Throwback to our first issue

Revisiting our Hinterland Issue 1

Hinterland Issue 1 - cactus sold separately!

Earlier this year, we passed the fifth anniversary of our very first issue, released back in May 2019. As we’ve recently found a few more copies of Issue 1 (it’s back on sale on our webstore if you want to add it to your collection!), we thought we’d take a little leaf back through its pages.

Rebecca Stott was one of our two headline authors for Issue 1.

Issue 1 featured not one but two headline authors: Rebecca Stott and Ian Thomson. In ‘The Fall’, Rebecca takes us to the Museum of London as she researches what happened in Londinium after the Romans left for her recent book, Dark Earth. Ian wrote a gripping true crime story about the murder of a private detective in ‘Blue Murder’, the first of two pieces he’s contributed to Hinterland over the years.

Susan Karen Burton’s piece, about the world of foreign hostesses in Japan

When we started Hinterland, we always hoped it would act as a stepping stone for writers to achieve wider publication — and two authors from Issue 1 did just that. Both Pete Goulding and Susan Karen Burton went on to win the New Welsh Writing Rheidol Prize for Writing. Pete’s piece ‘Hogiau Pen Garret’ formed a chapter in his debut Slatehead (Parthian), while Susan’s book The Transplantable Roots of Catharine Huws Nagashima (out next year, also with Parthian) continues her fascinating profiles of migrants living and working in Japan.

L-R: Andrew, Damian and Freya under the Orwell Bridge…

For our very first interview, founding editors Andrew and Freya met up with Damian Le Bas at Suffolk Food Hall to discuss his book, The Stopping Places, in a conversation that ranged from poetry and the perils of writing non-fiction to questions of identity and who has the right to tell stories.

The full contents page for Issue 1

Of course that’s just a small taster of what you can find inside Issue 1: as you can see from the contents page our first issue was packed full of fantastic articles, photo essays, and flash non-fiction, and set the template for everything that came after!

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We have limited numbers of Issue 1 on sale at our webstore now, or you can order a copy of the digital edition.

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