Andy Campbell is the Digital Director for UK arts charity One to One Development Trust and the founder/lead developer for Dreaming Methods – an award-winning immersive digital storytelling studio. A judge and speaker at the New Media Writing Prize since its inception in 2010, he has been producing electronic literature, digital art and experimental narrative games for over 25 years. His most recent VR work The Abandoned Library with Judi Alston was featured at Bolton ... Read More

Dr Brad Gyori (AKA Bradford G) is Principal Academic in Digital Storytelling at Bournemouth University, UK. An American writer, director and designer with a background in TV production, he is the program leader for the MA in Creative Writing and Publishing. He also teaches journalism students how to make interactive documentaries. Gyori has worked as a writer-producer for such networks as MTV, VH1, E!, FX and HBO. He was the head writer of the Emmy ... Read More

Dr Dalia Elsheikh is a Senior Lecturer in Journalism and Digital Storytelling. She is a Senior Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. Before joining academia, she worked as a journalist for more than fifteen years. She is a member of the UK National Union of Journalists. She is the author of the Palgrave Macmillan book “Campaign Professionalism during Egypt’s 2012 Presidential Election” ... Read More

Everest Pipkin is a game developer, writer, and artist from central Texas who lives and works on a sheep farm in southern New Mexico. Their work both in the studio and in the garden follows themes of ecology, tool making, and collective care during collapse. They hold a BFA from University of Texas at Austin, an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University, and have shown and spoken at The Design Museum of London, The Texas Biennial, ... Read More

James (Jim) Pope is a principal academic in the Department of Humanities and Law at Bournemouth University. He has published six novels for children and teenagers. Spin the Bottle was listed as one of the best teenage novels of 1998 by the Federation of Children’s Book Groups. He is the co-founder of the New Media Writing Prize, and was director of the event from 2010 to 2022. Jim created Genarrator, an online digital storytelling tool, ... Read More

Jamie Gavin is currently Acting Editor for FIPP – The Global Media Network. Graduating from the University of Manchester in 2004 with a First Class Degree in English Language & Literature, he began his post-graduate career as a freelance actor, journalist, and author. Jamie has subsequently held positions for the UK Professional Publishers Association (PPA), the Association of Online Publishers (AOP), and global media analytics firm, comScore. He is also Founder and Managing Director of ... Read More

Joannes Truyens is an award-winning writer and narrative designer with an interest in speculative fiction, interactive stories, and acronyms. His first independently produced work is the sci-fi hypertext game Neurocracy, which invites players to browse the Wikipedia of the year 2049 and piece together a narrative that explores the fascinating and terrifying car crash of technology and humanity. Praised for its storytelling innovations and community interaction, Neurocracy was awarded the 2021 New Media Writing Prize ... Read More

Lisa Gee is a Research Associate on the Ego-Media Project at Kings College London and a post-doctoral researcher at the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge. She has recently completed her PhD in Digital Writing by Practice at Bath Spa University and is an author and editor ... Read More

Lynda Clark is Lecturer in Creative Writing (Interdisciplinary Futures) at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on how to tell stories with technology and the stories that are told about technology. Her interactive work The Memory Archivist was shortlisted for the 2019 New Media Writing Prize and won the British Library Labs Artistic Award. Dreaming in Quantum, her short story collection containing many stories inspired by and drawing on techniques from videogames and interactive ... Read More

In the early 1990’s Mez first started using the Internet to create digital works and she hasn’t slowed since. From those heady days of the 90’s she’s continued to create award-winning digital literature, games, and other genre-defying output as well as teaching/mentoring, archiving, and supporting digital art and electronic literature. Her recent awards include ‘Inanimate Alice: Perpetual Nomads’ winning the inaugural 2020 Readers’ Choice Prize as part of the 2020 Woollahra Digital Literary Awards, while ... Read More