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| New Media Writing Prize | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Best new media writing of the year written in English |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Presented by | New Media Writing Prize |
| Reward(s) | up to £1,000 |
| First awarded | 2010 |
| Website | newmediawritingprize |
The New Media Writing Prize awards new media writing in the English language. The prize was launched in 2009 with a Main Prize category and a Student category; a Journalism category was added in 2016, and the Opening Up category incorporating a public vote was added in 2020. The focus of the prize is works that are created "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": the focus is on digitally-enabled elements such as interactivity and multimedia.[1] Main Prize winners have included well-known electronic literature authors including Christine Wilks, Tender Claws, and J.R. Carpenter.[2]
History
editThe New Media Writing Prize began in Bournemouth, Dorset, UK in 2010 as part of the Poole Literary Festival.[3][4] Festival organizer and artist Sue Luminati and Bournemouth University lecturer in Media and Communication James Pope created the prize. At that time, electronic literature was known within academic circles and created by university-based artists; Luminati and Pope sought to explore what the wider artistic community was creating in terms of born-digital literature.[5]
Notable Winners
editInfluence
editWinners
edit| Year | Author(s) | Title | Prize Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Christine Wilks | Underbelly | Main |
| 2010 | Lorenza Samuels | Evidence | Student |
| 2011 | Serge Bouchardon | Loss of Grasp | Main |
| 2011 | Simon Kerr | 5 Haitis | Student |
| 2012 | Katharine Norman | Window | Main |
| 2013 | Esmeralda Kosmatopoulos | Siri and Me | Main |
| 2013 | David Devanny | Orange Sweatshirt | Student |
| 2014 | Tender Claws | PRY | Main |
| 2014 | Herm Holland | A Dream Within A Dream | Student |
| 2015 | the High Muck a Muck Collective (Jin Zhang, Thomas Loh, Nicola Harwood, Bessie Wapp, Fred Wah) | High Muck a Muck: Playing Chinese | Main |
| 2015 | Shaun Hickman | Kindred | Student |
| 2016 | J.R. Carpenter | The Gathering Cloud | Main |
| 2016 | Jamie Paddock | The Dying Mind | Student |
| 2016 | Carla Pedret | The Exodus Data Project | Journalism - Best UK-focused |
| 2016 | Berta Tilmantaite | Will to Win | Journalism - Best International |
| 2017 | James Attlee | The Cartographer's Confession | Main |
| 2017 | Natasha Nunn | Mary Rose | Student |
| 2017 | Magdelena Chodownik, Akradiusz Sotdon, and Piotr Kliks | Lunik IX | Journalism |
| 2018 | Amira Hanafi | A Dictionary of the Revolution | Main |
| 2018 | Corrie Smith | Captain Geriatric | Student |
| 2018 | Berta Tilmantaite and team | TRACES: Traversing the Past | Journalism |
| 2019 | Maria Ivanova | The Life of Grand Duchess Elizabeth | Main |
| 2019 | Kenneth Sanchez | Escaping the Chaos | Student |
| 2019 | Mahmoud el Wakea | Made in Prison | Journalism |
| 2020 | Dan Hett | c-ya-laterrr | Main |
| 2020 | Eman Mounir | Black Beaches | Journalism |
| 2021 | Joannes Truyens | Neurocracy | Main |
| 2021 | Melody MOU | At Nightfall, the Goldfish | Student |
| 2021 | Daria Donina, Sabina Vakhitova, Vasily Yegorov, and Daria Yastrebova at TASS News | Trading Places | Journalism |
| 2021 | Nivritti Khurana | Manzil | Opening Up |
| 2022 | Everest Pipkin | Anonymous Animal | Main |
| 2022 | Kathryn Yu | Penrose Station | Student |
| 2022 | Maria Ivanova, Maria Kotova, Tatiana Zaidal | Stalag 352 | Journalism |
| 2022 | Omi Zola Gupta | Child of Empire | Opening Up |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "FAQs". New Media Writing Prize. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
- ^ "Archive". New Media Writing Prize. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
- ^ "The 2010 Poole Literary Festival". Poole Literary Festival. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
- ^ "The New Media Writing Prize Special Collection". British Library Research Repository. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
- ^ website=The Literary Platform "New media writing and the mainstream". Retrieved 16 February 2023.
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External links
editCategory:British fiction awards Category:English-language literary awards Category:Electronic literature Category:Electronic literature writers Category:Electronic literature critics