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Jun 12
New Flash Friday on Litro:
“How to Love a Millipede” by Linda Ann Strang
A strange, compressed story of performance, cruelty, transformation and desire.
Read it with the 3-pass edit in mind: notice how the image does more work than explanation.
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Jun 12
Before you submit, try the 3-pass edit:Clarity:
what’s happening?
Compression: what can go?
Pressure: what needs more force?Need a focused editorial diagnosis?
Use FastTrack:fasttrack.litromagazine.com/…
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At the edge of town, he waits to be missed.
“Hole” by Michael Matejcek launches Litro Shorts pairing selected short fiction with cinematic teasers.
Read the story at Litro. litromagazine.com/usa/2026/0…
#LitroShorts #LitroStories #FlashFriday #ShortFiction #LiteraryFiction
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“Dance has always had a problem with evidence.”
Bia Oliveira speaks to Litro about @Sadlers_Wells ' Dance Digital festival, choreography made for camera, young filmmakers, AI anxiety, rights, and why dance on screen is not just documentation.
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May 29
“We are the archives.”
Adem Holness, Head of Music at @sxswlndn , speaks to Litro about live discovery, London’s many musical energies, and what festivals can still do that platforms and algorithms cannot.
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May 28
Got a short draft you keep circling?
3 live Zoom sessions → we get one piece (≤4,000 words) into submission-ready shape a realistic list of places to submit.
Bonus: book by Sunday = free FastTrack review.
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May 26
Performance poetry does not always survive neatly. It moves through rooms, bodies, voices and memory.
Ty’rone Haughton of @ApplesAndSnakes speaks to Litro about Jawdance, poetic lineage, surveillance and the live room as archive.
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May 23
Bookshops are not just retail spaces. They are memory systems, recommendation engines and cultural infrastructure.
Kat Pongrace of Strand Book Store speaks to Litro’s Future Archives about booksellers, algorithms, reader trust and literary discovery.
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May 23
When private life becomes searchable state memory, surveillance stops being only about the present.
Future Archives looks back at Rand Paul’s marathon Senate speech against NSA surveillance powers and asks what the archive does when it watches back.
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May 21
Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and Lin King speak to Litro about Taiwan Travelogue, translation, food, false archives and the danger of pigeonholing Taiwanese literature after its International Booker Prize win.
@TheBookerPrizes #InternationalBooker2026
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May 15
A week after the Met Gala, the harder question is what the museum remembers.
Brett Renfer of The Met speaks to Litro about VR, Oceania, audience engagement and preserving the decisions behind digital experience.
Read: litromagazine.com/arts-and-c…
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“Independent publishers are the holders of a vast amount of invaluable information.”
Daniel T. O’Brien speaks to Litro on small presses, discoverability and literary survival.
Read: litromagazine.com/arts-and-c…
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FastTrack is live.
Short fiction, essays, or poetry under 4,000 words.
Get a focused Litro editorial report: what’s working, what needs revision, and whether it’s ready to submit.
£45. 10 business days.
Limited to 20 reviews this week.
fasttrack.litromagazine.com/…
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Probability has escaped the casino floor.
As Queens gets New York City’s first full-scale commercial casino, the bigger story is cultural.
Read: The House Moves to Queens
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#LitroStories #Queens #PredictionMarkets
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Apr 26
The Odds Are In vote is now closed.
Thanks to everyone who read the shortlist and took part.
We’re reviewing the final result now and will announce the Readers’ Choice winner shortly.
In the meantime, all five shortlisted stories remain live here:
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Apr 22
The Odds Are In shortlist is now live.
Five stories. One Readers’ Choice winner.
Read the shortlist and cast your vote:
litromagazine.com/odds-are-i…
The shortlisted writers will also feature as part of Future Archives London on 28 May.
#LitroStories #FlashFriday #FutureArchives
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Apr 19
“Literary festivals don’t run on money anymore. They run on goodwill.” litromagazine.com/arts-and-c…
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Apr 17
"Then she does something small and wrong."
Flash Friday: Perishables - a supermarket story that reads like prophecy.
From "The Odds Are In" competition.
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#FlashFiction #ShortStory #LitroMagazine #FlashFriday
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Apr 14
If you’ve been polishing the same short story without it getting stronger - this is for you.
3-week live revision submission sprint • June 4/11/18
One piece (≤4,000 words) → stronger draft cover note shortlist.
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Apr 12
Debt, desire, heat, humiliation. “Company of Men” by Jazz Bothby is a brutal, funny portrait of a woman improvising through ruin.
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#LitroStories #StorySunday
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