Impossible architecture, spooky stories and fabulous fairytales all feature in the winning photos in our “Mystery” themed photo competition.
Explore the London haunts the great German thinkers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels on our London walk, designed by Marx expert Heiko Khoo.
Litro contributor Richard House tells us about his four-novel series The Kills, a political thriller and epic literary project that’s set to be one of the literary events of the ...
A new award for essay writing with a £15, 000 first prize has been announced. Named in honour of the master of the English essay, the William Hazlitt Essay Prize ...
Last week we ran a literary experiment on Twitter. We asked our followers to write a collective story, one tweet at a time. Novelist Russ Litten wrote the first line ...
This is the #litrostory so far, a collective fiction being told one tweet at a time between Tuesday 26th February and midnight on Tuesday 5th March. Check the #litrostory hashtag ...
Litro is expanding and to celebrate the launch of our LitroTV channel on YouTube we are running an exciting competition dedicated to the word that is spoken, uttered, shouted or ...
The stories in this debut collection are familiar: a beautiful outcast taken in by seven dwarves, a girl with a long plait of hair, a woman going three times to ...
Kate Tempest’s angry, heartfelt, sing-song performance style and allusive, pulsating writing come together to create poetry that’s literary, musical and mesmerising. We talk to her about her love of hip ...
It’s an exciting time for African science fiction, marked most recently by the release of StoryTime’s ‘AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers’, a short story collection edited by Zimbabwean writer ...
At Litro Magazine we aim to bring together a broad community of readers with a common interest in good literature. We want to know what you are reading that is ...
A good occult story doesn’t require the reader to believe in the occult. I can be scared by Algernon Blackwood without believing in ghosts, or get a chill down my ...
Jerusalem. It’s a city I lived in from 1994-2009, the bulk of my adult life. It was really the first place I chose to be home, rather than having that ...
In David Constantine’s short story “Asylum”, a therapist asks a patient to look in a mirror and describe herself. The mirror is “a lovely thing, face-shaped and just the size ...
In response to the well-known fact that women remain under-represented generally across the film industry, a competition designed to encourage more women in film journalism has been announced by Sight ...
‘Umbrellas under Big Ben’—ink on paper, 1938. Courtesy of V&A.
The Tate Britain’s summer exhibition this year was “Another London: International Photographers Capture City Life 1930–1980”. Timed to coincide with ...
My first stories were rooted in the escapism that I had enjoyed as a child. I wanted relief from my past, not to revel in it. The feedback I received ...
In the run-up to our Ghosts issue, which will go online on Halloween, Litro Lab talks to actor Robert Lloyd Parry about bringing the tales of the ghost ...
The stories in Adam Marek’s new collection are addictively off-kilter. They explore strange presents and even stranger futures: nano-suits, interspecies cloning, superhero dictators and earthquake-inducing seizures all make an appearance. ...
Last Monday evening, over a hundred comic fans turned up at the St Albans Centre for a discussion between two of the world’s best loved illustrators: Quentin Blake, the septuagenarian ...
