Mslexia tells you all you need to know about exploring your creativity and getting into print.

No other magazine provides Mslexia’s unique mix of debate and analysis, advice and inspiration; news, reviews, interviews; competitions, events, courses, grants. All served up with a challenging selection of new poetry and prose.

Mslexia is read by top authors and absolute beginners. A quarterly masterclass in the business and psychology of writing, it’s the essential magazine for women who write.

In the trial issue Isabel Allende chats to Daneet Steffens about Shakespeare, writer’s block and a journey of love, loss and family; Gillian Dow treads the literary tourist trail, visiting homes, cities and libraries dedicated to women writers; and immersed in her second novel, Rachel Zadok assesses the trials, tribulations and new joy of book number two.

Regular features include Your Letters, News and Views; Inspirations, where Bernardine Evaristo teaches the impossible - creative writing; First Draft, where Chelsea Cain compares a segment of her book to an earlier draft and discusses why she made her editing choices; and of course New Writing, a selection of submissions from published and unpublished authors.