New work in ‘Club Plum Literary Journal’

A piece I wrote called “The Things My Father Used to Eat” is included in the latest issue of Club Plum Literary Journal. The latest issue went live last Friday. Huzzah!

Image: screenshot of list of contributors to Club Plum Literary Journal, Volume 5, Issue 3

Friday Five: Hippocampus Magazine editor Donna Talarico on creative nonfiction

‘Like fiction, good memoir can also allow people to get lost in another world.’

Portrait photograph of Donna Talarico, founder, publisher and managing editor of Hippocampus Magazine
Donna Talarico, Hippocampus Magazine founder, publisher and managing editor

The literary genre known as creative nonfiction (CNF) has grown in popularity in recent years, and one brilliant and consistent source of great CNF is Hippocampus Magazine. The online literary magazine has been going strong since its debut in 2010.

In today’s Friday Five, Donna Talarico, the magazine’s founder, publisher and managing editor, provides her insights on CNF and the magazine she founded.

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Shifting gears

Making the switch from writing short fiction and flash fiction to creative nonfiction feels like switching gears for me. Or maybe it’s better described as switching vehicles entirely.

With fiction, I quickly get in the zone. I’m driving a Porsche or a Ferrari, zooming along the autobahn.

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