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Mslexia Magazine - Issue 76
Agenda: The youth vote: how YA fiction influences political opinion
PLUS: The dangers of writing tuition • Meditation and Creativity • Carrying on after rejection • Writing about pregnancy
Editor
Debbie Taylor
Plus
Sarah Perry • Jane Harris • Sibéal Pounder • Carolyn Jess-Cooke • Victoria Derbyshire
Agenda
- Could YA fiction swing the next election? Laura Steven explains how writers can change the world, one teenager at a time
- 2017 Poetry Pamphlet Competition winner
Forum
- What you’re saying about… prologues, famous poets and suffragettes
- What happened when you wrote a 25-word novel
- Life sentences
- Writing in the world: cancer, with Susmita Bhattacharya
- Noticeboard
- Spread the love: writers’ collectives
- Get creative with podcasts
- Blogwatch
Showcase
- Jane Harris introduces stories and poems on the theme of ‘Yesteryears’
Craft
- Creativity news
- Writing exercises
- What works for Naomi Foyle
- What’s the point? Karon Alderman on why she keeps writing in the face of rejection
- Musical theatre: Susannah Pearse on putting on a show
- Sibéal Pounder’s Achilles’ heel
- Flash genre: Helena Astbury
- Poetry challenge: specular poetry, selected by Linda France
- A visit to nowhere: Sita Brand on how meditation can aid your writing
- Rhyme story: ‘Swoop, poop, plop’ by Lalla Merlin
- Picture this: Bethan Woollvin
- First page surgery with Imogen Robertson
Interview
- Sarah Perry talks to Rebecca Swirsky
Career
- Publishing news
- Madame Lexi’s crystal ball
- Advice to my younger self
- Submission bootcamp: tenacity
- Safety first: Carolyn Jess-Cooke on the lack of regulation of writing workshops
- Pitch surgery with Carrie Plitt
- Pitch calendar
- Self-help book test drive with Meg Clothier
Doors open
- Open for submissions
- Insight: pitch prospects
- Three of a kind: writing in response
- Insight: script submissions to Paines Plough
- Open for entries: competitions and awards
- Insight: manuscript wish list, agent Joanna Moult
- Insight: Francis W Reckitt Arts Trust
- Insight: New Welsh Writing Awards
- Time away: writing holidays
Out now
- Début author: Chitra Ramaswamy
- Six best women in translation
- Books about writing
- Fiction issues: fairy tales by Zoë Marriott
- Short story news
- Short story review by Alice Slater
- Short story heroes: Sarah Hall
- Script news
- I confess
- Non-fiction: votes for women with Caroline Sanderson
- H is for…
- Poetry news
- Poetry review by Alex Pryce
Don’t miss
- Events and courses
- Insight: getting a gig at Stanza in Newcastle-upon-Tyne
- Insight: Stacy Makishi in performance
And finally
- Victoria Derbyshire’s bedtime reading
- What we’re up to
- Submitting and subscribing to Mslexia
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