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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