Just wanted to share details of this upcoming Digital Conversations event being held at the British Library in London, on the evening of Thursday 18 July.

It will celebrate ten years of the New Media Writing Prize, which showcases exciting and inventive stories and poetry that integrate a variety of formats, platforms, and digital media.

This international prize, now in its 10th year, encourages and promotes the best in new media writing.



Join us for an exciting discussion featuring previous prize winners and innovative writers from around the world.

This event will be chaired by NMWP co-founder and organiser Jim Pope from Bournemouth University, and speaking on the panel will be:





·         Andy Campbell, Digital Director at the One to One Development Trust and the founder/lead author of Dreaming Methods, One to One’s award-winning in-house Virtual Reality, digital storytelling and games development studio. Andy has been a NMWP judge since the prize was launched in 2010, has witnessed innovations and developments in digital publishing and has predictions for what may come next.



·         Amira Hanafi is a writer and artist based in Cairo. Her work ‘A dictionary of the revolution’, an experiment in polyvocal storytelling, won the New Media Writing Prize in 2018. In 2014, she initiated conversations around keywords used to talk about the 2011 Egyptian uprising and its aftermath with nearly 200 people. The project was published as a website using data visualization to allow readers to navigate through 125 texts that are woven from transcription of this speech.



·         Kayt Lackie, winner of the 2018 NMWP Dot Award for the VESSEL Project, based in Canada. This is an alternate reality game set in a fictionalised version of Elliot Lake. A weekend-long festival where the town of Elliot Lake becomes the setting of a real-world ‘video game’ – where players, as themselves, solve puzzles/gather clues/overcome challenges while experiencing a story created and performed by community participants.



·         Christine Wilks, a digital writer, artist and developer of interactive narratives and playable media. Her digital fiction, 'Underbelly', won the very first New Media Writing Prize in 2010.  She is currently building her own platform for authoring and playing text-driven interactive digital narratives, which she is using to develop a psychological thriller for her practice-based PhD in Digital Writing at Bath Spa University.



https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2019/06/digital-conversations-celebrating-ten-years-of-the-new-media-writing-prize.html

https://www.bl.uk/events/digital-conversations-celebrating-ten-years-of-the-new-media-writing-prize



thanks,

Stella





Stella Wisdom



Curator, Digital Research



The British Library



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London



NW1 2DB





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