In her session “Write Like a Musician,” Lillie Gardner stated that creative nonfiction and music are both TMI: temporal, manipulative (in affect), and interpretive.
It Takes Discipline to Write Like a Musician: A HippoCamp Recap
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The Road to Publication is Long & 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.
Empathy Over Agreement: Ruth Nasrullah Shows Us How to “Get It Right” When Writing About Religion
….I’ve only recently started writing about my Catholic upbringing. But writing about religion can be tricky, especially when you don’t have particularly nice things to say.
Using Humor in Creative Nonfiction (with Maryann Aita): A HippoCamp 2022 Recap
When I first saw Maryann Aita’s session “Lighten Up: Infusing Humor into Serious Nonfiction,”, I thought: “This one’s not for me because the writing I do is So Very Serious!”
HippoCamp Recap: Using Mindfulness to Quiet the Inner Critic with Lisa Jakub
In her HippoCamp 2022 session, Lisa Jakub told HippoCampers about her struggles with her own inner critic.
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.
HippoCamp Recap: Sue Repko’s Advice for Diving into the Wreck & Self-Care for Writers
by Lillie Gardner, guest bloggerThis post is part of a HippoCamp 2022 recap series, with guest blog posts written by HippoCamp attendees. Learn more about our conference for creative nonfiction writers. The term “self-care” is casually thrown around these days, usually paired with images of flawless female models getting cucumber-eyed facials or taking pristine white…
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.
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: 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.”
