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Deadline: 14 August

The editors of RoundTable invite creative submissions – including short stories, creative non-fiction, poetry, and multimedia work – on any aspect of literary engagement with the theme of synergy. Submissions are encouraged from postgraduate researchers and early-career academics in English Literature and Creative Writing, as well as from those working in other disciplines whose research intersects with these fields. We particularly welcome submissions from under-represented and marginalised voices in academia – including, but not limited to, researchers of colour and working-class, queer, disabled, and neurodivergent researchers.

In keeping with the theme of synergy, interdisciplinary work that cuts across traditional academic boundaries, or that sits at the intersection of multiple fields, is especially welcome. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Gender and sexuality 
• Postcolonial and critical race approaches
• Queer methodologies 
• Creative–critical symbiosis 
• Digital humanities 
• Intersectionality 
• Experimental or avant-garde approaches to fiction/literary research 
• Humanities research that interfaces with literature or creative writing 

• Creative pieces should be no longer than 3000 words. All creative submissions should be accompanied by a critical commentary of 500–1000 words. 
• Please submit creative works in full, along with a 200–word abstract for the critical commentary and a 150-word biography, to roeroundtable@gmail.com. 

About RoundTable

RoundTable is an online, peer-reviewed, open-access literary journal for and by postgraduate and early-career researchers and creative practitioners in English Literature and Creative Writing. The journal is published annually by Fincham Press at the University of Roehampton.