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Salon Showcase: 'Excavated' by Philippa Ramsden

'I am alive'

Salon Showcase: 'Eight education outtakes' by Jennifer Arin

I perused pastries while most of the other evacuees were preoccupied with a single question: over and over again I heard, ‘Do you know what set off the fire alarm?’

Mslexia Christmas Gift Guide 2025

Find the perfect present for the writer in your life

Salon Showcase: 'Deceit' by Debra Battersby

'Dill', 'Damson', 'Dates', 'Despair'

Salon Showcase: 'Duloxetine 30mg od' by Penny Shutt

'the will to survive pierced from foil blister packs'

Salon Showcase: 'Dennis' by Rosanna Ogle

'Him wunt no bloody buggering angel. Angel’s chunt going to be under the ground like that.'

Salon Showcase: 'The Dogs' by Ginny Thomas

'It was the first time I had heard of ‘a body’ being buried and I felt confused: if the spaniel’s body was under the woods’ edge, then where was its head?'

How to win a poetry competition

Mslexia’s Editor Debbie Taylor offers 10 tips for writing a prize-winning poem

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