We’re always pleased to share updates from our family of contributor-alumni and HippoCamp presenters. Here’s what we’ve collected between our last update now; most of these were submitted via our form, but we also try to keep an eye for exciting news you share on social and your own newsletters. But we can’t catch everything,…
This is a recurring series to introduce, celebrate, and elevate our amazing crew of volunteers. In this installment of the Meet the Team series we talk to Annie Rehill, who joined our flash reading team in late 2023. Annie’s book The Apocalypse Is Everywhere: A Popular History of America’s Favorite Nightmare explores the end-of-world mindset…
Reviewed by Diane Gottlieb When you suffer from mental illness, the world does not treat you kindly. People with mental health challenges are subject to harsh judgments and often feel dismissed or shamed. When a woman suffers from mental illness and is pregnant or has recently given birth, her road becomes much more difficult. She…
Reviewed by Diane Gottlieb When you suffer from mental illness, the world does not treat you kindly. People with mental health challenges are subject to harsh judgments and often feel dismissed or shamed. When a woman suffers from mental illness and is pregnant or has recently given birth, her road becomes much more difficult. She…
Interview by Hillary Moses Mohaupt Ellen van Neerven has been a soccer player, poet, fiction writer, teacher, and much more. Their first poetry collection, Comfort Food, was shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Kenneth Slessor Prize, and their next poetry collection, Throat was the recipient of Book of the Year, the Kenneth Slessor Prize and the…
It is simply not enough to write a narrative about a traumatic experience and hope to reach a deep connection with our readers. It is the well-rounded characters, with their quirks and struggles, embedded with deep reflection, that bring the reader and author together on the page. While writing my memoir, Remote Outpost: Fighting with…
It is simply not enough to write a narrative about a traumatic experience and hope to reach a deep connection with our readers. It is the well-rounded characters, with their quirks and struggles, embedded with deep reflection, that bring the reader and author together on the page. While writing my memoir, Remote Outpost: Fighting with…
It’s been two years since my wife and I have had sex. Between the vicious return of my six-year-old daughter’s daily seizures, financial concerns, my mom’s breast cancer, and my wife Jackie’s work stress, there’s little mystery as to how I have arrived in a sexual wasteland. At thirty-three, I’m distraught by this physical absence,…
It’s been two years since my wife and I have had sex. Between the vicious return of my six-year-old daughter’s daily seizures, financial concerns, my mom’s breast cancer, and my wife Jackie’s work stress, there’s little mystery as to how I have arrived in a sexual wasteland. At thirty-three, I’m distraught by this physical absence,…
One winter in my early twenties, I coat checked at a French bistro in Chelsea where there were radishes in bowls on the zinc bartop. They were regular radishes, though very big and clean, tops cut off neatly. Since the radishes had no discernable connection to the restaurant’s name or fare, customers often asked about…
