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In this magazine
ISSUE 36
Jan/Feb/Mar 2008
Featuring… KATE GRENVILLE ◊ SCARLETT THOMAS ◊ TAMASIN DAY-LEWIS ◊ KATE MOSSE ◊ STELLA DUFFY
Special
AGENDA
Girls aloud
Co-founder Kate Mosse on the landmark Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction, a decade on.
INTERVIEW
Author Scarlett Thomas talks to Danuta Kean
FEATURES
Have poems, will travel
Itinerant Poetry Librarian Sara Wingate Gray takes us on a most unusual journey.
A commercial novel break
Why did novelist Lesley Lokko trade in her architect's tools for a writer's pen? The passion, she says, is all.
The great domestic dust-up
Writer Zoe Lambert on the errant attempts to 'domesticate' women authors.
Regulars
NEW WRITING: GLOVES
poetry and prose selected by Stella Duffy
FIRST DRAFT
Kate Grenville on her writing process
MAKING A POEM
Lorraine Mariner talks to Kate Clanchy
BOTTOM DRAWER
What Tess Gerritsen never got published
BEDSIDE TABLE
What Tamasin Day-Lewis likes to read
Plus…
GUIDELINES
Joy of, Lowdown, 10 top tips, Money matters
INSPIRATIONS
Writing workshops with Bernadine Evaristo
Making a poem, Write your self, Keep going
BOOKS
How to write a bestseller, Books for Young Adults, Writers' Bookshelf, Literary Landmarks, Independent press profile, Mslexia book reviews
DIRECTORY
Everything a writer needs to know: competitions, submissions requests, grants, courses, events, contacts, venues
THE Mslexia ARCHIVE
You can browse back issue contents year by year below, or click to view the full archive list.
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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
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