It's the last day to enter. With details of this competition and more, here are the latest Mslexia newsletters:
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Hello there,
Deadline day has arrived! If you’re hesitating over your submission,
now is the time to act. You
have until midnight tonight to send us your entries.
We’re accepting submissions in four categories: flash fiction, short story, memoir & life-writing, and children’s & young adult novel.
Click
here to enter the Mslexia Fiction & Memoir Competition
As well as generous cash prizes, also on offer this year are personal
introductions to editors and agents, editorial mentoring, a writing
retreat and manuscript feedback from leading book doctors.
And it’s not only the winners who benefit from our competitions.
Finalists in our book competitions are often snapped up by literary
agents and finalists in our shorter fiction competitions are all
published in the magazine.
The closing
date for all categories is today, 21 September, at 23.59.
FAQs
can be found on our website.
Best of luck,
From
Lauren Vevers
(for the Mslexia team)
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Hello there,
The deadline for our Fiction
& Memoir Competition 2020 is fast approaching, so we thought
it would be a good time to send you our best editing tips. Whatever
genre your writing falls into, hopefully the suggestions below, taken
from our A Novel in Nine Steps
ebook, will help you put those finishing touches to your final draft.
- Try recording and listening to your prose. If
it sounds monotonous, try varying sentence length and rhythm,
and prune clauses to add ‘bounce’.
- In your word document on your computer, use
the ‘find and replace’ function to search for a word you suspect
you overuse. If it reappears often then consider substitutes.
- And finally! Pay attention to your title.
List published titles (not books) that appeal to you most. Why
are they arresting? What do they have in common? They may hint
at more meaning (like Sarah Waters’ The Little Stranger); or perhaps
they evoke a mood. For your title, try rifling through a
dictionary of quotations for similar phrases, or copy Ernest
Hemingway, a master of memorable titles: he listed 100
favourites for a new novel, crossed them off one by one then
settled on the last to survive.
You have until
midnight 21 September to send us your flash fiction or short story entries, and/or the extracts from
your children’s or young adult novel, or your memoir or life-writing manuscript.
If entering a
novel or memoir, remember, you only need to send in your first 5,000
words in the first instance. There is lots of time to
finalise the whole manuscript before we call in the longlist.
We can’t wait to read your work.
From
Lauren Vevers
(on behalf of
Team Mslexia)
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Mslexia Publications Ltd. · P O Box 656 · 11 Main Street, Ponteland ·
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne And Wear NE20 9NH · United Kingdom
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Hello there,
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September
is upon us and the leaves will soon be falling from the trees. Even
though colder months are round the corner, we’re embracing that
back-to-school feeling by dusting off our notebooks and sitting
down to write. To help you stay inspired this autumn, take
advantage of our half price ebook offer. Don’t forget to
enter the code 'competitions2020' at checkout. The
offer is valid until 30 September.
Our Writing for Children ebook is packed with tips,
prompts and exercises which explore how to write engaging fiction
for children up to the age of 12, along with advice from some of
our best-known children’s authors.
Click here to buy Writing
for Children for only £1.50
A
Novel in Nine Steps breaks down the daunting undertaking of writing
a book into nine manageable bite-sized chunks, complete with
writing exercises and reading suggestions that provide an insight
into contemporary British literature along the way.
Click
here to buy A Novel
in Nine Steps
for only £1.50
If
your fiction is already written and set to go, why not
enter our Fiction
& Memoir Competition 2020? Entries are open until
21 September.
From
Lauren Vevers
(for the Mslexia Team)
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Mslexia Publications Ltd. · P O Box 656 · 11 Main Street, Ponteland ·
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne And Wear NE20 9NH · United Kingdom
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Hello there,
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We’re excited to announce that the Mslexia Poetry Competition 2020 is now open for
entries. There are two categories – single poem and
pamphlet – and we welcome poems of any length, in any style and on
any subject. Both competitions are open to any woman, regardless of
background or location. For further information, including details
of this year’s fantastic prizes, see below.
Poetry Competition
- 1st
Prize: £2,000 plus optional mentoring and writing
retreat
- 2nd
Prize: £500
- 3rd
Prize: £250
- Unpublished
Poet’s Prize: £250
All
winners plus 17 finalists will be published in Mslexia
magazine.
Judge: Karen McCarthy Woolf
Entry fee: £10
Closing date: 7 December 2020
In addition to the £2,000 prize money, the winner can opt to take
advantage of a one-to-one feedback session with acclaimed poet
Malika Booker and a one-week writing retreat at the beautiful Cove
Park artists residency centre. Your entry fee allows you to enter
up to three poems of any length.
Click here to enter the Mslexia’s Poetry
Competition 2020
Pamphlet Competition
- 1st
Prize: £250 plus publication of the pamphlet by
Seren Books
- Judge: Amy Wack,
Poetry Editor at Seren Books
- Entry fee: £20
- Closing
date: 7 December 2020
In
addition to the top prize of £250, the winning pamphlet will be
published in 2021 by Seren Books. One or more poems from the
pamphlet will also be published in Mslexia magazine.
Please submit a collection of up to 24 pages of up to 20 poems.
Click here to enter the Mslexia Pamphlet
Competition 2020
If you have a question about formatting, eligibility or anything
else, please see our comprehensive FAQs.
Good luck!
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From
Lauren Vevers
(for the Mslexia team)
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Mslexia Publications Ltd. · P O Box 656 · 11 Main Street, Ponteland ·
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne And Wear NE20 9NH · United Kingdom
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Hello
there,
It’s all hands on deck here at Mslexia as our annual Fiction and
Memoir Competition is well-underway (with
time left to submit your entry) and we’re looking ahead to our
exciting new-look next issue. We’re getting in touch today to
let you know about something else we’ve been working on behind the
scenes - our
Writing
for Children ebook.
Our brand new Mslexia Mini guide offers advice from established
writers and tutors, including the 2019 Children’s Laureate
Cressida Cowell, to help you through all the stages of writing your
book. From creating your protagonist to planning your plot, this
compact ebook covers everything you need to know about writing for
the under 12s. As well as informative insights, our guide features
reading recommendations and practical activities to keep you
inspired.
Click here to purchase a
copy of our Writing for Children ebook for only £3.
While you’re
there, why not take a look at our extended range of writing
mini-guides to see if anything takes your fancy? Whatever
you’re working on at the moment, we hope you’re staying safe and
continuing to find inspiration on your writing journey.
Lauren Vevers
(for the Mslexia Team)
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Mslexia Publications Ltd. · PO Box 656 · Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne &
Wear NE99 1PZ · United Kingdom
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