Naomi Foyle discusses the decisions behind her second Science Fiction novel – our current Book Club pick, Astra – and her unlikely move from poetry to SF.
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Naomi Foyle – author of Litro’s current Book Club pick, the engaging Astra: Book One of The Gaia Chronicles – tells us about female and teen sexuality in the novel, ...
We want your stories of imminent disaster, of the day our world comes crashing down, of the civilisations that follow in our tainted footsteps.
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In his second essay, Wiley Cash – author of This Dark Road to Mercy, our current Litro Book Club pick – discusses the importance of place, and how it shapes ...
A deconstruction of safety and security within Wiley Cash’s latest novel – and our current Litro Book Club pick – This Dark Road to Mercy.
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During the holiday season we ran the second in our series of literary experiments on Twitter. We asked our followers to write a collective story, one tweet at a time. ...
The most difficult part of writing a novel about boxing is that a novel about boxing is not really about boxing at all.
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As #litrostory – our twitter fiction experiment – nears its conclusion, we summarise the story so far.
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Claire Rodwell explores the broken family unit within Wiley Cash’s This Dark Road to Mercy and the unconventional influence this has on Easter and Ruby’s perception of familial roles.
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I always root for the underdog, especially if that underdog has a checkered past and is trying to make amends like Wade is. Americans especially love giving second chances.
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The inspiration for This Dark Road to Mercy began with a beautiful story my wife told me about her childhood, and this led me to recall a tragic story from ...
“What’s in a name? that which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet?”
According to an article in the New Yorker – and rather awkwardly ...
Once upon a time a girl of twelve discovers her mother’s cold, drug-ridden corpse face-down on a mattress. Her response? Breakfast. And then an ambulance. Easter’s reaction to her mother’s ...
Join the discussion on our current Book Club pick, a tender and terrifying portrait of innocence, and the evil that threatens it…
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Carleen Peters is the winner of our Cults & Clubs flash competition, with this breathlessly passionate story about love at the roller derby.
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What if a Picasso painting came and knocked on your door? The second runner-up in our Cults & Clubs flash fiction competition, by Michael Shilling.
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A mysterious society for loners, misfits and cats who walk by themselves in this runner-up in our Cults & Clubs competition.
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Book Club member Patricia Duffaud finds out about a close-knit and rebellious club for urban Parkour runners in London.
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“I had a camper van with the registration AGS for a while. It had carpet up the walls.” Kate Steeds on the strange obsessions of the Alpine Garden Society.
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Book Club member Rhuar Dean invites us inside his personal cult, the Y-Tuesday Poetry Club in London.
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