Article Archive: News

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

MIX 2023: Storytelling in Immersive Media at the British Library

Reading Time: < 1 minute Join members of The Writing Platform team for MIX 2023; the biennial conference on where and how creative writing and emerging technologies meet. Co-hosted by Bath Spa University and the British Library at the British Library, London, on 7th July 2023, the conference coincides with the Digital Storytelling exhibition of digital literature and emerging formats,… Read more »

Micro-mapping Apartheid: Archives, Stories and AR

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Reading Time: 10 minutes We are two academics who met in Cape Town when  our children became friends. Conversations around our shared interests in history, technology and Cape Town’s District Six got us speculating about social justice pedagogies in our respective disciplines. Our preliminary discussions revealed  many parallels in our approaches but also intriguing  distinctions, enough to seed a… Read more »

Call for Articles on Storytelling in Immersive Media

Reading Time: 2 minutes The Writing Platform is commissioning articles of approx 750 to 2,000 words on all aspects of storytelling through new forms of narrative delivery and audience interaction in immersive media. We want to understand the role of emerging technologies in developing new forms of experiential storytelling and audience engagement, from digital fiction, audio and performance through… Read more »