Posts in Issue 10
The Boy Next Door by Jack Young

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.

Issue 10Memoir, LGBTQ
What I saw will not be what I see by Anna Vaught

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.

Speaking in Tongues by Stephanie Tam

Born in New York, Stephanie Tam (Speaking in Tongues) is a writer, researcher and audio producer. She has worked for various radio shows and media companies, including Freakonomics, Radiolab and First Look Media. Her writing has been featured in a number of outlets including The Believer, Behavioral Scientist and Slate. Before journalism, she explored her love for storytelling and the social sciences through two masters in world literatures and social policy respectively at the University of Oxford as a Daniel M. Sachs Scholar. She also graduated with distinction from the MFA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.

Stephanie's work appears in Issue 10 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.

Issue 10Essay, Memoir
When They Took All The Trees by Charlie J. Stephens

Charlie J. Stephens (When They Took All The Trees) is a non-binary, mixed race fiction writer living on unceded Chochenyo Ohlone land in Northern California. Charlie has lived all over the US as a bike messenger, wilderness guide, book seller and seasonal shark diver (for educational purposes only). Charlie’s work has appeared in Electric Literature, Peculiar, The Racket, Fresh.Ink and Original Plumbing among others. Charlie has recently finished a collection of short stories, and is hard at work on their first novel. More at charliejstephenswriting.com and on Instagram @charliejstephenswriting.

Charlie's work appears in Issue 10 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.

To: remain. by Zachary D. Shell

Zachary D. Shell (To: remain.) lives in Denver, Colorado, where he teaches seventh grade Language Arts and dreams of going back to Ecuador. If he’s not singing with his barbershop chorus, you can find him writing at his favourite local coffee shop. Now. You can find him there right now.

Zachary's work appears in Issue 10 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.

Stoic Indifference by Reece Reilly

Reece Reilly (Stoic Indifference) is an artist and printmaker based on the east coast of Norfolk. With a strong focus on collage and colour and a love of awkward composition; his work explores ideas of perception and interaction. Instagram: @reece_reilly

Reece's work appears in Issue 10 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.

Wee Kenny: Poet Maudit by Rob McClure Smith

Rob McClure Smith’s (Wee Kenny: Poet Maudit) work has appeared in Gettysburg Review, New Ohio Review, StoryQuarterly, Manchester Review, Chicago Quarterly, Barcelona Review and other literary magazines. His novel, Cowan, won the Black Springs Crime Fiction Prize and is forthcoming later this year. He teaches film at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois where he is John and Elaine Fellowes Distinguished Chair in English.

Rob's work appears in Issue 10 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.

Issue 10Memoir
The Estranged by Christopher Linforth

Christopher Linforth (The Estranged) is the author of three story collections: The Distortions (Orison Books, 2021), winner of the 2020 Orison Books Fiction Prize, Directory (Otis Books/ Seismicity Editions, 2020) and When You Find Us We Will Be Gone (Lamar University Press, 2014).

Christopher's work appears in Issue 10 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.

Treasure by Bonnie Lander Johnson

Bonnie Lander Johnson (Treasure) is Fellow and Director of Studies in English at Newnham College, Cambridge. Her academic books on early modern literature are Chastity in Early Stuart Literature and Culture, Blood Matters, Shakespeare’s Plants and The Cambridge Handbook to Literature and Plants. She is now working on a biography of Shakespeare, a memoir and a fenland farming novel. In 2022 her short story ‘Idolatry’ was short-listed for the V.S. Pritchett Prize.

Bonnie's work appears in Issue 10 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.

Maintaining An Ambivalent Art: Caring by Constance Kresge

Constance Kresge (Maintaining An Ambivalent Art: Caring) works as a freelance business consultant and virtual Chief of Staff. She has been taking writing classes off and on for years and is thrilled to be published for the first time in Hinterland. She lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband, toddler and demanding but lovable rescue dog. When not creating to-do lists, spreadsheets or trying to write, she loves to hike – preferably in the Rocky Mountains.

Constance's work appears in Issue 10 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.

Issue 10Essay, Memoir
In the Spotlight by Susmita Bhattacharya

Susmita Bhattacharya (In the Spotlight) is an Indianborn writer. Her debut novel, The Normal State of Mind (Parthian, 2015) was longlisted at the Mumbai Film Festival, 2018. Her short story collection, Table Manners (Dahlia Publishing, 2018), won the Saboteur Award for Best Short Story Collection, was a finalist for the Hall & Woodhouse DLF Prize and has been featured on BBC Radio 4. Susmita teaches creative writing at Winchester University and facilitates the ArtfulScribe Mayflower Young Writers programme in Southampton. She was also Writer-in- Residence at London’s Word Factory in 2021. Find her on Twitter @Susmitatweets

Susmita's work appears in Issue 10 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.

Throwing the Dice Again by Tom Bailey

Tom Bailey (Throwing the Dice Again) grew up in London and studied Creative Writing at Boston University. He was awarded a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship in 2020, and is currently trying to put together his first pamphlet. His poems have been published in bath magg, The Kindling, Hawk & Whippoorwill, The Cormorant, and the Munster Literature Centre’s Poems from Pandemia Anthology.

Tom's work appears in Issue 10 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.

Issue 10Essay, Poetry