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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday, flash-friday, Uncategorised
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday, flash-friday
Five pieces of flash published by Litro in 2026, selected to go forward for consideration for the Best Small Fictions 2026–27 double edition.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Fiction Contest, Flash Friday, flash-friday
In a hotel lobby, one holiday ends as another begins. Guests check in, check out, look for the bar, ask for Alex — and Alex keeps smiling.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales
A dying grandmother, a difficult family and an abandoned cigarette force one woman to decide what she owes the living and the dead.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday, flash-friday, International Fiction
Once the wife of Comrade Commissaire, she now sells fish in the market — and learns that scales may outlast diamonds.
Editor's Pick, Flash Friday, flash-friday, Short Fiction
A brief, intimate flash about desire, faith, performance and regret, as a bedroom conversation turns into a reckoning with what gets hidden and what gets saved for later.
As the lake retreats and rabid dogs gather at the shore, an ageing couple hold out on an island, finishing a children’s book for the daughter they lost.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Litro #97: East London, Litro #97: East London, Print Issues, Story Sunday
Two young women drift through Copacabana, caught between heat, danger, silence and spectacle in Louise Stern’s archive story “Rio.”
Art & Technology, Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Interviews
Art & Technology, Editor's Pick, Future Archives, Interviews
Editor's Pick, Feature, Features, Future Archives, Interviews, Publishing
As reading moves through search, retail platforms, social media and recommendation systems, Kat Pongrace of Strand Book Store argues that discovery still depends on trust, curiosity and the bookseller’s eye.
Art & Technology, Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Feature, Features, Future Archives, Interviews, Music
Adem Holness, Head of Music at SXSW London, speaks to Litro about live discovery, London’s many musical energies, and why festivals can still create memories that platforms and algorithms cannot.
Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Feature, Features, Interviews, Poetry
Art & Technology, Editor's Pick, Essay Saturday, Future Archives
Art & Technology, Editor's Pick, Feature, Features, Future Archives, Interviews, Translations
Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Poetry
Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Feature, Features, Future Archives, Interviews