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. Continue Reading Ben Norris: Joint winner of LitroTV’s transgression competition
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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. Continue Reading ...
In the second winner of our My Biggest Secret flash fiction competition, Oliver Giles uncovers a destructive obsession. Continue Reading My Biggest Secret: The Tooth Fairy
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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. ...
In the last of our Shakespearean Sonnet competition winners, Philippa Barker contemplates her desktop. Continue Reading Shakespearean Sonnet Competition: Desktop
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In the fourth of our Shakespearean Sonnet competition winners, Linda Atterton takes a new angle on Romeo and Juliet. Continue Reading Shakespearean Sonnet Competition: Banished
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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’. Continue ...
In the first of our Shakespearean Sonnet competition winners, Uschi Gatward reappropriates Sonnet 66 for the modern economy. Continue Reading Shakespearean Sonnet Competition: Sonnet 666
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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 ...
Carleen Peters is the winner of our Cults & Clubs flash competition, with this breathlessly passionate story about love at the roller derby. Continue Reading Pack is Here
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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. Continue Reading Cubista
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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. Continue Reading Joining
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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. ...
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.” ...
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. Continue Reading Gloves of Gdańsk
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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”. Continue Reading ...
Impossible architecture, spooky stories and fabulous fairytales all feature in the winning photos in our “Mystery” themed photo competition. Continue Reading “Mystery” Photo Competition Winners
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