Litopia News Monthly Archive

Welcome to the Litopia News Archive. You'll see the latest stories listed below by default - you can use the monthly archive filter at the top of the sidebar to find older items of interest.

The Writer’s Essential Tackle Box, the must-have bible for all would-be authors, has landed a UK foreign rights deal with Snowbooks.

Written by Litopian Lynn Price, Editorial Director at California-based Behler Publications, Tackle Box is a treasure trove of insider...

What’s the last thing a teenage boy needs when he’s fighting to save the world? Yep, that’s right – a love interest!

But that’s exactly what Litopian author MG Harris throws at the hero of her...

Get your mouse at its finger-clicking best – Litopia’s ground-breaking After Dark and Daily podcasts are in the running for a European award, and you can help them win!

Litopia is vying for a prize in the European Podcast Awards, which is sponsored by Olympus and open to all podcasters...

Litopia is celebrating another major success story following the publication of the debut book from Donna Ballman, the Colony’s legal eagle and deadly debriefer.

The Writer’s Guide to the Courtroom: Let’s Quill all the...

Litopian stalwart Richard Howse is celebrating becoming one of the first students to graduate from the National Academy of Writing.

Richard, or R1X as he’s known around the Colony, was one of four aspiring writers who joined the Academy’s inaugural creative writing course in January 2007...

Jamie Mollart, Peter Cox & Rowan Heasley

We've only gone and done it...

Litopians are basking in the glow of triumph after the Colony walked off with the Golden Twit for writing in the first ever awards ceremony for tweeting.

Litopia founder Peter Cox and Litopian Jamie Mollart, the man who has led the Colony's assault on...

There are just a few days to go until the awards ceremony that everyone is tweeting about - the Golden Twits - and it's going to take a Clint Eastwood-sized .44 Magnum to stop the Litopia bandwagon in its tracks.

Not content with being up for two gongs, for 'writing' and 'information...

Forget your Oscars, Baftas and Golden Globes - the Golden Twit Awards are where it's happening, and Litopia has been shortlisted for two gongs!

The awards, which aim to celebrate the best in tweeting, will be announced in London on November 26 and Litopia is in the running for two - '...

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Well, the waiting is over... finally, Litopia Writers’ Colony has a brand new home on the web!

I hope you like it: the design by Luke Burford of Lunamedia mirrors the podcast site – fresh, understated and stylish. We want this to be a wonderful home for all our members...

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Litopia’s very own Scribbling Sea Serpent, already making waves in the short story market, has made a bit of a splash with her unpublished novel.

Kate Kelly was shortlisted in both categories of this year’s Yeovil Prize, with a highly commended for her novel, Myth Making, and a...