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We have dubbed Hinterland Issue 6 our ‘non-fiction fiction special’, in which we explore the curious space where fiction and non-fiction intersect and interact. To that end Heather Martin (The Reacher Guy) recalls how she came to write the biography of Lee Child, author of the Jack Reacher series; Nick Bradley (The Cat and The City) shares some of the photographs taken on his commute in Tokyo, an experience later tapped into for his debut novel; Ashley Hickson-Lovence (The 392) tells the true story of how Ruel Fox (nearly) led Norwich City to football greatness; we explore Tash Aw’s literary archive; and share a conversation with Helen Smith (The Uncommon Reader) about renowned editor Edward Garnett, all alongside a stand-out selection of reportage, memoir, essay and flash non-fiction.

This Spring issue of Hinterland celebrates the limitless reach of life writing. Between them, our writers explore adoption, suicide, sexual assault, the AIDS crisis, conscription, grandparents, trauma, and the enduring influence of Elizabeth Bishop. Headlining this issue we celebrate a work seminal to the genre of life writing: Lorna Sage’s Bad Blood, with a collection of exclusive-to-Hinterland pieces by Christopher Bigsby, Victor Sage and Sharon Tolaini-Sage, with a foreword by Kathryn Hughes, that illuminate and respond to the legacy of Sage’s memoir, now entering its third decade of continuous publication.

Hinterland is a new quarterly magazine showcasing the best in creative non-fiction writing. Each issue features a stellar line-up of writing talent from around the globe: stories by established, best-selling authors as well as a host of exciting new writers making their publishing debut. Our launch issue stars (among others) Costa Biography Award-winner Rebecca Stott (In the Days of Rain), celebrated journalist Ian Thomson (Dante’s Divine Comedy, The Dead Yard, Primo Levi), an interview with Damian Le Bas (The Stopping Places) a coming of age story by Michael Kineman, a journey across India by Saloni Prasad, photographer Helen James and a glimpse into the world of Tokyo's Western hostesses by Susan K Burton (shortlisted for the 2018 Tony Lothian Prize).

Hinterland is a quarterly, print and digital magazine dedicated to creative non-fiction.Hinterland offers an answer to the question ‘what is creative non-fiction?’ by showcasing the best new writing across the fields of memoir, essay, travel and food writing, reportage, psychoscape, biography, flash non-fiction and more. Their pages bring together work by established, award-winning authors alongside new writers, many of whom we are thrilled to publish for the first time and whose work, we promise, will merit your full attention. Hinterland intends to challenge, move, entertain and, above all, be a fantastic read. Their second issue features brand-new non-fiction by Richard Beard (The Day that went Missing) with accompanying illustrations by Dru Marland and a non-fiction play by Antoinette Moses, as well as a stellar line up of talented new writers who we know you’re going to love. Issue 2 also includes an interview with Bart Van Es (The Cut Out Girl), a photo essay by photographer Martin Eberlen and a look at the life of the Speaker of the House, John Bercow, by Stephen Massil.

In Hinterland Issue 3 we publish, with huge pleasure, the pieces that won the Hinterland Prize 2019: Anna Lachkaya’s beautifully evoked account of immigrant girlhood, Megan Holland’s story of grief and becoming, and Dani Redd’s other-worldly roam across a remote Scandinavian island. Inside a stunning cover, created exclusively for Hinterland by artist Rebecca Pymar, is an outstanding line-up of new creative non-fiction plus all our great regular features, including the award-winning poet George Szirtes in conversation with his daughter Helen Szirtes.

Hinterland is a quarterly, print and digital magazine dedicated to creative non-fiction. 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. Inside a stunning cover, created exclusively for Hinterland by artist Mia Hague, is an outstanding line-up of new creative non-fiction plus all our great regular features, including a beautiful photo essay by Lily Bungay and an interview with Tessa McWatt.

This Summer issue of Hinterland indulges in all of the delights food-writing has to offer. Headlining this issue we have new writing from Kate Young who anticipates sharing meals once more, and Pragya Agarwal, who uses memories of food to explore the promise and pain of emigration. We also sit down to chat with celebrated cook Anna Jones about how she writes her award-winning cookbooks.Also featuring writing by Noah Birksted-Breen, Amy Cotler, Sally Gander, Hester Van Hensbergen, Sue Hann, Connor Harrison, Andrew Kenrick, Edward Little, Maya Osman-Krinsky, Kimmo Rosenthal and Sarah Young.

The genre of creative non-fiction has never been more playful with form, and so this issue of Hinterland celebrates the art of experimentation. Headlining the issue we have an epistolary essay from Jenn Ashworth (Ghosted, Notes Made While Falling) written to her younger self’s favourite author. We also sit down to chat with Doireann Ní Ghríofa about her hybrid work of non-fiction and auto-fiction, A Ghost in the Throat. Also featuring writing by Chris Beckett, Chris Cusack, Pune Dracker, Jacqueline Ellis, Jordan Harrison-Twist, Alice Kent, Laura Knott, Aaron Landsman, Carla Montemayor and Jon Paul Roberts.

Writer Phillip Lopate described the essay as ‘an open-ended adventure, an invitation to doubt and self-surprise’. The essays in this special issue use the form as a platform to allow a multitude of voices to ring clear, inviting us to explore topics as varied as nature, trauma, last lines of poetry, and Esperanto.Featuring writing by Tom Bailey, Susmita Bhattacharya, Bonnie Lander Johnson, Constance Kresge, Christopher Linforth, Zachary D. Shell, Rob McClure Smith, Charlie J. Stephens, S.Y. Tam, Jack Young, and Anna Vaught

Published quarterly from the University of East Anglia, Hinterland brings you the best new creative nonfiction. Issue 11 is a Place Writing special in collaboration with the Centre for Place Writing, Manchester Metropolitan University.