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Thank you for your interest in submitting to Litro. Our submissions are currently closed as we focus on reading through our existing backlog. We look forward to reopening for new submissions in the New Year. Please check back then for updates!

Litro Print Magazine

Our print magazine is one of the largest read literary and short stories magazines in the world.

Litro Online

Our website is a fully-fledged literary and creative arts platform.

Litro Represents

Litro Represents is a bespoke agency with the goal of finding the most promising writers .

Litro Print Magazine

For our print magazine, we accept short fiction, flash/micro fiction, nonfiction (memoir, literary journalism, travel narratives, etc), and original artwork (photographs, illustrations, paintings, etc) based on the designated monthly theme. Works translated into English are also welcome.

We do not accept poetry or novel extracts at this time. If you want to submit either contact the Editor with questions.

By submitting to Litro Magazine, submitters agree to receive correspondence about journal updates and submission opportunities from Litro Magazine. You can unsubscribe at any time.

Due to volume of submissions, please note that responses may take up to six months. If you do not hear from us within that time, please reach out. 

Requirements

• All submitted work must be your own.
• Submitted work must not have been previously published—either in print or online. You can submit the same piece to other publications at the same time, but we ask that you withdraw your submission from Litro immediately when it is accepted elsewhere. We do, however, publish original translations if the work has previously appeared in another language.
• Due to print space restrictions, each piece should be about 3,000 words, give or take a little. This is a guideline, not an absolute limit; and in exceptional cases, we will take longer pieces, but in any case no longer than 5,000 words.
• Due to the volume of submissions we receive, please submit only one piece per theme. Additional submissions will unfortunately not be considered. You can submit stories for different themes simultaneously, though we should add that if we choose one story for a particular issue, we wouldn’t normally run another story by the same writer for at least a year to allow room for new authors.

The Author grants Litro the exclusive license to publish the English language Work, in print, audio and electronic form, throughout the world. The Author retains the right to publish the Work in a book-length collection of the Author’s works, or as part of a volume from which the Work is an extract. Read our full terms and conditions.

Upcoming themes and deadlines

Submissions for the next three issues of Litro’s print edition (Issues 189, 190, and 191) are currently closed. We will reopen for new submissions in the New Year

Issue 190: 2025 SUBMIT [CLOSED]

Issue 191: 2025 SUBMIT [CLOSED]

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Litro Online

For our website, we accept short fiction, flash/micro fiction, nonfiction (personal essays, memoir and travel dispatches, politics, reportage), features on literature, arts and culture, reviews, short stories, columns, interviews, and blog posts. Works translated into English are also welcome.

Completed Pieces
If you have a finished piece that can fit into any of our existing categories, please choose a category and submit below. It is best to submit to us a completed piece if you haven’t build up many writing samples yet. If we publish it, you can start pitching to us.

Contributors’ Mailing List
Every month, we also have some specific events and book reviews we’d like covered. If you’d like to receive an email from us every month calling for particular submissions, please sign-up below.

The Author grants Litro the exclusive license to publish the English language Work, in print, audio and electronic form, throughout the world. The Author retains the right to publish the Work in a book-length collection of the Author’s works, or as part of a volume from which the Work is an extract. If you are submitting short fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction or poetry, and we choose to publish it on our website, you also afford us the right to reprint your work in possible print, audio or digital anthologies in the future—subject to due notification to the author. Regrettably, we are unable to pay our contributors at present. Read our full terms and conditions. 

Pitches
Got an idea for a story? Pitch it to us!

Literature and culture
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Reviews or author interviews
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Theater, arts or live events
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Film-related
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*Please attach a brief biography and CV with your pitches to better reflect your fields of expertise.

Litro Lab Podcast

For our podcast, we sometimes feature standalone stories—fiction and nonfiction. It can follow the month’s theme, or not, and must be no longer than five minutes.

You can submit an MP3 recording of your short story; it must be your story, but someone else may read it if you’d prefer (please credit them with a link). Please also submit a written version of your piece. Contact online@litrousa.com with questions.

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*You can submit MP3s of pieces previously published elsewhere in written form, but please make sure you have the right to let us publish it in audio form. We are not responsible for the copyright infringement of work submitted to us.

**We also run audio interviews and readings with authors, episodes exploring a particular theme/subject such as Japanese folk tales, and even real-world reportage. If you’d like to participate — either as a guest or a producer — or if you just have a bright idea, please get in touch with Interviews.

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