August 5, 2018
Elane Johnson is one of HippoCamp’s biggest fans. She’s been to every event since 2015, and this year will be her second time speaking. Last year, her book proposal flash session was a hit, and this year she’ll bring her wisdom and special brand of humor to a session on creating dialogue that doesn’t suck. […]
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August 5, 2018
Joanne Lozar Glenn is a loyal HippoCamper and a returning speaker. This year, she’s part of our flash session line-up with a topic we could all use assistance with: Describe, not prescribe: How to give helpful feedback when you’re in a writing group or class. We asked Joanne about her involvement in this year’s […]
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August 5, 2018
Returning speaker Margaret Montent will give a flash session called The Art of Organizing Reality: The Role of the Commonplace Book in Writing Creative Nonfiction. We love this unique topic idea, and can’t wait to learn more! In the meantime, we asked Margaret a few questions. HM: Tell us a little about […]
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August 5, 2018
B. Lynn Goodwin will be on our panel of writers getting started after 40. This was a topic in demand last year, so we added it to our conference proposal wish list. We received so many submissions for the topic that we decided to invite a few of them to serve on a panel […]
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July 28, 2018
Kate Meadows is a returning HippoCamp speaker. This year, her proposal fills a widely requested topic that we included in our call-for-proposal wish list. We’re so happy she submitted this. Attendees are so excited about her session, which is all about the “quiet memoir”! We asked Kate a few questions about HippoCamp. […]
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July 20, 2018
So much of what’s offered at writing conferences is based on craft, but at HippoCamp, we also LOVE to pay attention to what happens AFTER you have a story to share … and sell. Publicity is SO crucial and that’s why we were excited to receive Joey Garcia’s proposal for Pitch Yourself As A […]
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July 20, 2018
Home means something different to everyone. With a word with such depth, how does one actually write about “home?” Previous Hippocampus Magazine contributor Sue Repko, along with Parker Blaney, will address this in a breakout sessions called “Writing Home.” HM: Tell us a little about your involvement in HippoCamp this year. What are […]
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July 20, 2018
A recurring theme at past HippoCamp was attendees getting serious about their writing a little later in life. We included this topic in our wish list for proposals for this year’s conference. After we received many submissions about writing after 40, we decided to create a panel to offer multiple perspectives. Dorothy Rice is […]
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July 19, 2018
The human brain is a fascinating specimen! And, as writers of true stories, we may be interested in just how our noggin makes and maintains our memory. That’s where writer, journalism professor and past HippoCamp speaker Wendy Fontaine comes in! Wendy is running a pre-conference workshop called Writing Into the Blur: Using Brain Science […]
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July 19, 2018
Something we at Hippocampus feel isn’t discussed at writing conferences enough is author websites and marketing. It’s more than “send a Tweet!” That’s why we’re thrilled Mandy Pennington is back at HippoCamp for a second year, this year for a breakout session called “I Have an Author Website: Now What?” We asked her a […]
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