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New Media Writing Prize
Awarded forBest new media writing of the year written in English
CountryUnited Kingdom
Presented byNew Media Writing Prize
Reward(s)up to £1,000
First awarded2010; 14 years ago (2010)
Websitenewmediawritingprize.co.uk

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

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The 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

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Influence

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Winners

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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

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References

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  1. ^ "FAQs". New Media Writing Prize. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  2. ^ "Archive". New Media Writing Prize. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  3. ^ "The 2010 Poole Literary Festival". Poole Literary Festival. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
  4. ^ "The New Media Writing Prize Special Collection". British Library Research Repository. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
  5. ^ website=The Literary Platform "New media writing and the mainstream". Retrieved 16 February 2023. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help); Missing pipe in: |url= (help)
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Category:British fiction awards Category:English-language literary awards Category:Electronic literature Category:Electronic literature writers Category:Electronic literature critics