Hinterland Issue 16 - A Journeys special

Find out more about our latest issue, available to preorder now.

The latest issue of Hinterland, Issue 16, is available to preorder now direct from our webstore. The issue features a beautiful cover from Aimée Uğur and some amazing stories inside.

Based on the Oxford English Dictionary’s definition of ‘travel: to make a journey of some length’, this issue is all about journeys and voyages through place, space and time, featuring work that redefines travel writing. Here’s just a taste of what you can expect:

In ‘Here for Work’, Homera Cheema’s career in the aid sector takes her closer to home than she imagined it would.

Evelyn Fok writes about facing prejudice and isolation — as well as searching for signs of home — in ‘Chinese in India.’

In her piece, ‘Tags’, Karen Kao searches for belonging, one graffiti tag at a time.

Elizabeth Lewis Williams is offered a rare opportunity to follow in her father’s footsteps to the Antarctic in her story, ‘Arriving.’

In ‘Begin at the End’, Frank Light takes us back to his time spent in Afghanistan in the sixties, at the end of a tour with the Peace Corps.

In ‘Plot 8’, Jean McNeil writes from the coast of Kenya, under threat by developers and the legacy of colonialism.

Sam Pyrah overcomes the very many reasons not to pack up her tent and don her hiking boots and walk the Two Moors Way across Devon, in ‘The Knack of Fear.’

Alongside our regular selection of flash pieces by Robert Butroyd, Alexis Keir and Daniel Rabuzzi, as well as an Ekphrasis piece by Anna Evans who was inspired to write about borderlands by a visit to the Museum of Modern Art in Collioure, France.

We’ll have interviews with many of our contributors over the coming weeks, as well as Andrew and Yin in conversation about the issue’s themes. If we’ve successfully whetted your appetite, you can order Issue 16 now.