This time last year, I was tentatively preparing for – the one and only – Glastonbury Festival. I arrived petrified at the crowds, the snaking wall that sealed us all ...
With ‘Out of This World’, the British Library has crafted a comprehensive, interplanetary journey through Science Fiction, perhaps the most inventive and ingenious of storytelling genres, but also ...
Alternative Press is a collective of London based artists, who formed in 2008 with the aim of ‘building an inclusive platform to showcase works from amateur and professional artists. I ...
Part One: Outdoors
Where do ideas come from? It really depends who you ask. Plato would say they don’t come, they are in the heavens, wonderful and unreachable, and we can just ...
The book swap selection at the Goodbye Library show (London Word Festival).
Rob Fred Parker continues his coverage of the London Word Festival for www.litromagazine.com, with reviews of shows The ...
Rob Fred Parker talks to writer Joe Dunthorne about his latest novel, the film adaptation of his debut Submarine, and more. Fans of of the magazine and Litro Live! may also recognise ...
The London Word Festival 2011
Independently reviewed by Rob Fred Parker for Litro.
Today, the London Word Festival launches its richly diverse programme which promises to explore the written and ...
Lionel Shriver’s selected novel, Revolutionary Road.
Vintage Classics Day
Foyles Bookshop, Charing Cross Road, 7th May 2011, 10am-5pm
Vintage Classics is introducing the Orange Inheritance collection this week. This collection of classic novels, ...
The space race had an enormous impact on society, culture and popular imagination.
Eyes on the stars – Space as inspiration
Piers Sellers in conversation with Rona Munro and John Zarnecki.
Starts: 7.00pm ...
Head to the ICA on the 19th March to discuss the state and importance of radical publishing.
On Saturday 19 March, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London will play host ...
Everyone else has book clubs—Shoreditch House have a Literary Salon. The Salon lures the world’s best writers to London to read to you from their latest greatest works. Previous guests have ...
The globetrotting force of nature that is the Literary Death Match returns to London on the 16th of February. Explaining the concept behind the night to friends can be difficult, ...
If you Google ‘anti slam’ you get a bunch of information about a pretentious-sounding poetry movement which took place in the Lower East Side of Manhattan a ...
Where? Abbey Tavern
Date? Saturday, 30 April 2011
We are pleased to announce that we will be hosting a Litro Live! event at Camden Crawl for the second year running! Guests can ...
Tricycle Theatre, until 30th January.
Fresh – well, fresh-ish – from its triumphant run at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2010, Midsummer is a theatrical treat presented in what is perhaps an ...
Roald Dahl’s Twisted Tales
Roald Dahl wrote a hell of a lot of stories in his 74 years. Although far better known as an author for children, he produced almost 20 ...
As we know that many of our readers are writers themselves, we are pleased to let you know that Verity Bargate Award has just been announced. If ...
Explore stories under the light of a magic lantern, see the best of the latest talent put to celluloid, and wonder at lion’s dancing, as our new year gives way ...
Cover art is Stephen Farling's Boucher: The Back Story, 2010. His exhibition is currently showing at London's Royal Academy of Arts, from 10 Nov - 19 Dec 2010. ...
Why wasn’t the hand in the cloud enough to stop the car from diving into the canal? Perhaps it just wasn’t seen; people are in such a rush these days. ...