Tabitha PottsWhat a year it’s shaping up to be – so much change and destruction and a news cycle that seems unrelentingly grim. To celebrate some of the better things in life, e’re putting out a call for submissions for our next Salon at the Colony Room Green – we want to know what our theme, the Library, means to you. To me, a library has always been a place of safety and a refuge. I love libraries and stories about them: from the free libraries in London’s Underground that have been in the news recently, to the library that was created by Turkish sanitation workers, to historic libraries like the Warburg Institute in London where I recently spent time reading books about Tarot. To me, books and the freedom to read whatever I want is something I take for granted, but others are not so lucky.
Please explore the concept of the library in your short story (2000 words or less is ideal for us, we will also consider shorter flash fiction pieces or short extracts from longer works-in-progress that are relevant to the theme) and we will record your reading live on the 9th of June. You don’t necessarily have to have books in your library, your library does not have to be set in this world or period of history, but we do want some exploration of what a library can be. You have to be able to come to London to read your work live to be part of the Salon. However, if we like your story, we will consider it separately for the podcast if you are not able to read it live.
