Is the venue accessible?

Yes, the ground floor Garden Room at Carrow House is fully accessible, and has an accessible bathroom adjacent. If you have any specific access needs, please contact us.

Are refreshments provided?

Tea and coffee are provided. There will be a 30 minute break for lunch – please bring your own (we can picnic in the amphitheatre if the weather is fine!) or there are options at Riverside, a 10-minute walk away.

Saturday, 30 August

Hinterland Presents: First Steps in Writing Creative Non-fiction

Join Hinterland's founding editor for a day of craft insights and writing exercises to inspire the first steps in your non-fiction journey

By Hinterland Magazine

Date and time

Location

Carrow House

301 King Street Norwich NR1 2TG United Kingdom

Refund Policy

Refunds up to 7 days before event.

About this event

Event lasts 4 hours 30 minutes
Free venue parking

Join Hinterland, the magazine of new creative non-fiction, for the first event of its teaching programme in Norwich in Summer 2025.

Join founding editor, author and teacher Dr Andrew Kenrick at the historic Carrow House for a one-day introduction to the principles of writing from life. Don't miss the oportunity to meet other writers at the start of their journeys for a morning of expert guidance and insight and an afternoon of structured exercises for you to try your hand at the genre. You'll finish the day full of ideas and inspiration, and with material you can continue to work on.

Two full bursaries are available. Please email hinterlandnonfiction@gmail.com for more information.

Timetable

10am-12noon Introduction to the principles of writing non-fiction with Andrew Kenrick

12noon-12.30pm Lunch break (please bring your own)

12.30pm-2.30pm Guided writing exercises to try different approaches and start developing your ideas

About Andrew

Andrew Kenrick is a publisher, editor and writer, and is the founder of non-fiction magazine, Hinterland. He holds a PhD in Life Writing from the University of East Anglia. He teaches creative non-fiction, biography and publishing at UEA and the University of Cambridge. His first biography, an object-based biography of the first century North African king, Juba II of Mauretania, is forthcoming from Penguin Random House.

Find out more about Hinterland on our website and Instagram, or take a look and sign up to our Substack. For in-depth support of your writing project, you can also check out our mentoring programme.

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Hinterland Magazine

Hinterland is a tri-annual print and digital magazine dedicated to creative non-fiction. It showcases the best new writing across the fields of memoir, essay, travel and food writing, reportage, psychoscape, biography, flash non-fiction and more. Each issue features a stellar line-up of writing talent from around the globe: work by established authors as well as exciting new writers, some of whom are making their publishing debut in magazine.

We also host live readings and creative nonfiction writing workshops, as well as attend publishing fairs.

Find out more about Hinterland on our website www.hinterlandnonfiction.com or via Twitter @HinterlandNF