April 27, 2026 Our superb studying staff has completed reviewing entries in Hippocampus Journal’s third annual We Love Quick Shorts Contest for Flash Inventive Nonfiction, and we’re thrilled to announce this 12 months’s winners. Through the month of February, we acquired 308 entries, each as much as 250 phrases. This 12 months’s tales explored moments…
By Jodi Sh. Doff I had one essay, revealed 5 instances over a span of thirty years. A buddy began BUST, the feminist journal for ladies with one thing to get off their chests, in 1993. The primary problem was only a ‘zine, Xeroxed, stapled, crude. I’m undecided I considered myself as a author again…
I’m not precisely positive what it’s about true crime that’s so alluring, why everybody turns into an armchair detective when a giant case breaks into nationwide information, however they do. I learn novelist Benjamin Hale’s forthcoming ebook, Cave Mountain: A Disappearance and a Reckoning within the Ozarks (Harper; March, 2026), earlier than it was publicly…
Partly certainly one of this weblog submit, I broke down how Arthur C. Brooks promoted and hosted a large e-book launch occasion that propelled his e-book to New York Occasions Bestseller standing. Whereas this main achievement isn’t a possible end result for many non-celebrity authors or non-influencers, you’ll be able to nonetheless host a profitable…
By Amy Shea My first-ever revealed essay, “The Interval Calendar,” was about getting my first interval throughout a time when teen being pregnant dominated cultural creativeness. I didn’t consider it as political writing; it felt extra like a solipsistic train. However years later, I may see it as political. With out saying it outright, I…
My pal Andrea made me a mixtape in highschool after I’d kissed my first boyfriend. The mixtape centered across the made-up fairytale of “Princess Kristine and Prince ___,” and between the chunks of narration Andrea had written and browse aloud, she performed related ‘90s-era songs like “Kiss Me” by Sixpence None the Richer. The mixtape…
Throughout this instructional presentation, NFAA CEO Stephanie Chandler shares confirmed methods that you should use to develop a advertising and marketing plan to succeed in your targets. You’ll learn to: => Establish and appeal to your superb viewers. => Use content material advertising and marketing techniques to extend web site visitors, develop your electronic mail…
By Allison Ok Williams In memoir, we’re already at a drawback within the drama & pressure division—the reader is aware of you survived, and thrived sufficient to jot down a e-book about it. Too usually, an essay’s first paragraphs or a memoir’s first pages—whether or not Introduction, Prologue or Chapter One—spell out the story to…
It’s been over a month since AWP 2026, which occurred in Baltimore, and in addition greater than a month since we launched Chosen Recollections Vol. 2: 15 Years of Hippocampus Journal into the world — and I, Donna T, have been that means to jot down a weblog put up recap ever since! Alas, it’s…