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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 16:50:47 -0000
From: Trace <[log in to unmask]>
To: Trace <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: trAce Writers in Residence - Virtual and Flesh
Writers-in-Residence - Virtual and Flesh
At the trAce Online Writing Community http://trace.ntu.ac.uk
<http://trace.ntu.ac.uk>
Writers around the world can now get online help, advice and inspiration
from trAce Writers-in-Residence, starting with Christy Sheffield Sanford.
She has just taken up her post as trAce Virtual Writer-in-Residence and will
be launching her first series of online workshops on Friday 12th February.
There will be a Flesh Writer-in-Residence too, starting early summer in
Britain.
>From February 1999 - September 2000 there will be three Half-Time Virtual
Writers-in-Residence. They will provide professional feedback via email to
writers, establish lively interactive online writing groups, and be
available live at regular weekly online meetings at
http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/portal2.htm <http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/portal2.htm> . At
the same time, they will continue to produce their own creative work and
maintain a regularly updated online writer's journal.
* Virtual from Feb 1 for 6 months
Christy Sheffield Sanford (Florida)
http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/writers/sanford/index.htm
Christy Sheffield Sanford recently won The Well's prize for the Best
Hyperlinked Work on the Web. Her work has been praised by George Myers Jr.
in the Columbus Dispatch, George Landow in Hypertext 2.0 and N. Katherine
Hayles in ArtForum. Her online work has been published by Light and Dust,
Enterzone, The Little Magazine, Salt Hill and many other ezines and project
sites. She has won a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and is the
author of seven books including The H's: The Spasm of a Requiem, The Italian
Smoking Piece and Only the Nude Can Redeem the Landscape.
* Virtual from September 1 for 6 months
Alan Sondheim (New York) http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/writers/sondheim/index.htm
<http://www.anu.edu.au/english/internet_txt/>
Alan Sondheim is a poet, critic, and theorist who writes on and about the
Internet. His books include Disorders of the Real, and the anthology Being
on Line. He co-moderates several email lists, including Fiction of
Philosophy, Cybermind, and Cyberculture. He lives in Brooklyn, New York,
with cat and cacti
* Virtual from April 1 2000 for 6 months
Alan McDonald (Cumbria) http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/writers/mcdonald/index.htm
<http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/writers/mcdonald/index.htm>
Alan McDonald founded unHoly Island (http://www.poptel.org.uk/unholy
<http://www.poptel.org.uk/unholy> ). He is best-known however as a
scriptwriter for television (including Brookside and EastEnders) and radio,
most recently 'E Love' (Radio 4, 1998) about a transatlantic e-mail love
affair. He's published two novels, non-fiction, and also develops computer
Help systems and teaches writing.
*****There will also be a Full-Time Live Writer-in-Residence based in
Nottingham, England.
Bernard Cohen http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/writers/cohen/index.htm
<http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/writers/cohen/index.htm>
>From June 1999 Bernard will spend six months in Britain working with UK
writers. He will also act as a point of live contact for writers working
both on and offline, providing training on how they might best use the web
and giving feedback on their writing and web authorship. Bernard will
establish classes and tutorials in the use of the web for writing for
writers and readers living in the East Midlands as well provide professional
feedback via email to writers, establish lively interactive online writing
groups, and be available live at regular weekly online meetings at
http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/portal2.htm <http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/portal2.htm> . At
the same time, he will continue to produce his own creative work and
maintain a regularly updated online writer's journal.
Bernard Cohen is the author of three novels: Tourism, The Blindman's Hat
(which won the 1996 Australian/Vogel Literary Award) and Snowdome. He has
twice been named by the Sydney Morning Herald as one of the Best Young
Australian Novelists, has received several Australia Council fellowships and
won a number of short story competitions. He was born in 1963 and now lives
in Katoomba in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney Australia.
>Carolyn Bamborough
>trAce international online writing community
>http://trace.ntu.ac.uk [log in to unmask]
>Faculty of Humanities, Nottingham Trent University, Clifton Lane,
>Nottingham NG11 8NS UK
>phone: ++ 44 (0)115 948 6360 fax: ++ 44 (0)115 948 6364
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