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In this magazine
ISSUE 36
Jan/Feb/Mar 2008
Featuring… KATE GRENVILLE ◊ SCARLETT THOMAS ◊ TAMASIN DAY-LEWIS ◊ KATE MOSSE ◊ STELLA DUFFY
Special
AGENDA
Girls aloud
Co-founder Kate Mosse on the landmark Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction, a decade on.
INTERVIEW
Author Scarlett Thomas talks to Danuta Kean
FEATURES
Have poems, will travel
Itinerant Poetry Librarian Sara Wingate Gray takes us on a most unusual journey.
A commercial novel break
Why did novelist Lesley Lokko trade in her architect's tools for a writer's pen? The passion, she says, is all.
The great domestic dust-up
Writer Zoe Lambert on the errant attempts to 'domesticate' women authors.
Regulars
NEW WRITING: GLOVES
poetry and prose selected by Stella Duffy
FIRST DRAFT
Kate Grenville on her writing process
MAKING A POEM
Lorraine Mariner talks to Kate Clanchy
BOTTOM DRAWER
What Tess Gerritsen never got published
BEDSIDE TABLE
What Tamasin Day-Lewis likes to read
Plus…
GUIDELINES
Joy of, Lowdown, 10 top tips, Money matters
INSPIRATIONS
Writing workshops with Bernadine Evaristo
Making a poem, Write your self, Keep going
BOOKS
How to write a bestseller, Books for Young Adults, Writers' Bookshelf, Literary Landmarks, Independent press 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
