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  • Contest Announcement: The 2026 We Love Quick Shorts Finalists & Particular Mentions

    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…

  • AWP 2026 & Chosen Recollections Vol. 2 Launch Occasion Recap

    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…

  • The 2026 We Love Quick Shorts Contest for Flash Artistic Nonfiction Open for Submissions Feb. 1-28

    January 30, 2026 In honor of the shortest month of the 12 months which incorporates the loving-est day of the 12 months, we’re holding our third annual We Love Quick Shorts Contest for Flash Artistic Nonfiction! All through the month of February, we’re inviting flash nonfiction writers to submit quick essays (aka flash CNF; aka…

  • Alumni Updates – Late 2025/Early 2026

    We’re at all times happy to share updates from our household of contributor-alumni and occasion presenters. Consider this as your alma mater’s Class Notes, solely the alumni are our volunteers, contributors, and audio system. This replace is lengthy overdue and, due to that, this installment consists of virtually a yr’s value of great accomplishments that…

  • Chosen Reminiscences Vol. 2 Coming in March 2026

    We’re so excited to announce that we’re releasing a second quantity of Chosen Reminiscences in March.  In 2026, Hippocampus Journal celebrates 15 years of publishing inventive nonfiction. Since our first concern, we’ve been proud to amplify so many voices, so many truths. These scores of writers — and lots of of non-public essays and flash…

  • 2025 Hippocampus Journal Recap | Hippocampus Journal

    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…

  • 2025 Pushcart Prize Nominees – CNF

    December 8, 2025   This 12 months at Hippocampus Journal we printed six points and 45+ items of artistic nonfiction from rising and established writers. As all the time, we’re so extremely proud the compelling voices we get to share with our readers in every version. And yearly, we’re confronted with an unimaginable problem when…

  • 2025 Better of the Web Nominees

    October 23, 2025 The Better of the Web Anthology from Sundress Publications has been celebrating literary journals and artistic writers since 2006. Every year, they subject a name for nominees to place collectively a group of, properly, the perfect of the ‘web from that 12 months. Submitted every September, the nominations should be for tales…

  • From the Archives: A Father’s Day Spherical-Up — Artistic Nonfiction About Dads by D. Nicholas Penglase

    Father’s Day is a time once we look to honor these males in our lives who’ve given us love, safety, steerage, and affection. For many people, that is our organic father, whereas others it possibly was a grandfather, a stepfather, or one other male position mannequin in our life who ended up performing as a…

  • Contest Announcement: The 2025 We Love Quick Shorts Finalists & Particular Mentions

    Could 2, 2025 Our outstanding studying workforce has completed reviewing entries in Hippocampus Journal’s second annual We Love Quick Shorts Contest for Flash Inventive Nonfiction, and we’re thrilled to announce this yr’s winners. In February, we obtained 320 entries, every one as much as 250 phrases. These items expressed all kinds of themes, together with…