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In this magazine
ISSUE 7
Autumn/Winter 2000
Featuring… STELLA DUFFY ◊ LINDA GRANT ◊ PENELOPE SHUTTLE ◊ PATIENCE AGBABI ◊ ROS COWARD
Special
AGENDA: Women's Magazines
Between the covers
Aren’t there already enough women’s magazines on the shelves? Apparently not… Lorna Russell looks at five that are new in 2000 and asks what they have to offer – and how you can write for them. Plus: Guardian women’s page editor Libby Brooks on how she made it in journalism
INTERVIEW
Novelist Stella Duffy talks to Debbie Taylor
FEATURES
One of the boys
Only 16 per cent of advertising copywriters are women. Isobel Jacobs looks at what it takes to write a good ad and asks three top women creatives how they got there
On the bandwagon
Music – and music writing – is dominated by men. Lucy O’Brien, a music journalist since 1980, tells her stories of sex and rock ’n’ roll
Speak your mind
Can a well-written speech make you change your views? Melanie Ashby looks at the art of polemic
Net profits
Want your work to be instantly published? Get it out on the Internet, says Alice Fisher
MIND AND BODY: room to think
What’s the best environment for creative inspiration? By Tina Jackson
Regulars
NEW WRITING: FUR
Poetry and prose selected by Linda Grant
POETIC FORMS
Linda France's tutorial on poetic forms:
The List Poem with a specially-commissioned example by Penelope Shuttle
BEDSIDE TABLE
What Rosalind Coward 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
