Kim Rooney (61) has written poetry, nonfiction and short fiction. She graduated from the University of East Anglia in 2004 with an MA in Life Writing. You can find her at www.unrevisedfragments.com
Kim's work appears in Issue 7 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.
Sam Gordon Webb (Unsung) is a writer studying Crime Fiction at UEA. His writing has appeared in Beyond Words, and Unstamatic. He is social media coordinator for Chestnut Review, and Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize project manager. He is working on his debut novel as a student of Faber Academy’s Writing a Novel course. Champion of cappuccinos and blueberry muffins. He can be found @samofme.
Sam's work appears in Issue 12 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.
Raised in South London, Dave Wakely (Eating Cornflakes with Patrick Moore) has worked as a musician, university administrator, poetry librarian and editor in cities across Europe. His short stories and poems have been shortlisted for the Manchester Fiction and Bath Short Story awards, and appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including most recently Impossible Archetypes, The Lonely Crowd, Lunate, Prole and We’re All In It Together: Poems for a disUnited Kingdom (Grist Books). One of the organisers of the Lodestone Poets and Milton Keynes Literature Festival, he lives in Buckinghamshire with his husband and too many books, CDs and guitars. He tweets as @theverbalist.
Dave's work appears in Issue 12 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.
Joe Moran (Noli Timere) is a Professor of English and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University. His books include Shrinking Violets: The Secret Life of Shyness (Profile/Yale University Press, 2016/2017), First You Write a Sentence: The Elements of Reading, Writing … and Life (Penguin, 2018) and If You Should Fail: A Book of Solace (Penguin, 2020).
Joe's work appears in Issue 12 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.
Jarred McGinnis (In Billions of Years the Sun will Swallow the Earth) was chosen by The Guardian as one of the UK’s ten best emerging writers. His debut novel The Coward was selected for BBC 2’s Between the Covers, BBC Radio 2’s Book Club and listed for the Barbellion Prize. The French edition won the First Novel Prize and was selected for the prestigious Femina prize. His current project The Mountain Weight won the 2023 The Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer’s Award.
Jarred's work appears in Issue 12 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.
Lim Siang Jin (Fear and Hope in Covid Times) is a self-taught artist who has been painting since the mid-1970s. At 69, he has had three excursions into art: years at university in Britain as a student and as a rookie journalist in Malaysia (1973-1982); time he spent at a Malaysian policy research institute as head of publications (1985- 1991); and during and after the Covid lockdowns (2020-2022). There was a gap of 30 years (1989-2020) when he hardly produced anything new. During much of the three decades, he was deeply involved in newspaper publishing, communications, and branding and marketing.
Lim's work appears in Issue 12 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.
Laura Dobson (How To Care for a Rose) lives in Devon where she is currently completing an MSc in Psychology. She is the proud owner of almost forty thriving houseplants and relishes sharing the therapeutic potential of creativity with young people. She has recent work in Ellipsis Zine, WestWord, The Phare Literary Magazine and The Birdseed Magazine. She can be found on Twitter @laurarose_13.
Laura's work appears in Issue 12 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.
Munizha Ahmad- Cooke (The Right Thing) currently works as a charity administrator and freelance copyeditor. She grew up in Harrow, north-west London, and has lived in Cambridge since 2005. She has published some poems, book reviews and articles, and has worked in academia, publishing, politics and the charity sector. She recently co-edited Edgewords, an anthology of creative writing to raise money for The Edge Café in Cambridge.
Munizha's work appears in Issue 12 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.
Anna Vaught (What I saw will not be what I see) is a novelist, essayist, short fiction writer, editor, secondary English teacher, mentor, campaigner and author of four books, including 2020’s Saving Lucia and Famished. Her work is published in journals, anthologies and national press and she has been a monthly columnist for The Bookseller. Her new novel, The Zebra and Lord Jones, is on agency submission, while a book on writing, The Alchemy, is launching with Unbound. Anna’s second story collection, Ravished, is published by Reflex Press this year as well as her memoir, These Envoys of Beauty, in 2023. Anna speaks as a guest university lecturer and is a tutor for Jericho Writers.
Anna's work appears in Issue 10 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.
Emilio Williams (Fade to White) is a bilingual (Spanish/ English) award-winning writer and educator. His critically acclaimed plays have been produced in Argentina, Estonia, France, Mexico, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Emilio has lectured around the world and taught creative writing in several U.S. universities. He holds a BA in Film and Video and a MFA in Writing. He is a resident playwright and faculty member at Chicago Dramatists, and divides his time between Chicago and Paris. www.emiliowilliams.com
Emilio's work appears in Issue 7 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.
Ian Thomson (Refugee Blues) is the author of an acclaimed biography of Primo Levi, a study of Dante and two prizewinning works of reportage: Bonjour Blanc: A Journey Through Haiti and The Dead Yard: Tales of Modern Jamaica. He also edited Articles of Faith: The Collected Tablet Journalism of Graham Greene. Ian is the recipient of the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize and the W.H. Heinemann Award.
Ian's work appears in Issue 5 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.
Rod Panos (Chest Wound) lives in California. A previous life writing reports in pursuit of technical development and corporate goals failed to satisfy his creative urges. The joys of writing now encourage him to write more personal stories hoping to reach a broader audience and of one day pressing the ‘submit’ button with a bit of confidence.
Rod's work appears in Issue 4 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.
