I’m so happy that Astrid Ensslin, Bronwen Thomas, and Eben Muse (well, and me) are all returning to judge this year’s Opening Up competition. We had such a great experience last year, and I hope that we can top it this year with even more works of popular/mainstream-appeal digital fiction.
As I stumbled on promotions in December (thanks to two grant applications…the grub-work is never done!), I’ve extended the submission deadline to 15 March 2018. That gives everyone an extra month to make some awesome interactive stories!
We’re changing up the way judging happens a little bit this year, now that we have some great digital creators in our “academy”. Creators who have been previously shortlisted in the competition will be invited to review the submitted works this year, and offer their own shortlists for each category. This will make up the shortlist for the competition, and the judges will choose the finalists. We wanted our creators to have more voice (outside the People’s Choice) category.
So get ready for a great Spring season full of fantastic new works of digital fiction!
