Brandon Arvesen, a writer, editor, professor, and founding editor of 3cents Magazine, will be joining us to present a flash session about fact-checking when writing about families: something our attendees ask about every year! Brandon was kind enough to answer a few questions about his upcoming reading and trip to Lancaster for our annual writing…
Hippocampus Magazine is pleased to announce that it’s offering an increased number of scholarships to HippoCamp: A Conference for Creative Nonfiction Writers this year
Hippocampus Magazine, along with a few generous partners, is offering four scholarships — with a total of six full and two partial awards — to HippoCamp: A Conference for Creative Nonfiction Writers. Each HippoCamp scholarship application requires an essay question about a writing lesson learned and two open-ended questions, which vary based on the award.…
HippoCamp 2021: A Conference for Creative Nonfiction Writers is Aug. 13-15 in Lancaster, PA, produced by Hippocampus Magazine.
It is with a broken heart I share that we’ve decided it’s in the best interest to cancel HippoCamp 2020.
Each year, The Writer polls its readers about writing conferences. Specifically, they’re looking for writers to share their pick for the best writing conference in their state. We’re absolutely stunned and speechless (unless this blog post counts as talking!) that we were voted the best writing conference in Pennsylvania for 2020. This honor…
Almost 10 years into our literary endeavors, we’ve grown beyond what can remain a “one-person passion project.” At the magical HippoCamp 2019, held Aug. 23-25 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Hippocampus Magazine unveiled its new membership program, Friends. We couldn’t state it better here than how it was first announced, in a live heartfelt speech, from Rae…
In anticipation of our upcoming gathering of creative nonfiction writers, over at our conference blog, we published a slew of session and speaker preview posts
HippoCamp, Hippocampus Magazine’s three-day creative nonfiction conference, is next month. Over on the conference website we’ve been posting Q&As with presenters. For this month’s magazine interview, we decided to share a mash-up of those “speaker and session preview” conversations.
by Lori M. Myers, Senior Interview EditorSeveral years ago, writer Dinty W. Moore offered Sarah Einstein some good advice: Marriage is like writing, he said. You need to show up at your writing desk and at your marriage desk. There’s more to this, which Einstein writes about in her essay “What Therefore Dinty Has Joined…
