Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Poetry

Sasha Debevec-McKenney on Joy, Imperfection and Winning the Dylan Thomas Prize

After winning the 2026 Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize for Joy Is My Middle Name, Sasha Debevec-McKenney talks to Litro about imperfection, poetic form, influence, sobriety, girlhood and finding the ...

by Eric Akoto • 18th May 202618th May 2026

Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Future Archives, Interviews

Curation as Care: Dare Turner on Indigenous Art, Memory and What Museums Owe the Future

Dare Turner, Curator of Indigenous Art at the Brooklyn Museum, speaks to Litro’s Future Archives strand about cultural belongings as relatives, community authority, institutional memory and why care in museums ...

by Eric Akoto • 17th May 202617th May 2026

AI & Publishing, Arts & Culture, Digital Culture, Editor's Pick, Interviews, Technology

When Piracy Becomes Infrastructure

Jack Newton, Head of Content Protection and Enforcement at the Publishers Association, speaks to Litro about giant pirate networks, AI training, shadow libraries, takedown systems and why copyright protection is ...

by Eric Akoto • 14th May 202614th May 2026

Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Interviews

When the Exhibition Becomes an Interface

Brett Renfer, Senior Project Manager, Emerging Technologies at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, speaks to Litro about VR, Oceania, audience engagement and the need to preserve not only museum objects, ...

by Eric Akoto • 14th May 202615th May 2026

Art, Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Reviews, Technology

David Bowie at Lightroom: Inside the Machine of Reinvention

David Bowie: You’re Not Alone at Lightroom uses immersive projection, spatial audio and archive material to reframe Bowie’s legacy, raising the question of whether exhibition technology can deepen the art ...

by Eric Akoto • 7th May 202615th May 2026

Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Future Archives, Interviews, Publishing

Independent Publishers, Cultural Memory, and What Still Gets Seen

Daniel T. O’Brien, Executive Director of the Independent Publishers Caucus, talks to Eric Akoto about independent publishing, AI slop, shrinking discoverability, booksellers, libraries, archives and the systems that decide which ...

by Eric Akoto • 7th May 202614th May 2026

AI & Publishing, Editor's Pick, Technology

AI and the Writer: What to Use, What to Avoid

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by Eric Akoto • 6th May 202614th May 2026

Arts & Culture, Books, Digital Culture, Editor's Pick, Fiction, Reviews

Small Presses, Big Nerve: Six Fiction Titles to Watch in 2026

A Litro guide to the best small-press fiction of 2026 so far, with six real titles from independent publishers including Cipher Press, Saqi, Cassava Republic, Moist and Conduit.

by accounts • 6th May 20266th May 2026

Books, Editor's Pick, Reviews

International Booker 2026: The Translated Fiction Litro Readers Should Be Reading Now

From Taiwan Travelogue to The Witch, these are the International Booker 2026 titles and translated novels Litro readers should know before the winner is announced on 19 May.

by accounts • 6th May 20266th May 2026

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday

The Odds Are In — Winner Announced

From over 200 anonymous submissions, five stories were shortlisted for The Odds Are In. We’re pleased to announce AKALA AKA by Anselme Eme as the winner.

by accounts • 1st May 20261st May 2026

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday

Doña Yola’s Algorithm

Before the system names a pattern, someone has already seen it. “Doña Yola’s Algorithm” is a story about prediction, authority, and who gets believed.

by accounts • 22nd April 202622nd April 2026

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday

Chances Are

By John Brantingham “Chances Are” was selected for Litro’s The Odds Are In shortlist through a blind editorial process. Shortly after submission, we were informed that its author, John Brantingham, had ...

by johnbrantingham • 22nd April 202622nd April 2026

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday

Six Months More

By Gull Ditta A data gardener confronts the zero-sum ontology of prediction markets—brilliant speculative fiction that reads like philosophy. Leo’s world was made of percentages and they were the first thing he ...

by accounts • 22nd April 202622nd April 2026

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday

AKALA AKA

A West African village grapples with algorithmic futures until the system fails and older wisdom returns. Rich cultural voice meets speculative premise. In the town of Kijani, the future arrived every ...

by anselm eme • 19th April 202619th April 2026

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday

Perishables

A quiet, devastating story set at a grocery-store customer service desk, where cracked eggs, a warm rotisserie chicken, and a small act of rule-bending reveal the pressure of dignity, money, ...

by accounts • 19th April 202622nd April 2026

Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Interviews

Rosie Goldsmith on funding cuts, translation, risk-averse programming, and why too many literary festivals still play safe.

by eric-akoto • 19th April 20265th May 2026

Editor's Pick, Flash Friday

Pylons

When Bobby Jackson dies, the village takes him out to the pylons. In a landscape without power, infrastructure survives only as ritual, and pity has become just another empty speech.

by accounts • 27th March 202627th March 2026

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Future Archives, Story Sunday

An Anagram of Elsewhere 

On a bus route threaded through memory, design, and stray thought, Simeon Edwards turns ordinary transit into something stranger: a study in urban perception, presence, and drift.

by simeon edwards • 21st March 202622nd March 2026

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Future Archives, Story Sunday

The Cancellation of Michael Z 

One morning, Michael Z. wakes to silence then to scandal. T.L. Huchu’s story is a cutting, darkly comic portrait of literary culture, AI authorship, and the speed of public ruin.

by tenhuc • 21st March 202623rd March 2026

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Future Archives, Story Sunday

The House that Auto-Saved

Attunement The house came with instructions that she did not read. She assumed they were the usual conditions, the kind dutifully handed out to every new occupant, outlining features she ...

by lilyworsdall • 21st March 202622nd March 2026