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**Issue 17**

Featuring new writing from Andrew Cowan and Davina Quinlivan. In conversation with Tor Falcon

Find out what inspired Andrew Cowan (Pig, Your Fault) to become a potter, join Davina Quinlivan (Shalimar) as she considers her family’s place in the local landscape, and find out why Tor Falcon (Sugar Beet Moon) set out to paint the moon every evening.

Building Skills in Creative Non-fiction (**Thursdays starting 25th Sept, online**)

A 6-week online course intended to help you start a new project, work on an existing one or experiment from week to week to practice your writing skills with the help of tutor Andrew Kenrick. Each week we’ll look at a different aspect of creative non-fiction, complete with writing exercises and readings, as well as getting the opportunity to have your own writing workshopped.

**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.

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We've got a great writing workshop coming up for you later today over at our @substack - @jaydprosser shows you how to write using objects. . . Subscribe to our Substack to receive the post direct to your inbox as a newsletter, or read it later as a post - links to both in our bio. . . #memoir #lifewriting #cnf #nonfiction #indiepress #smallpresspublishing #magazine #hinterlandnonfiction #hinterlandissue15 #substack #writingwithobjects #objectbased #objectbiography #writingworkshop #writingexercise

Heads up nonfiction writers: our current call for submissions closes this coming Friday. We're specifically looking for pieces on the theme of "journeys" - more information via the link in our bio. . . #hinterlandmagazine #hinterlandnewsletter #smallpressmagazine #cnf #nonfiction #submissionsopen #opencall #opencallforsubmissions #journeys @submittable . . Photo by Ross Sneddon on Unsplash.

Over on our Substack, Issue 14's guest editor @ionamacduff shares some of her recommendations for the summer, including @purebred.mongrel's amazing exhibition at @mount_stuart_visual_arts. . . Read it (or subscribe for free) via the link on our bio. . . Photo by Iona Macduff. . . #climatewriting #naturewriting #climatechange #cnf #nonfiction #indiepress #smallpresspublishing #magazine #hinterlandnonfiction #hinterlandissue14

Posting our first Writing Workshop later today on Substack, a guest post about 'Writing with Compassion' by Sarah Passingham. . . Subscribe (for free) to get it direct into your inbox, or else read it online in a little bit via the Substack link in our bio. . . #memoir #lifewriting #cnf #nonfiction #indiepress #smallpresspublishing #magazine #hinterlandnonfiction #hinterlandissue15 #substack #writingcompassionate #writingworkshop #writingexercise

As well as our usual mix of regular features and full-length pieces, Issue 15 also includes three fantastic pieces of flash nonfiction by Kareem Tayyar, Sarah Passingham and @sheena_grahamgeorge. . Kareem says about his piece 'A Portrait of the Listener as a Young Boy': "I wanted to celebrate the music of my childhood, and the ways that music continues to mean a great deal to me." . Sarah wrote 'Vicarious', about which she says: "After mining sad and painful memories over ten years for my family memoir, finding the photograph that I describe in the piece gave me an opportunity to go back to happier times" . Last but not least, Sheena Graham-George's 'Corn Craw' is " is about grief, long goodbyes and the transitory nature of life and learning to let go." . . We are also currently open for flash nonfiction submissions for our next issue, on any subject - you can find the link in our bio, as well as a link to our webstore. . . #memoir #lifewriting #cnf #nonfiction #indiepress #smallpresspublishing #magazine #hinterlandnonfiction #hinterlandissue15

We've been up in Manchester this past week, so #tbt the launch of our place writing special a couple of years ago @mcrpoetrylibrary. . . The print edition of Issue 11 is sold out with us, but the digital edition is still available via the link in our bio. . . #cnf #creativenonfiction #nonfiction #hinterlandmagazine #hinterlandissue11 #mmu #placewriting #naturewriting #travelwriting #manchesterpoetrylibrary

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