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Litro no.96 – From the Editor

Litro no.96 – From the Editor

Nobody wants to be alone: everybody wants to belong. Sociability is part of what makes humans such a successful species, but it’s when groups become gangs that the fun stops and the trouble starts … You’ll find plenty of gangs in the following pages: some you’ll want [...] Continue Reading…

Q&A: Aminatta Forna

Q&A: Aminatta Forna

Previously an award winning journalist, Aminatta Forna is now an acclaimed writer. In 2003 The Devil that Danced on the Water, a memoir about her father, was runner up for Britain’s most prestigious non-fiction award, the Samuel [...] Continue Reading…

June Events

June Events

JUNE EVENTS Frights, festivals, flamenco and fiction pull the punches during June´s events, bringing inspiration in the loom of austerity, edited by Alex James. 1st – 6th June, King´s Head Theatre, Upper Street. The European Arts Company invites you on a trip down the smoggy, gaslit alleyways of Victorian London to hear [...] Continue Reading…

Issue 97: Cover Art

Issue 97: Cover Art

Issue contents can be found here. Click on the links to be taken to the individual stories, or scroll down to read the issue online here.
The cover for Litro no.97 features author portraits of three of the writer featured in the August 2010 issue: Louise Stern, [...] Continue Reading…

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Litro no. 97: From the Editor

From the Editor

It’s all too rare that the talent and originality of our new crop of short fiction writers is celebrated (apart from in the pages of Litro, that is) – so this month we thought we’d do something about that.

There’s a whiff of East London about [...] Continue Reading…

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Litro Issue 97: Contents

Contents
Rio, by Louise Stern

Old, by Sammy Wright

Treat them like your own, by Siân Melangell Dafydd

Novel extract: This is a Canvas, by Jackson Martin

The Party’s Just Getting Started, by Clare Wigfall

LITRO Events Listings, by Alex James

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Rio by Louise Stern

Rio
Louise Stern

In Rio the velvety air felt easy and comfortable. We slept on Copacabana beach and our sandals were stolen by one of the bony, dark-skinned group in rags who had set up camp under the nearby palm trees ringed by bits of rubbish. In the night, after we [...] Continue Reading…

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