Continuing on from PLACE 2020, the work here explores, through myriad mediums, how ideas of ‘place’ continue to shift and change as the world adjusts to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. PLACE 2021 is a collaboration between the Centre for Place Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University, Hinterland Creative Nonfiction Magazine and some of the most acclaimed, distinctive and exciting writers, artists and film-makers in place writing and related creative fields, including students from Manchester Metropolitan University and other newly emergent voices from around the world.

PLACE 2021 features essays, films, podcasts, poetry and stories from urban, edgeland, coastal and rural locations across the U.K., alongside dispatches from the European cities of Berlin, Warsaw and Rome, as well as submissions exploring international sites in Barbados, South Africa, Ecuador, Malaysia, India and America.