Mslexia

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In this magazine

ISSUE 3

Autumn 1999

Featuring… U A FANTHORPE ◊ HILARY MANTEL ◊ CAROL RUMENS ◊ WENDY ROBERTSON ◊ EDWINA CURRIE

Special

AGENDA: Making money

The poverty of the best-selling author
Respected literary authors earn a pittance compared to the kinds and queens of genre. Debbie Taylor investigates who’s making serious money our of writing.

INTERVIEW

Poet U A Fanthorpe talks to Debbie Taylor

FEATURES

Daddy’s darling girl
Ros Coward analyses the enduring appeal of romantic fiction in the so-called post-feminist age

When the right had doesn’t know what the left hand is doing.
How writing with your left hand can put you in touch with the creative processes of your right hemisphere: Rosie Jackson explains

Is UEA the best MA?
The low-down on postgraduate writing courses

What’s wrong with vanity publishing?
Deborah Durbin makes the case for DIY

MIND AND BODY: The Dreamers, the Critic and the Book
Juliet Shepherd undergoes hypnotism for writers’ block

Regulars

NEW WRITING: MAN AND BOY

Poetry and prose selected by Hilary Mantel

POETIC FORMS

Linda France's tutorial on poetic forms:
Sestina with a specially-commissioned example by Carol Rumens

BEDSIDE TABLE

What Edwina Currie 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