The shortlist has been posted, and the voting is open until 30 July 2018 for the People’s Choice award for the 2018 Opening Up Digital Fiction Writing Competition. Go have a read of some great digital fiction, then let us know which one you think deserves the top spot. Share…
Why isn’t digital fiction everywhere? Part of the reason we don’t see it in stores is because it doesn’t have an established publishing stream. We look at some of the publishing efforts in the history of digital fiction in this episode. Links mentioned in this episode: Normal Deviation Anthology (buy it now!)…
Buy it on Amazon now! It’s here! We launched Normal Deviation this past Saturday (write-up to follow on the Normal Deviation blog; visit our Facebook page for a video of the livestream), to much applause. It’s been a fantastic learning curve, but we’re so happy to have the book out on time, with…
Inanimate Alice: Perpetual Nomads by Mez Breeze Design and Bradfield Narrative Designs 2018 Virtual Reality Game Inanimate Alice is a series of narrative shorts, originally starting as works of hypertext fiction but having since put a foot in the world of video games – not too unlike Alice herself. Starting…
We finally get to talk about our favorite topic: writing digital fiction! What are the most frequent questions we get as digital writers? How is it different from prose writing? How is it the same? Since we’re practice-based researchers in creative writing, these are just the sorts of questions we…
Our deepest apologies for the unplanned hiatus! As working academics, end-of-the-year marking and administration tasks overwhelmed us for a while. Digital media has the ability to both transcend and combine narrative forms: film, game, text, music, and more. As a result of the mutable quality of digital media and the…
Note: It appears the podcast feed wasn’t coming through to this site – sorry for the slew of updates, but didn’t want anyone to miss out on episodes! Like all things digital, digital fiction is prone to obsolescence, and we’re already losing key works. We chat about the evanescence of…
It’s been a busy, busy, busy few weeks here at Wonderbox. DeAnn Bell and I are drawing down to our final days working with Normal Deviation, our short story anthology of weird fiction based on that super-strange image, and the Kickstarter campaign for it is well underway. If you want to…
Just a short announcement post on our Normal Deviation Kickstarter campaign. In case you missed it, we’ve spent the last year putting together a short fiction anthology based on one very weird picture (as you can see). We’ve collected some fantastically weird stories from a seriously rad group of writers, including Olivia…
Hypertexts are one of the oldest and enduring forms of digital literature, dating from the 1st gen in 1987, to the explosion in indie games thanks to Twine. We chat about how hypertexts form the foundation of digital fiction, what role they play in culture, and we share some of…
