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Welcome to the Mslexia website – and to a taste of what our brand new issue offers! For starters, we are dead excited about our first-ever graphic article by poet and artist Jay Bernard featured in the Jul/Aug/Sep issue. We’ve also got some terrific new writing – a mix of prose and poetry selected by The Independent’s Christina Patterson – plus an article on how to handle the credit crunch as a journalist (hint: follow the money).
Here in the office, we are watching poetry competition entries fly in, wondering who will be the happy winners chosen by judge Vicki Feaver. The competition is now closed, though, so thanks to all who have entered. Winners will be notified mid-September – good luck!
The latest from Mslexia
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Mslexia Women's Poetry Competition
is NOW CLOSED. Judge: Vicki Feaver. First Prize: £1,000, Second Prize: £500, Third Prize: £250, plus 22 other finalists win £25 each. Winners will be notified mid-September. You can still try our series of specially-commissioned poetry workshops by Jane Holland.
Mslexia Roadshow on the web:
Wondering how to get from laptop to bookshop? Mslexia founder Debbie Taylor brings the Roadshow to the web, with a starter session on how to get published, a series of Get Published Workshops and interviews with agents and authors. More »
Get Published Workshops
Short Story Competition Winner Announced!
Congratulations to Sarah Klenbort, first prize winner in the Mslexia Women's Short Story Competition 2010. Read judge Tracy Chevalier's essay and the top three winning stories online. All six chosen stories are published in the current issue of Mslexia. More »
Win!
We have three copies of the beautiful 50th anniversary hardback cloth-bound collector's edition of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird (Heinemann) to give away. To be in with a chance of winning, just answer the simple question by following the link below. Good luck!
CLOSING DATE: 2 August
Inside the new issue
Issue 46
Jul/Aug/Sep 10
New Writing on the theme of Into the Deep ◊ The lowdown on funding for writers ◊ Freelancing options during the credit crunch ◊ Female illustrators leading the way in the graphic novel genre ◊ Jancis Robinson's Bedside Table ◊ Emma Jones on Making a Poem ◊ Claudia Roden talks to Daneet Steffens
Explore this issue
"I've got no fixed ideas about the kind of poem that will win: just that I'll know it when I read it!"
Vicki Feaver ◊ Mslexia Women's Poetry Competition 2010
"‘I had wanted to do all kinds of things... but my parents were just, 'Il n’y a pas de question – no question!' Art was the only thing. "
Claudia Roden ◊ Interview
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