Writers are wordsmiths; but, there’s a distinction between writing for a literary audience and writing for the web….
CRAFT: You’re Writing for Search Engines, Too: SEO Tips for Writers by Donna Talarico
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How-To Tuesday: Getting Found — Discoverability & SEO for Writers in a Time of AI, Evolving Algorithms and Information Overload (Donna Talarico)
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.
2018 Was a Banner Year: A Look Back & A Look Ahead — from the editor
Since our first issue in May 2011, Hippocampus magazine has been growing steadily…
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.
Interview: David Ewald, creative nonfiction editor at Eclectia Magazine and its anthology, Best Nonfiction Volume One
With more than two decades behind it, Eclectica Magazine was certainly a pioneer in the online magazine space.
Interview: Melanie Brooks, author of Writing Hard Stories
While a student in the Stonecoast MFA program, Melanie Brooks set out to write a memoir—a story that, once pen was put to paper, stirred up emotions, emotions she hadn’t realized would still be so painful.
Interview: Jamie Brickhouse, author of Dangerous When Wet: A Memoir of Booze, Sex, and My Mother
Jamie, a native of Beaumont, Texas, spent nearly two decades working on the other side of the business—as a book publicist for major houses and now as a speaker’s agent—before becoming an author himself.
Review: In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeanette by Hampton Sides
Sides writes: “The scenery grew more impressive: ice-gouged fjords, towering bergs calved fresh from the glaciers, the crisp sound of cold surf lapping against the pack, ringed seals peeking through the ice,
Can You Spell Podcast? Hippocampus Gets Some Buzz in Early 2015 — notes from the editor
…in my quest to get involved locally, I represented Hippocampus Magazine and participated in The Triangle’s Grown-up Spelling Bee
Craft: Just in Time for Nanowrimo, There’s Help For Distracted Writers, If You Make it Through This Article by Donna Talarico
…45 percent of writers said they watched a funny animal video to help get them through a creative block. Four percent said they stopped writing to have sex…
