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Our latest issue is out on the streets! Issue 95 is themed around North London and features a fantastic line-up of short fiction and poetry at its best.

You can browse the stories online here at litro.co.uk (as well as checking out our archived issues). If you love having your own shiny, handy-sized copy of Litro to hold in your hands each month, or would like to have the opportunity to (perhaps you’re out of London too often, if at all?), then you can become a Friend of Litro. This allows you to receive your copy to your home each month, as well as other special offers, including deals on Litro Live! tickets. For full details, visit our Friends page here.

Litro no.95 is also available from all the usual places – underground stations, libraries, galleries, cafes, bars and bookstores. This includes selected branches of Waterstones and independent bookshops, both Tate galleries, Kings Cross and Euston stations and most recently, branches of Cafe Rouge. For a full list of locations, just click here.

After taking you to Brazil in March and bringing you in the best in Spain’s regional literary talent last month, Litro returns to its roots with the first in our London quarter issues. Litro’s May issue focuses on North London, with a mix of stories, poetry and flash fiction that reflect the diversity of people and circumstances in this part of the capital.

Contents

Market Futures by Vanessa Woolf-Hoyle

Raincoat by Carl Henrik Bjorck

Ewan without Ruby by Ben Fergusson

Clubs and Societies by Deborah Fielding

Piss and Patchouli by Jonathan Pinnock

Twins by Laura Solomon

Progress in Progress by Paul Lyalls

May Listings by Alex James

Click on the titles to read, or go to Issues and then to Issue 95 to read the whole issue online.

From the Editor

It’s been both fun and fascinating to take the helm for this, my first issue of Litro as editor. Years ago I heard about this great idea for a short story magazine which was distributed free at tube stations, bookshops, and wherever else people might get bored and need something to read: a literary alternative to Metro.

It was called Litro, and I submitted a number of stories, one of which was eventually accepted. I was delighted and terribly pleased with myself, and I hope that the authors in this issue feel the same way, because the quality and range of their stories is breathtaking and I’m very proud to publish them.

Since my first appearance in these pages, Litro has grown and changed enormously, but it still provides Londoners with free fiction from around the world, and although this issue is themed around North London, it’s no different. And given that London has a population the size of some European countries, it’s not surprising that the magazine features authors from or living in Sweden, Germany, New Zealand and New York, as well as oodles of home-grown talent.

In this edition of Litro you’ll find flash fictions and full-length stories; tales about love, death and parenthood, as well as Siamese twins, sick chickens, burned-out artists and time-travel. It’s as diverse and varied as the city itself, so swipe your Oyster and jump on board: this is where your journey begins.

Katy Darby

Editor

Contents for issue 95 can be found here. Alternatively, just go to the Issues section above and select no.95.