Memoir and Life Writing Special
Issue 15 celebrates Hinterland’s fifth anniversary by turning its pages over to a non-fiction genre most frequently submitted to the magazine: memoir and life writing.
Our contributors take a personal lens to a broad range of subjects, from grappling with health anxiety to a past life in a strip club. Relationships are explored - between family members, between a death row prisoner and his pen pal, between the self and a country and language. Autobiographical stories are told through everyday objects and mundane structures while the death of a loved one is recounted through artefacts that heartbreakingly remind his fiancée of his life. This issue also sees the return of our regular features: Ekphrasis and Brief Lives, with explorations of father-son relationships.
Issue 14 Launch Event: Climate Writing Special
On Thursday 21st March 2024 we celebrated the launch of Hinterland's special issue on climate writing, published in collaboration with UEA’s Critical Decade for Climate Change project.
This special issue featured creative non-fiction writing by a host of writers who confront the most pressing subject of our time, addressing topics as varied as forest fires in New Mexico, frogs in Australia, rivers in Manchester, or the effects of human activity and the Anthropocene. The launch event was in collaboration with UEA and featured readings by issue contributors David Howe, Millie Prosser, Clara Kubler and guest editor Iona Macduff, as well as special guests Elizabeth Lewis Williams and Jos Smith.
About ClimateUEA and The Critical Decade for Climate Change (CDCC)
ClimateUEA tells our collective climate story during this critical time for our planet. For over 50 years, UEA has led the way in climate research, using its world-leading expertise to tackle the unprecedented environmental and social challenges caused by climate change. Research under the umbrella of ClimateUEA informs policy, helping shape a global response to climate change. It brings together a multidisciplinary team of experts to collaborate, innovate and discover, whilst training the next generation of climate thought leaders.
The Critical Decade for Climate Change (CDCC) programme brings together researchers to look at real-world data in near real-time to generate unique insights into why societies succeed or fail to respond to the threat of climate change. This research harnesses creative approaches to reframe ideas and communicate findings broadly, helping build the foundations for a healthy planet and a fair society for the future.
Our Summer Celebration Event
Hinterland presents… the finest voices in creative non-fiction
Was held on Wednesday 21 June 2023 - 6.30-8.30pm
National Centre for Writing, Dragon Hall, Norwich
We celebrated the summer solstice with a stellar line-up of readings from the most exciting international writers working in creative non-fiction today.
Our Issue 11 LAUNCH EVENT
We held our first live event on Tuesday 8th November 2022, to celebrate our successful collaboration with Manchester Metropolitan University’s Centre for Place Writing. We had a fantastic time, with a packed house at Manchester Poetry Library enjoying readings from contributors Adam Farrer & Alison Baxter, as well as guest readers from MMU students and alumni, and a fantastic intro from Dr David Cooper and guest editor Andrew Michael Hurley. Thanks so much to all of you who came, as well as everyone who worked with us to make both the event - and the issue - a roaring success!
Lorna Sage’s Bad Blood
The Spring 2021 issue of Hinterland celebrated a work seminal to the genre of life writing: Lorna Sage’s Bad Blood, with a collection of exclusive-to-Hinterland pieces by Christopher Bigsby, Victor Sage and Sharon Tolaini-Sage, with a foreword by Kathryn Hughes, that illuminate and respond to the legacy of Sage’s memoir, now entering its third decade of continuous publication.
Hinterland is a print magazine showcasing the best in creative non-fiction.
Each issue features a stellar line-up of writing talent from around the globe: stories by established, best-selling authors as well as introducing you to a host of exciting new writers making their publishing debut.
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