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Welcome
After months of planning, experimenting and hard graft, we are thrilled to unveil our fabulous new website, launching in conjunction with our redesigned magazine. As you can see, the stylish new look provides a perfect showcase for our 2008 Poetry Competition winners: check in here to find out more about Sibyl Ruth, Valerie Laws and Patricia Ace. Grab some of your own writing inspiration from our Submit page – featuring exercises and Contributors’ Guidelines – and send us your work for upcoming issues. Find out what books our listings editor, Sophie Baker, currently has on the go – and then let us know what you are reading. Also, it’s now easier than ever to subscribe online – or buy your writing buddy/ sister/ aunt/ partner a gift subscription! Log on, have a browse and send us your feedback. As always, we’d love to hear what you think.
DANEET STEFFENS, editor
Issue No. 38
Inside the new Mslexia…
Carol Ann Duffy presents the three winners and 22 runners up of our 5th Annual Poetry Competition ◊ The New Publishing Revolution: marketing expert Alison Baverstock on e-books, e-rights and what it all means for authors ◊ Maria Rejt is The Insider ◊ Fay Weldon's Bottom Drawer ◊ Colette Bryce interviews Jo Shapcott for Making a Poem ◊ and much more…◊ Explore
Latest news
Job opportunity at Mslexia
- Administrative Assistant
£12-£13k p.a. depending on experience - Supporting the Newcastle-based Mslexia team, assisting in all aspects of organisational administration and contributing to the effective running of the office, the successful candidate must be confident, a good communicator, have excellent organisational, practical and computer skills (MacOSX, Microsoft Word, Filemaker an advantage), and be able to work both as part of a team and independently. This position provides work experience and exposure across the organisation as a whole, and includes opportunities for creative/editorial/marketing contributions.
Please send CV to arrive by Friday 12 September to Helen Baynes, Mslexia Publications Ltd, PO Box 656, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE99 1PZ or email to postbag@mslexia.co.uk - ◊ postbag@mslexia.co.uk
Mslexia Writer's Diary survey
- Do you use a Mslexia Writer's Diary? We are currently running a Mslexia Writer's Diary survey and we would appreciate it if you could take a couple of minutes to answer the questions. Your feedback is important to us and will help us to make our 2009 diary even better. Three lucky people who complete the survey by Sunday 31 August will WIN A £10 BOOK TOKEN.
- ◊ Mslexia Writer's Diary survey
5th Annual Mslexia Poetry Competition 2008
- Judged by Carol Ann Duffy
- ◊ Winners announced
New Writing
- Theme: The Four Elements
- ◊ Submit a poem or story
"For me, a good poem asserts its own necessity to exist. That is why we can quote from those poems that we love and admire most."
Carol Ann Duffy, judge
Mslexia Poetry Competition 2008
"I’m a huge fan of modern novels and when I get stuck on an author I do tend to read their entire back catalogue."
Fi Glover
Bedside Table
"It's so terrifying writing a novel! Like walking a tightrope across Niagara Falls for two years!"
Aminatta Forna
Interview
The Mslexia Poll
Ten years on: The Orange Prize is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, Mslexia magazine will be marking its first decade in 2009. Overall, do you feel that women's literature and women's writing is getting more attention and better representation among readers and the media than it was a decade ago?
