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	STELLA DUFFY • LINDA GRANT • PENELOPE SHUTTLE • PATIENCE AGBABI • ROS COWARD

	EDITORIAL HELLO. We’re your editors for this issue, while Debbie Taylor is having a rest (she’s worked rather hard on the last six). She’s given us carte blanche to take over the whole thing, so for that we’re eternally grateful – we think… For issue seven we thought we would expand the usual Mslexia remit to include forms of writing other than poetry or prose. We hope there is still plenty to please those of you who are only interested in creative writing in the strictest sense: Linda France and Margaret Wilkinson have their usual tutorials in prose and poetry; Tina Jackson, arts editor of The Big Issue, looks at where women write; new writing is assessed by Orange Prize for Fiction winner Linda Grant, and crime writer Stella Duffy is interviewed on page 39. But for those of you who fancy branching out, we’ve included pieces on music journalism (page 20), how to get ahead in advertising (page 16), getting published on the Internet (page 42), the art of political speech writing (page 41) and what’s new in the world of women’s magazines (page 7). If you’re not convinced these types of writing would satisfy your creative spirit, think about this: book publishers love to commission journalists to write novels… Lorna Russell and Melanie Ashby Guest Editors			Contents: Issue 7 Autumn/Winter 2000 Special features AGENDA: WOMEN'S MAGAZINES Between the covers Aren’t there already enough women’s magazines on the shelves? Apparently not… Lorna Russell looks at five that are new in 2000 and asks what they have to offer – and how you can write for them. Plus: Guardian women’s page editor Libby Brooks on how she made it in journalism THE MSLEXIA INTERVIEW Stella Duffy talks to Debbie Taylor › Read from the interview › Read the Author's Method › Browse interviews OTHER FEATURES One of the boys Only 16 per cent of advertising copywriters are women. Isobel Jacobs looks at what it takes to write a good ad and asks three top women creatives how they got there On the bandwagon Music – and music writing – is dominated by men. Lucy O’Brien, a music journalist since 1980, tells her stories of sex and rock ’n’ roll Speak your mind Can a well-written speech make you change your views? Melanie Ashby looks at the art of polemic Net profits Want your work to be instantly published? Get it out on the Internet, says Alice Fisher MIND AND BODY: room to think What’s the best environment for creative inspiration? By Tina Jackson New Writing FUR Poetry and prose selected by novelist Linda Grant › Read new writing 7 › Browse new writing REGULARS • Letters • First Person Singular Sylvia Murphy very nearly gets her book published • News • Getting Started… writing comedy • Nuts & bolts The secret of being a good freelancer, journo jargon, sneaky ways of getting published • The Blank Page: FLY ON THE WALL with Margaret Wilkinson › Try this workshop › Browse workshops • Guide to guides: journalism • Poetic forms: Linda France's regular tutorial on the main poetic forms: The List Poem with a specially-commissioned example by Penelope Shuttle • The Slush Pile at The Big Issue • Word Surgeon: Dr Ingrid K tackles a Context problem • Icon Gallery: 10 things you need to know about Maeve Binchy BOOKS Reviews: Debut novels, City girl novels, Big names, Running scared, Sacred scrolls Small press fiction: Patience Agbabi dips into our box of small-press and self-published poetry Best ever books by women Shay Youngblood chooses The Color Purple by Alice Walker Bedside Table Rosalind Coward DIRECTORY Competitions, submissions requests, grants, courses, events, contacts, venues › Add me to the Mslexia listings

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