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…
Hippocampus Magazine is pleased to share our 2021 creative nonfiction nominations for the Pushcart Prize.
The first time I encountered rigor mortis I was seven.
I fall back on the greatest power I know as an adolescent girl, which is to say nothing.
On the inside of my right ankle sits the lowercase letter “t.” It’s not often visible, but every once in a while it will provoke a comment.
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…
One of the guards calls out, Who you got? and his teammate says, Skinny nigga. He means me.
