Mentorship &
Manuscript Feedback

 

Whether you’re working on an essay or an essay collection, a travel article for a magazine or an epic adventure, a life in brief or a whole biography, let our experienced nonfiction editors help you meet your writing goals with one of our mentorship packages. We can help you set goals, write chapter outlines, pitch to agents or solve particularly tricky writerly conundrum such as structure, voice or character. The Hinterland team are talented publishers, editors and tutors, experienced at working with writers of all skill levels, writing in all genres of nonfiction.

Select your level of support…

 

Manuscript Assessment

Our manuscript assessment is great for if you want focused feedback and written critique on a single piece of work.

Includes:

  • Written feedback on up to 5000 words of creative nonfiction.

  • Includes developmental edits and comments in the text.

  • Includes 1 page of written feedback, including signposting to next steps.

£125

Single Mentoring Session

Mentoring sessions are intended to provide ongoing support for you and your writing over a longer period of time. A single session allows you to meet your mentor and to share and discuss your writing.

Includes:

  • Pre-meeting discussion by email to help you get the most out of your upcoming mentoring session.

  • A 75 minute initial session (in person in Norwich/Cambridge or online, subsequent sessions will be 60 minutes) to discuss your writing in depth, help set goals and address challenging areas and obstacles..

  • Follow up email to summarise discussion points and signpost next steps, including recommended reading.

First session - £175

Subsequent sessions - £150

Mentoring Session blocks

Make a sustained commitment to your writing and save money when you book a block of 3 or 6 sessions.

Each session will include:

  • Pre-meeting discussion by email to help you get the most out of your upcoming mentoring session.

  • A 60 minute mentoring session (in person in Norwich/Cambridge or online, subsequent sessions will be 60 minutes) to discuss your writing in depth, help set goals and address challenging areas and obstacles..

  • Follow up email to summarise discussion points and signpost next steps.

  • Mentoring sessions are intended to provide ongoing support for you and your writing over a longer period of time.

  • We assume that these sessions will be monthly, but we can work to your timeline if you’d like to space them out over a longer period or compress them into a much shorter timeframe. 

3 sessions - £450

6 sessions - £850

Twelve Month Writing Mentorship

Sign up for a whole year of mentorship with our editors and receive 12 sessions of support, as well as regular written feedback, a free goal-setting session, regular check-ins and milestones throughout the year, and help writing a proposal/pitch to approach an agent or editor.

Includes:

  • Written feedback on a piece of writing (up to 5000 words) every month.

  • Monthly 1-hour mentorship session.

  • Free goal-setting session.

  • Regular check-ins and milestones throughout the year.

  • Help writing a proposal/pitch to approach an agent or editor.

  • Payment plans available on request — please get in touch to discuss.

£2,500

About Our Mentors

Andrew Kenrick has previously worked as an archaeologist and an archivist, a writer and an editor, before returning to academia to study nonfiction. He holds a PhD in Life Writing from the University of East Anglia, where he has also taught biography and publishing. He currently teaches creative nonfiction at the University of Cambridge’s Institute of Continuing Education, where he also supervises nonfiction dissertations. Andrew is the founder and co-editor of Hinterland, and is currently writing an object-based biography of the first century North African king, Juba II of Mauretania. 

Andrew is experienced at mentoring writers working on biography, memoir, essays, travel and food writing, and narrative history.

 

Freya Dean began her career in magazine journalism in the early 2000s at ELLE, SHE and Cosmopolitan before working as a freelance editor while based in the USA. She is the founder and associate editor of Hinterland, and combines editorial work with teaching English at a state-funded secondary school in Cambridge. Her own writing in the fields of non-fiction and poetry has been recognised by the Lorna Sage Award, the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation, and the National Poetry Society. Most recently she has been a contributor to The Real Story, Visual Verse, and UEA’s Non-Fiction Anthology Series. Within her teaching practice she is currently conducting research funded by Arts Council England into how to strengthen students’ creativity; and is part of a project funded by the University of Cambridge exploring how to promote poetry in the classroom. Freya holds degrees in the History of Art (BAHons, MA Hons) from the University of Cambridge, an MAHons in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, and a Postgraduate Certificate in Education from the University of Cambridge’s Faculty of Education.

Freya is experienced at mentoring writers working on narrative non-fiction, memoir, auto/biography, essay, prose poetry and flash non-fiction.