Litro is a free monthly literary magazine that publishes new, original short fiction that excites us and offers a creative alternative to disposable papers. Previous contributors include Irvine Welsh, Yiyun Li, Glyn Maxwell, Benjamin Zephaniah and Andrew Crumey. Litro is published by Ocean Media and 100,000 copies are distributed monthly around London and the UK, including in underground stations, libraries, galleries, bars and cafes, as well as online.

REPRINT POLICY

If you are an author wishing to submit a reprint:
Litro occasionally reprints material which has appeared elsewhere, such as novel extracts or stories from published collections. However, we do not generally accept reprinted material, so please do not submit stories which have already appeared elsewhere, whether online or in print.

Permissions

If you are an author or publisher who would like to reprint work which appeared first in Litro:
Authors: please pass the below on to your potential publisher.

Thank you for your interest in reprinting material from Litro Magazine. Please complete the following form carefully and send via an email attachment to info@litro.co.uk. We will return a permissions contract in duplicate to you for your signature. After signing the contracts, please return them for our signature. No permission is granted until you have received a copy with our signature. The contacts must be returned within one year or the offer is automatically cancelled. If you do not intend to reprint the material covered by this contract, please return the agreement unsigned so that we may clear out files and avoid bothering you late with inquiries about the form.

You can download our permission form here: Permissions Form

Editor in Chief

ERIC AKOTO eric@oceanmediauk.com
Eric Akoto, is a published writer and journalist, covering arts and culture. He first got into publishing aged 20 when he founded LA-NYLON. In 2005 he founded the small indie publishing house Ocean Media Books, with the title A Royal Challenge Accepted. In the same year Ocean Media re-published as Around the world on Five Pounds and also launched Litro as full colour monthly magazine. Litro now  has a  monthly circulation of 100,000 in London and beyond.

Editor

KATY DARBY editor@litro.co.uk
Katy Darby’s work has been read on BBC Radio, and published in various magazines and anthologies including Stand, Mslexia, Slice and the Arvon and Fish anthologies. She has a BA in English Literature from Oxford University and an MA in Creative Writing from UEA, where she received the David Higham Award. She teaches Short Story and Novel Writing at City University, and her first novel, The Whores’ Asylum, is forthcoming from Fig Tree (Penguin) in February 2012: more info at www.katydarby.com.

Contributing Editor

SOPHIE LEWIS
Sophie Lewis translates prose from French to English, writes, interviews, travels and tastes wine. She helped to found the BBC National Short Story Award in 2005, while a junior editor at Prospect magazine. She set up and managed the Europe office of Dalkey Archive Press, in London, until 2011. She now lives in Rio de Janeiro and is editor at large for the publishing house And Other Stories.

Events

ALEX JAMES events@litro.co.uk
Alex has been a senior writer and travel editor at Men’s Health magazine, and is now a respected travel journalist contributing to a number of national and international titles including Cosmopolitan, The Times, The Guardian, ivillage, Metro, Marie Claire, Esquire. As well as print media, Alex has been featured on radio shows like BBC London, LBC, BBC 6 and the focus of BBC Radio 5 Live Mocumentary ‘Vinyl Junkies’ at the tender age of 18. His website can be found at www.alexjames.info.

Design

LUKE BRIGHT design@litro.co.uk
Contact Luke for all your artistic needs.

Online Editor

HANNAH SWINDON hannah@litro.co.uk
Hannah is a graduate from the University of Brighton. Since graduating, she’s obtained a NCTJ Certificate in Journalism and has written for various magazines and websites.

Marketing Litro Live! Events

JULIETTE C. GOLDING
Juliette Golding studied at Cheltenham Ladies’ College and The University of Manchester before going on to study creative writing in San Francisco. She moved to London as a script writer and marketing executive and is in the process of completing a book of short stories. She currently lives in East London.

Marketing Social Media

KEITH HODGES
Keith grew up and still lives on the outskirts of London. He first fell in love with literature and began to write just after Euro ’96, upon the realisation that his hope in football was unfounded. Keith has been published in a number of books and writes for a number of lifestyle magazines, taking a keen interest in fresh talent and British writers. He can normally be found in the back of a dingy club watching someone read some excellent poetry.

Head Intern

ROBIN STEVENS
Robin Stevens is from Oxford by way of California. She recently graduated from the University of Warwick, where she was TV Editor of the student newspaper and captained the 2009 University Challenge team. She is now studying for her MA in English Literature at King’s College London. In her spare time she reads, writes, cooks and blogs about it. Her personal blog can be found at redbreastedbird.blogspot.com.

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History of Litro

Litro was founded in 2005 to provide commuters and office workers with a short story every week. Initially Litro was published weekly and handed out at a number of London Underground stations and other places in the city. In September 2007 we re-launched as a full colour, 56 page pocket magazine with a distribution of 100,000 copies.