HippoCamp Weekend includes four main separate events, plus evening "chill and chats," which are informal Zoom meetings that allow registered attendees to connect and reflect.

"a beautiful combination of elegy and manifesto." -- Amy Goldmacher in her review of What Ever Happened to Eddy Crane? A Memoir and a Murder Investigation by Kate Crane

More sociological study than memoir [it] examines the U.S. model of addiction recovery through four people. -- review of Rehab: An America Scandal by Shoshana Walter

"Stephanie Stalvey and I grew up in similar strains of evangelicalism, both of us learning at a young age that we were sinners who deserved to spend eternity in hell." --McKenzie Watson-Fore

Leslie Lindsay interviews Benjamin Hale, author of Cave Mountain: A Disappearance and a Reckoning in the Ozarks, a book that blends true-crime, memoir, and cultural history.

Will This Make You Happy is fundamentally a coming-of-age story in which Tanya Bush becomes a professional baker. -- Melissa Oliveira

Some of us don’t write just to document; we write to survive. -- Lori Lackland in The Things I Carried Out of Suburbia: Using Classic Structure to Write Memoir.

"I spent five years on the book before that essay was published...and at that point, I’d largely given up." Karen Palmer, author of She’s Under Here: A Memoir.

"Winter [by Val McDermid] is a beautifully meandering journey through childhood, local history, and a writer’s life." -- from Charmaine Lam's review.

Radical Cartography’s best achievement is explaining what maps can do and why it’s worthwhile to learn more about them. -- Anthony J. Mohr, reviewing William Rankin

"[The Heart Folds Early] is heartbreaking. But it is also filled with joy, beauty, tension, conflict; it’s a great read." -- Nan J. Bauer

"I watched from the kitchen doorway as my aunt Marge taught my mother how to carve the moose my father brought home..." - from Moose Bones by Susan Pope.

"I didn’t expect Map of a Heart: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Finding the Way Home (to be a page turner, like a mystery, but it is." -- Morgan Baker's interview

Leslie Lindsay interviews CNN anchor Carol Lin about her new book, When News Breaks: A Memoir of Love and War for our March-April 2026 edition.

"After high school ended for the day, my younger brother and I would go to a nearby park to practice hopping fences." -- from Hopping and Fences by Rob Bianco

"If I were to use one word to describe Governing Bodies: A Memoir, a Confluence, a Watershed by Sangamithra Iyer, it would be tender." -- Amy Roost's review

It may seem old-fashioned — especially since the advent of Substack— but my daily writing practice revolves around a personal blog. -- Dorothy Dean Walton

I want to tell one thing, one perfect thing. I was a 12-year-old kid in the Garden of Eden. At the center of the garden, a perfect natural spring boiled up from a deep subterranean source, its waters as clear as a glass of club soda. Fish flashed through the water silver and quick. Too The Garden of Eden by Michael Horton

"Griffiths' accounting of her life since marrying fellow author Salman Rushdie in 2021 is Biblical." -- a review of The Flower Bearers by Rachel Eliza Griffith

"Nights in the desert we sped down soft roads." -- from the flash essay Under the Catclaw Bush by JR Fenn in our March-April 2026 issue.

Music can be closely tied to our memories, and this can be a boon when we write about our past experiences. -- John Garrison in his CRAFT column, March 2026.