It’s laborious to imagine one other 12 months has come and gone. We love doing these annual round-ups, and we one way or the other missed this in 2024. However we’re again with our custom!

We’re so pleased with the work our volunteer editorial and studying crew has achieved to supply six superb points and many content material in between.

We’re grateful for our contributors, visitor writers, and occasion audio system for making what we do doable.

We’re extremely grateful for our Mates of Hippocampus, who’ve made one-time and recurring items to assist help what we do.

Whereas our in-person convention, HippoCamp remains to be on indefinite hiatus and our small press division is taking a pause from publishing new single-author titles, we stay enthusiastic about what’s to come back. Thanks for being a part of our journey.

First, a glance forward for 2026: 

Whereas we have been based in 2010, our first concern went dwell in Could 2011. Meaning 2026 marks 15 years of publishing inventive nonfiction.

We proceed to be pushed and guided by our motto: Entertain, Educate, and Interact Readers and Writers of Inventive Nonfiction. The journal — and all of our content material — is the center of what we do.

Search for an announcement quickly (and we might replace this submit later to replicate the information!) about one thing enjoyable occurring to commemorate this large milestone.

2026 will, after all, deliver six new bimonthly points and month-to-month evaluations/interviews/columns to maintain you studying — and loads of new How-To Tuesdays and Tales on Sundays to maintain you studying and fascinating.

Now, let’s replicate on 2025

A textual content model of this infographic is beneath.

As soon as once more, thanks for supporting our independently run, self-sustaining journal. These superb info and stats above would NOT be doable with out our readers, contributors, attendees, and volunteers.

Yet another stat for you:

Thanks once more for being a part of our neighborhood. We hope to see you on-line, on the socials, and at one in all our occasions within the new 12 months.

Cheers,

Donna Talarico, founder and writer
On behalf of our entire crew

A textual content model of this infographic for these utilizing screenreaders:

• Elevating Voices – 53 writers revealed in our journal over 6 bimonthly points, together with 23 essays and 30 flash items
• Supporting the Style – 116 articles, together with 74 evaluations, 26 interviews, 9 writing life columns, and seven craft columns
• Nurturing Craft – 13 foremost occasions, together with an August weekend stuffed with programming for a complete of 9 readings, 13 classes, 2 panels; greater than 30 audio system/authors/hosts have been featured
• Studying Readers – 262,328 web page views at HippocampusMagazine.com in 2025
• Different info and stats
  • 175 items of content material in whole, which incorporates information upates
  • 241,549 phrases revealed at HippocampusMagazine.com, collectively
  • 85% enhance in flash submissions
• 10 Most Considered Tales:
  • “Clear Reduce” (Jen Gilman Porat)
  • “Keep away from Home windows” (Michael Gutierrez)
  • “Loopy Annie’s Lady” (Patricia Pease)
  • “Subtraction” (Paula Burke)
  • “Lifesavers” (Victoria Morsell Hemingson)
  • “Three Envelopes“ (Carrie Mac)
  • “The Ones Who Stroll Away” (Erica Peterson)
  • “Foghorn 1980” (Beth Tillman)
  • “Boys on Bicycles Holding Arms” (Brad Snyder)
  • “On the Starting of Autumn I Bear in mind the Final Days of 6th Grade” (Gregory Emilio)