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Issue 93 – From the Editors Litro & IGGY International Young Person’s Short Story Award Comic strip – Issue 93 – by Louie Stowell
 
Issue 93 – From the Editors

Issue 93 – From the Editors

“We will take the story back with us and spread it like butter on the toast of our item-rich society” – says Robyn Hitchcock, of Iceberg TV, in his dispatch for the Cape Farewell expeditions to the ‘frontlines of climate change’, out-takes from which form our central feature, this issue. A richly allusive and ambivalent [...]

Litro & IGGY International Young Person’s Short Story Award

Litro & IGGY International Young Person’s Short Story Award

‘Words get you further’ Inspiring, encouraging and acknowledging the creativity of young people is a common goal for London based Litro Magazine and the International Gateway for Gifted Youth (IGGY) at the University of Warwick. Today these two organisations have come together to announce a major new short story award for young people. This new “Young [...]

Comic strip – Issue 93 – by Louie Stowell

Comic strip – Issue 93 – by Louie Stowell

Review of An Elegy for Easterly, Petina Gappah

My short story diet this week has been An Elegy for Easterly, the debut collection by Petina Gappah, published last year and winner of the Guardian First Book Award. The thirteen stories, set in Gappah’s native Zimbabwe, are portraits of a foreign place full of familiar people.

The Zimbabwe of [...] Continue Reading…

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Expressionist Shorts

My regular stint on the Litro blog comes to an end this week, although I hope to chime in now and again with occasional pieces.  So for this last post I hope you’ll allow me the indulgence of talking about my favourite short fiction, and picking out five examples.

I [...] Continue Reading…

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Litro 93 – Climate

Think of Icebergs & London Park, by Tania Hershman

The Value of Wales, a poem by Paul Lyalls

Once Upon a Time the Medway Literati, by Lawrence John

Playing, by Frank Burton

Dispatches from Cape Farewell, with contributions from Lemn Sissay, KT Tunstall, Marcus Brigstocke and more

Miracle, by Nora Nadjarian

The Reconstruction, [...] Continue Reading…

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March Litro Listings from Alex James

You have your copy of Litro; now we go beyond the page with a round of events to tantalise the grey matter. We’re warming up for spring and a well-earned round of lyrical escapism to power us out of the bleak mid-winter. We have an exclusive reading by one [...] Continue Reading…

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