Electronic literature

Yes folks, all is finally revealed: after months of painstaking assessment, we're happy to announce the 2014 New Media Writing Prize Shortlist. The list is chock full of some pretty amazing projects [such as 3D and 2D textual games, geolocative based treasure hunts, engaging browser works and velvety-smooth mobile based narratives]. For those of you who may be unfamiliar with the The NMWP [as us judges have fondly come to call it], this friendly sound-byte description should bring you right up to speed: "

Q: Am I insanely happy to have been commissioned to be part of this amazing Event set and resulting book? A: #HeckYesIAm: "Torque#1. Mind, Language and Technology is the result of a wide range of cross-disciplinary conversations, taking place across symposia, online forums, live events and workshops, produced by the book's editors: Nathan Jones and Sam Skinner.

…as outlined in this intriguing talk by Chris Funkhouser as part of Bergen Public Library's Digital Arena Electronic Reading Series.