One day you will tell your story of how you overcame what
you went through and it will be someone else’s survival guide.
Brene’ Brown
Portfolio
I invite you to read the work I showcase here, which includes a variety of my published work, primarily nonfiction, based on experiences of trauma, as well as, my activities of world travel, and outdoor adventure of hiking and climbing. Follow the title links, and if you enjoy my writing, please comment & share on social media . . . and be sure to tell your friends and family!
Barbwire, Brothels and
Bombs in the Night:
Surviving Vietnam
(award-winning memoir)
* Here's two book blurb excerpts:
". . . a front row seat into the ghosts of one man’s past, serving as a reflection of all that can be healed inside of us—as individuals, a nation, and as a world. . . ."
—Cherie Kephart, award-winning author of A Few Minor Adjustments
". . . marks an important and incisive addition to the literature and legacy of the war in Vietnam. . . ."
—Elizabeth Ridley, author, Searching for Celia
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* This nonfiction short story was awarded "Honorable Mention" in the nonfiction category at the 2013 Santa Barbara Writers Conference. (Excerpted chapter from my memoir, Another Day in Vietnam.)
* Published: Connard Hogan, "Who Goes There," The Deadly Writers Patrol, #14, Spring 2018.
Me at the Wall's Highest Point, 345 meters.
"Encounter at Hadrian's Wall"
(award-winning)
* I'm excited to announce that my travel tale of hiking England's Hadrian's Wall Path received a Solas Award from Traveler's Tales. I'm in the Travel and Sports category of the Seventeenth Annual Solas Awards Winners.
* I can now say that I'm an award-winning author!
* This nonfiction short story was awarded "Honorable Mention" in the nonfiction category at the 2013 Santa Barbara Writers Conference. (Excerpted chapter from my memoir, Another Day in Vietnam.)
* Published: Connard Hogan, "Who Goes There," The Deadly Writers Patrol, #14, Spring 2018.
Photo Credit: Col. Jocelyn Ontiveros, U.S. Marine Corps
* This nonfiction short story was awarded "Honorable Mention" in the nonfiction category at the 2013 Santa Barbara Writers Conference. (With slight adaptations is now Chapter 19 of my memoir, Barbwire, Brothel and Bombs in the Night: Surviving Vietnam.)
* Published: Connard Hogan, "Who Goes There," The Deadly Writers Patrol, #14, Spring 2018. (That publication is now defunct, unfortunately.)
Photo Credit: Col. Jocelyn Ontiveros, U.S. Marine Corps
* Report on my achievement of reaching the 50- State Highpoints.
* Published: Connard Hogan, "Connard Hogan Documents His 50 State Highpoints," Highpointers Club: Apex to Zenith Newsletter, #103, Fourth Quarter (Winter) 2013.
* Essay on the similarities of our current social & political environment to that of 1861 (beginnings of the American Civil War).
* Published: Connard Hogan, "Echoes of 1861: A Fragile Freedom that Is Vulnerable from Within," The Santa Barbara Independent.
Illustration Credit: Peter Kuper, PoliticalCartoons.com
* Report on my achievement of reaching the 50- State Lowpoints.
* Published: Connard Hogan, "Connard Hogan, Completer of 50 State Highpoints and 50 State Lowpoints," Highpointers Club: Apex to Zenith Newsletter, #107, Fourth Quarter 2014.
* An experimental prose/poetry piece, "Bach Roman Day," relies on our mind's power of association using modern last names taken from a local phone directory. So quiet your analytical mind and allow your inner poet to conjure a May day of feasting and orgy in ancient Rome.
* Published: Connard Hogan, "Bach Roman Day (Back In Roman Day)," The Offbeat, #19, Spring 2019.
* This article mentioned in "New Issue of The Offbeat" blog post by Lauren Tiedje.
Photo Credit: Adam Fox-Long
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