Posts by TheAgent
Literary Agent Included
Litopia’s founder Peter Cox is a best-selling writer, with two books charting at the No. 1 position of the national bestseller lists. He’s also a working literary agent representing some of today’s most respected authors, having negotiated publishing and media contracts for his clients worth many millions of dollars. And he’s accessible right here inside…
Read MoreLive Across Planet Earth
As a Full Member of Litopia, you have a free ringside ticket to POP-UP SUBMISSIONS every week. Exclusively for Litopians, the live chat room is an integral and vital part of each show. Air your views about each submission as it’s discussed. Rub shoulders with your fellow members and publishing insiders as we look at…
Read MoreA Place To Grow
Away from the workface, we have plenty of quiet corners for you. There’s the Back Room, for example. A strictly private area for members, search engines rigorously excluded. Say what you want, and delete it when you’re done. Then there’s the Writing Workshops. A place for you to give and receive essential feedback, confidentially. Control…
Read MoreLife in the Colony
We may be a “virtual” community, but our strength has been tempered through time. Friendships are forged across continents. Mutual support is part of our ethos: writers need each other. You may be actively developing a project, or you may be in a fallow period. It doesn’t matter. You can still be a vital part…
Read MoreComing Soon!
Coming soon from Litopia, the Internet’s oldest writing community: Short Story Hunters! A weekly show featuring Flash Fiction stories drawn from Litopia’s Flash Club and also submitted directly by writers themselves via Litopia’s website. If you love short stories – you’re in for a treat! Presented by Barbara and Jonny.
Read MoreMoods by Yoel Hoffmann
Start a story that never began and won’t end, spreading like chill to everything made of words, the kind of release that comes from depriving your most often used senses and engaging the ones you neglected.
Read MoreKhirbet Khizeh by S Yizhar
A soldier reflects on a just-finished mission to systematically round up and expel those left behind in the small village of Khirbet Khizeh. Photo Gabriela Gleizer
Read MoreI Pity the Poor Immigrant by Zachary Lazar
From King David (aka Kid Bethlehem) to Meyer Lansky via Bugsy Siegel, and the many pulled in their wake, a novel that charges from Las Vegas to Jerusalem, capitals of imaginary kingdoms. Photo:Francoise Gaujour
Read MoreInterview with Todd Hasak-Lowy
Interview with Todd Hasak-Lowy – author and translator of novels from Hebrew to English, including Dror Burstein’s Netanya – with digressions into Orly Castel-Bloom, Yaakov Shabtai, different kinds of literary culture and the novels they produce.
Read MoreNetanya by Dror Burstein
Is it a novel? Memoirs? A book of geology? Anthopology? Marine Biology? Yes yes yes.
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