Recently launched, ‘Provocare’ is a multimedia verse thriller created by Meg Vann, writer; Mez Breeze, interaction designer; and Donna Hancox, research lead for Creative Industries at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). It is the first work to be commissioned and produced for ‘Queensland Writers on the International Stage’, an Arts Queensland funded programme created by QUT and The Writing Platform.

‘Provocare‘ is based on ‘Provocation‘, a short story by Meg Vann, that has been adapted and made into a multimedia verse thriller by the writer working in collaboration with Mez Breeze and Donna Hancox. The work explores themes of female agency and violence against women at a time in Australia when sixty-three women have been murdered by their intimate partners or ex-partners in 2015 alone.

Readers can explore both works online. ‘Provocare’ is available here, and ‘Provocation’ is available here. Writer, Meg Vann, has also shared her experience of collaborating to create digital work of fiction in this article on this site.

Said writer, Meg Vann:

“Like most women, I live with the effects of violence. Memories of abuse, and ongoing vigilance against harm creates core beliefs and behaviours that often cast women as having victim mentalities. But I believe it makes us survivors. Dedicated to a young woman who lost her life to a stalker, ‘Provocare’ explores this premise: the main character is a survivor of anorexia nervosa. She develops dysfunctional habits that, while self-harming in relation to her illness, are adapted to become tools in her battle for survival against the pernicious and unrecognised violence of a workplace stalker. Surveillance is also a theme in ‘Provocare’ as I am increasingly concerned about the misuse of surveillance technology – designed to improve public safety – in the abuse of women. Providing digital collaboration opportunities, and welcoming all-women teams, is vital in voicing women’s lived experiences, and challenging the predatory viewpoints so dominant in normative cultural narratives”

Interaction designer, Mez Breeze, commented:

“At a time when violence against women is at such catastrophic levels, working with this all-gal ‘Provocare’ team on the first commissioned production for ‘Queensland Writers on the International Stage’ has been a thoroughly rewarding experience. It’s been a privilege to have been invited to design and develop this collaborative digital fiction project with the potential to critically reflect upon such crucial social issues. With Donna at the Project Management helm, Meg the consummate wordsmith, and with the support of The Writing Platform, this has been one of the most successful international teams with which I’ve had the pleasure of working.”

About Queensland Writing on the International Stage

‘Queensland Digital Writing on the international stage: QUT and The Writing Platform’ is an Arts Queensland-funded programme which supports collaborations between writers and interactive designers to develop works for exhibition on The Writing Platform.

The second work created for ‘Queensland Writers on the International Stage’ will be an audio adaptation of the short story ‘Crawl Space’ by Krissy Kneen which will launch later this year.

Said Donna Hancox, research lead for Creative Industries at QUT:
“This project, which is focused on bringing together writers and designers to re-imagine how stories can be crafted and shared, is a really important way of increasing knowledge and skills around digital writing.  The future of writing is collaborative, and the creative works created through this project showcase the benefits of collaboration. The ongoing partnership between Queensland University of Technology, The Writing Platform and Arts Queensland is crucial in delivering information about new forms of writing to writers at all stages of their careers.”

Joanna Ellis, co-founder of The Writing Platform, commented:
“We are delighted to be working with our long-term partners, Queensland University of Technology, to create this opportunity for Queensland-based writers and interaction designers. As well as providing opportunities for the artists directly involved we are able to share their experience of creating digital stories, and of the collaborative process itself, with our wider community of writers and technologists.”  

If you would like to find out more about ‘Provocare’ – including speaking to the artists involved – or ‘Queensland Writers on the International Stage’, please contact:
Joanna Ellis: joanna[at]theliteraryplatform[dot]com

NOTES FOR EDITORS

Meg Vann is an emerging crime and thriller writer with an interest in exploring lesser heard voices. Meg founded the Queensland chapter of Sisters in Crime and regularly presents workshops on writing, editing and publishing, with an emphasis on digital innovation. Meg is the former CEO of Queensland Writers Centre, and currently works with Brisbane Writers Festival and The University of Queensland. Her writing has attracted development awards, and is published in Australian literary journals.
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Mez Breeze‘s award-winning digital writing and games have helped shape interactive genres, internet art and online literature. In August 2015, Mez – along with fellow collaborator Andy Campbell – was awarded both the Tumblr International Prize and The Space’s “Open Call” Commission for their in development transmedia project “Pluto”.  Mez was also shortlisted for both the 2015 Thiel Grant Award for Online Writing and the 2015 “Games Development” Category of the MCV Pacific Women In Games List, which profiles the:  “…most influential women across all facets of the Australian and New Zealand Games Industries.” Mez is a Senior Research Affiliate with The Humanities and Critical Code Studies Lab, was a Judge of Bournemouth University’s 2014 New Media Writing Prize, and is in the process of developing a comprehensive career archive with Duke University’s Curator Collection team. This archive (titled “The Mez Breeze Papers”) is to be housed at the Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
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Donna Hancox is the research leader for the creative arts at Queensland University of Technology.  Her background is creative writing and media studies.  Her research and practice focus on the role of storytelling and digital technology in social change.  In 2013 she was a Leverhulme Visiting Fellow at Bath Spa University and is currently the chief investigator on two Arts Queensland projects exploring the digital futures for writing and writers.

About Queensland University of Technology:

Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is a highly successful Australian university with an applied emphasis in courses and research. Based in Brisbane, the university has a global outlook, some 44,000 students, including 6000 from overseas, and an annual budget of more than AU$872 million.

Unique to QUT is the Bachelor of Creative Industries, which equips graduates with diverse knowledge, creativity and professional skills across a range of industries and practice.  Located in the Creative Industries Precinct, alongside research centres and creative enterprises, the QUT Creative Industries Faculty is not only training the creative workforce, but working with industry and government to grow the sector.

The Creative Industries Faculty’s offers specialist degrees across a range of creative study areas include the Bachelor of Fine Arts, Bachelor of Entertainment Industries, Bachelor of Music, Bachelor of Journalism and Bachelor of Media and Communication degrees. Staff and students of the Faculty are noted for pushing disciplinary boundaries and many are producing bold experimental work in the digital and live domains.  Emphasising practice-led research has resulted in national and international recognition for the Faculty, and QUT is changing and evolving the modes of creative communication through its research.

About The Writing Platform:

The Writing Platform is a website and commissioning programme dedicated to providing inspiration and information for writers and creative technologists on new forms of storytelling. It was launched in 2012 by The Literary Platform and writer, Kate Pullinger, and operates in partnership with Bath Spa University and Queensland University of Technology.

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Writing Platform Bursary recipients showcase their work alongside keynote speakers writer Naomi Alderman, theorist Florian Cramer, and performers Blast Theory at this year’s Writing digital: MIX Digital Conference.

Mix Digital is taking place between 2nd and 4th July 2015. The full programme is available on the MIX Digital website. Tickets can be booked via the Bath Spa Live website. 

The new Commons building at the Newton Park campus of Bath Spa University will be the home of this year’s MIX DIGITAL conference. Following the success of the last two MIX DIGITAL conferences, held at Corsham Court, the University’s School of Humanities and Creative Industries continues to be at the forefront of both research and teaching of creative practice across many forms.

This year’s conference will take place from 2 – 4 July 2015 and will take advantage of the features and interactive spaces in the new Commons building where it will host a vibrant mix of academic papers, practitioner presentations, seminars, keynotes, discussions, workshops and an exhibition of the work by conference participants.

The full schedule of keynote speakers is yet to be finalised but confirmed speakers are Professor of Creative Writing and Digital Media Naomi Alderman, theorist of the post-digital Florian Cramer, and adventurous artists’ group Blast Theory.

Professor Alderman is a prize-winning author; in 2006 she won the Orange Award for New Writers, and in 2007 was named as Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, and one of Waterstones’ 25 Writers of the Future.   In 2012, she co-created the top-selling fitness game and audio adventure Zombies, Run! which has been shortlisted for a Develop award for narrative and the Writer’s Guild of Great Britain best videogame award.

Bath Spa University have launched a competition to create an interactive literary artwork for their MediaWall, to be launched at MIX DIGITAL 3: Writing Digital conference (2-4 July 2015). 

The deadline for applications is midnight GMT on Sunday 8th March 2015

Bath Spa University will support the creation of the new artwork with two short funded residencies and the opportunity to display the work for the month of July 2015.

Proposals need to be related in some way to text-based narrative – they can be software/ data-driven, interactive, live, internet/ mobile linked. They should also reflect one or more of the themes of MIX DIGITAL 3, which are: creative writing and digital technology, digital fiction and poetry, digital art, interactive scriptwriting and theatre, transmedia practice, transnational activity the emergent field of ambient literature.

The artwork needs to be designed display at very high resolution and in daylight. The artist will also need to be able to realise their idea technically (with appropriate advice and support from the MIX DIGITAL team).

Details of how to apply, along with a full list of requirements, technical specifications, eligibility criteria and budgets are available on the MIX DIGITAL 3 site.

About the MIX Conference: hosted by Bath Spa University’s School of Humanities and Cultural Industries, has established itself as an innovative forum for the discussion and exploration of writing and technology, attracting an international cohort of contributors. This year’s conference will take place from 2-4th July at the university’s Newton Park Campus, confirmed keynotes include Naomi Alderman and Blast Theory. Tickets will soon be available through the MIX website. 

“Judging this year’s Writing Platform Bursary opened my eyes to the incredible diversity of writers and technologists working in literature in the UK. It buoys the heart to know there is so much innovation, experimentation and courage in the British literary landscape.”  Tom Uglow, Director, Google Creative Lab

• The selected projects will put poetry into Minecraft and use code and electronics to tell a different kind of love story
• Writer Naomi Alderman and Google’s Tom Uglow from the selection panel give their verdict

The Writing Platform is pleased to announce the 2015 beneficiaries of its bursary scheme, awarding two writer-technologist partnerships with £4000 each.

The bursary programme supports creative experimentation and inter-disciplinary learning between writers and technologists. Each bursary is awarded to a team made up of one writer and one technologist to work together on a writing project over a period of three months. The 2015 bursary programme is supported by Creative Writing at Bath Spa University and Arts Council England (Grants for the Arts).

The 2015 bursary recipients are:

•  Victoria Bennett, writer, and Adam Clarke, technologist, who applied as a team; and whose project will use Minecraft to immerse the player in the experience of the poem and expand the idea of what literature and video games can be.
• Kelly Jones, writer, and Linda Sandvik, technologist, who were paired by the judging panel because, as judge Naomi Alderman noted, they both wanted to explore “telling a story that cannot help but be shaped by and respond to technology.”

The 2015 judging panel was made up of Tom Uglow, Director, Google Creative Labs; Naomi Alderman, writer and professor of creative writing at Bath Spa University and Joanna Ellis, Partner at The Literary Platform, co-founders of The Writing Platform

Speaking about the 2015 winners, Tom Uglow said:

“The work of Victoria and Adam will bring poetry out of books and explore new forms of digital poetry that are made possible in the reality of Minecraft – a place that is almost super-real to its players. It has been such a treat to be part of The Writing Platform bursary, ensuring that British literature in the 21st century is no wasteland of the parochial and the conventional.”

Naomi Alderman, writer, and Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, said

“So often, in digital writing, either the ‘digital’ or the ‘writing’ ends up feeling like second fiddle, the bit that’s put in at the end when the other bit’s all dealt with. So I’m always thrilled when a digital writer has a story to tell – not just a new way to use the medium, but a story that cannot help but be shaped by and respond to technology. 

I was particularly excited, therefore, to see Kelly Jones’ story of how her parents met over CB radio, and I’m thrilled to see what she and Linda will make of it. It feels like precisely the thing I was looking for here – a story that is not only told *via* technology but is actually *about* how technology shapes our lives.”

 Joanna Ellis, partner at the Literary Platform, co-founders of The Writing Platform, added:

“We received 218 applications, nearly three times the number we received in 2013, and I was delighted by the range and quality of the projects pitched. In terms of observable trends, hacking existing platforms for literary ends remained a popular theme, there was a decline in the number of entries pitching locative literature projects and an increase in the number of entries pitching projects that use pervasive media, biofeedback and physical computing. I’m really thrilled with our selection, and can’t wait to see the results.”

Speaking about their selection, Victoria Bennett and Adam Clarke said,

“Minecraft offers potential for shared expression and experience of literature in really interesting and playful ways. We want to dig into this and see what can happen. The chance to discover how the poem and the game can interact to create a whole new experience will be challenging and inspiring for us both and will extend and expand our mutual and individual creative practice. We are keen to share this work with the growing Minecraft community and see how it may seed new ideas.”

Speaking of her selection, Linda Sandvik, says:

“Recently at a hackday I came up with the idea of a text adventure alternate reality war game, and the easy bit was doing the coding. Writing the scenarios was so hard though, and I kept wishing there were writers at the hackday or that I knew any that I could collaborate with.”

Speaking of her selection, Kelly Jones, says:

“I look forward to working with Linda, learning new skills and forming new collaborations. I hope that we can create an exciting multiplatform piece that pushes and develops the art of storytelling and our individual professional practises.” 

Readers will be able to follow the progress of the two projects here on The Writing Platform website over the coming months, and finished works will be showcased at Bath Spa University’s MIX Digital 03 Conference, which takes place from 2^nd – 4^th July 2015.

More about the winners

Kelly Jones is Winner of the Wales Drama Award 2014. Originally from the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, she has been living and working in Wales since 2007. Her plays are rooted in real human stories and often take inspiration from personal experiences, her upbringing in Dagenham and rooting in Wales.

www.kellyjonestheatre.com | @TheDrownedGirl

Linda Sandvik is a creative technologist and Knight-Mozilla fellow 2015. She likes making things with code and electronics, and is interested in civic tech, serious games and loves a good story.

www.lindasandvik.info | @hyper_linda

Victoria Bennett is a poet, creative activist and full time home-educating mum, living in rural Eden, Cumbria. She is the Founder and Editor of Wild Women Press and Blissfool Books, she has facilitated creative experiences for the past 20 years, including the Wild Women Workshops and Salons. Winner of the Northern Promise Award and the Andrew Waterhouse Award for Poetry, Victoria has published 4 collections of poetry and performed live across the UK, including Glastonbury Festival.

www.invisible-orchard.com |

Adam Clarke is an artist who uses Minecraft, games, traditional art and technology to inspire and entertain, working globally with institutions, museums, schools and companies to find groundbreaking ways to interact with a young game playing demographic. He has worked across the UK providing workshops, experiential events and talks to inspire and engage and also produces online YouTube Channel “101 Ideas for Minecraft Learners” and “Everyday Minecraft”. His current project, Tateworlds, is a series of playable Minecraft maps where the player can literally explore and interact with famous artworks from the Tate collection.

 www.thecommonpeople.tv | @thecommonpeople

This is a call for papers, presentations and works for exhibition for the Writing Digital: MIX DIGITAL 3 conference.

The deadline for submissions is 31st January 2015.

Writing  Digital: MIX DIGITAL 3 will take place from 2-4 July 2015 at Bath Spa University’s Commons Building.

Papers/presentations and workshops are invited in relation to the on-going themes of:

• Creative writing and digital technology
• The future of the book
• New forms of publishing
• New forms of digital curation

and in any of the following areas:

• Digital fiction and digital poetry
• Digital art and text
• Non-fiction and multiplatform publication (digital and print)
• Digital and interactive script-writing (including theatre-making and film -making)
• Transmedia practice
• Collaborations between writers and technologists
• Participatory media
• Transnational creativity

In partnership with the Digital Cultures Research Centre at UWE there will be co-curated strand for which presentations on the following are sought:

• The practice of interactive documentary and/ or
• The emergent field of ‘ambient literature’ (including mobile, locative, and other site-specific storytelling forms)

In partnership with Bath Spa’s Media Futures Research Centre there will be co-curated strand on ‘Analogue Futures’ for which invitations on the following are sought:

• The digitalisation of writing practices and techniques
• Remediation associated with emerging digital technologies
• Slow media
• Concepts and cultures of vintage, heritage and authenticity
• Sustainability and materiality within the realm of digital media

Workshops on creative practice and pedagogical papers in relation to any aspect of the above are welcome.

HOW TO SUBMIT

Abstracts of up to 300 words for a 20-minute paper/presentation or a 90-minute workshop should be sent to mixdigital2015 [at] gmail.com.

The deadline for submissions 31 January 2015.

Works submitted for exhibition will not be considered unless the artist is attending the conference.

A selection of conference papers will be developed for publication in a special issue of Convergence: the International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies.

The Bath Spa University Conference Committee is: Katharine Reeve, Lucy English, Kate Pullinger, Maggie Gee, Mike Johnston, Kristin Doern, Dan Ashton and Anthony Head.

There will also be a separate competitive international call to create a new artwork for MediaWall, our eight-metre high digital gallery space;  this work will be launched during Writing Digital: MIX DIGITAL 3

Conference booking will open in November. A limited number of rooms on campus will be available for delegates. We will be posting news and updates on the Writing Digital: MIX DIGITAL 3 website.

ABOUT WRITING DIGITAL: MIX DIGITAL 3 

After the success of the last two MIX DIGITAL conferences, Bath Spa University is hosting Writing Digital: MIX DIGITAL 3 in the newly completed Commons building at the Newton Park Campus, just outside of Bath.

Bath Spa University’s School of Humanities and Creative Industries, with its stellar Creative Writing Department, is at the forefront of both research into and teaching of creative practice across many forms. MIX DIGITAL has established itself as an innovative forum for the discussion and exploration of writing and technology, attracting an international cohort of contributors from the UK, Australia, and Europe as well as North and South America. From 2015 the conference will be biennial and will become one of the flagship conferences for the university.

Writing Digital: MIX DIGITAL 3 will take full advantage of our brand-new Commons building and its interactive spaces through hosting a vibrant mix of academic papers, practitioner presentations, seminars, keynotes, discussions and workshops, as well as an exhibition of work by conference participants.

Our partners, The Writing Platform, will showcase the two winning projects from the competitive bursaries they will have awarded earlier in 2015 for new creative writing and technology projects. There will also be a separate call to digital artists for entries to an international competition to create work for our Media Wall.

Confirmed keynotes include Naomi Alderman talking about how and why a literary novelist came to be the imaginative power behind the hugely successful apps, Zombies! Run, and The Walk; also confirmed is Blast Theory, internationally renowned as one of the most adventurous artists’ groups using interactive media, creating new forms of performance and interactive art – they’ll be discussing their current kickstarter-funded project, Karen.

For more information and updates about Writing Digital: MIX DIGITAL 3 please visit: mix-bathspa.org/

The Writing Platform launches 2015 Bursary Programme, in association with Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. Writer Naomi Alderman and Google’s Tom Uglow join selection panel.

There are two bursaries available for writers and technologists to embark on exciting collaborations.

Application forms and eligibility criteria are available here. The deadline for applications is 5pm GMT on Thursday 4th December 2015.

The Writing Platform Bursary, which supports experimentation, collaboration and learning between writers and technologists, announces its 2015 Programme delivered in association with Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.

The Writing Platform will be making two bursaries of £4000 available. Each bursary will be awarded to a team made up of one writer and one technologist to work together on a writing project over a period of three months.

The programme is open to individual writers and individual technologists, who will be paired by the selection panel according to shared areas of interest, and to ready-made teams of writers and technologists.

A selection panel made up of Tom Uglow, Director Google Creative Labs; Naomi Alderman, writer and professor of creative writing at Bath Spa University and Joanna Ellis, Partner at The Literary Platform, co-founders of The Writing Platform, will award the bursaries.

Tom Uglow, Creative Director of Google Creative Lab says:

“My paperback may have been usurped by my phone (just like everything else) but, in my idle moments I’m still reading avidly, against the lure of streams and news. It is wonderful to be involved in supporting a new generation of writers experimenting and exploring the novel forms that these devices promise. Bursaries like The Writing Platform are amazing in allowing writers to openly challenge our preconceptions and show us nascent forms of literature’s next incarnation.”

Naomi Alderman, Writer and Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University says:

 “The digital revolution is even more profound and significant than the print revolution of Gutenberg which kick-started the Reformation. We have no idea where the next 200 years will take us in terms of what writing and creativity can produce, become, and mean. What we know is that experimentation is vital, and giving creative people the opportunity to explore their boldest ideas is the best way to find out what works, and what doesn’t! I’ll be looking for ideas I haven’t seen before – ways of using technology that really push the bounds of the possible. And I’m excited to see what we find!”

Joanna Ellis, co-founder of The Writing Platform and Partner at The Literary Platform, says today,

 “The Writing Platform is dedicated to supporting writers in the digital age and we are delighted to be able to provide this opportunity to writers and technologists to collaborate, experiment and learn with each other and make work they would not be able to make on their own. We were thrilled with the projects created by our 2013 recipients and I can’t wait to see what emerges this time round”

For more information please contact Joanna Ellis: joanna [at] theliteraryplatform [dot] com

NOTES TO EDITORS

• About The Writing Platform

The Writing Platform is a website and programme of live events dedicated supporting writers in their creative practice and career choices.

The website is a free online resource for writers who are looking for information and inspiration about writing in a digital age. It also serves as a platform for writers to reflect and share insight about their own practice and experiences.

The Writing Platform launched in spring 2013. It is run by The Literary Platform and Kate Pullinger in association with  Bath Spa University and Queensland University of Technology

The Writing Platform Bursary Programme 2015 is funded by Bath Spa University and the National Lottery, and supported by Arts Council England (Grants for the Arts).

• About Bath Spa University

Bath Spa University (BSU) is a leading university for creativity, culture, enterprise and education. Based in the world heritage city of Bath, it hosts one of the UK’s leading centres for teaching creative writing at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The Creative Writing Department, within the School of Humanities and Cultural Industries, recently appointed 10 new teaching and research professors — all highly acclaimed in their creative fields — to join a distinguished team of practitioner researchers. Two of these appointments, Kate Pullinger and Naomi Alderman, reflect the vital role and priority BSU has given to questions of writing and digital technology, as well as the digital future of the writing industry more generally.

•  Judges Biographies

Tom Uglow, Director at Google Creative Lab, has worked at Google for nearly 8 years, starting Google’s Creative Lab in Europe and, since 2012, building a Creative Lab in Sydney, Australia. His team work on experimental projects that help connect people and that use Google, Android and YouTube’s products in creative ways.

Previous projects include Hangouts in History, Dream40 with the RSC, buildwithchrome.com, Web Lab, Live in a Day, and the YouTube Symphony Orchestra. Most of his projects are collaborations with charities, agencies and cultural organisations around the world that help artists and creators explore new forms of creative practice using digital tools.

Tom speaks on innovation around the world; tweets, posts and blogs on digital creativity; he is a trustee of D&AD and AWARD and has judged, presented, and enthused on TV, online, and in print. He is a Sunday-coder, a traditional creative, and a fuzzy strategist. Occasionally he knits.

Naomi Alderman, Writer and Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University

Naomi Alderman is a novelist, broadcaster and games designer. She’s won numerous awards for her literary fiction which includes Disobedience and The Liars’ Gospel. She broadcasts regularly on BBC radio, and has a regular monthly column in the Observer. She is the co-creator and lead writer of the best-selling smartphone fitness game Zombies, Run! In 2012 she was selected by Granta as one of their once-a-decade list of Best of Young British Novelists, and in 2013 she was picked for the Rolex Arts Initiative as the mentee of Margaret Atwood.

Joanna Ellis is Partner at The Literary Platform, a consultancy that specialises in the publishing sector and which is also the founder of two programmes for writers: The Writing Platform and the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize. Before joining The Literary Platform Joanna worked in publishing for 14 years, most recently as the marketing director at Faber & Faber.

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The Space together with tumblr have today announced an open call for artists. They are looking for for original, groundbreaking ideas to commission for audiences to experience on mobiles and tablets.

The call is open to any artist over 18 from anywhere in the world. Winning artists will receive substantial commissioning funding, their work published on The Space online platform, plus training & mentoring to help develop their skills and career.

Artists can apply on the website . The deadline is 5pm (GMT) Friday 14 November 2014.

The Space is a website for artists and audiences to create and explore exciting new digital art. They commission projects from artists working across a range of art forms and creative and digital industries, technology and coding, art and culture. Find out more and explore here.

Submissions  for the 2014 prize are open from now until the 28th November (12th December is the deadline for Student submissions). 

The New Media Writing Prize, now in its fourth year, showcases exciting and inventive stories that integrate a variety of formats, platforms, and digital media.

The prize consists of three awards:

• Overall Winner  – £1000, donated by if:book UK

• Best Student – a 3-month paid work-placement  with Unicorn Training 

• People’s Choice –  £250, voted for by the reading public

The prize is open to anyone internationally. Entries should be submitted by email to: entries [at] newmediawritingprize [dot] co [dot] uk. For full eligibility criteria visit the New Media Writing Prize website.

Find out about 2013 winner, Siri and Me by Esmarelda Kosmatopoulos, over on The Literary Platform.