About Litro

Litro is a free monthly literary magazine that publishes new, original short fiction that excites us and offers a creative alternative to disposable free papers. Previous contributors include Irvine Welsh, Yiyun Li, Glyn Maxwell, Benjamin Zephaniah and Andrew Crumey. Litro is published by Ocean Media and 100000 copies are distributed monthly around London and the UK, including in underground stations, libraries, galleries, bars and cafes, as well as online.

Who We Are

 

ERIC AKOTO eric@oceanmediauk.com

Eric is head honcho of Ocean Media and publishes Litro every month from his West London hideout. Some say he’s a marked man; others that he’s a figment of our collective imagination. What we will confess is that Eric’s the man to contact about ad sales, distribution and the big questions in life.

 

 

SOPHIE LEWIS editor@litro.co.uk

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 is in the middle of a Masters in comparative literature and is also manager of the Europe offices of Dalkey Archive Press, in London.

 

 

ALEX JAMES events@litro.co.uk

 

 

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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 re-launched as a full, 56 page pocket magazine with a distribution of 100,000 copies.

In September 2008 Mike Fell handed over the Editorship of Litro to writer and live literature promoter Tom Chivers, marking another step in the development of one of London’s most ambitious literary publications. Sophie Lewis is now the new editor of Litro.

 

 

Distribution
Litro is distributed at the following locations:

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London Underground stations
• Liverpool Street
• Kings Cross
• Euston
• London Bridge
• Victoria

 

Libraries and bookshops
• Libraries in the London Borough of Lambeth
• London Review Bookshop
• Waterstones Covent Garden
• Waterstones High Street Kensington
• Waterstones Notting Hill
• Foyles (Charing Cross Road)
• Tate Modern Bookstore
• Marcus Campbell – Art Books
• Crockatt and Powell
• Daunts – Notting Hill
• The Gloucester Road Bookshop
• Potterton Books
• Green and Stone
• The Talking Bookshop
• The Travel Bookshop
• Nomad Books
• Kensington and Chelsea Central Library
• Camden Library
• The British Library Bookstore
• Koenig Books – Serpentine Gallery
• John Sandoe Books
• Donlan Books Bethnal Green
• Koenig Books – Soho
• Claire de Rouen – Books Soho

 

Art galleries, museums and venues
• Tate Modern
• Tate Britain
• Institute of Contemporary Arts
• Saatchi and Saatchi Building
• Miller’s Academy of Arts and Science
• The Cartoon Museum
• Centerprise, Hackney

 

Bars and cafes in following areas
• Brick Lane / Spitalfields / East End
• Clerkenwell / Old Street
• Derby
• Trams in Sheffield
• Buses in Durham
• Munich
• Canary Wharf
• Newcastle
• Boston, MA
• Bangor
• Canterbury

Litro & IGGY International Young Person's Short Story Award

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