June Submissions Open

Submissions for June’s Roundtable Reading are open from the 17th of May until the 7th of June

Pieces will be selected for the reading by the 10th of June and the first reading will be held on the evening of Thursday the 20th of June at Dikstein’s Corner Bar.

Submissions can be of any length and form:

Academic, lyrical, poetic, administrative.

All submissions, including those not selected to be read, will be compiled in a collected text which will be available to purchase at the event.


Submit via roundtablereadings01@gmail.com




Theme: Divinity

The idea of the theme is to as loosely or solidly influence your writing as you like. It aims to generally unify one reading with the next.




Divinity: Noun

The state or quality of being divine 

Divine: 

1. Of or like god or a god.

2. (informal) very pleasing; delightful.

Divining: 

  1. Discover something by guesswork or intuition 

  2. Have supernatural or magical insight into ( future events)

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