Mslexia

24/09/2025

Our 2025 Poetry Pamphlet Competition is ✨ OPEN FOR ENTRIES ✨

Prize: 1st: £500 plus publication by Bloodaxe Books
Judge: Imtiaz Dharker
Entry fee: £20

The competition closes on 8 December 2025. For all the details and how to enter:

https://mslexia.co.uk/competitions/pamphlet-poetry/womens-pamphlet-competition-2025/

Women's Pamphlet Competition 2025 - Poetry (Pamphlet) - Competitions : Mslexia, a magazine for women's writing and women who write.

24/09/2025

Our 2025 Poetry Competition is ✨ OPEN FOR ENTRIES ✨

Prizes: 1st: £2,000; 2nd: £500; 3rd: £250; Unpublished Poet Prize: £250
Judge: Liz Berry
Entry Fee: £10

The competition closes 8 December 2025. For all the details and how to enter:

Women's Poetry Competition 2025 - Poetry (Single Poem) - Competitions : Mslexia, a magazine for women's writing and women who write.

23/09/2025

Issue 108 is ✨ OPEN ✨ for submissions!

Check out our NEW submission slots...

https://mslexia.co.uk/submit-your-work/

Deadline: 6 October 2025

We can't wait to read what you're writing! ❤️

22/09/2025

If you're struggling to enter our Fiction Competitions, don't panic! Just email us at [email protected] and we'll get on it when we're back in the office tomorrow morning.

Good luck to everyone entering our competitions! 💛

https://mslexia.co.uk/competitions/open-for-entries/

P.S. If you've already entered, give yourself a massive pat on the back!

22/09/2025

When it comes to entering competitions, do you proof and edit your entry a million times or do you just take a chance and submit it when the mood strikes?

22/09/2025

Today is the last day to enter our 2025 Fiction Competition! ⏰

By midnight tonight you will have stopped agonising over your syntax, title, opening sentence and ending. But best of all, you will have stopped questioning whether it's good enough. Of course it is! Ready to enter? We're rooting for you! 👏

https://mslexia.co.uk/competitions/open-for-entries/

17/09/2025

‘The ‘bad women’ of literature today no longer engage in destructive behaviour simply because it’s their nature, but as a result of conditions imposed upon them. They are responding to violence. They are responding to patriarchy. And they are – rightly – really really angry.’

Lucy Nichol explores narratives of female vengeance and asks whether angry heroines are here to stay in our Issue 107 Agenda.

Not a subscriber? Pick up a copy of our latest issue here
https://mslexia.co.uk/magazine/latest-issue/

Latest Issue - Magazine : Mslexia, a magazine for women's writing and women who write.

15/09/2025

Time to polish up those short stories, flash fictions, and novels! Our 2025 Fiction Competitions close one week from today! ⏰

https://mslexia.co.uk/competitions/open-for-entries/

Running through your editing checklist? Check out Kirsty Logan's workshop '13 Steps to the Perfect Edit' in the Salon's Showcase events https://mslexia.co.uk/salon/events/

10/09/2025

We're thrilled to welcome our 2021 Poetry Pamphlet Competition winner Alison Binney back to the Salon!

On 22 September, 5-7pm via Zoom she'll be leading the poetry workshop, 'All Over the Place: How to generate new poems from fresh encounters with familiar and unfamiliar places'.

Come explore places from within your own experience and beyond it, using fresh approaches not only to establish a sense of place but also to portray places in surreal and innovative ways.

Visit the Salon to register: https://mslexia.co.uk/salon/events/

08/09/2025

There's just two weeks left to send us your short stories, flash fictions and the opening 5,000 words of your novels for our 2025 Fiction Competition! ⏰

https://mslexia.co.uk/competitions/open-for-entries/

Not sure if your opening is hitting the right notes? Check out our Salon Spotlight for tips from award winning authors Jane Rogers and Huma Qureshi.

https://mslexia.co.uk/salon/events/