August 14, 2019
Joanne Lozar Glenn is a writer, editor, and educator whose work has been published in Beautiful Things, Peregrine, Hippocampus, Brevity, and other print and online journals. As an experienced leader of writing groups and destination writing retreats, she returns to HippoCamp to lead a session called “Describe, Don’t Prescribe: How to Give and Get Better […]
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August 14, 2019
Dave Pidgeon is a professional writer and photographer from Lancaster, PA (the home of HippoCamp!). His work experience includes newspaper and magazine journalism, where he learned the value of deep investigatory skills. He returns to HippoCamp this year for two great sessions: “Finding Truth in Your Family’s Rumors and Legends” and “’Oh You Write? That’s […]
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August 12, 2019
Rachel Dougherty is a Philadelphia-based author/illustrator driven by a love of nonfiction for young readers. She has illustrated several educational picture books and has written one nonfiction early reader. She is the author/illustrator of the recently published Secret Engineer: How Emily Roebling Built the Brooklyn Bridge. In the flash session “Nonfiction for Kids: How to Mine […]
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August 12, 2019
Rae Pagliarulo is the flash and writing life editor for Hippocampus Magazine, and she also works as a nonprofit development consultant. Her essays, poems, and articles have appeared in Hippocampus, The Manifest-Station, r.kv.r.y. quarterly, the Brevity Blog, and more. She returns to HippoCamp to lead a pre-conference workshop called “Creative Survival Handbooks for Writers,” because […]
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August 7, 2019
Patrice Gopo is the author of the essay collection All the Colors We Will See. Her essays have appeared in a variety of publications. This is her first time attending at HippoCamp, where she will speak about how to organize our personal essays into a book in a session called “Greater Than the Sum of […]
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August 7, 2019
Suzanne Farrell Smith is a writer, editor, and teacher. This is her first time attending HippoCamp, where she will read from her new memoir The Memory Sessions in the debut author panel “A Night of Nonfiction.” HM: Tell us a little about your involvement this year at HippoCamp. If you’re running a break-out session or […]
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July 29, 2019
Estelle Erasmus is an award-winning journalist, writing coach, and former magazine editor-in-chief of five national consumer publications. She’s been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Brain, Child, Family Circle and more. This year at HippoCamp, Estelle will share her expertise on how to get noticed by an editor in her break-out session […]
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July 27, 2019
Rebecca Fish Ewan is a poet, cartoonist, writer, and zinemaker, as well as a landscape architecture teacher at Arizona State University. Her memoir By the Forces of Gravity was published in 2018. She will discuss hybrid forms of writing and how to incorporate drawing in CNF writing at her pre-conference workshop “Drawing for Writers,” […]
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July 21, 2019
James M. Chesbro is the author of A Lion in the Snow: Essays on a Father’s Journey Home, from which essays chosen as notable selections in The Best American Essays series in 2012, 2014, 2015, 2017, and 2018. He will read from his work and speak on the panel for “A Night of Nonfiction: Debut […]
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July 21, 2019
Tania Pabón Acosta is a writer and a new face at HippoCamp. Her work has appeared in Briller, Gravel, Breadcrumbs Mag, and is forthcoming in Pigeon Pages. Her talk “Things I Remember: Managing Memory to Organize and Generate Material” will be a great opportunity for creative nonfiction writers to learn how to organize their memories […]
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