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What the bear said

What would animals say if they could speak about our treatment of their home planet? Here, to add another perspective to the voices being raised at and about Cop26, is a story we published in the magazine last year by Carys Shannon

Time to write

Rebecca Hastings reports on on how a daily communal writing time has led to a creative writing surge across continents.

Maps of the mind

Limbering up for your NaNoWriMo marathon and wondering how to create a convincing protagonist? Arabella Charlaff explains how psychonalyis can help deepen your portrayal of fictional characters.

Binge-writing

In the run up to this year’s National Novel Writing Month in November, Meg Clothier investigates a speedwriting craze that’s taking the literary world by storm. (It works for poets too…)

First, Stalk Your Agent

How Sarah Hilary writes a bestselling novel every year

Imtiaz Dharker: 20 Questions

Mslexia catches up with Imtiaz Dharker

The Jamie Method

How the new Scottish Makar goes about writing a poem

Getting into ghostwriting

Jools Abrams shines a light on the shadowy world of the ghost writer and explains how to turn your natural curiosity into a lucrative source of income

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