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How to edit a poem

Hannah Lowe’s collection, The Kids, has just won the coveted Costa Book of the Year Award. Hurray! And it just so happens that Hannah’s also been writing a series of articles for Mslexia entitled Editing a Poem. Here’s the first in that series, from the December edition of the magazine, in which she talks about ways of approaching that most most challenging and satisfying of tasks.

Get the one-hour habit

If 2021 was another year when you didn’t spend enough time on your writing, take heart. If you can find just one hour a day that might just be enough. Life coach Bekki Hill explains

My comic life

When Matilda Tristram got cancer she wrote a comic diary about it. Here she explains how you can star in your own comic strip too

Wintering for writers

Katherine May argues that fallow periods in a writer’s life are times to treasure and use to reflect on the direction we want to take next

Breaking a poem

Debbie Taylor talks to Alison Binney about why line breaks are so important in a poem, and why it mattered so much when the wrong version of her winning poem was published in Mslexia

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.

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