Announcements

These are generally announcements about hypertext and literature, but may also include more general items about computers and writing. Look here for such things as contests, ongoing invitations to submit material, upcoming conferences of interest, and so on. For now, I plan to list items in reverse chronological order as received, so that the most recent announcements will be at the top. This may or may not be the best way to organize things here. At present I don't plan to do a table of contents for this file simply because I expect it'll be too much trouble to update. Please note that these announcements are generally excerpts of the original press release--alway see the original URL for full information.

• Calls for Papers (CFP)
• Conferences and Meetings
• Contests
• New Publications
• Everything else ...

Calls for Papers

March 18, 1997

TLWC: Teaching Literature with Computers, a refereed, Web-based online collection, available at http://www.triton.dsu.edu/tlwc invites contributions of articles that describe and analyze the use of computer technology in teaching literature. Articles should provide detailed accounts of the use of computers in teaching literature, in or out of the classroom, whether for specific activities, lessons, units, courses, or curricula. Articles should briefly describe the environment (hardware, software, layout) in which the class is taught, provide some account of student demographics, and analyze the computer use they describe: what is the particular pedagogical utility of this use of computers? What does it accomplish? And what does it accomplish that is different from what one might do by traditional means? How does this use of computers to teach literature particularly succeed? And what are its weaknesses? And how would the author improve the activity in the future? Guidelines for submitting articles via ftp may be found on the TLWC homepage. Please address all inquiries and proposals for articles to the Editor, Seth Katz, at seth@bradley.bradley.edu.

Conferences and Meetings

March 14, 1997

September 18 - 19 1997, Brighton, UK. First Call for Papers. The Tenth Annual Writing and Computers conference will be hosted this year by the University of Brighton in the lively seaside town of Brighton, 60 miles from London. The conference regularly brings together an international community of people concerned with all aspects of computers and the writing process, including psychologists, software designers, educational researchers, teachers, journalists, authors and technical writers. The theme for this year's conference will be Writing the Future - potential developments in writing with computers as we enter the next millenium. We invite you to submit a paper on any of the following topics:

• - web-based writing courses and materials
• - computer supported collaborative writing
• - computer-assisted writing environments and tools
• - environments and tools for second-language writing
• - writing for multimedia applications
• - writing on paper and writing for the screen
• - computers and the professional writer
• - computer-based writing support for the communication-disabled
• - cognitive models of writing
• - new computer based genres
• - hypertext
• - designing software for writers
• - interactive fiction
• - story generation
• - computers and non-Roman scripts
• - social implications of writing with computers

Contests

May 14, 1997

New York University Press Prize for Hyperfiction. Continuing NYU Press' tradition of publishing work on the cutting edge, we are pleased to announce the New York University Press Prize for Hyperfiction for Fall 1998. This prize will recognize an outstanding work of electronic hypertext literature which we will publish on our web site. Hypertext is an experimental form of writing which is transforming traditional concepts of linear text as well as the role of readers and writers through new technology. Our jurors are Adrianne Wortzel and Stuart Moulthrop, both creative and well-known hypertext authors and artists. We are now inviting manuscripts! All submissions of electronic hypertext must be in the English language. Submissions will be accepted from any country in the world. The jurors are Adrianne Wortzel and Stuart Moulthrop. Author(s) of the winning entry will have their work published for at least one year on the NYU Press web site as of September 1, 1998, will receive a $1,000 honorarium, and will be honored in person at New York University. Submit your manuscript of a new hypertext document in electronic format (zip compressed) by March 15, 1998 to New York University Press. NYU Press accepts submissions on the World Wide Web and in various software programs, provided the software is used with permission of the producers. The winner(s) will be notified in Summer 1998. For more information, please visit our web site at http://www.nyupress.nyu.edu/e_edit.html. No telephone inquiries please.

April 17, 1997

Salt Hill Journal Hypertext Contest. Announcing the grand launch of the Salt Hill Journal/Syracuse University Creative Writing Program Hypertext Forum, a showcase of New Media Literature--hypertextual and multimedia--for the Internet. The site can be accessed directly at: http://web.syr.edu/~jsparker/hyper or through the Salt Hill Journal site at: http://www-hl.syr.edu/cwp

• Enter our hypertext contest. First prize $500.
• Submit your hypertextual work for our bimonthly publications.
• Guest Design the page.
• Peruse "Sasquatch," hypertextual poetry by Blair Allan Rosser--and hypertextual fiction and nonfiction.

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