{"id":158,"date":"2015-10-04T13:59:47","date_gmt":"2015-10-04T13:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/?p=158"},"modified":"2015-10-04T13:59:47","modified_gmt":"2015-10-04T13:59:47","slug":"new-media-writing-prize-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/new-media-writing-prize-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"New Media Writing Prize, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New Media Writing Prize, which is run by Bournemouth University and IF-Book (the Institute for the Future of the Book) is now in its sixth year and has just announced its annual call for entries, first prize \u00a3<\/span>1000:<\/p>\n

We are looking for good storytelling (fiction or non-fiction) written specifically for delivery and reading\/viewing on a PC or Mac, the web, or a hand-held device such as an iPad or mobile phone…\u00a0<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n
The essence of new-media writing for us is great storytelling\u00a0which uses anything\u00a0and everything that digital media can offer, along with user\/audience interactivity. It\u2019s got to be\u00a0something\u00a0that\u00a0couldn\u2019t work in \u2018old\u2019 media.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Every year I find fault with these criteria, firstly because of the emphasis on storytelling – much of the\u00a0 best new media work being poetry or some other form of non-narrative work – and secondly because of the insistence on user\/audience interactivity – which ignores things like generative text.\u00a0 To be fair to them, though, when it comes to the judging they seem to be more broadminded than these guidelines might suggest. What’s more, it’s a big prize as new media goes, certainly the biggest one in the UK; it’s been going quite\u00a0 long time in new media terms; and it has consistently pulled in some interesting work.<\/div>\n
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To find out more, go to http:\/\/newmediawritingprize.co.uk\/?page_id=226<\/a> .<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New Media Writing Prize, which is run by Bournemouth University and IF-Book (the Institute for the Future of the Book) is now in its sixth year and has just announced its annual call for entries, first prize \u00a31000: We are looking for good storytelling (fiction or non-fiction) written specifically for delivery and reading\/viewing on … Continue reading New Media Writing Prize, 2015<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159,"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}