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In this magazine
ISSUE 4
Winter/Spring 2000
Featuring… MEERA SYAL ◊ FAY WELDON ◊ MAURA DOOLEY ◊ GILLIAN ALLNUTT ◊ BEA CAMPBELL
Special
AGENDA: Time management
The time of your life
Debbie Taylor ploughs through the Time Management literature for practical ways of maximising precious writing time
INTERVIEW
Novelist Meera Syal talks to Debbie Taylor
FEATURES
Fiction futures
Agent and novelist Anna Davis dons her Mystic Meg wig to gaze into the future and predict the next Big Thing in literary fashion
Climb every mountain
Katrina Crosbie offers a step-by-step guide to bouncing back after rejection
...when I’m bad, I’m better
Why should being popular jeopardise one’s literary reputation. Sophie Hannah speaks out for ‘good-bad’ writing
On the road: creative writing US style
Creative writing courses are now standard in almost every US university. But has American literature benefited as a result? Alumna Gabrielle Glancy reports
MIND AND BODY: The Dreamers, the Critic and the Book
Juliet Shepherd undergoes hypnotism for writers’ block
Regulars
NEW WRITING: FAT LADIES
Poetry and prose selected by Fay Weldon
POETIC FORMS
Linda France's tutorial on poetic forms:
Free Verse with a specially-commissioned example by Maura Dooley
BEDSIDE TABLE
What Bea Campbell 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
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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
