Reading Time: 3 minutes Wednesday 2 July 2025 at Bath Spa University’s Locksbrook Campus Now in its eighth year, Bath Spa University’s MIX has established itself as an innovative forum for the discussion and exploration of writing and technology, bringing together researchers, writers, technologists and practitioners from around the world to make, think and talk. After our unique collaboration… Read more »
Posts By: Amy Spencer
Writing with Technologies Webinar Series Returns
Reading Time: 3 minutes From generative writing tools to augmented publishing processes, artificial intelligence is rapidly changing and challenging the landscape of creative writing and publishing. This free four-part webinar series, the second series of webinars from MyWorld and Bath Spa University’s Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries (CCCI) and Narrative and Emerging Technologies (NET) Lab, offers an in-depth… Read more »
A Book-in-a-Box is a Complex Thing
Simon Groth
Reading Time: 6 minutes We were in lockdown when the final piece of the Ephemeral City puzzle fell into place. It was late 2021 and my book Ex Libris had been out for more than a year. Though it had been released at the height of the first pandemic wave, the idea of a novel made from recombinant chapters… Read more »
Writing with Technologies Webinar Series Insights
Reading Time: 2 minutes In this time of rapid technological advancement, the intersection of artificial intelligence and creative practices has become a focal point of academic research within MyWorld. Recognising the importance of this fast-evolving landscape, Bath Spa University’s Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries (CCCI) and the Narrative and Emerging Technologies (NET) Lab recently curated the Writing with… Read more »
AI and “Symbiotic Creativity”
Reham Hosny
Reading Time: 3 minutes This article by Reham Hosny is one of a series commissioned as part of MyWorld, a UKRI-funded project that explores the future of creative technology innovation by pioneering new ideas, products and processes in the West of England. We have commissioned writers, academics, creators and makers to contribute a written snapshot into how artificial intelligence is changing, enhancing and challenging creative writing and publishing practices. In the early stages of algorithmic creative writing, Christopher Strachey‘s love letter generator, developed… Read more »
A Brief History of Writing: From Human Meaning to Computational Pattern Recognition and Beyond
Gary Hall and Joanna Zylinska
Reading Time: 3 minutes This article is one of a series commissioned as part of MyWorld, a UKRI-funded project that explores the future of creative technology innovation by pioneering new ideas, products and processes in the West of England. We have commissioned writers, academics, creators and makers to contribute a written snapshot into how artificial intelligence is changing, enhancing and challenging creative writing and publishing practices. What forms will literature and creative writing take ‘after AI’? And what will happen to the… Read more »
Will AI Destroy Great Writing?
Kate Pullinger
Reading Time: 4 minutes Is a still image generated by artificial intelligence a photograph, a snapshot of what the AI tool ‘sees’ online, or is it something else entirely? Can the copyright of a film script drafted by AI be owned by the human who prompted it? Will graphic artists and creative writers soon find their labour is no… Read more »
Writing with Technologies Webinar Series
Reading Time: < 1 minute From generative writing tools to augmented publishing processes, artificial intelligence is rapidly changing and challenging the landscape of creative writing and publishing. This free four-part webinar series from The Writing Platform editors working within MyWorld and Bath Spa University’s Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries (CCCI) and Narrative and Emerging Technologies (NET) Lab offers an… Read more »
Writing with and for ‘New’ Technologies
Lynda Clark
Reading Time: 6 minutes This article by Anna Ganley, CEO of the Society of Authors, is one of a series commissioned as part of MyWorld, a UKRI-funded project that explores the future of creative technology innovation by pioneering new ideas, products and processes in the West of England. We have commissioned writers, academics, creators and makers to contribute a written snapshot into how artificial intelligence is changing, enhancing and challenging creative writing and publishing practices. Like many writers, I don’t have a… Read more »
Call for Articles on the Future of Digital Storytelling
Reading Time: 2 minutes This year, The Writing Platform turns ten years old. To celebrate a decade of sharing knowledge and expertise around digital innovation in how we make and publish stories we are commissioning articles on the future of digital storytelling to imagine what the next ten years might hold. We want to publish articles of approx 750… Read more »