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It’s been a really good few months for Pen Pusher since we relaunched in March: we’re selling PP in the shops, our new website is up and running, and you can now submit your work online via your own PP account. We’ve also been attending a host of literary events, meeting a lot of new people, and we launched our ‘Poems by Postcode’ competition in May with the Latitude Festival 2009.

Issue 13 of Pen Pusher brings you more outstanding fiction and poetry from both unknown and more established writers: creative writing students, household names, published poets and authors, and aspiring novelists. There is some fantastic new work in this issue…

Our ‘Featured Author’ is Susan Barker and we’re delighted to be publishing an extract from chapter fourteen of her work-in-progress novel, The Beijing Taxi Driver. The chapter, entitled ‘Sixteen Concubines’, is a fictional account of a real assassination plot against the Emperor Jiajing – a sixteenth-century Ming dynasty emperor famous for unspeakable cruelty against his concubines. Barker’s re-imagining of these events is powerfully and skilfully written, and I urge you to look out for the finished work. We will update you with news about this…

Robert Twigger talks to us about his excellent new novel, Dr Ragab’s Universal Language, in our Interview, and Gary Dexter explains the inspiration for his sexology spoof, The Oxford Despoiler – a tome that PP’s Sir Charles Maxwell-House would certainly be partial to. It’s a really funny and satirical tale, and you can read an extract from the Despoiler on page 17.

There’s just time to say many congratulations to Inua Ellams, who won our aforementioned ‘Poems by Postcode’ competition. Inua’s winning poem is on page 60, plus see our poetry map and read all the entries to the competition on our website.

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