Journal article

The New Media Writing Prize Special Collection

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Creator
  • Rossi, Giulia Carla  ( ORCID )
  • Pyke, Tegan  ( ORCID )
  • Pope, James  ( ORCID )
  • Skains, R. Lyle  ( ORCID )
  • Wisdom, Stella  ( ORCID   ISNI )
2022

Abstract
  • This article introduces the New Media Writing Prize (NMWP) special collection (https://www.webarchive.org.uk/en/ukwa/collection/2912) created on behalf of the six UK Legal Deposit Libraries and hosted by the UK Web Archive. It is divided into two sections, presenting the perspectives of the archivists and the organizers of the prize respectively. The first section outlines the scope of the collection and how it fits within the wider collecting activities of the libraries. It explains the methodology and workflows behind building the collection, with a special focus on the quality assurance aspect of the process, and on what constitutes a ‘good copy’ in the context of complex digital narratives. Furthermore, it touches on the history of the collaborations between the British Library and digital writing communities, which resulted in numerous workshops, events, residencies and ultimately the creation of this collection. The second section presents the history of the Prize from the point of view of its organizers, highlighting its evolution through the years and plans for the future.

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Resource Type
  • Journal article
Creator
  • Rossi, Giulia Carla  ( ORCID )
  • Pyke, Tegan  ( ORCID )
  • Pope, James  ( ORCID )
  • Skains, R. Lyle  ( ORCID )
  • Wisdom, Stella  ( ORCID   ISNI )
Date published
  • 2022
Institution
  • British Library
Organisational unit
  • Contemporary British Published Collections
Journal title
  • Electronic British Library Journal
Volume
  • 2022
Article number
  • 8
Publisher
  • British Library
Place of publication
  • London, UK
eISSN
  • 1478-0259
Date accepted
  • 2022-10-17
Official URL
Licence
  • CC BY 4.0 Attribution
DOI
  • 10.23636/kw7j-0274
Additional Information
  • Author notes: Giulia Carla Rossi is a curator and artist based in London. She is Curator for Digital Publications at the British Library, working on collecting and curating emerging formats. Her research interests include digital preservation for born-digital interactive publications, digital literature, curating digital exhibitions, net art, code poetry and creative computing. In her creative work she uses digital tools to create storytelling experiences that explore language, queerness and archival practices. Her recent publications and creative projects can be found at giuliacarlarossi.com. Tegan Pyke is a doctoral candidate at Cardiff Metropolitan University, specializing in New Media and Creative Writing. As part of a Ph.D. placement with the British Library in 2021, she conducted quality assurance on the UK Web Archive’s New Media Writing Prize collection. Dr James Pope has a continuing interest in fiction across the media, particularly looking at how digital media may be changing narrative forms and reading and writing practices. He has specific interests in the teaching of creative writing in digital media environments, and children’s literature, especially YA fiction. As well as academic publications around digital interactive fiction, and children’s literature, James has also published six novels for children and teenagers, including Spin The Bottle (Penguin) which was listed as one of the best teenage novels of 1998 by the Federation of Children's Book Groups. He created a dedicated software platform for interactive storytelling: Genarrator. He is also the co-founder, and organizer from 2010 to 2022, of the annual New Media Writing Prize, which celebrates and promotes digital writing around the world. He organizes and runs community-based digital writing projects, to help young writers approach digital media in storytelling. Dr. R. Lyle Skains conducts practice-based research into writing, reading/playing, publishing digital and transmedia narratives. She is the organizer of the annual New Media Writing Prize, and an editor on the Electronic Literature Collection, volume 4. Her recent digital fiction, including No World 4 Tomorrow and Only, Always, Never, can be found at lyleskains.com. She also founded Wonderbox Digital, a marketplace for digital fiction, aiming to explore innovations in digital and online publishing and creativity. Stella Wisdom is Digital Curator for Contemporary British Collections at the British Library. Their research interests encompass digital storytelling, methods for collecting and curating emerging formats publications, including eBook mobile apps and web-based interactive narratives, also creative and innovative use and reuse of digitised library and archive collections.

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