Issue 82
Jun/Jul/Aug 2019
£8.95, plus p&p where applicable
Agenda: The new cultural revolution: Debbie Taylor on the move from inclusion to democracy in the arts
PLUS: Reinventing the novel • Cultural democracy • Narrative non-fiction • Songwriting
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Debbie Taylor
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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