Issue 67 (Sep/Oct/Nov 2015)
In this issue
- Basic equipment (So why don’t women submit their writing?)
- Breaking into the BBC
- Writing a column
- How to be an author’s friend
- Latest trends in ghost stories
Featured Writers
- Danuta Kean
- Patricia Ferguson
- Deryn Rees-Jones
- Rowan Coleman
- Janet Ellis
Special
Agenda
Pay as you go: are we being exploited by a boom in expensive non-university creative writing courses? Danuta Kean explores
Survey
Big question: Why don’t women submit their writing?
Interview
Patricia Ferguson talks to Stephanie Cross
Features
Tribal loyalty: Roz Warren explains how her friends are her best publicists
For what it’s worth: Vanessa Ugatti on the magic formula for negotiating payment
Breaking into the Beeb: Elizabeth Lewis reveals how to get a radio play commissioned by the BBC
Directory
12 pages of competitions, calls for submissions, grants, courses, events, contacts, venues
Regulars
New writing
Deryn Rees-Jones introduces the winners and finalists in our Women’s Poetry Competition 2015
Publishing trends
Books to look out for: Danuta Kean on erotic writing
Don’t miss nonfiction: selected by Caroline Sanderson
How to write a bestseller: A Summer Promise
Literary agent interview, Oli Munson
Author insights
Poems up close: Carolyn Jess-Cooke appreciates a poem by Agnieszka Studzinska
It works for me: advice from novelist Evie Wyld
Guides and masterclasses
Scriptory: Lucy Scher’s screenwriting series looks at building your story world
Short story heroes: Linda Anderson analyses the work of Helen Simpson
Hacking it: Chloe Corkhill on writing columns
Synopsis boot camp: Playing with structure
Plus…
What went horribly wrong
for Rowan Coleman
Bedside table
The table, the costume, the method, the books of Janet Ellis
Book reviews
Poetry, short story, nonfiction, independent press
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