Mslexia

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In this magazine

ISSUE 4

Winter/Spring 2000

Featuring… MEERA SYAL ◊ FAY WELDON ◊ MAURA DOOLEY ◊ GILLIAN ALLNUTT ◊ BEA CAMPBELL

Special

AGENDA: Time management

The time of your life
Debbie Taylor ploughs through the Time Management literature for practical ways of maximising precious writing time

INTERVIEW

Novelist Meera Syal talks to Debbie Taylor

FEATURES

Fiction futures
Agent and novelist Anna Davis dons her Mystic Meg wig to gaze into the future and predict the next Big Thing in literary fashion

Climb every mountain
Katrina Crosbie offers a step-by-step guide to bouncing back after rejection

...when I’m bad, I’m better
Why should being popular jeopardise one’s literary reputation. Sophie Hannah speaks out for ‘good-bad’ writing

On the road: creative writing US style
Creative writing courses are now standard in almost every US university. But has American literature benefited as a result? Alumna Gabrielle Glancy reports

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

Regulars

NEW WRITING: FAT LADIES

Poetry and prose selected by Fay Weldon

POETIC FORMS

Linda France's tutorial on poetic forms:
Free Verse with a specially-commissioned example by Maura Dooley

BEDSIDE TABLE

What Bea Campbell 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