Cecily Parks’s The Seeds Wins the 2026 UNT Rilke Prize
Cecily Parks’s The Seeds, published by Alice James Books, has won the 2026 UNT Rilke Prize, a $10,000 award recognising a book by a mid-career poet. The collection moves through ...
Arts & Culture, Essays, EssaySaturday
The Whyte House Fish – Louise Phillips
The clown triggerfish in the Whyte House bridal suite would remain gloriously alive for decades after its death as long as people watched the movie as long as it kept ...
Running Lessons
“The mind, unlike a library, is more like a web.” Learn from Kristi Ferguson in today’s #EssaySaturday, “Running Lessons.”
Editor's Pick, Fiction, short story, Story Sunday
Red
“He felt he owed it to his uncle, had the guilty sense he ought to put things to rights.” Today’s #StorySunday is “Red” by Emily Grandy.
A Questionable Body
Lost inside the puzzle, your mind’s response is exhaustion, to bed, soft sheets, warmth, darkness, but comfort is elusive
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday, StorySunday
Thunder Road
“We are in love, he thinks, and it is both as simple and as complicated as that.” Today’s #StorySunday USA is “Thunder Road” by Brennig Davies.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, On Writing
READ OUR SIX PUSHCART PRIZE NOMINEES!
Dive into these spellbinding stories from our writers who have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize!
Join the Litro Team, Deadline to Apply: May 13th, 2022
Litro is looking for a new Arts Editor – are you passionate about theatre, live performance and art and able to convey that passion in writing?
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Interviews
A FLASH OF INSPIRATION: “THE SNAKE”
Danton Remoto interviewed
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Nature Issue
DISTANCE
A honeymoon in the Philippines capsizes
CONCENTRIC CIRCLES
Tom wasn’t keen, but there was no choice near the jetty before we caught the tour boat.
EMILY, ANECHOIC
The anechoic chamber lay at the heart of six concrete onion layers, a nesting of rooms within rooms, each room with twelve-inch thick walls. The chamber made no contact with ...
LONGING
How strange to think of life in your bedroom, staring at the wall, or at the kitchen window, waiting for the kettle to boil; to remember dark days after work, ...
NO MAN’S LAND
His bottle’s gone. His power.
He turns towards The Lovely Adrienne to tell her: stall them, feed them a line. Too late, she’s already in the ring, her feathers sweeping the ...
Bryan Washington’s Houston Inspired Short Story Collection, Lot- Wins the UK’s £30,000 Dylan Thomas Prize
Bryan Washington’s Houston Inspired Short Story Collection, Lot- Wins the UK’s £30,000 Dylan Thomas Prize
JOB AD: Business Development Manager
LitroUSA, a new 501c3 non-profit literary journal based in Manhattan, New York, is looking for a Business Development Manager to help us grow and expand.
Salary: Salary to be determined
Conditions: ...
Interview with Author Kate Pullinger: Writing and the Digital Age
I think we need to hold a space for literature in the context of emerging forms of tech that rely on storytelling; the rise of visual media shouldn’t mean that ...
Stories in Ink: Litro Celebrates National Tattoo Day
If you’re looking to get inked this year, these are the artists to check out!
My 3 Favorite Dramatic Crime Reads of the Past 5 Years.
As the summer progresses and the warm weather-induced laziness sets in, I’ve found myself longing for a good summer read. This has caused me to reflect on some of my ...
Litro Desire Issue, Print Issues, Uncategorised
Litro Desire Issue: Summer
Cover design Noa Gravesky
Table of Contents
Summer 2019
The Editor’s Letter
Eric Akoto
Guest Editor’s Introductory Note
Ira Silverberg
Nadia Owusu- “ ...