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.
Elizabeth Norton (We Circle Silently About the Wreck) is a writer living in London. She is currently completing her creative writing MA at Birkbeck and is working on her first novel. She works in the criminal justice sector.
Elizabeth'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.
Edvige Giunta (Wanna Dance?) was born in Sicily and lives in the United States. She is the author of Writing with an Accent: Contemporary Italian American Women Authors and co-editor of six anthologies, including The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture, and Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. Her most recent writing appears in December Magazine, Pithead Chapel, Paris Lit Up, Ocean State Review and Memoir Magazine, among others. She is Professor of English at New Jersey City University. www.edvigegiunta.com.
Edvige'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.
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.
Linda Mannheim (Departing)is the author of three books of fiction: Above Sugar Hill, Risk and This Way to Departures, which was shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize in 2020. Linda's work has appeared in The Nation, Granta, Catapult Story, 3:AM Magazine, Ambit, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, and Sight & Sound. She has also broadcast work for BBC Witness and KCRW Berlin. Originally from New York, she lives in London and is a PhD researcher at the University of Westminster.
Linda'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.
Jack Young (The Boy Next Door) writes experimental fiction and non-fiction, which has found its home with Entropy, Somesuch Stories, 3 A:M, Caught by the River and Burning House Press, among others. He also co-hosts the literary podcast Tender Buttons with Storysmith Books. His hybrid chapbook of interspecies intimacies Urth was published in 2022 by Big White Shed. He is currently curating a participatory programme at Bristol’s Spike Island Gallery around the concept of the Body-Forest, which is a way of decentering the human and thinking ecologically about desire, time, language, community and more.
Jack's work appears in Issue 10 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.
