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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 [...] Continue Reading…

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 [...] Continue Reading…

Comic strip – Issue 93 – by Louie Stowell

Comic strip – Issue 93 – by Louie Stowell

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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Climate ⎜ ˈklī-mət David Hermann

noun

the weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period

the weather conditions
the whale congregations
the wisdom constructions
the wish consultants
the whiskied conscience
the worry controls
the worship controllers
the weather conditions
them all
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David Hermann is completing his Masters in Comparative Literature at
UCL. He writes a lot. Read him at hermannist.com

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Green Man by John Turner

He had a lot of corners, certainly. For starters, take the names he gave his kids. What kind of a name was Ham? Sounded like a football team. His wife had wanted Enkidu, so popular for a boy. But he had his way.
He got them down at the pub [...] Continue Reading…

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Litro Classic: On Thirst in mid-Ocean, from the Kon-Tiki Expedition Thor Heyerdahl

Even if our predecessors had started from land with inadequate supplies, they would have managed well enough as long as they drifted across the sea with the current, in which fish abounded. There was not a day on our whole voyage on which fish were not swimming round the [...] Continue Reading…

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