An exclusively online publication set out to entertain, educate and engage writers and readers of creative nonfiction. Each issue features memoir excerpts, personal essays, reviews, interviews and craft articles.

Donna Talarico

Rae Pagliarulo

Steph Auteri

Wendy Fontaine

Jenn Hall

Hippocampus Magazine

True tales from your life. Honesty that possesses both the situation AND the story. Intensely personal experiences that reflect universal truths about what it means to be human.

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They also publish books. [But the press division is on hiatus through Aug. 2024]

Occasionally, we may open a call for special theme issues and other magazine-related projects.

We offer a $40 honorarium to authors who publish with us.

I spent languid days at this beach, catching sand crabs by the bucketful, sifting sand out of my bathing suit, boogie boarding and bodysurfing until I could barely keep my eyes open, my mouth always puckered from too much salt water.

Home is a Feeling

On my birthday, my grandma loses her speech. Her caregiver thinks it might be a stroke. She is rushed to the ER and I visit her there hours later when her speech has returned and she uses it to introduce me to the nurse. She’s Romanian, she tells me

Swimming with My Grandma

"Sculpt the peaks and valleys of the flames as they caress her cheeks, her arms, her everything, and paint the man who went back for her and never returned."

Self-Portrait

Wet paint wrinkles up thin pages like the skin of an aging woman. A quick stroke of coral forms a sagging smile. Form the strong cheekbones and knowing eyes and you have Marilee, a God-fearing woman with an opinion a little too loud. 

After the river rose, a kid ran screaming into town. Dead woman in a tree, strung up by stuff. A mile from the river, we saw the mangled body between the high oak branches, alive. 

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