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November Prompts: I Was Once Called by Another Name
Everyone can get involved with Hippocampus Magazine with {prompts}! Each month, we’ll post a new creative nonfiction prompt, inspired by a real-life event. Fact is stranger than fiction–if we...
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The Writing Life: Writing is simple; all you have to do is sit at a...
Someone once said that writers write the stories that they badly want to read. These stories that writers write in order to read the stories they badly want to read are the stories that writers...
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Writing Life: Twitter Me This, by Lisa Ahn
For all the writer’s groups, the critique partners and beta readers, the professional agents and editors and publishing minions, writing remains, at heart, a solitary endeavor. It is, in the simplest...
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Interview: Linda Joy Myers, President and Founder of National Association of...
I always say that memoir is the most dangerous thing you can write. You sit down, spill your heart onto the page with the best intentions, and the next thing you know you are getting angry emails from...
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Stuffing the Bird by Marisa Gina Mangani
There are family traditions, then there are family traditions. Ours was the Thanksgiving sage stuffing. There are family traditions, then there are family traditions. Ours was the Thanksgiving sage...
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The Fall: A Brief Anthology by Ben Jolivet
The gods constructed our bodies like those wooden puppets one finds in old time toy shops—those rigid little soldiers or scarecrows who stand erect on cylindrical pedestals, but who, with the press of...
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Scarcity by Kim Liao
– Oh wait I forgot to tell you the best part, Dave says as we walk along the warm city streets towards home, talking about the glorious madness of artists and scientists when they are deeply consumed...
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Nothing Between Us Now But Love by Rick Kempa
Rounding a bend, we are met with the astonishing white backdrop of the La Sal Mountains, looming above this red world, and she exclaims, “My lord, I have never seen anything as beautiful as this in all...
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Blaze of Gloria by Suzanne Farrell Smith
Hurricane Gloria was rushing up the East Coast, and as the radio blared the song by the same name, the sky darkened, the wind picked up, the electricity flickered, then failed. We lit candles. “A...
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The Long Way to Home Base by Jodie Dalton
Going Out was serious. It meant passing cryptic and affectionate notes to each other in class. It meant slowly and unconsciously beginning to dress like each other. It meant sharing friends, having...
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