Mslexia Magazine - Issue 87

In this issue

• Politics and creativity
• Extreme pitching
• Playwriting masterclass
• What works in writing therapy

Featured writers

• Melissa Benn
• Isabel Galleymore
• Sita Brahmachari
• Leone Ross
• Sara Collins and Irenosen Okojie
• Jane Goodall

Editor
Debbie Taylor

Plus

Melissa Benn • Isabel Galleymore • Sita Brahmachari • Leone Ross, Sara Collins and Irenosen Okojie • Jane Goodall

Forum

• Writing nest
• Bear necessities
• Submission stories
• Blogability
• What you’re saying
• #amwriting: Alexis Wolfe on writing while parenting a child with disabilities

Agenda

• Leaning to the left: Melissa Benn on political preference and creativity

Craft

• Warm-up
• Seven plots
• Poet Laureate
• In conversation: Leone Ross, Sara Collins and Irenosen Okojie talk about writing and racism
• Grow your own poem with Kate Clanchy
• The story of your life with Catherine Cho
• Poetry challenge, selected by Linda France
• S is for…
• Flash Challenge with Meg Pokrass

Interview

• Sita Brahmachari talks to Katy Guest

Reading for writers

• Breaking the mould with Yvonne Battle-Felton
• Books about writing
• The Knowledge: Historical fiction with Danuta Kean
• What’s new in poetry by Stephanie Sy-Quia
• Indie in the news: V. Press
• What’s new in short stories by Alice Slater
• Indie in the news: Myriad Editions

Showcase

• Isabel Galleymore presents her selection of short stories and poems on the theme of ‘wildlife’

Creativity & Wellbeing

• Brain gym with Lucy Corkhill; Abiola Bello’s Achilles’ heel
• Crafting a cure with Victoria Field
• Writing prescriptions: What works best for different conditions, by Kate Thompson
• It works for me: Elly Griffiths
• Blockbuster
• Lapidoptera, interview with therapist Clare Scott

Career

• What’s new on Twitter with Bethany Rutter
• Pitching up: Rae Ritchie on pitching every day for a month
• Proud to place with agent Nelle Andrew
• My portfolio career
• Self-publish your own non-fiction by Debbie Young
• Noticeboard

Opportunities

• Open for submissions
• Insight: Caledonia Novel Awards
• Insight: Grants and Awards: Authors Emergency Fund
• Three of a kind: food magazines
• Insight: Juliet Pickering’s manuscript wishlist

Off the page

• The world’s wife
• Eyeverse
• Playmaking with Margaret Wilkinson
• Creative infection: how haikus went viral, by Lucy English
• Bedtime story
• Breaking the Mould with Cecilia Knapp
• Mslexia Moths with Molly Naylor

Events

• Events and courses
• Getting a Gig: Unlatched Podcast

And finally

• Jane Goodall’s bedtime reading
• Submitting and subscribing to Mslexia