Posts By: Amy Spencer

Call for Articles on AI and Writing for/on Screen and Stage

Reading Time: 2 minutes The Writing Platform is commissioning articles on how artificial intelligence is being used as a tool for writing for the screen and stage as well as how it is depicted on screen and stage.  We are looking for articles that engage with the debates and concerns around generative AI and creativity and are keen to… Read more »

An Emerging Writer’s Guide to AI

Reading Time: 5 minutes Regardless of whether you’re an emerging or established writer, it’s no secret how frustrating the writing process can be. Taika Waititi aptly sums it up in my favourite way, “What does writing actually mean? Sometimes writing is opening up your laptop, looking at a blank page for about eight hours, feeling sad, and closing it…”  … Read more »

What Then Must We Do About AI?

Reading Time: 4 minutes This article by Guy Gadney, CEO of Charisma.ai, 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.   The UK creative industries are financial powerhouses, recognised internationally for writing,… Read more »

AI and Creative Writing Practice Webinar

Reading Time: 2 minutes From generative writing tools to augmented publishing processes, artificial intelligence is rapidly changing and challenging the landscape of creative writing and publishing. To respond, MyWorld and Bath Spa University’s Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries (CCCI) and Narrative and Emerging Technologies (NET) Lab have developed a series of free webinars, Writing with Technologies, to offers… Read more »

MIX 2025 Call for Presentations

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 »

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

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”

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 »