Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg is Wagner’s most metatheatrical opera (edging Tannhäuser by a nose). A composition about composing, we watch the master singers of one era (opera stars) play ...
The IGGY and Litro Young Writers’ Prize is funded by philanthropically, and is open to gifted young people from around the world aged 13 – 18 and from all walks ...
An extract of Lindsey Nkem’s winning short story for our joint young writers’ award with IGGY, I Hope There’s Wi-Fi in Heaven, is now up on a poster for display ...
Lindsey Nkem, a 15-year-old young writer from Edmonton, Canada, was announced as the winner of our joint international young writers’ short story award with IGGY on Monday evening, 15 October, at the ...
The boy sits, hunched over, his head in his hands, on the stone floor outside of the jail cell. He doesn’t want to leave his parents, not yet. But he ...
When he was a child, he wanted nothing.
He lived in Arzan, a village in the country of Kaseia. Before he was old enough to split wood, he walked to the ...
The camp was lifeless, except for jacaranda leaves rustling in the gentle morning air. A silence followed them everywhere. My newfound life began here: in the woods of my motherland, ...
We are without touch. We have four senses—or more than four. We can tell when we’re dizzy, tired, hungry, and surely those are more than four, and still we’re without ...
Hello.
First things first: I know I don’t know you very well, but I don’t have to. This isn’t about you.
Chances are you’re an old, blind Bangladeshi man, or a small, ...
The school compound reeked. The wind, it seemed, was against them. It carried the smell of stale fish, dead rodent, and sewage from the nearby canal closer to them, but ...
Thank you to everyone who entered the 2010 Litro & IGGY international short story competition. We received over 450 entries this year, and for the judges to shortlist just six was ...
We apologise for the delay in announcing this year’s longlist, dominated by writers from UK, USA, and Canada, but also from France, China, the Philippines, Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana, Uganda, ...
This competition has now closed and we are no longer accepting entries. Best of luck to all those who entered. The shortlist has been announced and we will announce the ...
On a balmy London evening, young writers joined IGGY and Litro at an awards ceremony at the 3i offices to announce and celebrate this year’s winner for the annual International Short Story Award for Young ...
This is a shortlisted story for the 2011 Litro & IGGY International Short Story Award for Young Writers. ROBERT I wait in the queue. With functional formica tables and a blue acrylic carpet dark enough ...
This is a shortlisted story for the 2011 Litro & IGGY International Short Story Award for Young Writers. The car was on the edge of the city when her waters broke, dusk was imminent. “We ...
This is a shortlisted story for the 2011 Litro & IGGY International Short Story Award for Young Writers. Mia’s arms are long and white, and her nails are trimmed short and round at the tips ...
This is a shortlisted story for the 2011 Litro & IGGY International Short Story Award for Young Writers. I. There walked the priest: through the stone archway of a watchtower in Roquebrune-sur-Argens, underneath the blood-red cliffs scorched ...
This is a shortlisted story for the 2011 Litro & IGGY International Short Story Award for Young Writers. ‘Come on, then. Let’s get you out of this chair, poppet.’ ‘It was the zeppelin,’ I tell ...
This is a shortlisted story for the 2011 Litro & IGGY International Short Story Award for Young Writers. The first time the phone rang in the office I ignored it. The second time I answered ...
