Issue 4 - Flash Nonfiction Special
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Hinterland is a quarterly, print and digital magazine dedicated to the very best new creative non-fiction writing.
Hinterland's fourth issue celebrates the art of a beautifully turned piece of flash writing, with our Flash Non-Fiction Special: 40 pages of the best bite-sized writing around. Mark Cocker leads with a piece on the army ant, others consider topics as varied as migrant youth, New York through the decades, the troubling life of pets, inter-racial relationships, and the fall of dictators.
Issue 4 is available to buy now, either direct from our webstore or from all good bookshops.
Issue 4 also includes:
John Van Kirk re-visits an old friend and a lost way of life in Pileated In Humboldt County
With her essay Who Will Believe Thee? Cynthia Lewis examines sexual predation through the lens of Shakespeare
In A Paris Pageant B.W. Jackson takes a tour of the French capital in the company of its eclectic inhabitants
R.M. Panos relives, in forensic detail, a moment of crisis in Chest Wound
Dominic Laing immerses us in the world of tattoo artistry in Love Is A Dick With Wings
I Believe by Ingrid Fagundez considers belief through the lens of a doomed love affair
Priya Rajan's A Week in Churu and Bikaner offers a portrait of landscape, layered with flashes of memory
And more: Tessa McWatt, author of Shame On Me speaks frankly with Hinterland's editors for our In Conversation slot; through our Ekphrasis feature Gerard Sarnat both evokes and pays homage to Francis Ford Coppola's film Apocalypse Now; while Lily Bungay's photo essay steps onto the Greek island of Ikaria and into the lives of its people.
You can read our interview with Tessa here, for free.