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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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).

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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.

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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

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Liz Taunt (RUNE) is our cover artist. She uses many different printmaking techniques including drypoint, lino, collagraph and monoprint, and she has recently been making collages from discarded prints. She is not interested in narrative or realism in her art, instead she is trying to bring something new into the world that combines the chaotic, the arbitrary and the awkward: things that surprise her and prompt the question ‘where did that come from?’ She gets lost (in a nice way) in a parallel world, and tries to invent ciphers and shorthand to describe her particular reality.

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Jon Paul Roberts (In Search of Lost Voices) is an essayist and cultural critic from the north of England. Their work has appeared in The Spool, Another North, Brightest Young Things, Metro, The Huffington Post, and elsewhere. Their bi-monthly column, ‘How Film Changed Me’, uses film and television to understand millennial life and is published by Big Picture Film Club. In 2017, they won the Spread the Word’s inaugural Life Writing Prize for their essay ‘1955-2012’. Currently, they are working on a non-fiction book that grew out of ‘In Search for Lost Voices’ as well as finishing their PhD at Liverpool John Moores University.

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Carla Montemayor (The Shapeshifters) is originally from the Philippines and came to the UK as a student nearly 20 years ago. She has worked in politics and communication in three countries for most of her career, most recently in migrants’ and women’s rights. She was shortlisted for Spread the Word’s Life Writing Prize in 2020 and is a recipient of the London Writers Awards 2021. She is working on a memoir on grief, family history and her life as a migrant in London over the turbulent decade.

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