A spoonful of sugar
Novelist and writing mentor Jill Dawson challenges the widely accepted teaching model for creative writing, and proposes a different approach
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What a difference a win makes
We are chuffed as chips to announce the publication today of the winner our 2019 Novel Competition – in gorgeous hardback from Pan Macmillan. The Midwife by Tricia Cresswell is a historical novel exploring the themes of women’s equality and reproductive rights and a worthy winner in so many ways.
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Feng shui for your desk
Why is the University of East Anglia such a hot house for aspirant writers? Because it’s in the east, of course, where chi energy supports new beginnings. We present a special Mslexia guide to the changes you can make to your writing environment to maximise your creativity and your chances of getting published.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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