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Dec 11, 2024 | 
mslexia.co.uk | Edward Robertson
On 3-4 February we have an incredible roster of literary agents joining us live on our members' area to read your pitches.
All the agents we’ve invited are actively building their client lists, so they're keeping an eye out for any projects that pique their interest. They're hungry for new authors – could you be one of them?
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
mslexia.co.uk | Edward Robertson |Debbie Taylor
I’m going to talk about creativity. Women’s creativity, to be more specific. Women writers’ creativity, to be even more specific. And I’m going to use the wise and wondrous Fay Weldon as a case study.
I grew up reading Fay Weldon. Long before I became a writer myself, I was being challenged and shocked and entertained by her novels, pouncing on each new one as soon as it came out in paperback. The early ones are still on my bookshelf in a long, brittle, yellowing row.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
mslexia.co.uk | Edward Robertson
After a few predictable questions from the audience, a well-known journalist stands in the front row. He smiles up at the panel on the stage, then asks its single female writer one question.
It’s unclear how this question relates to the writer’s book, which is a biography of a man who fled the Russian pogroms early last century and went on to become a brilliant, if little known, artist.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
mslexia.co.uk | Edward Robertson
Anchovy
The small fish circle the tank, freshly sharpened knives flashing in the downlights of the aquarium. Moving as one, the school becomes a switchblade tossed from hand to hand.
She unwraps a mint, places it in her mouth and glances at her watch, despite knowing she is early. She looks back to the tank and notices one fish is slightly slower than the rest, its movements out of time, each turn a fraction too late.
'Mummy!'
She isn’t ready, hasn’t steeled herself.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
mslexia.co.uk | Edward Robertson
Old wives' tales
Today I heard Anger in a seashell cupped to my ear.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
mslexia.co.uk | Edward Robertson
homeShop 24 extraordinary narratives Our fourth annual Best Women's Short Fiction anthology showcases the winners, finalists and shortlisted stories from our 2024 Short Story and Flash Fiction competition.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
mslexia.co.uk | Edward Robertson
The combination of what might seem like small banal irritations becomes something menacing and ultimately horrific. Here the surface elements of the story connect with much deeper universal concerns and with so few words – breathtaking! - Mary-Jane Holmes How I did it
I started writing flash fiction years ago, before it became popular. This piece of flash is quite typical of my work because it’s about women’s rights, which are very important to me.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
mslexia.co.uk | Edward Robertson
It’s maddeningly difficult to balance several different characters in one small piece, especially if they’re all the same gender, yet Collett succeeds so adroitly. She builds the lurking dread from inception: from the compensatory polite clucking about a tragic family event, to the lead’s relationships with her other daughters and the subtle shifts in her marriage.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
mslexia.co.uk | Edward Robertson
Celebrities are roughing it in jungles, Cliff Richard’s on the airwaves and Kevin the Carrot is back. Yes, Christmas 2024 has landed! And so too has our ever-popular Christmas Gift Guide. Here at Mslexia Towers, I’ve cracked open the Quality Street, decked the halls and drawn up my very own writerly wishlist to suit every wallet this holiday season.
Mslexia magazine subscription
Why have one gift when you can have four? I’m not being greedy Santa, I promise.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
mslexia.co.uk | Edward Robertson
The problem with YA, what's new in time travel fiction, red-themed poems and stories, community groups, writing different class backgrounds, flash fiction 101, self-editing, hybrid writing The problem with YA Emma Whitehall looks at literature's hottest new craze Bedside table Roxane Gay tells us what she's reading in bed Interview Frances Byrnes talks to Call the Midwife writer Heidi Thomas Deep waters Chioma Okereke discusses how to write about people from different class backgrounds The...
