Issue 61(Mar/Apr/May 2014)
In this issue
- Writers' partners: How does yours shape up?
- Writing as therapy
- Crowdfunding for your book
- Short story masterclass
- Binge writing
Featured Writers
- Kate Adie
- Nicci Gerrard
- Julie Burchill
- Francesca Simon
Special
Agenda
A healing flame: Roselle Angwin addresses writing as a form of therapy, and tells us how it works
Survey
Significant others: does your partner help or hinder your writing? Find out the results in this issue
Interview
Horrid Henry creator Francesca Simon talks to Amanda Craig
Features
Fund raising: Diane Shipley on how to publish a book, with a little help from your friends
What Katie did next: Creative Wrtiting MA Survivor Katie M Anderson on what really happens after graduation
Binge writing: Meg Clothier investigates the speedwriting craze
Directory
12 pages of competitions, calls for submissions, grants, courses, events, contacts, venues. See what’s available now.
Regulars
New writing
Nicci Gerrard introduces her selection of poems and short stories submitted on the theme of ‘Troubled minds’.
Publishing trends
What’s new in post-colonial fiction by Hannah Michell
Books to look out for by Danuta Kean
How to write a bestseller, by Debbie Taylor
Literary agent interview: Isobel Dixon
Author insights
Making a poem: Marilyn Hacker talks to Fiona Sampson
It works for me: advice from poet Gillian Allnut
Guides and masterclasses
Short story masterclass, by Margaret Wilkinson
Digidoings: bringing readers to your blog, by Katy Evans-Bush
Synopsis Surgery, by Kathryn Price
Travel writing, by Caroline Sanderson
Plus
What went horribly wrong
for Natalie Young
Bedside table
The table, the costume, the method, the books of Kate Adie
Book reviews
Poetry, short story, nonfiction choice, reading group, independent press
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