Helen Szirtes

In Hinterland Issue 3 we publish, with huge pleasure, the pieces that won the Hinterland Prize 2019: Anna Lachkaya’s beautifully evoked account of immigrant girlhood, Megan Holland’s story of grief and becoming, and Dani Redd’s other-worldly roam across a remote Scandinavian island. Inside a stunning cover, created exclusively for Hinterland by artist Rebecca Pymar, is an outstanding line-up of new creative non-fiction plus all our great regular features, including the award-winning poet George Szirtes in conversation with his daughter Helen Szirtes.

So much to do, so little time, so best to start early. Full of things to make, achieve, learn (and some things you shouldn't learn) this is the perfect handbook for any child who wants to revel in being young and not-boring. Can you...Make an origami crane? Lie convincingly? Operate as a spy? Parents may need these skills (not origami) to wrest their child's copy from them and indulge in all the fun they should have had...