Posts by TheAgent
Suddenly, You’re An Influencer
As a Litopian, you’re part of the POP-UP SUBMISSIONS Genius Room. Your opinion – and your vote – count for everything. You’ll see the publishing business – and your own writing – with fresh eyes, we promise!
Read MoreAgent Inside
Litopia’s founder Peter Cox is a best-selling writer, with two books charting at the No. 1 position in the UK national bestseller lists. Now a working literary agent with publishing and media deals worth millions of dollars. He leads our weekly Huddles. Not quite tame, but doesn’t bite.
Read MoreWriters Need Writers
Don’t run away with the idea that Litopia is only a sweatshop. It’s far more than that. Writers benefit from mixing with other writers. For fun, for socialising and for mutual support. We’ve grown organically into a genuinely caring community. Be part of it.
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 MoreDesktop Workshop
Workshop your writing without limits in Litopia’s Writing Laboratory. You choose who sees it and who critiques it. You delete it when it’s done.
Read MoreJoin A Huddle
Join a Writers’ Huddle every Saturday. Bring your ideas for titles, your blurbs, your first chapters-in-progress… or just bring yourself and a glass of wine. Informal, in confidence and insanely good fun!
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.
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