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Welcome
After months of planning, experimenting and hard graft, we are thrilled to unveil our fabulous new website, launching in conjunction with our redesigned magazine. As you can see, the stylish new look provides a perfect showcase for our 2008 Poetry Competition winners: check in here to find out more about Sibyl Ruth, Valerie Laws and Patricia Ace. Grab some of your own writing inspiration from our Submit page – featuring exercises and Contributors’ Guidelines – and send us your work for upcoming issues. Find out what books our listings editor, Sophie Baker, currently has on the go – and then let us know what you are reading. Also, it’s now easier than ever to subscribe online – or buy your writing buddy/ sister/ aunt/ partner a gift subscription! Log on, have a browse and send us your feedback. As always, we’d love to hear what you think.
DANEET STEFFENS, editor
Issue No. 38
Inside the new Mslexia…
Carol Ann Duffy presents the three winners and 22 runners up of our 5th Annual Poetry Competition ◊ The New Publishing Revolution: marketing expert Alison Baverstock on e-books, e-rights and what it all means for authors ◊ Maria Rejt is The Insider ◊ Fay Weldon's Bottom Drawer ◊ Colette Bryce interviews Jo Shapcott for Making a Poem ◊ and much more…◊ Explore
Latest news
5th Annual Mslexia Poetry Competition 2008
- Judged by Carol Ann Duffy
- ◊ Winners announced
New Writing
- Theme: The Four Elements
- ◊ Submit a poem or story
Win!
Win a copy of the deliciously gothic and lepidoptera-filled The Behaviour of Moths by Poppy Adams (Virago, £12.99). We have four books to give away.
Deadline: 18 August
"For me, a good poem asserts its own necessity to exist. That is why we can quote from those poems that we love and admire most."
Carol Ann Duffy, judge
Mslexia Poetry Competition 2008
"I’m a huge fan of modern novels and when I get stuck on an author I do tend to read their entire back catalogue."
Fi Glover
Bedside Table
"It's so terrifying writing a novel! Like walking a tightrope across Niagara Falls for two years!"
Aminatta Forna
Interview
