Issue 82

Editor
Debbie Taylor

Plus

Tishani Doshi • Morgan Lloyd Malcolm • Michelle Paver • Jane Corry • Konnie Huq

AGENDA

• The new cultural revolution: Debbie Taylor on the move from inclusion to democracy in the arts
• 2018 Novella Competition winners

FORUM

• What you’re saying about… feedback, plastic, prices and publicity for début authors
• Humblebrags
• Your life sentences
• For the love of it: postcard memoirs with Helen Parker
• Tracey Sinclair’s view of reviewing
• Noticeboard

SHOWCASE

• Linda Grant introduces stories and poems on the theme of ‘clothes’
• Our judging panel on the 2018 Novel Competition Winners

CRAFT

• Creativity news
• Writing exercises
• What works for Irenosen Okojie
• Poetry challenge: ode, selected by Linda France
• Turning to crime: Jane Corry explores the parallels between writing romance and crime
• Michelle Paver’s Achilles’ heel
• Flash challenge: Abby Moss
• First page surgery with Sareeta Domingo
• Reinventing the novel: Sophie Van Llewyn on the rise of genre-bending fiction

INTERVIEW

• Tishani Doshi talks to Sandeep Parmar

OFF THE PAGE

• Script news
• Play list with Morgan Lloyd Malcolm
• Podding along: conversational podcasts with Alice Slater
• Songbirds: concealed alliteration with Susie McComb
• Bedtime story: ‘Squiffle the Sock-a-lot’ by Natalie Page
• Mslexia Moths

CAREER

• Publishing news
• Crystal ball
• Better than fiction: Alison Flood on the industry appetite for narrative non-fiction
• Pitch surgery with Catherine Cho
• Pitch calendar
• Self-help book test drive with Lucy Corkhill

DOORS OPEN

• Open for submissions
• Insight: pitch prospects
• Three of a kind: historical fiction
• Insight: Traverse Theatre
• Open for entries: competitions and awards
• Insight: agent Josephine Hayes’s manuscript wishlist
• Insight: Babble Gum
• Insight: H G Wells Short Story Competition
• Time away: writing holidays

OUT NOW

• Début author interview: Christy Lefteri
• Poet laureate by Penny Kimber
• Seven best romantic novels
• Poetry news
• Poetry review by Sandeep Parmar
• Non-fiction: job-focused memoirs with Caroline Sanderson
• Fiction issues: dystopian fiction by Heather Child
• Short story news
• Short story review by Alice Slater
• Short story heroes: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Books about writing
• N is for…

DON’T MISS

• Events and courses

AND FINALLY

• Konnie Huq’s bedtime reading
• What we’re up to
• Submitting and subscribing to Mslexia