La.Lit

30/01/2024

In 'High Heels', the protagonist finds an unexpected result after a confrontation.

Read Ranjan Adiga's story here: https://lalitmag.com/7303-2/

22/01/2024

Here's the winning story of the sixth Writing Nepal: A Short Story Contest - 'Kumari Galli is now a Cul-de-sac' by Sharad Duwal.

Full story: https://lalitmag.com/kumari-galli-is-now-a-cul-de-sac/

Photo: Vijay Kumar/Unsplash

17/01/2024

Did you read Lalahang's second-place-winning story titled 'Till you Remember to Forget Me' at the Writing Nepal: A Short Story Contest 2023?

Read here: https://lalitmag.com/till-you-remember-to-forget-me-writing-nepal-2nd-place-winner/

Photo: Kabita Darlami/Unsplash

06/01/2024

Dia Yonzon's 'Unwritten Letters' won third place in sixth Writing Nepal: A Short Story Contest, judged by Samrat Upadhyay, author of 'Arresting God in Kathmandu'.

Read the full story here: https://lalitmag.com/unwritten-letters-writing-nepal-3rd-place-winner/

Photo: Unsplash

21/12/2023

Writing Nepal: A Short Story Contest Award Ceremony at Malpi Institute, Baluwatar.

24/11/2023

Writing Nepal: A Short Story Contest shortlisted stories are out!

Shortlisted stories here: https://lalitmag.com/writing-nepal-the-shortlist-2/

See you at the 𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗰𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘆 𝗼𝗻 𝗗𝗲𝗰 𝟮𝟭 𝗮𝘁 𝟮 𝗣𝗠!

Design: Dishebh Shrestha

23/10/2023

How do Nepalis speak, write and rap in the UK when you're almost compelled to be a Nepali Writing in English? Come and see La.Lit Editor Rabi Thapa chat with poet Mukahang Limbu, Premila van Ommen aka punxdidi and Sanjay Sharma (Gurkha Women गोर्खाली महिला) 24 October at 545pm. This National Centre for Writing event is free to all:

This Meet the World panel explores the experiences of Nepali Gurkhas living in the UK to understand how the use of language – or the inability to use a specific language – defines their identities in the fraught multicultural realities of Britain today.

01/06/2023

La.Lit: A Literary Magazine proudly announces the sixth iteration of Writing Nepal: A Short Story Contest.

Writers, you will have over four months to submit one previously unpublished short story between 2,000 to 5,000 words.

Winners will be awarded a cash prize of Rs. 25,000, Rs. 20,000, and Rs. 15,000.

Deadline: Sunday, October 15, 2023

For more details: https://lalitmag.com/writing-nepal-2023-a-short-story-contest/

Design: Dishebh Shrestha

31/05/2023

"It's been too long since the last print edition made its way to you - but since when has a Nepali really explained why they are late? We were always en route. And look, see, we come bearing a veritable omnibus of writing: two rounds of the best submissions to the Writing Nepal competition and a set of longform narratives from the new Ethnographic Writing Fellowship."
- Excerpt from the editorial by Rabi Thapa

Get your copy of the La.Lit Volume X from your local bookshops! Also available online via Thuprai.
Link: https://thuprai.com/book/lalit/

Price: Rs. 800/-
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Cover Illustration: Shraddha Shrestha
Cover design and typesetting: Dishebh Shrestha
Post Design: Shubha Joshi

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29/05/2023

This 10th volume of La.Lit magazine features previously unpublished fiction and non-fiction by new and familiar writers working in English. The La.Lit editorial team is proud to showcase the next generation of writers who will take Nepali literature to the world. A great variety of voices and perspectives emerge in this volume to examine the contemporary Nepali life, in its minutiae of emotions, aspirations, illusions and the grand sweep of imagined worlds.

Get your copy this Saturday, 4 PM - 9 PM, June 3, at the Night Market (Summer Edition) at The Yellow House, Sanepa.

Cover Illustration: Shraddha Shrestha
Cover design and typesetting: Dishebh Shrestha
Post Design: Shubha Joshi

18/05/2023

La.Lit: A Literary Magazine Volume X is here!

Always worth the wait when the artist hits it out the park with such a beautiful cover. A big shout out to Shraddha Shrestha for the incredible cover artwork!

Design: Shubha Joshi

29/01/2023

"This is an appeal to everyone! May this country become worthy of earning a living in, may it be worth living in, may those who work hard do well, may everyone thrive and bloom. And may my plea reach everyone, may the world hear of it, too. This is my revolution."

A full translation of 's post:

I, Prem Prasad Acharya Santosh (Born August 17, 1986, Batan Suryodaya [Fikkal]-11, Kerabari, Ilam, Province 1), an ordinary youth, an ordinary entrepreneur, an ordinary businessman, wove dreams in colour and bore my responsibilities towards my family, society and nation as I advanced through life. T...

28/09/2022

Read Sarita Pariyar's 'A Dalit Mother's Account' in La.Lit founding editor Rabi Thapa's translation in Guernica magazine. This essay was originally published in Nepali on Naya Patrika.

Full essay: https://www.guernicamag.com/a-dalit-mothers-accounts/

A few tales about the lives and struggles of mothers in Nepal.