Conference News

Allison Williams has double duty at HippoCamp 2015. She’s presenting a break-out session called “How to Get Published in Literary Magazines” and also she’s hosting an add-on pre-conference workshop, “How to Save $500 on Your Next Edit.” So, basically, Allison is here to help you get polished AND published. Coming from Dubai, she also wins […]

Monique Antonette Lewis knows a thing or two about building a community of writers. Her At the Inkwell series in New York is quite the success, and it soon expand to other cities. She’s excited about sharing her experiences with attendees as part of our literary citizenship panel. And she’s also excited about putting on […]

Wendy Fontaine is traveling from one coast to the other for HippoCamp (well, almost: Pennsylvania is a landlocked state, but we’re not far from the Atlantic!), and aside from California sunshine the writer-slash-journalism professor is bringing along knowledge about the fallacies of memory and how we can use what we forget in our memoirs. Our […]

Mackenzie Brady of New Leaf Literary & Media is part of our Publishing Panel: Agents & Editors on CNF Today. We’re excited for her insight. We asked her a few questions about her upcoming creative writing conference appearance: Hippocampus: What is your best advice for attending a writing conference, whether it’s for newbies or veterans? […]

Nicole Frail, an editor at Skyhorse Publishing, will be part of two HippoCamp events: the Agents & Editors Panel and a post-conference Query Workshop. We asked her a few questions about her appearance and her responses are below. We learned something really cool, too: we hadn’t known a Lancaster-based cookbook was forthcoming from Skyhorse! Hippocampus:  […]

Lori M. Myers is an award-winning, multi-genre writer, and she’s also a central PA resident. We’re so pleased to welcome her to HippoCamp: A Conference for Creative Nonfiction Writers. She’s presenting “Acting the Book: Putting Pizzaz Into Your Literary Readings.” Here, Lori answers a few questions about her upcoming session and involvement with the conference. […]

We’re so excited about our upcoming conference that this blog post might be tad longer than most we post. With our registration deadline nearing, we wanted to share some extra highlights of HippoCamp: A Conference for Creative Nonfiction Writers all in one place. This conference is an incredible value–and our early bird registration deadline is […]

I’ve attended a few professional conferences in my day, and what I’ve learned is that there are four different types of spaces that are integral to making my experience fun and successful with the lowest amount of stress possible. Luckily, Lancaster has all four of these “levels” in spades. Read on for a few of […]

Lancaster both breeds and attracts writers. It’s a small city, just under 60,000, positioned in a landscape of equal parts farm and forest. What is it about the area that sustains such an active and diverse lit scene? 1. Community If they plan to remain sane, writers can’t spend all their free time writing. They […]

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