Reviews are so important to indie authors and small presses. Have you read one of ours? We'd appreciate your honest review on Amazon or Goodreads. More details: https://www.booksbyhippocampus.com/reviews

Explore the Archives! Since 2011, Hippocampus Magazine has published more than 140 issues full of essays, articles, and more. Like a good rerun, there's lots to enjoy again or enjoy for the first time. Browse all back issues here: https://hippocampusmagazine.com/past-issues-archive/

"Commentary from an Eldest Daughter Regarding TSA Approved/Prohibited Items When Traveling by Airplane with a G... https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/11/commentary-from-an-eldest-daughter-regarding-tsa-approved-prohibited-items-when-traveling-by-airplane-with-a-grieving-father-by-sharon-colby/

Author Interview: Hillary Moses Mohaupt speaks with Jennifer Case, author of We Are Animals: On the Nature and Politics of Motherhood: https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/11/interview-jennifer-case-author-of-we-are-animals-on-the-nature-and-politics-of-motherhood/ #interview

"The flowers on the oncology ward balcony are dry and wilted." - From Timo Terasahjo's "The Ward Flowers" in our Nov-Dec issue. Read it here: https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/11/the-ward-flowers-by-timo-terasahjo/ #essay

NEW BOOK REVIEW: Melissa Oliviera reviews Getting Dressed in the Dark by Gabriella D'Italia. Read it here: https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/11/review-getting-dressed-in-the-dark-by-gabriella-d-italia/ #BookReview

"I felt both invisible and exposed." – "Love and Milk Duds" by Kerry Leddy Malawista. read it here: https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/11/love-and-milk-duds-by-kerry-leddy-malawista/ #essay

"Mrs. Harper's desk was at the back of the classroom and we were instructed to line up while she sat and cut the corners from corrected pages..." – from "Correction" by Wanda Hurren in our Nov-Dec issue. https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/11/correction-by-wanda-hurren/

NEW BOOK REVIEW: Sarah Evans reviews Bigger: Essays by Ren Cedar Fuller. Read it here: https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/11/empty-push-to-nov-review-bigger-essays-by-ren-cedar-fuller/

Explore the Archives! Since 2011, Hippocampus Magazine has published more than 140 issues full of essays, articles, and more. Like a good rerun, there's lots to enjoy again or enjoy for the first time. Browse all back issues here: https://hippocampusmagazine.com/past-issues-archive/

Reviews are so important to indie authors and small presses. Have you read one of ours? We'd appreciate your honest review on Amazon or Goodreads. More details: https://www.booksbyhippocampus.com/reviews

Explore the Archives! Since 2011, Hippocampus Magazine has published more than 140 issues full of essays, articles, and more. Like a good rerun, there's lots to enjoy again or enjoy for the first time. Browse all back issues here: https://hippocampusmagazine.com/past-issues-archive/

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"Someone got too drunk one morning and drove their truck into the side of my car" by Charles Michael Pawluk is new at Hippocam... https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/11/someone-got-too-drunk-one-morning-and-drove-their-truck-into-the-side-of-my-car-by-charles-michael-pawluk/ #CreativeNonfiction

NEW #BOOKREVIEW: Diane Gottlieb reviews The Loss of a Lifetime: Grieving Siblings Share Stories of Love, Loss, and Hope, edited by Lynn L. Shattuck and Alyson Shelton. https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/11/review-the-loss-of-a-lifetime-edited-by-lynn-l-shattuck-and-alyson-shelton/

The @chillsubs Lit Mag Awards are back! There are categories like Career Builder, Hidden Gem, New Writer Friendly, Great Editors, and more! Make your noms here: www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...

"I see that it is a woman who has her arms folded like I do. At first, I think she's probably cold too..." -- from "The Prison of Misunderstanding" by Candace Lamb is new at Hippocampus Mag. https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/11/the-prison-of-misunderstanding-by-candace-lamb/ #essay

NEW BOOK REVIEW: Dorothy Rice looks at A Silent Treatment: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco. Read it here: https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/11/review-a-silent-treatment-a-memoir-by-jeannie-vanasco/ #BookReview

"Let's dissociate for a sec." – from the essay "Thrilled to Announce" by C.E. McKenna. https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/11/thrilled-to-announce-by-c-e-mckenna/ #essay

NEW BOOK REVIEW: Leslie Lindsay reviews Giving Up the Ghost: A Daughter's Memoir by Samantha Rose. TW: suicide https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/11/review-giving-up-the-ghost-a-daughter-s-memoir-by-samantha-rose/ #BookReview

Explore the Archives! Since 2011, Hippocampus Magazine has published more than 140 issues full of essays, articles, and more. Like a good rerun, there's lots to enjoy again or enjoy for the first time. Browse all back issues here: https://hippocampusmagazine.com/past-issues-archive/

NEW BOOK REVIEW: Carolyn Roy-Bornstein reviews Living Proof: How Love Defied Genetic Legacy by Tiffany Graham Charkosky. https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/10/review-living-proof-how-love-defied-genetic-legacy-by-tiffany-graham-charkosky/ #BookReview

NEW BOOK REVIEW: Lara Lillibridge reviews Held: Essays in Belonging by Kathryn Nuernberger. Read it here: https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/10/review-held-essays-in-belonging-by-kathryn-nuernberger/ #BookReview

NEW BOOK REVIEW: Vicki Mayk reviews The Tragedy of True Crime by John J Lennon. Read it here: https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/10/review-the-tragedy-of-true-crime-four-guilty-men-and-the-stories-that-define-us-by-john-j-lennon/ #BookReview

Explore the Archives! Since 2011, Hippocampus Magazine has published more than 140 issues full of essays, articles, and more. Like a good rerun, there's lots to enjoy again or enjoy for the first time. Browse all back issues here: https://hippocampusmagazine.com/past-issues-archive/

NEW BOOK REVIEW: "There are books you read, and then there are books that read you." -- Elizabeth Austin reviews Ring of Salt by Betsy Cornwell. Read i... https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/10/review-ring-of-salt-a-memoir-of-finding-home-and-hope-on-the-western-coast-of-ireland-by-betsy-cornwell/

"I pick up my pen, something with dark ink, and begin to write." – "There's This Part of Me That AI, That Medication, Can't Stifle" by Liv Albright. Read it here: https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/10/writing-life-there-s-this-part-of-me-that-ai-that-medication-can-t-stifle/ #WritingLife

NEW BOOK REVIEW: Brian Watson reviews Rehearsals for Dying: Digressions on Love and Cancer, by Ariel Gore. Read it here: https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/10/review-rehearsals-for-dying-digressions-on-love-and-cancer-by-ariel-gore/

"This week's writing frenzy started with a single line — a line that wasn't mine." – from the Writing Life column "Writing With AI Without Losing My Voice" by Heath... https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/10/writing-life-writing-with-ai-without-losing-my-voice-by-heather-gemmen-wilson/ #WritingLife

New Author Interview! Leslie Lindsay interviews Muriel A Murch, author of Harvesting History While Farming the Flats. Read it here: https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/10/interview-muriel-a-murch-author-of-harvesting-history-while-farming-the-flats/ #interview

NEW BOOK REVIEW: Rae Pagliarulo reviews Cat by Rebecca van Laer, part of Bloomsbury's Object Lessons series. Read it here: https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/10/review-cat-by-rebecca-van-laer/

"The fine metal sweat-stink of thirteen. On the rubble track, some of us sinew and muscle, others soft dough." – "Double Dutch" by Margaret Luongo. https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/double-dutch-by-margaret-luongo/ #essay

"imagine this: you're driving in nowhere north texas, norteños on the radio, your aging father in the passenger seat, still as a wrinkle." – "Grief always has a future" by JJ Peña. Read it now; https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/grief-always-has-a-future-by-jj-pena/ #essay

"Today, Mama is the kind of happy I don't trust." – "Lost" by Shoshana Ray. Read it here: https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/lost-by-shoshana-ray/ #essay

NEW BOOK REVIEW: Anri Wheeler reviews The Tilling by Matthew Morris. https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/review-the-tilling-by-matthew-morris/

NEW BOOK REVIEW: Sara Pisak reviews Song So Wild and Blue: A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell by Paul Lisicky. #BookReview https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/review-song-so-wild-and-blue-a-life-with-the-music-of-joni-mitchell-by-paul-lisicky/

NEW BOOK REVIEW: Leslie Lindsay reviews The Lab: Experiments in Writing Across Genre by Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante. https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/review-the-lab-experiments-in-writing-across-genre-by-alice-laplante/

Explore the Archives! Since 2011, Hippocampus Magazine has published more than 140 issues full of essays, articles, and more. Like a good rerun, there's lots to enjoy again or enjoy for the first time. Browse all back issues here: https://hippocampusmagazine.com/past-issues-archive/

AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Hillary Moses Mohaupt interviews Robin Hemley, author of How to Change History: A Salvage Project. https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/interview-robin-hemley-author-of-how-to-change-history-a-salvage-project/

NEW BOOK REVIEW: "Selby's narrator may be tender towards nature, but far less tender towards themself." -- Sarah Rosenthal in her review of Hotshot: A Life on Fire by River Selby. https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/review-hotshot-a-life-on-fire-by-river-selby-2/

NEW INTERVIEW: Amy Eaton speaks with Tania Richard, author of Black Girl from a White Suburb: Finding My Light, Using My Voice. https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/interview-tania-richard-author-of-black-girl-from-a-white-suburb-finding-my-light-using-my-voice/

"Driving a wooded road wreathed with fern and bramble, I spot a dark divot ahead. My fingers clench the wheel. I brake." – "Mink" by Kathryn Ganfield. Read it here: https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/mink-by-kathryn-ganfield/ #essay

NEW BOOK REVIEW: Marjorie Maddox reviews of Apartness: A Memoir in Essays and Poems by Judy Kronenfeld. #BookReviewhttps://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/review-apartness-a-memoir-in-essays-and-poems-by-judy-kronenfeld/

NEW BOOK REVIEW: Brian Watson reviews of How the Hell Did I Not Know That? My Midlife Year from Coach to Curiosity by Lucie Frost. https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/review-how-the-hell-did-i-not-know-that-my-midlife-year-from-couch-to-curiosity/

"The question I always get asked is, how do I manage it all?" – "Balancing Passions as an Author and College" by McKenna Graf. https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/writing-life-balancing-passions-as-an-author-and-college-by-mckenna-graf/

"My friends and I had heard ... that Christine wouldn't be coming back, not the next day, not after summer break." – from "At the Beginning of Autumn I Remember the Last Day... https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/at-the-beginning-of-autumn-i-remember-the-last-days-of-6th-grade-by-gregory-emilio/

NEW BOOK REVIEW: Kristy Wessel reviews All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation by Elizabeth Gilbert. https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/review-all-the-way-to-the-river-love-loss-and-liberation-by-elizabeth-gilbert/

NEW INTERVIEW: Leslie Lindsay speaks with Peter Mendelsund, author of Exhibitionist, a mesmerizing title that's at once a memoir, a journal, and an art book. https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/interview-peter-mendelsund-author-of-exhibitionist/