Just a bit excited to announce that The British Library is going to create a ‘New Media Writing Prize Collection’ – a digital archive of all the winners and shortlisters from our first year, 2010, to the present and into the future. This is part of the BL’s ‘Emerging Formats’ project, and the works will […]
We are delighted to announce that Writing Magazine have come on board to sponsor the Digital Journalism award for 2020! “If you’ve always wanted to write (but never known how to start) or if you’ve already got a book under your belt, Writing magazine is just what you need to practice, develop and publish your […]
The 2020 New Media Writing prize is open! A little later than usual, but we are open for entries. Please read the following details carefully before sending your entries. Enter via the entry form at https://newmediawritingprize.co.uk/enter/ This is the only way to enter. This year, there is only ONE category, the if:book UK New Media Writing […]
Maria Ivanova talks about her 2020 winning work, The Life of Grand Duchess Elizabeth: At some point, I learned about a wonderful person who devoted herself completely to serving people. Princess Elizabeth of Hesse and by Rhine was the granddaughter of the British monarch, Queen Victoria. She came to Russia at the end of the […]
The tenth anniversary of the New Media Writing Prize was a resounding success yesterday (Jan 15th) with a diverse display of digital interactive storytelling. Featuring a wonderful hands-on experience of VR narratives from One to One Development Trust, and entries from 6 continents, this year’s event truly showed how rich the world of new media […]
The judges have been busy discussing an amazing array of entries from all around the world, in all the categories. Keep your eye on this page and on social media for all the shortlists. Remember that the 2019 Tenth Anniversary awards evening will be on January 15th 2020 at Bournemouth University. Go to Eventbrite to […]
What exactly is new media writing? Even ten years into the Prize, it’s still a medium – a concept – that many people seem to struggle to define. Yet, as James O’Sullivan puts it in the Los Angeles Review of Books, new media writing is ‘…an act of expression capable of permeating the public consciousness… […]
I’ve been fascinated with [and in equal parts terrified of] dystopic-laced fiction ever since encountering George Orwell’s book “1984”. Devoured when in my early teens, this book seemed like an inevitable harbinger: a tome crazy-chocked full of common sense and predications. Having encountered this book so early in my formative years, its themes and warnings […]
