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WRITING LIFE: Through Line by Katie McDougallSenior year in college I landed in a fiction writing course and wrote a coming-of-age story about a good Catholic girl falling for a bad boy. On a...
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Meet the Team: A Q&A With Sarah Evans, ReviewerThis is a recurring series to introduce, celebrate, and elevate our amazing crew of volunteers. In this installment, we talk to Sarah...
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PROFILE: Jeannine Ouellette, Author of The Part That Burns & Creator of Writing in the Darkby Melissa Greenwood Isn’t it ironic how someone who, by middle age, has already lived an arguably difficult, complicated but also full and rich...
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INTERVIEW: Kyo Maclear author of Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family SecretsInterview by Michèle Dawson Haber Kyo Maclear is the only child of her Japanese mother and British Canadian father. Or that’s what she...
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INTERVIEW: Barrie Miskin, Author of Hell Gate BridgeInterview by Leslie Lindsay “I’ve always been good at remembering names,” writes Barrie Miskin in the prologue of Hell Gate Bridge: A Memoir...
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INTERVIEW: Jessica Fein, Author of Breath Taking: A Memoir of Family, Dreams & Broken GenesInterview by Morgan Baker Within the first pages of Jessica Fein’s memoir, Breath Taking: A Memoir of Family, Dreams, and Broken Genes ,...
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INTERVIEW: Molly Giles, Author of Life Span: Impressions of a Lifetime Spent Crossing and Recrossing the Golden Gate BridgeInterview by Dorothy Rice It was a rare treat to interview Molly Giles (via Zoom), a prolific, beloved and uniquely gifted, multiple...
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REVIEW: I Sing to Use the Waiting by Zachary PaceReview by Emily Webber I’ve always taken refuge in the written word and the surrounding silence. My husband is a frequent attendee of live...
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REVIEW: Starry Field: A Memoir of Lost History by Margaret Juhae LeeReviewed by: Angela L. Eckhart When asked to select a book from a list of available review copies, I chose this one based on the title for two...
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REVIEW: American Mother by Colum McCann with Diane FoleyReviewed by Vicki Mayk The late journalist Jim Foley once used a line from a Prussian general as a tagline on his blog. It encapsulated his...
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REVIEW: Thunder Song: Essays, by Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointeReviewed by Sarah Evans Strong women. Connections to our home and landscape. Losing — and gaining — cultural identity. Shame. Beauty....
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Our August Online Creative Nonfiction Events: Announcing Our 2024 Night of Nonfiction Line-Up + Other TeasersDuring the weekend of August 10–11, Hippocampus Magazine is hosting a series of online readings, craft sessions, and discussions all related to...
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INTERVIEW: Michelle Ephraim, Author of Green WorldInterview by Amy Fish From the first time I saw the cover at the AWP Bookfair, I knew Green World: A Tragicomic Memoir of Love &...
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The Last Ride by Carol E. AndersonWe speed, Mauree and I, through the streets of Seattle in an ambulance. Torrents of rain slap, slap, slap against the van. I strain against...
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Trickster Laughs by Staci MercadoCoyote jumped in front of my fiancé and me on our way to the Missoula courthouse—rattled up underneath the hood like a bag of stones and...
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Frill by Rebecca Tiger“I found a picture of you, holding a cigarillo.” I tell my mother. “Oh.” “You used to smoke those, right?” “I guess so. But I don’t like...
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Lai Lai Dance Hall by Shinichi TeradaI sat in a chair in front of the usual table display: an ashtray, an opened red pack of Chunghwa cigarettes, a cast iron kettle of tea, and...
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Braiding Shapes by Gabriella GraceffoAfter the divorce, my father teaches me how to braid bread. It’s July, two weeks into triple digit heat. As he presses my hands into the...
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Dispatched from the Ice by Whitney BrownThe vehicles slowed, then stopped, then parked on the side of the highway. We spilled out, grabbed our lunches, shivered like leaves in the...
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Alone and Adrift in a Birthing Tub by Elizabeth SavageThe warm water lapped at my enormous belly as I leaned back and attempted to float. The tub, located in the corner of my hospital room, was...
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The Facts of Your Body by Ava RobinsonYour autopsy was performed at 9:20 a.m. on June 30, 2013. I was 25 years, 3 hours and 50 minutes old. It made me think of the times you woke...
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Transits by Andi BeiermanI realize I am middle-aged when I meet Destiny. She wears silver eyeshadow and has acrylic turquoise nails that click when she drums her...
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Meet the Team: 6 Questions with Anthony J. Mohr, Essays ReaderThis is a recurring series to introduce, celebrate, and elevate our amazing crew of volunteers. In this installment of the Meet...
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Meet the Team: 6 Questions With Steph Auteri, Essays EditorThis is a recurring series to introduce, celebrate, and elevate our amazing crew of volunteers. To kick off this series, our first...
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WRITING LIFE: Deadlines > Doors: Writing Can Happen Anywhere by Annabelle TometichI am sitting on the short end of our sectional couch, a dog to my right, my hard-of-hearing mother to my left, a kid and her iPad on the chair...
