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	RUTH PADEL • KATHLEEN JAMIE • MARGARET DRABBLE • JANICE GALLOWAY • FRANCINE STOCK

	EDITORIAL Just do it… ABOUT a month ago Debbie (Taylor) came dancing into the office clutching her new novel – The Fourth Queen – hot off the press. We’re all delighted, and as she’s been rather coy about it in the magazine, I’m making sure everyone knows… She began it more than 10 years ago, so it’s been some time coming – squeezing writing between setting up Mslexia and starting a family (she has a daughter, now nine). Getting a hold of your own book must be a fabulous feeling – especially when you know that it came out of doing little bits here, little bits there, at the edges of each day. Suffice to say, anything is possible if you commit to it fully. In this issue we encourage you to harness that Springtime energy and just do it. How about going on a writing course to improve your skills (p44)? Why not self-publish a poetry collection (p6)? Or take up journalism? (p23). The world is your oyster. Melanie Ashby Deputy Editor			Contents: Issue 17 APRMAYJUN 2003 Special features AGENDA: A bigger splash Debbie Taylor on why PR is so important in publishing – and why writers need to promote their own work THE MSLEXIA INTERVIEW: Poet Ruth Padel talks to Melanie Ashby › Read from the interview › Read the Author's Method › Browse interviews OTHER FEATURES: Bring me sunshine It’s not chick lit, it’s not grim lit – it’s fiction that’s both literary and pleasurable. Amanda Craig on ‘sun lit’ The hard craft Young British Novelist panelist Hilary Mantel examines what it is that makes a novel truly great Can you hack it? File, sub, pitch, proof. Gobbledygook? Lorna Russell is here to help, with a lesson on how to bluff it in journalism New Writing INTERVIEW Poetry and prose selected by Kathleen Jamie › Read new writing 17 › Browse new writing Regulars SHORTS Letters Briefs Rejection Harangue Never mind short story writing, what about short story reading? asks Sally Zigmond Insider trading An Editor at Ebury tells us what's hot and what's not in cookbooks Make it pay DIY poetry books Ask the expert simultaneous submissions Sale of the season Stop dreaming, start living by Elizabeth Mapstone Hacking it Diary of a Freelance Writer CREATIVITY Basic instinct It can be hellish hard and won’t pay the rent. So why write? asks Maggie Butt Write on the wild side: HIT AND RUN – SHORT FICTION, LONG POEMS with Margaret Wilkinson › Try this workshop › Browse workshops Bottom drawer What Margaret Drabble never got published First draft Janice Galloway First principles Linda France's primer in contemporary poetry Lesson 2: Subject BOOKS How to write like... Margaret Atwood Reviews: Political poetry, Migrant novels, British short stories, Gender studies, Big Books Literary Landmarks Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice Independent press profile Maia Francine Stock's Bedside Table DIRECTORY Competitions, submissions requests, grants, courses, events, contacts, venues › Add me to the Mslexia listings

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