{"id":860,"date":"2014-03-29T09:40:07","date_gmt":"2014-03-29T16:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=860"},"modified":"2014-04-03T15:20:28","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T22:20:28","slug":"hippocampus-magazine-wants-your-story-about-all-kinds-of-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/hippocampus-magazine-wants-your-story-about-all-kinds-of-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Hippocampus Magazine wants your story about All Kinds of Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Hippocampus Magazine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hippocampusmagazine.com\/2014\/02\/5831\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hippocampus Magazine<\/a> enthusiastically accepts unsolicited submissions in the following categories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>memoir excerpt \u2013 a self-contained portion (chapter or selection) of a larger, book-length work<\/li>\n<li>personal essay \u2013 a short narrative reflecting on a particular life experience or observation<\/li>\n<li>flash creative nonfiction or a work of creative nonfiction in an experimental format<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/owl.english.purdue.edu\/owl\/resource\/753\/02\/\" target=\"_blank\">Here is an article<\/a> that discusses the difference between memoir and essay. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.writersrelief.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/short-prose-genres-defining-essay-short-story-commentary-memoir-and-mixed-genre\/\" target=\"_blank\">And here is another<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>2014 Theme: Weather &amp; Acts of Nature<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>From storms and sprinkles to earthquakes and extreme heat, Mother Nature can pack a punch or paint a pretty picture. Weather can be wacky and wild. And weather can be calm.<\/p>\n<p>Weather often plays a character in our everyday\u2014and not so everyday\u2014lives. We\u2019re seeking tales in which the weather or even a natural disaster played a significant or supporting role.<\/p>\n<p>To be clear, we\u2019re not specifically looking for stories just about <i>bad<\/i> weather or destruction; instead, we seek any personal essay or memoir excerpt related to the weather in some way. Maybe you dated a meteorologist? Perhaps you were stuck at an airport for a day and made an unlikely friend\u2026 Maybe the sun came out at JUST the right time\u2026 Perhaps there\u2019s a story behind your umbrella\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Also of note: we\u2019re not looking for essays\/articles\/opinion pieces solely about why climate change does or does not exist\u2014Hippo is not the venue for that.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re open to submissions for this issue now through April 30; submissions should adhere to our usual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hippocampusmagazine.com\/submissions\/\" target=\"_blank\">guidelines<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We like quirky, we like edgy, we like witty, we like smart, we like to be moved, we like pieces that stick with us.<\/p>\n<p>Have fun! We look forward to your weather stories.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Colby.Evening-Sky.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-867\" alt=\"Colby.Evening Sky\" src=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Colby.Evening-Sky-200x300.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Colby.Evening-Sky-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Colby.Evening-Sky.jpg 427w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo by Colby Drake. <a title=\"Colby Drake\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colbydrakedesign.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Colby Drake Design.<\/a>\u00a0 Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/colbydrakedesign\" target=\"_blank\">Colby&#8217;s Facebook Page.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hippocampus Magazine enthusiastically accepts unsolicited submissions in the following categories: memoir excerpt \u2013 a self-contained portion (chapter or selection) of a larger, book-length work personal essay \u2013 a short narrative reflecting on a particular life experience or observation flash creative nonfiction or a work of creative nonfiction in an experimental format Here is an article [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[126],"tags":[95,385,383,117,113,384],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-write-2","tag-colby-drake","tag-colby-drake-design","tag-hippocampus-magazine","tag-memoir","tag-personal-essay","tag-writing-contest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-dS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":917,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions\/917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}