Social distancing, self-isolation, lockdown – are words we now use every day. We want to hear your stories about isolation. It might be self-imposed, it might be enforced, maybe it’s ...
We showcase the first winner of LitroTV’s transgression competition, Ben Norris.
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We are delighted to announce that for the sixth year running, IGGY will partner with Litro to host the IGGY and Litro Young Writers’ Prize.
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In the second winner of our My Biggest Secret flash fiction competition, Oliver Giles uncovers a destructive obsession.
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Litro Live! heads to the Stoke Newington Literary Festival on Sunday 8 June with a special event, and we have two weekend tickets to the festival to give away.
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In the last of our Shakespearean Sonnet competition winners, Philippa Barker contemplates her desktop.
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In the fourth of our Shakespearean Sonnet competition winners, Linda Atterton takes a new angle on Romeo and Juliet.
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In the third of our Shakespearean Sonnet competition winners, Brian Robert Flynn revisits John Keats’ sonnet 635: ‘When I have fears that I may cease to be’.
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In the first of our Shakespearean Sonnet competition winners, Uschi Gatward reappropriates Sonnet 66 for the modern economy.
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Write a Shakespearean sonnet before 10th April, and win Ben Crystal’s Shakespeare on Toast and a free ticket to Litro Live!: an evening of Words, Music and Conversation
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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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Send us a haiku telling us what you think about the ways technology is changing reading and be in with a chance of winning a new Nook HD.
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If you’re aged 13 to 18, or know a creative young person who is, then get writing to be in with the chance of winning £2,000 cash and publication in ...
“I’m really starting to think the whole world’s just a patchwork quilt of crazy little cults, all with their own secret spaces, their own records, their own rules.”
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The UK’s only residential library (doesn’t that just sound brilliant? A library you can sleep in?) is running a short story competition as part of the library’s first ever literary ...
Read the winner of our Poland / Bruno Schulz-inspired flash fiction competition, by Amanda Oosthuizen.
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Submissions are now open for the 2013 IGGY & Litro Young Writers’ Prize, a joint competition run by Litro Magazine and IGGY, the “thinking teenager’s Facebook”.
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Impossible architecture, spooky stories and fabulous fairytales all feature in the winning photos in our “Mystery” themed photo competition.
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