The Literary Desk is being built for theatres, festivals, competitions, and development programs that need a cleaner way to receive, read, score, discuss, and decide on scripts.
Reader workflows, adjudication tools, communication templates, and submission-cycle management are being prepared now. Public onboarding is not open yet.
TLD is the organization-side companion to The Playwright’s Desk: a practical system for the people receiving and evaluating the work.
Collect scripts, writer details, eligibility answers, files, categories, and cycle-specific requirements in one organized intake flow.
Assign submissions to readers, track what has been read, and keep the review process visible without relying on side spreadsheets.
Support rubric-based evaluation, notes, recommendations, shortlist movement, and final decision tracking.
Prepare consistent confirmations, status updates, acceptances, declines, waitlist messages, and reader-facing instructions.
Manage seasons, festivals, contests, reading periods, categories, reader pools, deadlines, and decision stages.
Keep useful records of submissions, scores, reader activity, finalist lists, and administrative outcomes.
The goal is simple: help literary teams move scripts through the process clearly, fairly, and with less administrative drag.
Create a submission cycle, define categories, requirements, deadlines, and reader criteria.
Collect submissions and files through a structured portal instead of scattered email threads.
Assign readers, gather scores and notes, and track review progress.
Move work through longlist, shortlist, finalist, selected, waitlisted, and declined stages.
Send consistent, respectful communication and preserve a clean administrative record.
This landing page is public-facing, but the product is not open for general public onboarding yet.
The system is being shaped for theatres, festivals, competitions, and literary offices that need something more purpose-built than forms, spreadsheets, email folders, and improvised reader packets.
Existing authorized users can sign in now. Public pricing, onboarding, and demo availability will be announced later.