Issue 79
Sep/Oct/Nov 2018
£8.95, plus p&p where applicable
Agenda: the rise (and rise) of self-publishing
PLUS: Nature writing • How to receive feedback • Challenging the curriculum • Writing horror
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Francoise Harvey
Plus
Jackie Kay • Ruby Tandoh • Nancy Revell • Meena Kandasamy • A M Homes
Agenda
- Self-publishing takes off: Orna Ross on how independent authors are on the rise
Forum
- What you’re saying about… competitions, free PDFs and your own achievements
- What happened when you wrote a description of yourself
- For the love of it: nature writing with Jacqueline Bain
- Blogwatch
- Noticeboard
- Writing in the world: printing a community newspaper with Esther Beadle
Showcase
- Rosie Garland introduces stories and poems on the theme of ‘cooking’
Craft
- Creativity news
- Writing exercises
- What works for A M Homes
- Poetry challenge: Golden Shovel, selected by Linda France
- Hard truths: Helen Corner-Bryant on how to give and receive feedback
- Nancy Revell’s Achilles’ heel
- Flash genre: Alison Jacobs
- First page surgery with Kitty Walker
Interview
- Meena Kandasamy talks to Debbie Taylor
Off the page
- Script news
- Play list with Chinonyerem Odimba
- Plan your set with Malika Booker
- Listen up with Helen Mort
- Bedtime story: ‘Mrs O’Bogarty is a witch’
- Moving words with Claire Trévien
- Sister acts with Kirsten Luckins
- Monologue: ‘Boke’ by Jackie Kay
Career
- Publishing news
- Crystal ball
- Brick by brick: Katy Guest builds a portfolio career
- Pitch surgery with Kate Nash
- Pitch calendar
- Self-help book test drive with Meg Clothier
- Balancing the books: Imogen Usherwood asks why so few women writers are included in the school curriculum
Doors open
- Insight: pitch prospects
- Insight: script submissions to Ink Festival 2019
- Open for submissions
- Three of a kind: themed writing
- Open for entries: competitions and awards
- Insight: literary agent Thérèse Coen’s manuscript wishlist
- Insight: The Liminal Residency
- Insight: The Mogford Food & Drink Short Story Prize
- Time away: writing holidays
Out now
- Début author interview: Rachel Edwards
- Poet laureate by R D Gardner
- Six best second novels
- Poetry news
- Poetry review by Jade Cuttle
- Non-fiction: going solo with Caroline Sanderson
- K is for…
- Fiction issues: writing horror by Dawn Geddes
- Short story news
- Short story review by Alice Slater
- Short story heroes: A M Homes
- Books about writing; I confess
Don’t miss
- Events and courses
And finally
- Ruby Tandoh’s bedtime reading
- What we’re up to
- Submitting and subscribing to Mslexia