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Submissions are now open: New Frontiers
Submissions are now open theme: New Frontiers.
Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, EssaySaturday, The Litro Blog
8 Banned Books to Cozy Up With This Autumn
These books, once banned or challenged for their bold themes, remind us of the power of literature to inspire thought, challenge norms, and spark important conversations platforms like The ...
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?
Arts & Culture, The Litro Blog
Dear Rap Music (from the Dystopian Letters)
You started surveying in New York amongst poor Blacks who brought their blues, jazz, and spirituals to the city of rectangular skyscrapers.
Arts & Culture, The Litro Blog
Dear Northern Hemisphere (from the Dystopian Letters)
In the Americas, your start was bloody. It was based on the dispossession and genocide of the Natives as your men in long pants cackled in English, Portuguese, Spanish, French.
Arts & Culture, Essays, The Litro Blog
Dear Corporate State (from the Dystopian Letters)
We ride the trains incessantly, and they in reality go nowhere. They circle the 500 square miles of our city that has few trees but clean air.
Arts & Culture, Essays, The Litro Blog
Dear Pandemic (from the Dystopian Letters)
Everything is closed. The offices that tower to the sky in the skyscrapers, the schools, churches, restaurants, theaters, public gathering places of all sorts.
Litro #148: The Going Home issue – Letter from the Editor
This month in Litro #148 we explore the notion of what Going Home – means to us. Is it a familiar physical space? A refuge? A feeling? A state ...
Litro #147: The Space issue – Letter from the Editor
Welcome to Litro #147 – the Space issue. In this issue we explore the world’s ever-evolving urban social landscape. We’ve got art, stories, essays, cartoons, interviews – all examining the ...
COMPETITION: IGGY and Litro Young Writers’ Prize Award 2015/16
The theme of this year’s competition is Movement, and we’re asking entrants to inspire and captivate us with compelling stories around this concept. Stories must be no longer than 2,500 ...
Why having good dialogue in that story you’re writing is important!
What’s more difficult than writing a good story? Writing good dialogue. Dialogue is an essential part of every writer’s arsenal. Get it right and it can do wonders for your ...
A Sense of Place
Many a creative writing professor has lectured me on the pivotal role a “sense of place” plays in fiction. Writers work hard at creating credible worlds in which to set ...
Arts & Culture, On Writing, The Litro Blog
Cigarettes & Coffee: Our Writer Perception
Tortured beasts, addicted to alcohol and drugs, full of whimsy and imagination, conjuring creations with their gut, their anger, using their addiction, their coffee and cigarettes, their absinthe and hallucinogenic ...
Let It Go
Novelists are caught in a double bind. The novel is a sprawling expanse that offers us the scope for detailed excavation and explanation.
Why Write?
To get under a word’s skin is sheer joy. To tap into the incredible power of language to shape a story is a grand adventure.
The Litro Blog, Travel&Lifestyle
Introducing: Our New Food Column
As we introduce our new fortnightly food blog Food For Thought, we reflect on the place of food writing in our culture today.
US Student, Katherine Liu, Winner of the 2015 Litro & IGGY Young Writers Prize
In youth we were thunder-bringing, earth-shaking, feather-footed kids. We lived in the suburbs, all those perfect houses in rows and all their perfectly manicured lawns, but sometimes when we were ...
The Litro Blog, Travel&Lifestyle
Once and Once Only: the Finished #Litrostory
Last week over at Litro UK, the team in London ran the latest in our series of literary experiments on Twitter. We asked our UK followers to write a collective ...
Q & A: Danny Wallace on Who is Tom Ditto?
I wondered what might happen to people who don’t feel like they’ve found themselves; they don’t know who they are so they don’t know where they fit in. Was there ...
Litro Book Club, On Writing, The Litro Blog
Litro Book Club Read: Who is Tom Ditto by Danny Wallace
Join the discussion of our current Book Club pick, Danny Wallace’s Who is Tom Ditto