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ISSUE 13

Spring/Summer 2002

Featuring… HANIF KUREISHI ◊ KATE CLANCHY ◊ ANNE ROWSE ◊ ALI SMITH ◊ GILLIAN ALLNUTT ◊ EVE POLLARD

Special

AGENDA

The masculine aesthetic
Debbie Taylor looks at literary standards at the start of the new millennium. Is there a masculine aesthetic? And what does that mean for women’s writing?

INTERVIEW

Novelist Hanif Kureishi talks to Melanie Ashby

FEATURES

Boys will be boys
Sarah Spiller investigates the other planet that is the men’s book market – and asks a male guinea pig what he thinks.

Man handled?
Is it still men in grey suits at the top? Melanie Ashby finds out whether the gender balance in journalism and the book trade has improved, and asks how men feel about the changes.

Head to head
Top authors Sean O’Brien and Jane Rogers give their ‘view from here’ on men, women and the business of writing.

Under your skin
Helen Sandler used to enjoy writing as Jim Hardacre; she asks fellow women writers why they like to ‘cross over’.

Regulars

NEW WRITING: MADNESS

Poetry and prose selected by Kate Clanchy

POETIC FORMS

Linda France's tutorial on poetic forms:
Concrete poetry with a specially-commissioned example by Anne Rowse

BEDSIDE TABLE

What Eve Pollard likes to read

Plus…

STARTERS

Nuts & Bolts, First Person Singular, Getting Started in…, The Slush Pile

CREATIVITY

The Blank Page - workshop with Margaret Wilkinson
Word Surgeon with Dr Ingrid K

BOOKS

Literary analysis, Small Press Fiction, Best Ever Books by Women, Publishers' List profile, Mslexia book reviews

DIRECTORY

Everything a writer needs to know: competitions, submissions requests, grants, courses, events, contacts, venues