Eric Akoto

Litro · Litro USA · London · New York

Eric Akoto

Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Litro.

Eric Akoto leads the editorial and publishing work behind Litro, an international literary platform publishing fiction, essays, poetry, translation, interviews, and cultural writing across print, digital, live, and public programmes.

About Litro About Litro USA
Eric Akoto
Current work

Building a serious home for new writing.

Litro began as a London print magazine and has developed into a wider editorial platform for new writing, international literature, essays, translation, interviews, and cultural exchange. The work is practical: finding strong writing, editing it properly, presenting it well, and keeping it visible beyond the day it is published.

Eric’s role is to guide that work across editorial direction, commissioning, partnerships, publishing strategy, writer development, and long-term audience building. The focus is less on personality and more on the institution: making Litro useful to writers, credible to readers, and strong enough to keep publishing work that might otherwise be missed.

Across Litro and Litro USA, the wider aim is to support writers through publication, editorial care, public programming, mentoring, archive-building, and international literary exchange. The platforms have published work from writers across the world and continue to develop new routes between writers, readers, editors, funders, educators, and cultural partners.

Litro’s work is simple at its core: publish good writing, give it context, and help it travel further.

Litro’s editorial and literary programming has received support from organisations including Arts Council England, New York State Council on the Arts, and the Whiting Foundation.

Editorial focus

Areas of work

  • Publishing new fiction, essays, poetry, translation, and cultural writing
  • Commissioning and editorial development
  • International literature and cross-cultural exchange
  • Writer mentoring and practical routes into publication
  • Print, digital, archive, audio, and live publishing formats
  • Partnerships with literary, cultural, educational, and public-benefit organisations
  • Stronger systems for independent publishing and creative rights
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Litro

A long-running editorial platform.

Litro has always been built around the literary magazine’s core job: to discover, edit, publish, and champion writing with seriousness and independence. Its archive brings together emerging writers, established voices, international editions, themed publishing, interviews, essays, and translation.

The editorial identity is intentionally broad but not loose: serious writing, international outlook, cultural curiosity, and a belief that magazines can still create meaningful public space for literature.

Litro USA and Sphere

Extending the publishing work.

Litro USA extends the Litro mission through literary and public-benefit work in the United States, including publishing, programming, writer support, and cultural partnerships.

The Sphere Initiative grew out of a related problem in the creative economy: writers and creators need better systems around visibility, attribution, rights, evidence, and trust. It sits alongside Litro’s publishing work as a practical response to the conditions creative people now face.

For editorial, partnership, mentoring, or speaking enquiries, use the relevant contact route through Litro or Litro USA.

Selected archive and press

Programmes, talks, prizes, and coverage.

The links below offer a selective record of Litro’s wider literary activity, including prizes, public programmes, festival conversations, essays, and trade coverage connected to the magazine’s international development.

A selective archive, not a complete record.