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In this magazine
ISSUE 1
Spring 1999
Featuring… BARBARA TRAPIDO ◊ MICHELE ROBERTS ◊ SELIMA HILL ◊ VAL MCDERMID ◊ SUSIE ORBACH
Special
AGENDA: Mslexia
Three cures for Mslexia
Why are there so few celebrated woman writers? Latest psychological research and results of Mslexia’s special surveys. Plus: Susie Orbach exploring why women are so sensitive to criticism.
INTERVIEW
Novelist Barbara Trapido talks to Debbie Taylor
FEATURES
Good writers make bad mothers
You have to neglect your children if you want to succeed as a writer, argues Julia Darling
Feng Shui for your desk
The painless route to literary success
Confessions of a Person with a Writing Disorder
PWD Zoë Fairbairns explains how she recovered
MIND AND BODY: caffeine
Caffeine and creativity - Heather Welford marshals the evidence
Regulars
NEW WRITING: EROTIC WRITING
Poetry and prose selected by Michèle Roberts
POETIC FORMS
Linda France's tutorial on poetic forms:
The Sonnet with a specially-commissioned example by Selima Hill
BEDSIDE TABLE
What Val McDermid likes to read
Plus…
STARTERS
Nuts & Bolts, First Person Singular, Getting Started in…, The Slush Pile
CREATIVITY
The Blank Page - workshop with Margaret Wilkinson
Word Surgeon with Dr Ingrid K
BOOKS
Literary analysis, Small Press Fiction, Best Ever Books by Women, Publishers' List profile, Mslexia book reviews
DIRECTORY
Everything a writer needs to know: competitions, submissions requests, grants, courses, events, contacts, venues
THE Mslexia ARCHIVE
You can browse back issue contents year by year below, or click to view the full archive list.
Features on the website
BOOKS
What to read, what not to read: Mslexia readers & reviewers give their verdict on the latest books, plus our celebrity guest reveals what's on her Bedside Table. Explore Books
THE Mslexia INTERVIEW
We find out what makes a successful author tick in this in-depth one-to-one on the highs and lows of writing and getting published. Read from the current Mslexia Interview
NEW WRITING
Sample the best freshly-picked writing as chosen by our guest author and read her essay; plus - we announce the new submission theme. Go to New Writing
