Mslexia

Mslexia, the magazine for women who write | www.mslexia.co.uk

In this magazine

ISSUE 12

Winter/Spring 2002

Featuring… HELEN DUNMORE ◊ EMMA TENNANT ◊ JILL DAWSON ◊ CAROL RUMENS ◊ MARCELLE D'ARCY SMITH

Special

AGENDA

The Age of the Bestseller
Debbie Taylor charts developments in the book trade since the demise of the Net Book Agreement and discovers a Jurassic Park, where huge publishing conglomerates battle with giant bookshop chains – and small publishers and independent bookshops face extinction.

INTERVIEW

Novelist Helen Dunmore talks to Debbie Taylor

FEATURES

Hacked off?
Publishers seem increasingly keen to sign up novelists who are seasoned hacks with ready-made publicity credentials. Anna Davis on a disturbing trend.

The art of plagiarism
Sarah Salway argues that reading - and, yes, imitating - other authors is one of the best ways to develop true craft.

Networking for introverts
To succeed these days writers have to put themselves about in the big bad world. Kath Murphy offers some gentle advice for the reluctant networker.

Regulars

NEW WRITING: AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Poetry and prose selected by Emma Tennant

POETIC FORMS

Linda France's tutorial on poetic forms:
Ballade with a specially-commissioned example by Carole Satyamurti

MIND AND BODY

Spring-clean your brain
Fifteen minutes of yoga breathing a day will create the ideal conditions for writing. Zena Davis reports.

BEDSIDE TABLE

What Marcelle D'Argy Smith 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