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Writing prompt: Rare Birds Book Club

The Rare Birds Book Club shares wisdom from Maggie O'Farrell and Claire Fuller {SPONSORED}

20 Questions: Leone Ross

A quickfire quiz with superstar writer and novelist Leone Ross

Poem: (Un)certainties by Regi Claire

Regi Clare’s poem (Un)certainties won our 2019 Poetry Competition, which was judged by Malika Booker. It was subsequently selected for inclusion in the Forward Anthology 2020 of best poems published in the previous year. It was the first poem Regi had ever written. Scroll down to discover how it came about

Monologue: The Unthinkable by Bernardine Evaristo

This is one of five original monologues – written for both page and performance – that we commissioned from leading authors as part of a range of initiatives supported by Arts Council England to celebrate Mslexia’s 20th Anniversary in 2019. It was published in Issue 78, in the wake of the Windrush scandal of 2018.

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

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