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In this magazine

ISSUE 9

Spring/Summer 2001

Featuring… KATHLEEN JAMIE ◊ JULIE MYERSON ◊ MIMI KHALVATI ◊ SARAH DUNANT ◊ ROSIE BOYCOTT

Special

AGENDA: The female brain

What are little girls made of?
Debbie Taylor summarises the psychological research into sex differences in the human brain to discover what makes women tick - and what it means for us as writers

INTERVIEW

Poet Kathleen Jamie talks to Debbie Taylor

FEATURES

She’s leaving home - bye bye
The Orange Prize prioritises women’s novels with international themes. Livi Michael argues that this entails ignoring a wealth of diverse regional voices.

How to be a slut
Advice from the Mslexia School for Sluts on freeing yourself from the drudgery of housework so you can spend more time on your writing (and other things)

Landing a commission
Ex insurance salesperson Caroline Deacon passes on The Knowledge about how to persuade a reluctant editor to commission you to write an article.

MIND AND BODY: Putting yourself in the picture
Katrina Crosbie on neurolinguistic processing and how it can help you are a writer

Regulars

NEW WRITING: BLOOD

Poetry and prose selected by Julie Myerson

POETIC FORMS

Linda France's tutorial on poetic forms:
Triplets with a specially-commissioned example by Mimi Khalvati

BEDSIDE TABLE

What Rosie Boycott 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