In 2013 we got funding from the NALD Futures Fund to run two bursaries designed to support inter-disciplinary learning and collaboration between writers and technologists.
The fund supported two one-off bursaries of £3000. Each bursary was allocated to a project team – consisting of one writer and one technologist - to work on a jointly conceived digital literature project for a period of three months.
The bursaries were open to ready-made pairs of writers and creative technologists, and to individual writers and technologists who would be paired by the judges according to mutual interests.
We deliberately kept the application and evaluation processes for the bursaries light-touch in order to leave room for the projects to evolve as the collaboration deepened. At the end of the three month period teams were asked to supply a piece of work – or prototype – and a case study about the experience to be shared with others on The Writing Platform. Bursary recipients were also given the opportunity to showcase their projects at the Mix: Text on Screens Conference, 2013.
The 2013 bursary recipients were Caden Lovelace and Laura Grace who created Invisible Islands, a web-app that overlays stories about a fantasy world on the real world; and Ben Gwachmai and James Wheale who made a working prototype of Fabler Move, an audio playback system for stories that requires listeners to move to trigger audio.
Caden Lovelace presents Invisible Islands at Mix Conference
We are currently working on the 2014 bursary programme and exploring ways to facilitate connection and collaboration between a wider group of writers and technologists.
Find out more about The Writing Platform, our programme for writers.
Find out more about the individual bursary projects, Invisible Islands and Faber Move.
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