Hippocampus Magazine’s annual summer creative writing conference, HippoCamp, will celebrate its fifth year in 2019; the professional development event for writers is slated for Aug. 23-25 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, at the Lancaster Marriott at Penn Square.
The HippoCamp conference team is thrilled to announce the headlining evening keynote for 2019, an award-winning memoirist, poet, playwright, and teacher: Nick Flynn.
Flynn will speak Saturday, Aug. 24 at about 7:30 p.m.; the keynote is open to conference attendees only. A Q&A and signing will follow his talk, and a variety of Flynn’s books will be available for purchase all weekend at the conference.
About Nick Flynn:
Nick Flynn is the author of three memoirs, The Reenactments, The Ticking is the Bomb: A Memoir of Bewilderment, and Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, which has been made into a film, Being Flynn, starring Robert DeNiro as Flynn’s father, Julianne Moore, and Paul Dano.
He is the author of five books of poetry, I Will Destroy You (forthcoming September 2019), My Feelings, The Captain Asks For a Show of Hands, Some Ether, which won the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award, and Blind Huber. In January 2019, Ze Books will publish Stay, a collection of threads (ideas, images & thoughts) gathered together from all of Nick Flynn’s twelve published books, along with excerpts of essays & interviews, presented alongside the collaborations that led to—or came out of—these writings.
Flynn has been awarded fellowships from The Guggenheim Foundation, The Library of Congress, The Amy Lowell Trust, and The Fine Arts Work Center. His poems, essays, and non-fiction have appeared in The New Yorker, the Paris Review, National Public Radio’s This American Life, and The New York Times Book Review.
Since 2016, he has been performing with his band Killdeer, a collaboration with Simi Stone, Philip Marshall, and Guy Barash. His work has been translated into fifteen languages.
This three-day writing conference, dedicated to the craft and business of creative nonfiction, features 30+ breakout sessions and panels with more than 50 speakers, author readings, social events, three keynote speakers, a book sale, meals and snacks, and more.
HippoCamp 2019 has started to release parts of the program, including naming a few dozen speakers and breakout sessions. Topics range from voice and structure to author websites and Instagram. Programming is in four tracks: craft, marketing/publishing, writing life, and special topics in CNF. Attendees can extend their learning by adding on a pre-conference generative workshop.
Over the course of the next months, the creative nonfiction conference’s programming will be finalized. The conference website will be continually updated as new speakers and sessions are added and confirmed. For example, in late February and late March, HippoCamp will announce its opening and closing speakers, respectively.
Registration opened today, Feb. 1, and a limited quantity of early-bird tickets ($399) will be available now through May 15 — or until all 150 are sold. Regular pre-registration is $489.
Sponsorship and exhibitor opportunities are available.
For more information on HippoCamp: A Conference for Creative Nonfiction Writers, explore this official conference website or email conference@hippocampusmagazine.com.
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