THE DOT AWARD and other if:book NEWS - Autumn 2015
IT’S A PICNIC
Made
by if:book with the highly talented Jerwood Arvon mentored writers over one
week this summer, read our tasty literary picnic at WWW.APICNICHAMPER.BLOGSPOT.COM
If:book
has been working with the Arvon Foundation since this wonderful scheme was set
up, making new kinds of work with the novelists, poets and playwrights chosen
each year.
‘DOT AWARD’ FOR DIGITAL WRITERS
We’re delighted
to announce the launch of The Dot Award, a new annual
prize sponsored by if:book UK for a writer of fiction, creative non-fiction or
poetry using the web in imaginative and collaborative ways. It will be awarded alongside the £1,000 NEWMEDIA WRITING PRIZE which is run by Bournemouth University and supported by
if:book UK.
The
prize is £500, support from if:book uk in developing your idea, and an
invitation to speak at the 2017 New Media Writing Prize ceremony (via
Skype if overseas) about how your work has developed since receiving the prize.
The prize will be awarded for a project idea which in the judges’ opinion shows promise
and practicability – it should be a project that we can see being developed,
completed and functional by the end of 2016. We are looking for projects which
don’t need to be technically complex but do create original and exciting
literary work inspired by the affordances of the web, blogs, apps, social media
etc. if:book UK will liaise with the winner to support the project.
The
Dot Award is in memory of writer, designer and silver surfer Dorothy Meade.
The
judges are Chris Meade, writer and founder of if:book, artist and play designer
Hattie Coppard, teacher Jo Klaces and George Palmer, Head of Communications at
the Arvon Foundation.
The
deadline is the same as the New Media Writing Prize, i.e. Friday November 27th
12 noon GMT
To
enter email the following information to chris@ifbook.co.uk
Name:
Address:
Email:
No
more than 300 words on yourself and the digital projects you’ve done:
No
more than 300 words on the project/area of work you plan to develop in the
coming year, and who you think the Award will help you:
1
or 2 links to your work online:
IFSO POETS
This
summer if:book was at the South Bank Centre for the celebration of the 50th
birthday of Modern Poetry In Translation, throwing poetry darts and handing out
poetry cigars and canapés. Thanks to Mekella Broomburg for joining Chris to
dish out the verse. Here’s one we threw earlier.
NEARLYDOCTOR
Chris has been concentrating on his PhD in Digital Writing at Bath Spa
University. He’s writing a transmedia novel about how we embody the things
we've nearly done, and that’s involved writing songs, holding workshops with a
dancer, a theatre director and writers, training in Flash Animation and working
with puppet maker Bee Peak. He now has a first draft, an app developer
involved. He’s looking for places to run Nearly Workshops, gather stories and
present the work in progress. Nearly Days have happened in cafes, pop up shops,
conferences and festivals.
MORE DETAILS AT WWW.NEARLYOLOGY.NET
The Nearly Pod at the Mix Digital Conference in Bath Spa this summer
The Nearly Pod at the Mix Digital Conference in Bath Spa this summer
ARRIVALS
DEPARTURES
If:book’s first Collaborative Writer in Residence Luke Roberts has recently become a father and has moved with his
wife Sally to Bath where we’re hoping to make more literary things happen in
the future. Luke convened the IFSO Writers group and devised a role play game
based on 1984 during his residency. Congratulations to Luke and Sally, and
welcome to Leo!
THE HORNSEY
LIBRARY COFFEE HOUSE has closed.
Run by
artist Robin Stevenson and set up
with support from if:book, the café was a hub for local writers and led to the
forming of a Philosophy Learning Circle and the Hornsey Songwriters Collective
which both still thrive. Robin’s moved to Brighton to work at a new venue there. We wish him
well.
THE IFSO STUDIO
At our base in London N8 we hold occasional writing
workshops and salons on literature, playfulness and collaboration, have a
selection of books and merchandise for sale. And the IFSO VAN can come to you. We
also rent out a small cottage in Suffolk suitable for writing retreats.
Contact chris@ifbook.co.uk
for further details.
WWW.IFSOPRESS .COM is the home
of a fantastic collection of collaborative writing. Visit the site to find good
things to read by established and emerging writers, and links to much more.
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