Jean Sprackland’s (Other Clocks) latest book is These Silent Mansions: a life in graveyards, which was shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Award in 2021. Strands won the Portico Prize for Non-Fiction in 2012. She is the author of five collections of poetry, including the Costa Award-winning Tilt. Jean is Professor of Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Jean's work appears in Issue 11 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.
Adam Farrer (The Californian) is an essayist, the editor of the creative non-fiction journal The Real Story and the Writer in Residence for Peel Park, Salford. His manuscript, Cold Fish Soup, a memoir in essays about the Yorkshire coast, won the NorthBound Book Award at the 2021 Northern Writers’ Awards and will be published by Saraband in August. He has been a photo lab technician, a kitchen porter, the voice of an automated phone system, an illustrator, a ceramicist, a musician, a music journalist, and currently works at the University of Salford.
Adam's work appears in Issue 11 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.
Linda Cracknell (Crossing the Bar) lives in Highland Perthshire and is a writer for whom place, memory and motion are important. Her non-fiction was most recently published in book form in Doubling Back: ten paths trodden in memory (Freight, 2014), a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week in which she retraces memories underfoot. She has also published four works of fiction and had a number of radio plays produced. Crossing the Bar is extracted from a work in progress, Three Ships: tides in the affairs of a family, which explores her connection to the sea and her family’s seafaring past. https://linktr.ee/ LindaCracknellWriter
Linda's work appears in Issue 11 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.
Dru Marland (The Archangel’s Way) is a poet, illustrator and mechanic. She lives among the voles on the Kennet and Avon Canal.
Dru's work appears in Issue 2 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.
Richard Beard (The Archangel’s Way) has written six novels and four books of narrative nonfiction. His memoir The Day That Went Missing won the 2018 PEN Ackerley Award for literary autobiography and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Richard's work appears in Issue 2 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.
