Voiceworks x EWF Digital Writing Jam: 🌱 Data Plants
Voiceworks always loves to receive work from writers who have never made something digital before, and from digital artists who have never made something ‘literary’ before!
To help get the creative juices flowing, Voiceworks Online editors Lara Fielding and Chantelle McColl will be running a digital writing jam from Monday June 20–Wednesday June 22.
Submissions for our next Voiceworks Online issue, themed 'Data Plants’, will open on the 20th in conjunction with the jam. We are excited to be collaborating on this jam with the Emerging Writers Festival.
When:
Monday June 20 – Wednesday 22
11am-3pm AEST
Where: Online via Discord
The Voiceworks x EWF Digital Writing Jam will feature:
daily warm ups
daily live sessions with guest hosts to chat about digital tools, form and craft
technical experts available to answer qns
new friends and colleagues in the digital arts
What is a jam?
Historically speaking, a jam (usually a game jam) is an event that combines the free-flow experimentation of a music jam, with the focus and direction employed when developing a tangible piece of art (usually a video game). It's basically a shared space where you're free to play around with different digital technologies and build out your own interactive stories/articles/comics/whatever you want!
Who can participate?
While Voiceworks only publish writers under 25 living in (or with a connection to) Australia, this jam is open to anybody that’s interested in it.
What can I do with the piece I create?
That depends! If you are in Voiceworks’ publishing demographic (under 25, connection to Australia), you could submit your piece for our upcoming issue.
If not, we’ve got a list of other journals that publish exciting digital work that we’ll be sharing during the jam. That said, you don’t have to have fancy publisher to share your piece with the world. Platforms like itch.io are also great ways to publish digitally experimental work.
At the jam we will be announcing the theme of the next issue of Voiceworks Online, with submissions opening on the 20th of June.