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On Writing, Writing Advice, Writing Fuel
Voice is not just about style or a distinctive style, it is inseparable from the writing itself.
On Writing, Submissions, Writing Advice, Writing Fuel
A practical guide to literary magazine submissions in the UK: what editors look for, how to prepare your draft, and the mistakes that get good stories rejected too early.
On Writing, Revision, Writing Advice
A 10-step editorial revision pass for short stories: structure, pacing, voice, scene pressure, line edits, and the ending test that catches weak final drafts.
Arts & Culture, On Writing, Writing Fuel
On Writing, Writing Advice, Writing Fuel, Writing Room
A practical Litro guide to building a writing routine, staying with a draft, finding serious feedback, and preparing your work for submission.
Writer’s block has taken on an almost mythical quality, and the image of a writer staring at a blank page is a familiar trope.
Arts & Culture, Books, Essay, Literature, On Writing
Editor's Pick, Interviews, On Writing
Editor's Pick, Fiction, On Writing
Immerse yourself in these beautiful stories from our emerging writers who have been nominated for the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers competition!
Books, Essay, Feature, On Writing, Technology
On the challenges of writing and the sins of memory
Hayun Jung taught me that fiction is the art of the perspective. What makes a story itself is its vantage point with its particular limitations and freedoms.
Writing is a type of alchemy, of taking an idea and translating it to words on a page.
Translating India is Litro’s newest body of captivating stories from the subcontinent, shrugging off Salman Rushdie’s assertion that Indian writers in English are proving more interesting.
She is right; research can be a double-edged sword. Too little of it and you are left with sketchy facts and errors that weaken your plot’s credibility.
Women who defy conventional definitions of “likeability” have a certain unforgettable quality. In literature as in life, they are far more memorable than their bland counterparts.
Refugees and their stories have featured in literature from time immemorial. They are cast in heroic roles in the Bible and the Koran.