kelly McMasters, Author of The Leaving Season: A Memoir in Essays](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/06/interview-kelly-mcmasters-author-of-the-leaving-season-a-memoir-in-essays/) - We speak with Kelly McMasters, author of The Leaving Season: A Memoir in Essays.
- [REVIEW: Fat Off, Fat On: A Big Bitch Manifesto by Clarkisha Kent](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/06/review-fat-off-fat-on-a-big-bitch-manifesto-by-clarkisha-kent/) - Fat Off, Fat On: A Big Bitch Manifesto, a memoir by Clarkisha Kent, is conversational, snarky, sarcastic, casual, funny, and raw
- [INTERVIEW: Joshua James Amberson, Author of Staring Contest: Essays About Eyes](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/06/interview-joshua-james-amberson-author-of-staring-contest-essays-about-eyes/) - Joshua James Amberson was diagnosed with a genetic condition that can lead to sightlessness, the basis for his new essay collection, Staring Contest: Essays About Eyes.
- [INTERVIEW: Qin Sun Stubis, Author of Once Our Lives](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/06/interview-qin-sun-stubis-author-of-once-our-lives/) - Once Our Lives by Qin Sun Stubis is a multi-generational memoir of growing up in China in the 1950s and 1960s.
- [INTERVIEW: Vicki DeArmon, Publisher at Sibylline Press for Women Authors Over Fifty](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/06/interview-vicki-dearmon-publisher-at-sibylline-press-for-women-authors-over-fifty/) - An interview with publisher Vicki DeArmon covers the submission and publishing process at Sibylline Press for Women Authors Over Fifty,
- [INTERVIEW: Judith Sara Gelt, Author of Reckless Steps Toward Sanity](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/06/interview-judith-sara-gelt-author-of-reckless-steps-toward-sanity/) - We interview Sara Judith Gelt about Reckless Steps Toward Sanity, a memoir about risk taking, major depressive disorder, and growing up Jewish in Denver.
- [REVIEW: If This Were Fiction: A Love Story In Essays by Jill Christman](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/06/review-if-this-were-fiction-a-love-story-in-essays-by-jill-christman/) - Jill Christman has something to say, and her declarations probably echo those of so many othersFrom our review of If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays
- [REVIEW: Without Saints: Essays by Christopher Locke](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/06/review-without-saints-essays-by-christopher-locke/) - "I could feel the first pages viscerally, the looming evil of a destructive faith present in the author’s youth," from our review of Without Saints: Essays by Christopher Locke
- [Menopause in Young Adulthood 101 by Louise Bell](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/05/menopause-in-young-adulthood-101-by-louise-bell/) - "Sometimes referred to as an 'extreme version of PMS,' emerging research indicates PMDD is due to a cellular genetic malfunction in the brain." - Louise Bell
- [Contributor & Alumni Updates: Spring 2023](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/05/contributor-alumni-updates-spring-2023/) - We’re always pleased to share updates from our family of contributor-alumni and HippoCamp presenters.
- [Contributor/Alumni Updates: Early 2021](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2021/03/contributor-alumni-updates-early-2021/) - We’re always pleased to share updates from our family of contributor-alumni and HippoCamp presenters.
- [REVIEW: The In-Betweens by Davon Loeb](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/05/review-the-in-betweens-by-davon-loeb/) - "[The In-Betweens by Davon Loeb] is a beautiful and at times devastating account of the author’s coming of age as a mixed-race person." - reviewer Anri Wheeler
- [REVIEW: Growth: A Mother, Her Son, and the Brain Tumor They Survived by Karen DeBonis](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/05/review-growth-a-mother-her-son-and-the-brain-tumor-they-survived-by-karen-debonis/) - "The memoir [Growth by Karen DeBonis] chronicles a mother’s transformational change as she advocates for her child through chronic illness.
- [INTERVIEW: Morgan Baker, Author of Emptying the Nest: Getting Better at Goodbyes](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/05/interview-morgan-baker-author-of-emptying-the-nest-getting-better-at-goodbyes/) - "Finding your voice comes with self-confidence and experience. I don't think this is what I sounded like a long time ago." -- Morgan Baker
- [WRITING LIFE: 9 Steps to Reach Your Dream Pubs by Tamara MC](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/05/writing-life-9-steps-to-reach-your-dream-pubs-by-tamara-mc/) - "Getting into your dream pub takes patience, hard work and tenacity. Here are 9 steps I recommend." -- Tamara MC in her Writing Life column
- [INTERVIEW: Melissa L. Sevigny, Author of Brave the Wild River](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/05/interview-with-melissa-l-sevigny-author-of-brave-the-wild-river/) - Initially, I thought, “Oh, I'll write a short little article and be done with this and move on.” -- Brave the Wild River author Melissa L. Sevingny
- [INTERVIEW: Cassandra Jackson, Author of The Wreck & Jasmine Brown, Author of Twice As Hard](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/05/interview-cassandra-jackson-author-of-the-wreck-jasmine-brown-author-of-twice-as-hard/) - Leslie Lindsay interviews authors Cassandra Jackson (The Wreck) and Jasmine Brown (Twice As Hard).
- [REVIEW: Mailer at 100: Conversations, Correlations, Confrontations by Robert J. Beigiebing](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/05/review-mailer-at-100-conversations-correlations-confrontations-by-robert-j-beigiebing/) - Written to mark Norman Mailer ’s centenary, the book offers insights into the literary icon's craft, inventively and entertainingly told.
- [REVIEW: Small Off Things: Meditations from an Anxious Mind by Suzanne Farrell Smith](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/05/review-small-off-things-meditations-from-an-anxious-mind-by-suzanne-farrell-smith/) - "In lyrical prose, the collection of brief essays [Small Off Things by Suzanne Farrell Smith] examines subjects both commonplace and profound." -Melissa Olivera
- [In Observance of My Hometown by Danielle Shorr](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/05/in-observance-of-my-hometown-by-danielle-shorr/) - "I woke up...to a barrage of text messages from friends.....It was 10 a.m., and I was contextless." -- Danielle Shorr in "In Observance of My Hometown
- [The Letters You'll Never Read by Romila Santra](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/05/the-letters-you-ll-never-read-by-romila-santra/) - "You are talking—it's not really your fault that to everyone besides Ma, Baba, and me, your sounds don’t hold meaning." Romila Santra in "The Letters You'll Never Read."
- [Samskara by Krishna Chari](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/05/samskara-by-krishna-chari/) - "It is interesting, the thoughts that accompany solitary journeys down long corridors." -- Krishna Chari in the essay"Samskara"
- [Resumé by Melissent Zumwalt](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/05/resume-by-melissent-zumwalt/) - "In an unprecedented maneuver, Dad intercepts my weekly phone call with Mom to say: “I’m so proud of you and your promotion, punks." - Melissent Zumwal
- [INTERVIEW: Ronit Plank: Multi-Genre Writer & Podcast Host](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/04/interview-ronit-plank-multi-genre-writer-podcast-host/) - I didn’t understand that nonfiction can be every bit as creative and nuanced. I just find it endlessly fascinating. -- Ronit Plank, on writing memoir
- [CRAFT: Recovering and Reclaiming Memory by Amy White](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/04/craft-recovering-and-reclaiming-memory-by-amy-white/) - Like many authors ... of creative nonfiction, I’m both inspired by and often turn to ephemera as “original source material.” -- Amy White in her craft essay
- [REVIEW: Stash: My Life in Hiding by Laura Cathcart Robbins](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/04/review-stash-my-life-in-hiding-by-laura-cathcart-robbins/) - Written with honesty and grit, Stash: My Life in Hiding overturns stereotypes about addiction and recovery. The memoir by Laura Cathcart Robbins is available now.
- [INTERVIEW: Alice Hattrick, Author of Ill Feelings](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/03/interview-alice-hattrick-author-of-ill-feelings/) - Alice Hattrick's memoir Ill Feelings tells the story of how women are often labeled “hysterical” and waved off by the medical profession.
- [INTERVIEW: Brandi Larsen & Daniella Mestyanek on Writing UNCULTURED](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/04/interview-brandi-larsen-daniella-mestyanek-uncultured/) - Behind the tall, foreboding gates of a commune in Brazil, Daniella Mestyanek Young was raised in the religious cult The Children of God... -- from UNCULTURED
- [INTERVIEW: Ryan Rae Harbuck, Author of When I Grow Up I Want to Be a Chair](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/04/interview-ryan-rae-harbuck-author-of-when-i-grow-up-i-want-to-be-a-chair/) - When I Grow Up I Want to Be a Chair by Ryan Rae Harbuck recounts a paralyzing car accident in her teens to traveling overseas to becoming a mom.
- [WRITING LIFE: Gambling Analogies Fuel My Writing Practice by Carol Milberger](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/04/writing-life-gambling-analogies-fuel-my-writing-practice-by-carol-milberger/) - "As a writer I don’t know when or specifically how I’ll be rewarded, but I know the rewards will come." -- Carol Milberger in her Writing Life column
- [REVIEW: Sinkhole: A Legacy of Suicide by Juliet Patterson](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/04/review-sinkhole-a-legacy-of-suicide-by-juliet-patterson/) - Sinkhole by Juliet Patterson examines a generational legacy of suicide, its impact on those left behind and society’s attitudes about those who end their lives.
- [REVIEW: The Wandering Womb: Essays in Search of Home by S.L. Wisenberg](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/04/review-the-wandering-womb-essays-in-search-of-home-by-s-l-wisenberg/) - S.L. Wisenberg explores identity and what it means to be a woman in an essay collection that is funny, dark, and heartbreaking. The Wandering Womb is out now.
- [REVIEW: Still Life at Eighty: The Next Interesting Thing by Abigail Thomas](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/04/review-still-life-at-eighty-the-next-interesting-thing-by-abigail-thomas/) - In Still Life at Eighty master memoirist Abigail Thomas mines ordinary life and spins it into prose revealing meaning in the passage of time.
- [Widowmaker by Renee Soasey](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/03/widowmaker-by-renee-soasey/) - "Dave’s heart attack didn’t make me a widow, but it made me a widow in the making" -- from the flash essay "Widowmaker" by Renee Soasey
- [INTERVIEW: Lotte Latham, Author of Dear Mr. Andrews](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/03/interview-lotte-latham-author-of-dear-mr-andrews/) - Dear Mr. Andrews by Lotte Latham is a memoir about sex work and sugar dating, from Guts Publishing, a feisty independent publisher in London.
- [INTERVIEW: Rachel Rueckert, Author of East Winds: A Global Quest to Reckon with Marriage](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/03/interview-rachel-rueckert-author-of-east-winds-a-global-quest-to-reckon-with-marriage/) - East Winds by Rachel Rueckert's is memoir about reconciliation of self while committing to life with a partner within a religion not often understood in America.
- [Let Her Eat Cake by Trish Cantillon](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/03/let-her-eat-cake-by-trish-cantillon/) - "I sat through the whole singing Happy Birthday business with a smile on my face." -- from "Let Her Eat Cake" by Trish Cantillon.
- [CRAFT: Biased Language in CNF: Crafting with a Careful Eye by Jennifer Chong Schneider](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/03/craft-biased-language-in-cnf-crafting-with-a-careful-eye-by-jennifer-chong-schneider/) - A biracial writer, I often struggle with how to write about race: my race, my parents’, their families’... - Jennifer Chong Schneider on biased language in CNF
- [REVIEW: The Memory of All That: A Love Story about Alzheimer’s by Mary MacCracken](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/03/review-the-memory-of-all-that-a-love-story-about-alzheimers-by-mary-maccracken/) - The Memory of All That: A Love Story about Alzheimer’s by Mary MacCracken thoughtfully explores the journey of caring for a spouse with Alzheimer's disease.
- [Lighting the Way by Jonathan Odell](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/03/lighting-the-way-by-jonathan-odell/) - "Nearly 40 years after I escaped Hazlehurst, MS, it turned out there was only one place in the entire world that housed the documents I needed." -Jonathan Odell
- [Checklist for a Sign-Making Party by Ren Cedar Fuller](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/03/checklist-for-a-sign-making-party-by-ren-cedar-fuller/) - "My high schooler turned away, willing to march but not chitchat with me." -- from "Checklist for a Sign-Making Party" by Ren Cedar Fuller.
- [The Twenty-Karat Golden by Rebecca Houghton](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/03/the-twenty-karat-golden-by-rebecca-houghton/) - "What do I get?" John barked. Ever since I filed for divorce, he asked constantly: “What do I get for 8 years of marriage?” Rebecca Houghton, in Twenty-Karat Golden
- [REVIEW: Writing While Parenting by Ben Berman](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/03/review-writing-while-parenting-by-ben-berman/) - Ben Berman explores the challenges of maintaining a writing life while parenting in his aptly name essay collection, Writing While Parenting..
- [REVIEW: Slow Dancing With Fire: A Memoir of Resilience by Brahna Yassky](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/07/review-slow-dancing-with-fire-a-memoir-of-resilience-by-brahna-yassky/) - Former Guerrilla Girl Brahna Yassky’s memoir chronicles reclaiming her life and art after a disfiguring burn.
- [REVIEW: Conversations with Birds by Priyanka Kumar](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/03/review-conversations-with-birds-by-priyanka-kumar/) - Conversations with Birds by Priyanka Kumar offers a reflection on the natural world and examines the experience of birding on the author's life and identity.
- [WRITING LIFE: Ode to My Notebook by Ellen Frank Bayer](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/03/writing-life-ode-to-my-notebook-by-ellen-frank-bayer/) - "There is no comment, no judgment and no frowns, only a blank page with blue lines." -- from Ellen Frank Bayer's Writing Life column
- [REVIEW: Sacred Sendoffs: An Animal Chaplain’s Advice... by Sarah A. Bowen](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/02/review-sacred-sendoffs-an-animal-chaplains-advice-by-sarah-a-bowen/) - Sarah A. Bowen is a champion of the animal world, and [Sacred Sendoffs] is definitely a worthy read for those of us who care deeply about our fellow creatures.
- [INTERVIEW: Tanya Frank, Author of Zig-Zag Boy:  A Memoir of Madness & Motherhood](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/02/interview-tanya-frank-author-of-zig-zag-boy-a-memoir-of-madness-motherhood/) - Zig-Zag Boy by Tanya Frank is a collective book, giving voice to all families who have experienced this often terrifying and jarring experience.
- [WRITING LIFE: Stuckness by Brett Ann Stanciu](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/02/writing-life-stuckness-by-brett-ann-stanciu/) - "I know categorically now what I should have known years ago: writing defines my relationship with the world." -- Brett Ann Stanciu in her writing life column
- [REVIEW: Dragons in my Classroom: A Teacher’s Memoir by Barbara Kennard](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/02/review-dragons-in-my-classroom-a-teachers-memoir-by-barbara-kennard/) - The challenges of a teaching career in the United States and in England are explored in the richly detailed memoir Dragons in My Classroom by Barbara Kennard.
- [REVIEW: The Preventorium: A Memoir by Susan Annah Currie](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/02/review-the-preventorium-a-memoir-by-susan-annah-currie/) - The Preventorium by Susan Annah Currie: A long-forgotten health crisis caused by tuberculosis is examined in a memoir of a childhood forever changed...
- [Goodbye America by Itoro Bassey](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/01/goodbye-america-by-itoro-bassey/) - "After grueling hours of counting my breath in meditation, I felt a dull ache in my abdomen." - from "Goodbye America" by Itoro Bassey
- [A Balancing Act by Joy Riggs](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/01/a-balancing-act-by-joy-riggs/) - "I sit in the parking lot outside my parents’ senior apartment building and hit the FaceTime button on my phone." -- from "A Balancing Act" by Joy Riggs
- [INTERVIEW: Mary Alice Hostetter, Author of Plain: A Memoir of a Mennonite Girlhood](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/01/interview-mary-alice-hostetter-author-of-plain-a-memoir-of-a-mennonite-girlhood/) - We speak with Mary Alice Hostetter, author of Plain, a coming of age memoir (and coming out story) about growing up in the Mennonite community.
- [INTERVIEW: Gayle Brandeis, Author of Drawing Breath: Essays on Writing, the Body, & Loss](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/01/interview-gayle-brandeis-author-of-drawing-breath-essays-on-writing-the-body-loss/) - Leslie Lindsay speaks to author Gayle Brandeis about her latest book, Drawing Breath: Essays on Writing, the Body & Loss.
- [INTERVIEW: Elizabeth Damewood Gaucher, Founding Editor of Longridge Review](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/01/interview-elizabeth-damewood-gaucher-founding-editor-of-longridge-review/) - Interviews editor Lara Lillibridge speaks with Elizabeth Damewood Gaucher, founder and editor-in-chief of the online journal Longridge Review.
- [INTERVIEW: Candace Cahill, Author of GOODBYE AGAIN](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/01/interview-with-candace-cahill-author-of-goodbye-again/) - Goodbye Again, a memoir by Candace Cahill, is a welcome addition to the canon of adoption stories.
- [REVIEW: Plain: A Memoir of Mennonite Girlhood by Mary Alice Hostetter](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/01/review-plain-a-memoir-of-mennonite-girlhood-by-mary-alice-hostetter/) - Plain by Mary Alice Hostetter is a coming-of-age Mennonite memoir built on the tension between loving a place that nurtures you and never feeling like you truly belong.
- [REVIEW: The River You Touch: Making a Life on Moving Water by Chris Dombrowski](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/01/review-the-river-you-touch-making-a-life-on-moving-water-by-chris-dombrowski/) - Lyrical and complex, The River You Touch by Chris Dombrowski keeps you grounded in the wonder of nature...as the author navigates through lifeas a parent, writer, and partner.
- [REVIEW: Craft and Conscience: How To Write About Social Issues by Kavita Das](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/01/review-craft-and-conscience-how-to-write-about-social-issues-by-kavita-das/) - In Craft and Conscience: How To Write About Social Issues, Kavita Das compiles crucial questions all writers should be asking themselves.
- [REVIEW: Let Me Count the Ways: A Memoir by Tomás Q. Morín](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/01/review-let-me-count-the-ways-a-memoir-by-tomas-q-morin/) - The memoir Let Me Count the Ways by Tomas Q. Morin offers a beautifully written account of family love and survival amid the challenges of addiction.
- [WRITING LIFE: How Kayaking Buoyed My Writing by Ann Batchelder](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/01/writing-life-how-kayaking-buoyed-my-writing-by-ann-batchelder/) - "Remembering the three whitewater kayak rules I learned that day on the river kept me going with my book." -- Ann Batchelder in her Writing Life column.
- [Unfolding by Dheepa R. Maturi](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/01/unfolding-by-dheepa-r-maturi/) - Dheepa R. Maturi contemplates the tradition of the saree -- and family and culture -- in her moving personal essay "Unfolding."
- [Via Crucis Via Lucis by Cynthia Gralla](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/01/via-crucis-via-lucis-by-cynthia-gralla/) - "The nurse said if I resisted the insertion of my nasogastric tube, she’d restrain me and shove it up my nose. I was 11." -- Cynthia Gralla
- [Imposter Syndrome by Maria Hetherton](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/01/imposter-syndrome-by-maria-hetherton/) - "You start wearing a habit, the first thing they tell you is 'Watch it around toilets.'" - Maria Hetherton in the essay "Imposter Syndrome."
- [INTERVIEW: Juliet Patterson, Author of SINKHOLE: A Natural History of a Suicide](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/12/interview-juliet-patterson-author-of-sinkhole-a-natural-history-of-a-suicide/) - Sinkhole: A Legacy of Suicide by Juliet Patterson s part-investigation, part- memoir, part-ecological, and pure poetry.
- [A Letter from the Publisher: Hippocamp Conference Status Update & More](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/01/a-letter-from-the-publisher-conference-status-update-more/) - HippoCamp conference news: I’m writing this letter with a hopeful heart, but it’s also a difficult one to write. We’ve hit a bump in the road, friends.
- [REVIEW: The Loneliest Places: Loss, Grief, and the Long Journey Home by Rachel Dickinson](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/12/review-the-loneliest-places-loss-grief-and-the-long-journey-home-by-rachel-dickinson/) - "A meditative style and use of metaphor elevates the memoir to a study of what nature can teach us...." - from our review of The Loneliest Places by Rachel Dickinson
- [REVIEW: The Year Of The Horses: A Memoir by Courtney Maum](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/12/review-the-year-of-the-horses-a-memoir-by-courtney-maum/) - The Year Of The Horses: A Memoir by Courtney Maum explores the author's journey out of depression...
- [INTERVIEW: Deirdre Fagan, Author of Find a Place for Me](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/12/interview-deirdre-fagan-author-of-find-a-place-for-me/) - Find a Place for Me: Embracing Love and Life in the Face of Death is a memoir about facing a marriage’s last act as a couple united in mind and holding hands
- [CRAFT: Writing Emotional and Environmental Grief by Sarah Fawn Montgomery](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/12/craft-writing-emotional-and-environmental-grief-by-sarah-fawn-montgomery/) - In her craft essay "Writing Emotional and Environmental Grief," Sarah Fawn Montgomery explores writing about loss and the many forms for grief humans experience.
- [WRITING LIFE: I Want to Be Adored by Kristen Paulson-Nguyen](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/12/writing-life-i-want-to-be-adored-by-kristen-paulson-nguyen/) - "As a teacher, my job isn’t to be liked—although yes, I’d love to be adored the way I have loved numerous teachers." -- Kristen Paulson-Nguyen
- [REVIEW: Halfway From Home: Essays by Sarah Fawn Montgomery](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/12/review-halfway-from-home-essays-by-sarah-fawn-montgomery/) - The essay collection Halfway from Home by Sarah Fawn Montgomery offers an artful variation of forms and poetic language.
- [REVIEW: When They Tell You to Be Good by Prince Shakur](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/12/review-when-they-tell-you-to-be-good-by-prince-shakur/) - When They Tell You to Be Good: A Memoir by Prince Shakur is a meditation on multiple identities and their place in the larger American society,
- [Wonderland by Laura Carraro](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/11/wonderland-by-laura-carraro/) - It’s cold outside, twenty degrees and windy. I’m eager to get inside my psychiatrist’s office, but only for this reason. - from "Wonderland" by Laura Carraro
- [Two Fishing Women by Ryan Odinak](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/11/two-fishing-women-by-ryan-odinak/) - Mamma stands over the stove, one hand resting on the shelf of her wide hip, the other holding a metal spatula. - from "Two Women Fishing" by Ryan Odinak
- [REVIEW: A Body Across Two Hemispheres: A Memoir in Essays by Victoria Buitron](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/11/review-a-body-across-two-hemispheres-a-memoir-in-essays-by-victoria-buitron/) - A Body Across Two Hemispheres: A Memoir in Essays by Victoria Buitron portrays the author's life in Ecuador and Connecticut
- [Bloody Is the Body by Christie Tate](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/11/bloody-is-the-body-by-christie-tate/) - "I’m five and waiting in the front yard for my Dad to return from a two-day business trip to Little Rock." -- from "Bloody is the Body" by Christie Tate.
- [INTERVIEW: Alan Henry, author of Seen, Heard and Paid: The New Work Rules for the Marginalized](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/11/interview-alan-henry-author-of-seen-heard-and-paid-the-new-work-rules-for-the-marginalized/) - Seen, Heard, and Paid: The New Work Rules for the Marginalized by Alan Henry is more than a guide for marginalized employees.
- [WRITING LIFE: My Reckoning with Reading by Maryam Keramaty](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/11/writing-life-my-reckoning-with-reading-by-maryam-keramaty/) - It troubles me that reading doesn’t hold my interest. I get bored. I can’t concentrate. I rarely get to it in the first place. - Maryam Keramaty in Writing Life
- [CRAFT: How to Leave an Essay by Suzanne Farrell Smith](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/11/craft-how-to-leave-an-essay-by-suzanne-farrell-smith/) - Deciding when and how to leave an essay is hard. You don’t want to drag on, but you don’t want to dismount too early: Suzanne Farrell Smith in her CRAFT column.
- [INTERVIEW: Sarah Fawn Montgomery, author of Halfway From Home](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/11/interview-sarah-fawn-montgomery-author-of-halfway-from-home/) - Throughout the lyric essay collection Halfway from Home, Sarah Fawn Montgomery explores how we try to preserve our lives in things.
- [INTERVIEW: J. Michael Lennon, author of Mailer’s Last Days: New and Selected Remembrances of a Life in Literature](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/11/interview-j-michael-lennon-author-of-mailers-last-days-new-and-selected-remembrances-of-a-life-in-literature/) - In his new book, (Norman) Mailer’s Last Days: New and Selected Remembrances of a Literary Life, biographer J. Michael Lennon makes his first foray into memoir.
- [REVIEW: Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery by Linda Murphy Marshall](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/11/review-ivy-lodge-a-memoir-of-translation-and-discovery-by-linda-murphy-marshall/) - In Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery, Linda Murphy Marshall analyzes her parents and her childhood. -- from Alexa Josaphouitch's review.
- [REVIEW: A Cheerleader’s Guide To Spiritual Enlightenment: a memoir in essays by MB Caschetta](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/11/review-a-cheerleaders-guide-to-spiritual-enlightenment-a-memoir-in-essays-by-mb-caschetta/) - A Cheerleader’s Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment: A Memoir in Essays by MB Caschetta is strung together as elegantly as beads on a rosary.
- [Hair by Morgan Blair](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/11/hair-by-morgan-blair/) - As a child, Em was full of spunk and defiance. She would run away from home and laugh with a full belly of air. -- from "Hair" an essayby Morgan Blair
- [INTERVIEW: Adiba Nelson, Author of Ain't That a Mother](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/10/interview-adiba-nelson-author-of-aint-that-a-mother/) - Adiba Nelson 's voice is unabashed, unflinchingly honest, and disrupts any stereotypes you may have about motherhood.
- [WRITING LIFE: Support Yourself as You Write About Trauma by Joy von Steiger](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/10/writing-life-support-yourself-as-you-write-about-trauma-by-joy-von-steiger/) - Joy von Steiger's Writing Life column "Support Yourself as Write About Trauma" offers advice on self-care while writing about painful material
- [REVIEW: The Fact of Memory: 114 Ruminations and Fabrications by Aaron Angello](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/10/review-the-fact-of-memory-114-ruminations-and-fabrications-by-aaron-angello/) - Each of the words in Shakespeare's Sonnet 29 becomes a prompt for the entries in this collection of short prose pieces. -- from The Fact of Memory by Aaron Angello
- [REVIEW: Castaway Mountain: Love and Loss Among the Wastepickers of Mumbai by Saumya Roy](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/10/review-castaway-mountain-love-and-loss-among-the-wastepickers-of-mumbai-by-saumya-roy/) - Castaway Mountain by Saumya Roy reflects the unpleasant truth of overconsumption in the lives of Mumbai’s wastepickers.
- [REVIEW: Promenade of Desire: A Barcelona Memoir by Isidra Mencos](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/10/review-promenade-of-desire-a-barcelona-memoir-by-isidra-mencos/) - Spain is the backdrop for a memoir frankly exploring the evolution of female desire. (from our review of Promenade of Desire by Isidra Mencos)
- [REVIEW: Curing Season: Artifacts by Kristine Langley Mahler](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/10/review-curing-season-artifacts-by-kristine-langley-mahler/) - Kristine Langley Mahler 's experimental memoir combines research, reflections on belonging, and a variety of essay forms in the author's exploration of her past.
- [INTERVIEW: Elizabeth Crane, Author of This Story Will Change](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/10/interview-elizabeth-crane-author-of-this-story-will-change/) - Amy Fish chats with Elizabeth Crane, author of the memoir This Story Will Change: After the Happy Ever After
- [CRAFT: Using Physical Comedy to Energize Dark Memoir by Susan Lippincott Mack](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/10/craft-using-physical-comedy-to-energize-dark-memoir-by-susan-lippincott-mack/) - In literature, physical comedy may be slapstick or it may use subtle references to body functions....
- [Kitchen Instincts by Suzanne Orrell](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/09/kitchen-instincts-by-suzanne-orrell/) - At my house, Rosh Hashanah — the Jewish New Year — wasn’t complete without creamy, cheesy noodle kugel... -- from "Kitchen Instincts" by Suzanne Orrell
- [HippoCamp Story Slam Recap: Taking 3rd in My First Story Slam](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/09/hippocamp-story-slam-recap-taking-3rd-in-my-first-story-slam/) - Journalist Molly Bilinski recaps her first story slam experience. Spoiler: she took third place in the HippoCamp Story Slam produced by Lancaster Story Slam.
- [Act of Contrition by Mark Lucius](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/09/act-of-contrition-by-mark-lucius/) - I knelt in stillness and waited for the priest to slide open the window that separated us. -- from "Act of Contrition," an essay by Mark Lucius
- [INTERVIEW: Linda Murphy Marshall, Author of Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/09/interview-linda-murphy-marshall-author-of-a-linguist-decodes-the-language-of-her-childhood/) - The day I spent at Ivy Lodge, sorting through my parents’ things, being bombarded by memories,jump-started the whole [writing] process. (Linda Murphy Marshall)
- [REVIEW: Voice First: A Writer’s Manifesto by Sonya Huber](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/09/review-voice-first-a-writers-manifesto-by-sonya-huber/) - The craft book Voice First by Sonya Huber uses voice as an entry point for exploring content, structure and the act of writing itself.
- [REVIEW: Under My Bed and Other Essays by Jody Keisner](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/09/review-under-my-bed-and-other-essays-by-jody-keisner/) - The nuances of life’s subtle and private forms of fear are masterfully explored in Under My Bed and Other Essays by Jody Keisner.
- [REVIEW: Hysterical by Elissa Bassist](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/09/review-hysterical-by-elissa-bassist/) - Women’s pain and the silencing of their voices are among the topics explored with both humor and fury in Elissa Bassist’s memoir in essays.
- [REVIEW: Walking Him Home: Helping My Husband Die With Dignity by Joanne Tubbs Kelly](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/09/review-walking-him-home-helping-my-husband-die-with-dignity-by-joanne-tubbs-kelly/) - Walking Him Home (Joanne Tubbs Kelly) is a memoir of helping a husband die with dignity also gives testimony to their relationship and to loving release.
- [INTERVIEW: Sabine Hossenfelder, Author of Existential Physics: A Scientist’s Guide to Life’s Biggest Questions](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/09/interview-sabine-hossenfelder-author-of-existential-physics-a-scientists-guide-to-lifes-biggest-questions/) - Interview: Sabine Hossenfelder, author of Existential Physics: A Scientist’s Guide to Life’s Biggest Questions -- interviewed by Leslie Lindsay.
- [WRITING LIFE: How A Lit Mag Can Grow You By Kristen Paulson-Nguyen](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/09/writing-life-how-a-lit-mag-can-grow-you-by-kristen-paulson-nguyen/) - Kristen Paulson-Nguyen shares how getting involved with a lit mag changed her writing/teaching/speaking life in this month's writing life column.
- [CRAFT: Big Writing Dreams? Here’s Why You Need to Enter CNF Contests by Nicole Breit](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/09/craft-big-writing-dreams-heres-why-you-need-to-enter-cnf-contests-by-nicole-breit/) - Essayist, poet, and teacher Nicole Breit says CNF contests are worth submitting to, even if you’re a new writer. In fact, they’re a fantastic place to start.
- [Drift by Karen Kao](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/09/drift-by-karen-kao/) - The synonym for a sixty-year-old is sexagenarian, which seems to promise a lot more than it delivers. -- from "Drift" by Karen Kao
- [Swimming with My Grandma by Brooke Randel](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/09/swimming-with-my-grandma-by-brooke-randel/) - On my birthday, my grandma loses her speech. Her caregiver thinks it might be a stroke. -- from "Swimming with My Grandma," an essay by Brooke Randel.
- [Eruption by Yvanna Vien Tica](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/09/eruption-by-yvanna-vien-tica/) - The night the volcano spewed ash into our lives, I dreamt about eating lava. -- from "Eruption," an essay by Yvanna Vien Tica.
- [Feeling the Sands by Stephanie Eardley](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/09/feeling-the-sands-by-stephanie-eardley/) - Tonight, my husband and I, along with our tour group, will try to see a rarity—a sea turtle come ashore to nest. --from "Feeling the Sands" by Stephanie Eardley
- [On Finding Essay Titles: The Answer Is in Your Essay -- A HippoCamp Recap](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/08/on-finding-essay-titles-the-answer-is-in-your-essay-a-hippocamp-recap/) - Before Kristen’s session, what I hadn’t heard, or come to realize on my own, was how to think about essay titles, how to draft them, and where to find inspiration...
- [Drafting your First Drafts Club: A HippoCamp Recap](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/08/drafting-your-first-drafts-club-a-hippocamp-recap/) - Inspired by Angie Chatman's First Drafts Club session at HippoCamp 2022, writer Jaminnia States shares a superhero-themed recap.
- [Hippocampus Magazine Submissions Update: Fall 2022 Reading Period Opens Oct. 15](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/09/hippocampus-magazine-submissions-update-fall-2022/) - Hippocampus Magazine Submissions Update for Fall 2022; we'll reopen for creative nonfiction submissions Oct. 15, 2022.
- [CRAFT: Pedal and Prose: 3 Writing Tips from the Tour by Stephanie Hunt](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/08/craft-pedal-and-prose-3-writing-tips-from-the-tour-by-stephanie-hunt/) - In this month's CRAFT column, Stephanie Hunt shares Tour de France-inspired writing tips.
- [INTERVIEW: Jonathan Alexander, Author of Dear Queer Self: An Experiment in Memoir](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/08/interview-jonathan-alexander-author-of-dear-queer-self-an-experiment-in-memoir/) - Dear Queer Self is an unconventional memoir in which Jonathan Alexander addresses wry and affecting missives to a conflicted younger self.
- [Beware of Implicit Bias in Writing: A HippoCamp 2022 Recap](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/08/beware-of-implicit-bias-in-writing-a-hippocamp-2022-recap/) - Dr. Stacie Walton and Dr. Linda Goodrich brought the implicit bias in writing real talk to HippoCamp 2022.
- [The Art of Writing a Book Review by Vicki Mayk – A HippoCamp 2022 Recap](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/08/the-art-of-writing-a-book-review-by-vicki-mayk-a-hippocamp-2022-recap/) - I’ve never considered writing a book review, but after hearing the many benefits described in this information packed flash session, I just might.
- [Getting Unstuck: Insight into Finding Words with Dawn Leas – A HippoCamp 2022 Recap](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/08/getting-unstuck-insight-into-finding-words-with-dawn-leas-a-hippocamp-2022-recap/) - Writers oftentimes find themselves stuck… stuck to find words, stuck in their thoughts, maybe even stuck in traffic. Dawn Leas' session helped us get unstuck.
- [HippoCamp Recap: Sue Repko’s Advice for Diving into the Wreck & Self-Care for Writers](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/08/sue-repko-self-care-for-writers-advice-for-diving-into-the-wreck/) - Sue Repko covered self-care for writers and more in her session, “Diving into the Wreck: How to Write the Hard Parts, Come Up for Air...."
- [HippoCamp Recap: This Way Out with Kelly Caldwell](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/08/hippocamp-recap-this-way-out-with-kelly-caldwell/) - ...judging from the packed room for Kelly Caldwell’s “This Way Out: Locating Your Story’s True Ending,” I am not the only one who finds endings can be a bitch.
- [Using Humor in Creative Nonfiction (with Maryann Aita): A HippoCamp 2022 Recap](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/08/humors-role-in-creative-nonfiction-with-maryann-aita-a-hippocamp-2022-recap/) - When I first saw Maryann Aita’s session on using humor in creative nonfiction, I though:t “This one’s not for me because the writing I do is So Very Serious!”
- [Empathy Over Agreement: Ruth Nasrullah Shows Us How to “Get It Right” When Writing About Religion](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/08/empathy-over-agreement-ruth-nasrullah-shows-us-how-to-get-it-right-when-writing-about-religion/) - ...writing about religion can be tricky, especially when you don’t have particularly nice things to say.
- [The Road to Publication is Long & Winding (with Randon Billings Noble): HippoCamp Recap](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/08/the-road-to-publication-is-long-and-winding-with-randon-billings-noble-hippocamp-recap/) - Randon Billings Noble is an essayist, and the long and winding road she spoke about was publication of her debut essay collection.
- [It Takes Discipline to Write Like a Musician: A HippoCamp Recap](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/08/it-takes-discipline-to-write-like-a-musician-a-hippocamp-recap/) - In her Write Like a Musician session, Lillie Gardner said creative nonfiction and music are both TMI: temporal, manipulative (in affect), and interpretive.
- [10 Book Publishing Myths (with Lawrence Knorr): A HippoCamp Recap](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/08/10-book-publishing-myths-with-lawrence-knorr-a-hippocamp-recap/) - In his HippoCamp presentation, Sunbury Press president and CEO Lawrence Knorr pointed out his top ten book publishing myths.
- [A Fragment Is Its Own Thing: A HippoCamp Recap on Segmented Essay and Micro-Memoir](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/08/a-fragment-is-its-own-thing-a-hippocamp-recap-on-segmented-essay-and-micro-memoir/) - Lara Lillibridge’s session, Let the Fragments Be Enough: An Exploration of the Segmented Essay and Micro-Memoir, soothed my soul.
- [The Essence of Being Grounded: A HippoCamp Recap of Writing About Trauma to Heal Ourselves and Others](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/08/the-essence-of-being-grounded-a-hippocamp-recap-of-writing-about-trauma-to-heal-ourselves-and-others/) - A psychotherapist for 30+ years, Karen Carnabucci specializes in trauma-informed treatment. She presented on writing about trauma at HippoCamp 2022.
- [Do the (Writer's) Hustle: A HippoCamp Recap on Gentle Networking Tips for Writers](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/08/do-the-writers-hustle-a-hippocamp-recap-on-gentle-networking-tips-for-writers/) - Amy Fish, who presented How to Hustle: Gentle Networking Tips for Writers, is a Tesla in the speed lane on the superhighway of hustle.
- [HippoCamp Recap: Using Mindfulness to Quiet the Inner Critic with Lisa Jakub](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/08/hippocamp-recap-using-mindfulness-to-quiet-the-inner-critic-with-lisa-jakub/) - In her HippoCamp 2022 session, Lisa Jakub told attendees about her struggles with her own inner critic.
- [Why Write Child Narrators? Jeannine Ouellette has the Answers: A 2022 HippoCamp Recap](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/08/why-write-child-narrators-jeannine-ouellette-has-the-answers-a-2022-hippocamp-recap/) - I almost didn’t attend Jeannine Ouellette’s session, “How to Write Captivating and Convincing Child Narrators (And Why Your Work Might Benefit from One!)”
- [Not at HippoCamp 2022? Ways to Follow Along](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/08/not-at-hippocamp-2022-ways-to-follow-along/) - HippoCamp: A Conference for Creative Nonfiction, at the time of this post, is going strong! There's a lot of live-tweeting and Instagramming -- if you're not here, we encourage you to follow along. Here's how: Follow Along with HippoCamp on Social We're using the official hashtag #HippoCamp22 on Twitter and Instagram; our username
- [WRITING LIFE: How to Keep Writing by Katie Bannon](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/08/writing-life-how-to-keep-writing-by-katie-bannon/) - Whether you’re working on a book-length work or on shorter pieces, the fellowship of other writers can help maintain your writing momentum.
- [REVIEW: The Green Hour: A Natural History of Home by Alison Townsend](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/08/review-the-green-hour-a-natural-history-of-home-by-alison-townsend/) - The Green Hour captures the places inhabited by the author, weaving meditative writing about natural beauty with recollections of the mother she lost in childhood.
- [REVIEW: Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place by Neema Avashia](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/08/review-another-appalachia-coming-up-queer-and-indian-in-a-mountain-place-by-neema-avashia/) - Another Appalachia is a soulful glance into hiraeth, the Welsh notion of nostalgia that reminds me of similar feelings in Japanese: 懐かしさ (natsukashisa)...
- [REVIEW: Writing While Masked: Reflections on 2020 and Beyond](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/08/review-writing-while-masked-reflections-on-2020-and-beyond/) - In Writing While Masked: Reflections on 2020 and Beyond a group of writers from Washington document their experiences in essays, prose, and poetry.
- [REVIEW: Ways of Walking: Essays, edited by Ann deForest](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/08/review-ways-of-walking-essays-edited-by-ann-deforest/) - Ways of Walking: Essays, an anthology of 26 works edited by Ann de Forest, is all about the kind of perspective that going slow and on foot lends.
- [HippoCamp 2022 Speaker Q&A:- Kristen Paulson Nguyen](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/08/hippocamp-2022-speaker-q-a-kristen-paulson-nguyen/) - Kristen Paulson-Nguyen is Hippocampus Magazine's writing life editor, and she is excited to share tips about how to create fabulous essay titles
- [HippoCamp 2022 Speaker Q&A: Lawrence Knorr](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/08/hippocamp-2022-speaker-q-a-lawrence-knorr/) - Lawrence Knorr is founder/CEO of Sunbury Press, Inc., the Pennsylvania-based trade publisher; he's also the author or co-author of 30+ nonfiction books.
- [HippoCamp 2022 Speaker Q&A: Sonya Huber](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/08/hippocamp-2022-speaker-q-a-sonya-huber-2/) - Sonya Huber, author of seven books including Supremely Tiny Acts: A Memoir in a Day and Voice First: A Writer’s Manifesto joins us for her second HippoCamp this year.
- [HippoCamp 2022 Speaker Q&A: Lara Lillibridge](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/08/hippocamp-2022-speaker-q-a-lara-lillibridge/) - Lara Lillibridge, interviews editor for Hippocampus Mag, always brings her welcoming, generous, and hilarious spirit with her to our annual conference!
- [HippoCamp 2022 Speaker Q&A: Lindsey DeLoach Jones](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/08/hippocamp-2022-speaker-q-a-lindsey-deloach-jones/) - Lindsey DeLoach Jones is leading a HippoCamp 2022 breakout session about the importance of keeping a writer's notebook.
- [HippoCamp 2022 Speaker Q&A: Allison K Williams](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/08/hippocamp-2022-speaker-q-a-allison-k-williams/) - Allison K Williams is a longtime friend of Hippocampus Magazine, an accomplished author, editor, and coach, and all-around wonderful human being.
- [HippoCamp 2022 Speaker Q&A: Sue Repko](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/08/hippocamp-2022-speaker-q-a-sue-repko/) - Sue Repko will lead the breakout session "Diving Into the Wreck: How to Write the Hard Parts, Come Up for Air and Self-Care, and Finish Your Memoir."
- [HippoCamp 2022 Speaker Q&A: Margaret Whitford](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/08/hippocamp-2022-speaker-q-a-margaret-whitford/) - Margaret Whitford, who spent 20 years in nonprofit management, is co-presenting A Case Study of a Writer-Editor Collaboration with Janna Marlies Maron.
- [HippoCamp 2022 Speaker Q&A: Sheela Clary](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/08/hippocamp-2022-speaker-q-a-sheela-clary-2/) - Sheela Clary, freelance reporter, writer, and Moth Story Slam winner, present “What a Grocery Store Clerk Taught Me About the Art of the Interview.”
- [HippoCamp 2022 Speaker Q&A: Lisa Cooper Ellison](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/08/hippocamp-2022-speaker-q-a-lisa-cooper-ellison/) - Lisa Cooper Ellison is running a breakout session called to Prologue or Not to Prologue: That is the Question.
- [HippoCamp 2022 Speaker Q&A: Steph Auteri](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/08/hippocamp-2022-speaker-q-a-steph-auteri/) - Steph Auteri, founder of Guerilla Sex Ed and Hippocampus Magazine’s essays editor, brings her special brand of irreverent humor to HippoCamp.
- [HippoCamp 2022 Speaker Q&A: Randon Billings Noble](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/08/hippocamp-2022-speaker-q-a-randon-billings-noble/) - Randon Billings Noble, essayist & author of Be with Me Always, will present "The Long and Winding Road," a talk about publishing an essay collection.
- [HippoCamp 2022 Speaker Q&A: Rae Pagliarulo](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/08/hippocamp-2022-speaker-q-a-rae-pagliarulo/) - Rae Pagliarulo is more than a returning HippoCamp presenter. She's also Hippocampus Magazine's associate editor and flash editor.
- [Writing Conference Scholarships: Announcing Our 2022 HippoCamp Scholarship Recipients](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/08/writing-conference-scholarships-announcing-our-2022-hippocamp-scholarship-recipients/) - HippoCamp offers writing conference scholarships to writers who require a little financial assistance to make the journey.
- [HippoCamp 2022 Speaker Q&A: Brandon Arvesen](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/07/hippocamp-2022-speaker-q-a-brandon-arvesen/) - Brandon Arvesen, a writer, editor, professor & founding editor of 3cents Magazine, will join us to present a flash session about fact-checking family stories.
- [HippoCamp 2022 Speaker Q&A: Dawn Leas](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/07/hippocamp-2022-speaker-q-a-dawn-leas/) - Dawn Leas will talk about getting unstuck, and letting the words inside you flow free during our Saturday morning flash sessions.
- [HippoCamp 2022 Speaker Q&A: Julie Artz](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/07/hippocamp-2022-speaker-q-a-julie-artz/) - Book coach Julie Artz, along with her collaborator Suzette, she’ll be talking about building their own query audit toolkit!
- [HippoCamp 2022 Speaker Q&A: Suzanne Ohlmann](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/07/hippocamp-2022-speaker-q-a-suzanne-ohlmann/) - Suzanne Ohlmann will read from and talk about her 2022 memoir, Shadow Migration: Mapping a Life as part of our Night of Nonfiction: Debut Author Panel.
- [HippoCamp 2022 Speaker Q&A: Sheela Clary](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/07/hippocamp-2022-speaker-q-a-sheela-clary/) - As a Moth StorySlam winner and GrandSlam competitor, Sheela Clary is sure to bring her storytelling skills to HippoCamp in a big way!
- [HippoCamp 2022 Speaker Q&A: Carole Duff](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/07/hippocamp-2022-speaker-q-a-carole-duff/) - Carole Duff, a veteran teacher, serious flutist & avid naturalist, will offer a breakout session "Becoming a Writer in the Third Chapter of Life" at HippoCamp.
- [HippoCamp 2022 Speaker Q&A: Lillie Gardner](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/07/hippocamp-2022-speaker-q-a-lillie-gardner/) - Get your guitars in tune! Lillie Gardner, a writer and piano instructor from St. Paul, Minnesota, will join us this year to talk about writing like a musician!
- [HippoCamp 2022 Speaker Q&A: Sonya Huber](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/07/hippocamp-2022-speaker-q-a-sonya-huber/) - Sonya Huber is the author of seven books, including Pain Woman Takes Your Keys and Other Essays from a Nervous System, Supremely Tiny Acts: A Memoir in a Day.
- [HippoCamp 2022 Speaker Q&A: James Irwin](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/07/hippocamp-2022-speaker-q-a-james-irwin/) - James Irwin, a global marketing communications leader for Deloitte--also a published essayist, media critic & journalist-- will talk about brand strategy.
- [HippoCamp 2022 Speaker Q&A: Nina Lichtenstein](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/07/hippocamp-2022-speaker-q-a-nina-lichtenstein/) - Nina Lichtenstein, a native of Norway, will gives a session called Writing the Body: How to Mine Your Treasure Chest for Memories at HippoCamp 2022.
- [HippoCamp 2022 Speaker Q&A: Dave Pidgeon](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/07/hippocamp-2022-speaker-q-a-dave-pidgeon/) - Dave Pidgeon's breakout session, Photography for Writers will teach attendees pro-level tricks and skills they can use immediately.
- [HippoCamp 2022 Speaker Q&A: Diane Gottlieb](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/07/hippocamp-2022-speaker-q-a-diane-gottlieb/) - Diane Gottlieb, the prose/CNF editor of Emerge Literary Journal, and accomplished writer, will talk to HippoCampers about the “I” in narrative nonfiction.
- [HippoCamp 2022 Speaker Q&A: Suzette Mullen](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/07/hippocamp-2022-speaker-q-a-suzette-mullen/) - Suzette Mullen is a book coach who helps LGBTQ+ folx write memoirs that bring light, hope, and connection to readers who feel alone or othered.
- [HippoCamp 2022 Speaker Q&A: Ruth Nasrullah](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/07/hippocamp-2022-speaker-q-a-ruth-nasrullah/) - Ruth Nasrullah writes about religion, civil rights & the environment. At HippoCamp, she'll present A Sacred Trust: Getting it Right When Writing About Religion.
- [INTERVIEW: Selina Mahmood, Author of A Pandemic in Residence: Essays from a Detroit Hospital](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/07/interview-with-selina-mahmood-author-of-a-pandemic-in-residence-essays-from-a-detroit-hospital/) - Selina Mahmood’s book felt like...was like to be a resident thrown into a hospital system in a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic.
- [CRAFT: How to Critique Writing About Trauma in a Safer Way by Yolande House](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/07/craft-how-to-critique-writing-about-trauma-in-a-safer-way-by-yolande-house/) - To avoid unleashing more pain on someone....here are some guidelines I’ve developed for writers giving feedback....
- [Foreign by Terri Lewis](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/07/foreign-by-terri-lewis/) - In the seventies, I went to Würzburg, Germany, to perform with the ballet.
- [There Are Girls Like You in Japan by Mimi Iimuro Van Ausdall](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/07/there-are-girls-like-you-in-japan-by-mimi-iimuro-van-ausdall/) - You had been to Japan only once before this, when you were eight.
- [CRAFT: How to Revise and Share Writing About Trauma in a Safe(r) Way by Yolande House](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2020/06/how-to-revise-and-share-writing-about-trauma-in-a-safer-way-by-yolande-house/) - Yolande House shares how to approach asking for feedback in this craft essay, How to Revise and Share Writing About Trauma in a Safe(r) Way.
- [INTERVIEW: Stephen J. West, Author of Soft-Boiled: An Investigation of Masculinity and The Writer’s Life](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/07/interview-with-stephen-j-west-author-of-soft-boiled-an-investigation-of-masculinity-and-the-writers-life/) - At its center, Soft-Boiled follows Stephen J. West as he shadows a private investigator by the name of Frank Streets.
- [INTERVIEW: Maryann Aita, Author of The Little Astronaut: A Memoir in Essays](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/07/interview-with-maryann-aita-author-of-the-little-astronaut-a-memoir-in-essays/) - Maryann Aita explores the concepts of intimacy, love, loneliness, and grief in her experimental collection of essays, The Little Astronaut.
- [The Dying Room by Leanne Pierce Schneider](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/07/the-dying-room-by-leanne-pierce-schneider/) - When they arrive, she is propped up on pillows in the hospital bed.
- [Pulses by Kathy Davis](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/07/pulses-by-kathy-davis/) - Once, arms waving in frustration, my father said, “If no one’s alive who remembers you, it’s like you never existed.”
- [Peephole by Lotus Mae](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/07/peephole-by-lotus-mae/) - I opened the door half-way and saw this young worker-type guy wearing a tool belt.
- [WRITING LIFE: Questions that Recentered My Writing Joy by Elizabeth Reed](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/07/writing-life-questions-that-recentered-my-writing-joy-by-elizabeth-reed/) - I’m a musician, but writing has been a side passion since childhood.
- [REVIEW: The Community: A Memoir by N. Jamiyla Chisholm](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/07/review-the-community-a-memoir-by-n-jamiyla-chisholm/) - In a style blending poetic prose and journalistic narrative, the memoir recalls trauma caused by growing up in a religious cult and the path to forgiving a mother.
- [REVIEW: Bookends: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature by Zibby Owens](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2022/07/review-bookends-a-memoir-of-love-loss-and-literature-by-zibby-owens/) - Award-winning podcaster Zibby Owens reflects on the events that shaped her life and the books that supported her on the journey.

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- [Past Issues: Hippocampus Magazine Archives](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/past-issues-archive/) - An Issue-by-Issue Directory & Archive of Hippocampus Magazine Content This Hippocampus archive page has been a work in progress; we decided to make it go live in its raw form so that folks could still navigate to past issues and see a list of all stories and contributors. Previously, you had to navigate to these
- [Hippocampus Contributors: Browse by Author](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/about/browse-by-author-theme/) - A master list of sorts of Hippocampus Magazine contributors! Search Hippocampus creative nonfiction content by author name, theme or other classification (tag).
- [AWP 2025: An Annual CNF Offsite Event Hosted by Four Creative Nonfiction Magazines](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/awp2025/) - Join Fourth Genre, Hippocampus Magazine, River Teeth, and Under the Gum Tree for a CNF reading featuring eight creative nonfiction writers, two from each mag.
- [Our 2024 "HippoCamp Weekend": An Event Run-Down](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2024-event/) - We're thrilled to once again be hosting an online weekend of events in place of the on-hiatus HippoCamp: A Conference for Creative Nonfiction Writers. We're dubbing this event "HippoCamp Weekend" (including the quotes) simply because it's a name familiar to past attendees, and also because its during mid-August, when we typically held the conference in
- [HippoCamp: Conference for Creative Nonfiction Writers](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/conference/) - The HippoCamp conference features engaging sessions by 50+ speakers, author readings, and more. This Pennsylvania writing conference is typically each August.
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- [Remember in November Contest for Creative Nonfiction Writers](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/contest/) - The annual Hippocampus Magazine Remember in November Contest for Creative Nonfiction is a writing contest for nonfiction writers with a $1,000 grand prize.
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- [Judges: Contest for CNF](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/contests/judges-contest-for-cnf/) - Announcing our Guest Judges Hippocampus Magazine is proud to announce our guest judges for the Remember in November Contest for Creative Nonfiction. Our four judges bring with them to this competition more than a century of collective literary and publishing experience spanning genres and professions. We're pleased and honored to welcome, in the order pictured
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## Events

- [Deep Dive: Postmarked: Modern Takes on the Ancient Art of Letters (Brenda Miller)](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/deep-dive-brenda-miller/) - Led by Brenda Miller, participants will engage in short, guided writing exercises designed to draft personal stories in letter form.
- [How-To Tuesday: Writing Rage in Enraging Times with Amy Monticello](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/how-to-tuesday-writing-rage-in-enraging-times-with-amy-monticello/) - This How-To Tuesday session from Amy Monticello focuses on writing rage that enhances the insights of creative nonfiction rather than dilutes them.
- [An Evening with the Book Champions: A Publishing & Publicity Roundtable](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/book-champions-2026/) - Hear from book publicists and literary agents at our special Meet the Book Champions: A Publishing & Publicity Roundtable, part of HippoCamp online 2026.
- [Deep Dive: Mining Your Obsessions: Writing (Nearly) Endless Essays On One Subject (Elizabeth Austin)](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/deep-dive-mining-your-obsessions-elizabeth-austin/) - In this generative workshop led by Elizabeth Austin, we'll treat our obsessions as a renewable resource for endless essays. Part of HippoCamp Online 2026.
- [Deep Dive: Making a Newsletter Work for You (Allison K Williams)](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/deep-dive-newsletter-alllison-k-williams/) - Learn from Allison K Williams about how writing a newsletter feeds your creative process, develops your craft, and creates literary community.
- [HippoCamp Minis: Publishing, Promotion & the Writing Life- 5 CNF Topics in a Flash (2026)](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/hippocamp-minis-publishing-2026/) - Five speakers will share bite-sized wisdom + practical takeaways on a topic they’re passionate about, all related to promoting & publishing creative nonfiction.
- [A Night of Nonfiction 2026: Debut CNF Author Readings & Discussions](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/a-night-of-nonfiction-2026/) - Hear the story, and then hear the story behind the story. Debut CNF authors, plus special guest opener and a featured reader to close out the night.
- [HippoCamp Minis: CRAFT - 5 CNF Writing Topics in a Flash (2026)](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/hippocamp-minis-craft-2026/) - 5 speakers share bite-sized wisdom + practical takeaways on a craft topic related to CNF. It's the online version of HippoCamp: A Conference for Creative Nonfiction.
- [HippoCamp Online Weekend 2026: Multiple Events [Ticket Package Page]](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/hippocamp-online-weekend-2026-multiple-events-ticket-package-page/) - It's HippoCamp Online Weekend 2026! Two days of CNF-focused sessions, panels, and readings. Join us for one or all events. 30+ speakers, experts & authors.
- [Deep Dive: Scenes That Work: Choosing What Stays in Your Memoir & What Goes (Ronit Plank)](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/deep-dive-scenes-ronit-plank/) - Scenes That Work: Choosing What Stays in Your Memoir & What Goes is a generative 'Deep Dive' session led by Ronit Plank at HippoCamp Online Weekend 2026.
- [An Evening With the Editors 2025: A Lit Mag & Small Press Roundtable](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/an-evening-with-the-editors-2025/) - Learn about the publishing process from lit mag and small press editors from Split/Lip Press,Fourth Genre, Hippocampus Magazine, Barrelhouse and more.
- [STORIES ON SUNDAY: No Contact: Writers on Estrangement with Jenny Bartoy, Danielle Jernigan and Nicole Graev Lipson](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/stories-on-sunday-no-contact-writers-on-estrangement/) - This event features No Contact: Writers on Estrangement. Hear from anthology editor Jenny Bartoy and contributors Danielle Jernigan & Nicole Graev Lipson.
- [Stories on Sunday: Bloom: Letters on Girlhood by Nicole Breit & Claire Sicherman](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/stories-on-sunday-bloom-letters-on-girlhood-by-nicole-breit-claire-sicherman/) - Hear from co-authors Nicole Breit and Claire Sicherman as they read from Bloom: Letters on Girlhood, a memoir in letters.
- [Hippocampus Magazine Anthology Launch & 15th Anniversary Party: Selected Memories Vol. 2](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/hippocampus-magazine-anthology-launch-party/) - Join us for a Hippocampus Magazine anthology launch party. Selected Memories Vol. 2 celebrates 15 years of creative nonfiction. Readings, light refreshments.
- [AWP Conference and Bookfair 2026](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/awp-conference-and-bookfair-2026/) - Hippocampus Magazine & Books will have a presence at the 2026 AWP Conference & Bookfair. We'll be at booth 351 and will have off-site events too.
- [HOW-TO TUESDAY: Minding Your C's -- Contrast, Conflict and Change with Lillie Gardner](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/how-to-tuesday-minding-your-cs-contrast-conflict-and-change-with-lillie-gardner/) - In CNF, truth is paramount, but crafting a good story is still essential. Enter the 3 C's: contrast, conflict & change. Lillie Gardner explores these elements at How-To Tuesday.
- [HOW-TO TUESDAY: Thinking About Platform (for Writers): Leveraging Themes & Strengths to Build an Authentic Audience](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/how-to-tuesday-building-platform/) - In this session, we'll explore how to identify the recurring threads in your writing and use them as the foundation for authentic platform building for writers.
- [Gotham Writers Nonfiction Conference](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/gotham-writers-nonfiction-conference/) - Donna Talarico, our founder and publisher, will be part of a book marketing panel at the Gotham Writers Nonfiction Conference, slated for March 21-22, 2025
- [The Write Stuff Conference 2026](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/the-write-stuff-conference-2026/) - Hippocampus Magazine and Books is thrilled to return to the annual The Write Stuff conference, hosted by the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group.
- [HippoCamp Online Weekend 2025: Multiple Events [Ticket Package Page]](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/hippocamp-online-weekend-2025/) - It's HippoCamp Online Weekend 2025! Two days of CNF-focused sessions, panels, and readings. Join us for one or all events.
- [Deep Dive: Can’t Draw? Let’s Make Comics! Exploring Graphic & Hybrid Memoir (Sunday, Option 1)](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/deep-dive-comics/) - In this workshop, no drawing skills are needed. Dive into how to start making comics, gently explore areas of resistance, and build our capacity for vulnerability.
- [A Night of Nonfiction 2025: Debut CNF Author Readings & Discussions](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/a-night-of-nonfiction-2025/) - Hear the story, and then hear the story behind the story. Four debut CNF authors, plus special guest opener and a featured reader to close out the night.
- [HippoCamp Minis: CRAFT - 5 CNF Writing Topics in a Flash (2025)](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/hippocamp-minis-craft/) - HippoCamp Minis: Five speakers will share bite-sized wisdom + practical takeaways on a topic they’re passionate about, all related to creative nonfiction.
- [HippoCamp Minis: Publishing & Promotion - 5 CNF Topics in a Flash (2025)](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/hippocamp-minis-publishing/) - Five speakers will share bite-sized wisdom + practical takeaways on a topic they’re passionate about, all related to promoting & publishing creative nonfiction.
- [Deep Dive: Writing from the Heart: Where Grief Becomes Art (Sunday, Option 2)](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/deep-dive-grief-2025-sunday/) - Lisa Cooper Ellison, Melanie Brooks & Eileen Vorbach Collins discuss how giving words to grief help remap losses, process experiences, and explore life after loss.
- [Deep Dive: Improvisation for Writers (Saturday, Option 1)](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/deep-dive-improv-for-writers-carrie-spaulding/) - In this experiential, fun & instantly applicable workshop with Carrie Spaulding, you’ll learn principles of improv that can help you supercharge your writing.
- [HOW-TO TUESDAY: Exploring Forms in CNF: What's a Hermit Crab Doing in My Essay? ](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/how-to-tuesday-whats-a-hermit-crab-doing-in-my-essay/) - This How-To Tuesday explores hermit crab essays: what they are, how they work. Look at great examples and start thinking about your own. Led by Rae Pagliarulo.
- [STORIES ON SUNDAY: No Offense: A Memoir in Essays (Jackie Domenus)](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/stories-on-sunday-no-offense-a-memoir-in-essays-jackie-domenus/) - Enjoy a reading, then hear the story behind the stories during Stories on Sunday with Jackie Domenus, author of No Offense: A Memoir in Essays.
- [STORIES ON SUNDAY: Mothers and Other Fictional Characters (Nicole Graev Lipson)](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/stories-on-sunday-nicole-graev-lipson/) - Nicole Graev Lipson (Mothers and Other Fictional Characters: A Memoir in Essays) joins us for a reading and discussion at our June 2025 Stories on Sunday.
- [STORIES ON SUNDAY: The One Who Loves You: Growing Up Biracial in a Black and White World (Shannon Luders-Manuel)](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/stories-on-sunday-shannon-luders-manuel/) - Hear from Shannon Luders-Manuel, author of The One Who Loves You: Growing Up Biracial in a Black and White World at our March 2025 Stories on Sunday.
- [HOW-TO TUESDAY: Diving Into Topics that Matter to You: Writing & Publishing Op-Eds With Kelly Caldwell](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/how-to-tuesday-writing-op-eds-caldwell/) - Learn about writing op-eds, including how to find markets for opinion writing, with Kelly Caldwell at our January 2025 How-To Tuesday from Hippocampus Magazine.
- [HOW-TO TUESDAY: Finding Story Inspiration When You're All Tapped Out with Steph Auteri](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/how-to-tuesday-finding-story-inspiration-when-youre-all-tapped-out-with-steph-auteri/) - Learn how to generate a buttload of story ideas in one sitting with Hippocampus essays editor Steph Auteri at our February 2025 How-To Tuesday.
- [STORIES ON SUNDAY: Paul Rousseau (Friendly Fire: A Fractured Memoir)](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/stories-on-sunday-paul-rousseau-friendly-fire-a-fractured-memoir/) - Enjoy a reading, then hear the story behind the stories during Stories on Sunday with Paul Rousseau, author of Friendly Fire: A Fractured Memoir.
- [HippoCamp Online Weekend 2024: Multiple Events [ticket package page]](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/hippocamp-online-weekend-2024-overview-package/) - We're planning to host a few individual online CNF events over the weekend of August 10-11.
- [An Evening With the Editors: A Lit Mag & Small Press Roundtable](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/editor-roundtable-2024/) - Hippocampus Magazine associate editor Rae Pagliarulo will moderate a discussion with five literary magazine/small press publishers.
- [HippoCamp Minis: Publishing & Promotion - 5 CNF Topics in a Flash](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/hippocamp-minis-publishing-2024/) - Five speakers will share bite-sized wisdom + practical takeaways on a topic they’re passionate about, all related to promoting & publishing creative nonfiction.
- [HippoCamp Minis: CRAFT - 5 CNF Writing Topics in a Flash](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/hippocamp-minis-craft-2024/) - Five speakers will share bite-sized wisdom + practical takeaways on a topic they’re passionate about, all related to writing creative nonfiction.
- [HOW-TO TUESDAY: Quieting the Doubts and Rising Above: Thoughts on Impostor Syndrome with Athena Dixon](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/how-to-tuesday-impostor-syndrome-athena-dixon/) - Join Athena Dixon and Hippocampus Magazine to learn tips for overcoming your inner critic.
- [A Night of Nonfiction: Debut CNF Author Readings & Discussions - Summer 2024](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/night-of-nonfiction-2024/) - An evenings of readings by debut CNF authors Annabelle Tometich, Audrey Jean, Carole Duff, Isaac Yuen, Zoë Bossiere; with special guest Lilly Dancyger.
- [STORIES ON SUNDAY: Kirsten Reneau (Sensitive Creatures)](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/stories-on-sunday-kirsten-reneau-sensitive-creatures/) - Kirsten Reneau will read from the essay collection Sensitive Creatures before an audience Q&A in this Stories on Sunday.
- [Nonfiction Authors Association Online Conference 2024](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/nonfiction-authors-association-online-conference-2024/) - Donna Talarico from Hippocampus Magazine will be part of the 2024 the Nonfiction Authors Association online conference.
- [HOW-TO TUESDAY: The Quiet Memoir: Finding "Conflict" in a Quiet Life with Kate Meadows](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/how-to-tuesday-the-quiet-memoir-with-kate-meadows/) - Learn about "the quiet memoir" with Kate Meadows.
- [STORIES ON SUNDAY: Penny Guisinger (Shift: A Memoir of Identity and Other Illusions)](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/stories-on-sunday-penny-guisinger-shift/) - Join Penny Guisinger for a reading from Shift: A Memoir of Identity and Other Illusions, followed by a Q&A.
- [How-To Tuesday: WTF is Analytics? Using Data to Improve Our Craft with Mandy Pennington](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/how-to-tuesday-wtf-is-analytics-with-mandy-pennington/) - This How-To Tuesday from Hippocampus Magazine will focus on a marketing topic, led by writer and marketing pro Mandy Pennington.
- [STORIES ON SUNDAY: Lara Lillibridge (The Truth About Unringing Phones)](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/stories-on-sunday-lara-lillibridge/) - Hear author Lara Lillibridge read from her newest book The Truth About Unringing Phones, plus conversation with Donna Talarico and an audience Q&A.
- [STORIES ON SUNDAY: Paul Crenshaw & Melt With Me: Coming of Age and Other 80s Perils](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/stories-on-sunday-paul-crenshaw/) - Join us for an evening of conversation and creative nonfiction with essayist Paul Crenshaw , author of Melt With Me: Coming of Age and Other '80s Perils.
- [How-To Tuesday: Reading Aloud: It's Not Just for Bedtime Stories — Using Audio to Hone Your Creative Nonfiction (Theresa Okokon)](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/how-to-tuesdayreading-aloud-its-not-just-for-bedtime-stories-using-audio-to-hone-your-creative-nonfiction-theresa-okokon/) - Learn how to use audio to help hone your essays, memoir, and other creative writing with author and storyteller Theresa Okokon.
- [How-To Tuesday: Fact-Checking Family Stories: Using Research Tools in Memoir (Brandon Arvesen)](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/how-to-tuesday-fact-checking-family-stories-using-research-tools-in-memoir-brandon-arvesen/) - Learn how to fact check the family story and use other research tools with Brandon Arvesen in this How-To Tuesday.
- [STORIES ON SUNDAY: Chantha Nguon & Kim Green (Slow Noodles)](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/stories-on-sunday-chantha-nguon-kim-green-slow-noodles/) - Learn about the story behind Slow Noodles, with Chantha Nguon and co-author Kim Green.
- [HOW-TO TUESDAY: Writing Hard Stories — Navigating Trauma, Family & Other Difficult Topics in Memoir](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/how-to-tuesday-writing-hard-stories/) - Learn how to navigate writing hard stories with Melanie Brooks.
- [STORIES ON SUNDAY: Jennifer Lang (Places We Left Behind)](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/stories-on-sunday-jennifer-lang-places-we-left-behind/) - Hear Jennifer Lang read from Places We Left Behind, followed an interview and audience Q&A.
- [How-To Tuesday: Getting Found — Discoverability & SEO for Writers in a Time of AI, Evolving Algorithms and Information Overload (Donna Talarico)](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/how-to-tuesday-getting-found-seo-for-writers/) - Getting found — showing up in a Google search or other search results listings — is crucial in a day of information overload. Learn more in our webinar on SEO for writers.
- [How-To Tuesdays: It's Short, So It Must Be Flash, Right? What Your Editor is *Really* Looking For in Flash Creative Nonfiction (Wendy Fontaine/Rae Pagliarulo)](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/how-to-tuesdays-what-your-flash-editor-is-really-looking-for-wendy-fontaine-rae-pagliarulo/) - Learn what editors are really looking for in flash creative nonfiction.
- [HippoCamp Minis Part 2: An Evening With the Editors!](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/hippocamp-minis-part-2-an-evening-with-the-editors/) - At this Hippocampus Magazine event, you’ll take away practical knowledge about writing, publishing, marketing, and living the creative life.
- [A Night of Nonfiction: Debut CNF Author Readings & Discussions - Summer 2023](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/night-of-nonfiction-2023/) - This is the online version of our ever-popular in-person event! It will feature readings from debut CNF authors, followed by a special guest reading and then a panel discussion, led by Hippocampus Magazine's interviews editor Lara Lillibridge. Note: This is ONE OF THREE events we're hosting the weekend of the 12-13th! Read about all of
- [HippoCamp Minis Part One: 5 CNF Topics in a Flash!](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/hippocamp-minis-part-one-5-cnf-topics-in-a-flash/) - Hear from five (or so) TBA speakers who will share bite-sized wisdom with practical takeaways on a topic they're passionate about.
- [Hippocampus at AWP Conference & Book Fair in Portland](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/hippocamp-at-awp-conference-book-fair-in-portland/) - Find us at the book fair, and find our friends at various panels, readings, and events. More to come.
- [HippoCamp 2019: A Conference for Creative Nonfiction Writers](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/hippocamp-2019-a-conference-for-creative-nonfiction-writers/) - Founded in 2010, Hippocampus Magazine is an online publication set out to entertain, educate and engage writers and readers of creative nonfiction. HippoCamp: A Conference for Creative Nonfiction Writers, a summer writing conference in Pennsylvania, is an in-the-flesh extension of that three-fold mission. The first HippoCamp was held in August 2015.

## Categories

- [Memoir](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/category/creative-nonfiction/memoir/) - Our archive of past pieces that are part of a larger work of creative nonfiction. Note that as of 2021 we no longer categorize pieces as “memoir.” We use only “essay” and flash” now. We kept this in our menu for historical purposes.
- [Essays](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/category/creative-nonfiction/personal-essay/) - An archive of all of the personal essays we’ve published at Hippocampus Magazine over the years.
- [Craft](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/category/articles/craft-articles/) - Our Craft column archive, which features an array of guest contributors.
- [Reviews](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/category/articles/memoir-reviews/) - An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
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- [Miscellaneous](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/category/creative-nonfiction/miscellaneous/)
- [Hippocampus News](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/category/hippocampus-news/) - An archive of posts relating to Hippocampus news and happenings, including special calls for submissions, contest alerts, award nominations, staff updates, book news, and general announcements.
- [Most Memorable](https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/category/most-memorable/) - Our Most Memorable program was sunset in spring 2019; please enjoy viewing the archived stories tagged with “most memorable” of each issue.
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