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Writing prompt: 'Roots'

Every edition of Mslexia includes a range of practical exercises designed to generate interesting new work for the magazine or for one of our annual competitions

Agent insight: Stevie Finegan of Zeno Agency

This article is from the regular ‘Manuscript Wishlist’ series in the magazine, in which we interview literary agents who are looking for new voices. The interviews are gathered together in the Library at the Mslexia Salon

Long read: Three cures for mslexia

This lead article from Issue 1 of Mslexia in March 1999 sets out our stall for the very first time

Long read: Mslexia – are we cured yet?

Nearly two decades on from the launch of Mslexia magazine, in Issue 72 in 2017, we revisited the issue of gender inequality in literature and publishing to see whether things had improved

Poetry: What is a prose poem?

The winner of our 2020 Poetry Competition was a prose poem. Our competition judge Karen McCarthy Woolf discusses where the prose poem lies on the spectrum of poetry and prose