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The Publishing Issue, guest edited by Rebecca Swift of The Literary Consultancy, lifts the curtain on the writing industry, from unpublished first draft to final place in posterity. Agents, editors and best-selling authors join forces with fresh talents to dig behind the writing courses and How To Get Published guides and reflect on why we write, and what impact writing can make on the wider world.
Includes tributes to E.A.Markham from Mimi Khalvati, Margaret Drabble, Kathryn Heyman, Susheila Nasta and Alastair Niven, Marsha Rowe on editing, Tim Clare on incompetence, Jude Cook on posterity, Ross Bradshaw on bookselling, David Smith on agencies and Charlie Weaver Rolfe on failure to get published.
Plus fiction and reminiscences of the writing life from Jenny Downham, James Flint, Terry Darlington, David Belbin, Sarah Shaw, Heather Reyes, Nick Taussig and Jane Harris, poetry from Mimi Khalvati, Fiona Sampson, Richard Skinner, Jacqueline Gabbitas, Christine McNeill, Victoria Lawless, Frances Spurrier, Yuko Minamikawa Adams and Lou Wilford. All photography by Julian Hughes.