Write better. Publish smarter. Protect creative value.
Live and self-paced courses, editorial support and professional labs for writers, publishers, editors and cultural teams.
Current masterclasses
Live courses for writers
Focused small-group sessions on revision, voice, performance,
submission and preparing work for readers.
From Page to Stage: Build and Perform a Poetry Set
Turn written poems into a live set that can hold a room.
BBC Slam Champion Jess Green guides poets through choosing material, building a five-minute set, speaking between poems and managing the nerves that can get between the poem and the audience.
Participant feedback
Trusted by writers, editors and course participants
Selected feedback from writers and participants who have used Litro’s editorial reports, masterclasses and submission support.
“A few craft points have finally clicked into place for me, so I’m feeling a surge of enthusiasm.”
Nicky Torode
June Submission Sprint student
“The sprint has been incredibly useful and a little humbling as well. I will try to get the story as clean as possible.”
Eline Tuijn
June Submission Sprint student
“It’s been absolutely brilliant and very inspirational. The administration supporting it has also been timely and business-like.”
Belinda Naylor-Stables
Litro Masterclass participant
Read around the work
Craft essays, author conversations and publishing ideas to keep the work moving.
Gaby Wood on the future of short fiction
The Booker Prize Foundation director discusses readership, visibility and the cultural place of short-form writing.
Translating Taiwan Travelogue
Yang Shuang-zi and Lin King discuss language, history, narrative structure and carrying a work across cultures.
The architecture of dialogue
How dialogue creates character, tension, rhythm and movement inside a story.
Keep reading
More ideas, interviews and writing craft to keep the work moving.
More writing about writing
Conviction, uncertainty and the uncomfortable work of developing an artistic position.
Make this your writing year
Practical approaches to starting, returning to the work and preparing it for readers.
Overcoming writing obstacles
Ways through stalled plots, uneven drafts and the loss of creative momentum.
Build a space for writing
How environment, boundaries and routine can support sustained concentration.
Attica Locke on the work of writing
Plot, pacing, politics and balancing narrative tension with fully realised characters.
Young writers and early fame
A look at precocious writers and the cultural appetite for literary youth.
Ready to work on your own writing?
Explore live masterclasses, editorial support and focused writing programmes.
Choose the right level of attention for the work
Start with a focused editorial diagnosis, or work intensively on one piece and its route towards submission.
FastTrack Editorial Feedback
A serious editorial read for short fiction, essays or poetry when you need to understand what is working, what is blocking the piece and what to revise next.
- Clear editorial diagnosis
- Prioritised revision notes
- Submission-readiness assessment
1:1 Weekend Submission Weekender
Work closely on one short piece: sharpen the reader contract, strengthen structure and momentum, refine the language and build a realistic submission route.
- Prep-read and two focused sessions
- Written revision priorities
- Cover-note direction and submission targets
Practical decisions for publishers and cultural teams
Focused small-cohort programmes for organisations working through questions of AI, publishing workflows, catalogue visibility, rights signals and creative value.
AI Readiness Sprint for Publishers & Cultural Leaders
Move from general AI anxiety to a practical map of where AI touches editorial work, rights, archives, metadata, governance and internal decision-making.
Leave with an AI-use map, governance priorities and a practical action plan.Publisher Visibility & Rights Audit Sprint
Identify where titles, authors and catalogue material are losing visibility or rights clarity across search, metadata, publisher pages and AI-led discovery.
Leave with a visibility scorecard, prioritised fixes and clear ownership of next steps.Executive labs provide strategic education and decision support. They do not provide legal advice or guarantee commercial outcomes.
