Georgina Moore discusses why the main character of her novel The Garnett Girls is an older woman ..read more

Gillian Clarke’s new collection The Silence is a Poetry Book Society Spring 2024 Recommendation. The poems begin during lockdown, to whose silences Clarke listens so attentively that other voices emerge. As the book progresses, that silence deepens, in the poems about her mother and childhood, about the Great War and its aftermaths, and in her continuing attention to Welsh places and names, and the rituals which make that world come in to focus. Here she provides a quick insight into her creative process and context ..read more

In celebration of World Poetry Day 2024, we're sharing Linda France's poem 'Gorge ..read more

To mark National Poetry Day on 5 October, we asked Irish poet Jane Clarke to tell us about her writing life. Jane’s latest collection A Change in the Air is shortlisted for both the Forward and T S Eliot prizes this year ..read more

You’ve trawled the shops, the internet has taken you down a rabbit hole from which you’ve only just emerged, and you’re still no further forwards. I’m Jo, I work for Mslexia, and I might just be your fairy godmother when it comes to buying thoughtful, writerly gifts this Christmas ..read more

Bestselling spy novelist, whose protagonist Emma Makepeace has been dubbed the female ‘heir to James Bond’, tells us about her writing life ..read more

Where do ideas come from? How do you turn a mere inkling of inspiration into a story? In Issue 99, Louise Doughty tells us how she went to Amsterdam to find out ..read more

Mslexia competition winner shortlisted for 2023 BBC Short Story Award ..read more

We caught up with Emily Howes to find out how winning the Mslexia Novel Competition completely changed her life ..read more

The longlist for this year’s Booker Prize was announced in August – and seven out of the 13 books selected by the judging panel were published by independent presses ..read more