Rebecca Thomas’s (A Mouse in Reagan Country) work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, ZYZZYVA, The Massachusetts Review, among other places, and she has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is a creative board member for the Ms. Aligned anthology series. Originally from Orange County, California, she now lives and teaches writing in Charlottesville, VA.
Rebecca's work appears in Issue 11 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.
Hannah Storm (Taking the Flak) is an author, journalism safety expert and media consultant. Her flash fiction collection The Thin Line Between Everything and Nothing was published by Reflex Press and her memoir Aftershocks was shortlisted in the Mslexia 2021 awards. She is currently working on a novel inspired by her two decades working as a journalist. Hannah is the founder of Headlines Network, which promotes more open conversations about mental health in the media through training, tips and a podcast. She also works with newsrooms in wellbeing, safety and leadership. A keen marathon runner, Hannah lives with her family in Yorkshire.
Hannah's work appears in Issue 11 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.
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.
Sylvia Ilahuka (M.B.L.A) is a Tanzanian writer now living in Uganda. Her work appears in publications such as Lolwe, Doek! the Aké Review, and Bandcamp Daily; she was also shortlisted for the inaugural Isele Nonfiction Prize. A graduate of Wellesley College in Massachusetts, Sylvia is the recipient of a Goethe-Institut artistic grant under which she produced photographic essays for the House of African Feminisms project.
Sylvia's work appears in Issue 11 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.
Anthony Head (Life Is a Great Entanglement) is a writer and editor who has lived for much of his life in Tokyo. His articles have been published in numerous journals, including History Today, The Edinburgh Review, The London Magazine and the TLS. His poetry has appeared in Outposts, Orbis, The Frogmore Papers, Acumen and other journals. He is the editor of three volumes of the letters and diaries of John Cowper Powys and several collections of essays by Llewelyn Powys.
Anthony's work appears in Issue 11 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.
Hannah Garrard (1989) writes creative non-fiction from her home in Norwich, where she lives with her partner and son and currently works as a programme manager at the National Centre for Writing. In 2015 she completed an MA in Creative Non-Fiction at the UEA, where she wrote an account of the Liberian civil war with help from the insights and recollections of the refugee children she taught whilst working in West Africa. Her writing has appeared in independent literary journals and news sites.
Hannah'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.
Laura Cooper (Walks Through Time) has worked as a writer, photographer and educator in Japan, Spain and the UK. She will graduate from the UEA’s MA in Creative Writing this year. Her music and travel photography has appeared on album covers and in various publications including Time Out Tokyo and The Guardian, and her portrait work has won numerous awards. Her debut novel-in-progress explores solastalgia and resilience in a speculative near-future England.
Laura's work appears in Issue 11 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.
Camilla Brueton (Untitled #9 - The Tax Office Collages, The ridge above Cefn Onn) is an artist and writer who is curious about place. Camilla has exhibited across the UK and currently has a public art commission, ‘moss. quarry.plaque’ on display in the City of Hobart’s digital twin, created in collaboration with Margaret Woodward (Hobart, Tasmania). Camilla is interested in the potential of bringing words and images together through publication and performance. She lives and works in Cardiff, Wales.
Camilla's work appears in Issue 11 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.
Alison Baxter (El Chaltén) has an MA in Biography and Creative Non-Fiction from the University of East Anglia and a PhD in Creative Writing from Oxford Brookes University. Her doctoral thesis explored the ambiguous boundary between fiction and nonfiction in relation to her book, A Cornish Cargo: the untold history of a Victorian seafaring family, published in 2020. Alison is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and has a particular interest in the Victorian era and the forgotten lives of so-called ordinary people. She is currently working on a new book based on a tragic story she found in the newspaper archive. She lives in Oxford.
Alison's work appears in Issue 11 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.
Chris Beckett (Abebe, the Cook’s Son) is a Ted Hughes Award-shortlisted poet and translator who grew up in Addis Ababa in the last years of Haile Selassie’s reign. He has published two collections, Ethiopia Boy and Tenderfoot, plus the first ever anthology of Ethiopian Amharic poetry in English, edited/translated with Alemu Tebeje, Songs We Learn from Trees. This autumn he is leading a workshop on Childhood and Praise Poetry for the Poetry School.
Chris's work appears in Issue 9 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.
Noah Birksted-Breen (Snow) translated and directed contemporary Russian plays for staging in the UK for his ensemble Sputnik Theatre Company (www.sputniktheatre.co.uk) for over fifteen years. In 2017, he completed a PhD at Queen Mary University of London, and subsequently worked for three years as a researcher of contemporary Russian culture for Creative Multilingualism at the University of Oxford. Noah is a Researcher in Oxford's School of Geography and the Environment and is currently completing an MA in Creative Writing at Birkbeck. In 2019 he was the ?Hackney Winner' of Spread the Word’s City of Stories competition. In 2021, ‘Beef’ was published in The Real Story, and three eco-poems appeared in The Mechanics’ Institute Review.
Noah's work appears in Issue 8 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.
Pragya Agarwal (The Slow Dance) is a behavioural and data scientist. She has a PhD from Nottingham University and is a Visiting Professor of Inequities and Social Inclusion at Loughborough University. Pragya is the author of Sway: Unravelling Unconscious Bias and Wish We Knew What to Say: Talking with Children about Race. She has also written for The Guardian, Prospect, New Scientist, Literary Hub, AEON, Scientific American and the Wellcome Collection, amongst others. Her most recent book (M)otherhood: On the choices of being a woman is out now. She came to the UK almost 20 years ago and now lives in the north-west next to the sea. Pragya loves to read about food, think about food, dream about food. She can be found on Twitter @drpragyaagarwal and at drpragyaagarwal.com.
Pragya's work appears in Issue 8 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.
Edward Little (A Mind Full of Sake) is a writer from the Wirral who studied for an MA in Creative Writing at Chester. He has been published in a variety of online and print magazines, including Storgy, Cagibi, Pandora’s Box, and others. Spending a lot of time at open-mic events, he turns stories like this one into performances, hoping to soon have a collection that attracts readers as well as a live audience. This one is dedicated to drunk encounters.
Edward's work appears in Issue 8 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.
Helen Tookey (North and South) is a poet and writer based in Liverpool, where she teaches creative writing at Liverpool John Moores University. She has published two poetry collections with Carcanet Press, Missel-Child and City of Departures, and is currently working on a third. She is collaborating with writer and musician Martin Heslop on text and sound work developed from a residency in 2019 at the Elizabeth Bishop House in Great Village, Nova Scotia, and is also working on a creative non-fiction book about her engagement with the work of Malcolm Lowry and Elizabeth Bishop and, through them, with place and landscape.
Helen's work appears in Issue 7 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.
Julie FitzGerald (Nevada: Rest Stop, NV167) enjoys writing about place and its effects - how it shapes people’s lives, their attachments to each other, and their sense of self. She is currently working on Sagelands, a memoir exploring wellness, specifically desert wilderness and ecotherapy, whilst studying for an MA in Biography & Creative Non- Fiction at the University of East Anglia. Previous work features in The Mechanics’ Institute Review. Originally from the Wirral, Julie is based in London. Find her on Twitter @JulieJulesJule
Julie's work appears in Issue 7 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.
Nathan Munday (Bear Stalking in the Bucegi) is a Welsh writer from Carmarthenshire. In 2016 he won the M. Wynn Thomas New Scholars Prize and came second in the New Welsh Writing Awards with his creative non-fiction book Seven Days: A Pyrenean Adventure, published by Parthian in 2017. He has also been placed twice for poetry in the Terry Hetherington Awards (2019, 2020). When he’s not writing and reading, he enjoys mountains; and works for Christian Aid.
Nathan's work appears in Issue 6 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.
Meg Freer (Tbilisi Sounds in Transit) grew up in Montana and has worked in book publishing. She now teaches piano, takes photos and enjoys the outdoors yearround in Ontario. Her photos, poems and prose have been published in journals such as Ruminate, Vallum Contemporary Poetry, Young Ravens Literary Review, Eastern Iowa Review, and Rat’s Ass Review. In 2017 she attended the Summer Literary Seminars in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia. Her poetry has won awards and have been shortlisted for several contests in both the U.S. and Canada.
Meg's work appears in Issue 6 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.
Peter Pool (Lessons From The Western Front) was born in Hull and now lives in Northumberland, after a career in mathematics education – a substantial part of which was spent in Third World countries. Current interests include writing and gardening, in both cases the attraction lies in the observation of the minutiae of day-to-day life.
Peter's work appears in Issue 5 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.
