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Horror with a conscience, overcoming stage fright, close editing, playing with sound poetry, 'dear diary', working as a translator and award-winning short stories and flash fiction

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'Inspired, inspiring, invaluable' - Sarah Waters

Mslexia magazine is full of creative inspiration, practical advice and original poetry, fiction and memoir – as well as writing competitions, submission opportunities, online workshops, courses and events.

In this issue

Agenda The pram in the hall, Maxine Davies looks into how motherhood affects women's writing

Bedside table Lola Young tells us what she's reading in bed

Interview Stephanie Butland talks to bestselling romance author Lindsey Kelk

Writing lives Matilda Welin explores the idea of keeping a diary as a creative practice

The knowledge Julie Vuong explains what's happening in 'socially conscious' horror

Language work Ellen Jones talks about working as a translator, and how the art of translation influences her own writing practice

PLUS: Leone Ross and Mary-Jane Holmes introduce their winning short stories and flash fictions from this year's competition

 

 

 

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Our unique listing of over 120 writing competitions and submission opportunities, plus lots of online workshops, courses and events.

 

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Inspired, inspiring, invaluable.

Sarah Waters

Entertaining, insightful and unpredictable. No woman who is serious about writing should be without it.

Sophie Hannah

I like the non-elitist way it deals with all kinds of writing.

Wendy Cope
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