Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.61.0412021324520.2473@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>,
"WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject: December trAce: Online/Offline; Imaginary Post Office chat; trAce
drinks; Home, Lost and War room projects; Workshop special offer; Current
features. (fwd)
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 13:24:59 -0500 (EST)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 13:27:04 +0000 From: trace@ntu.ac.uk To: sondheim@panix.com Subject: December trAce: Online/Offline; Imaginary Post Office chat; trAce drinks; Home, Lost and War room projects; Workshop special offer; Current features. New at trAce - December 2004 *** frAme - Online/Offline The latest issue of frAme is Online/Offline, an experiment in creating collaborative narrative online undertaken by three writers, Jane Draycott, cris bevir and babel, and a musician, Simon Keep. Starting with the motifs of postcards and labyrinths the artists developed their own narrative pathways by responding to the varying stages in their journey. http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/frAme/index.cfm?article=124 *** The Imaginary Post Office chat The Imaginary Post Office was established in 2000 to support the Imaginary Countries project at trAce. This virtual post office includes stamps and postcards from imaginary places. The project will close 15 December 2004. You are invited to attend a final chat party on Sunday, 12th December, 7 - 10 PM (UK). Imaginary Post Office: http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/studio/radams/post/postinfo.html Chatroom: http://trace.ntu.ac.uk:8000/?theme=blue&@channel=randyadams *** 14th December, 5pm onwards - trAce Drinks trAce Drinks in a private room at The Salutation Inn, Hounds Gate, Maid Marian Way, Nottingham, NG1 7AA 0115 988 1948 Join us to make a seasonal toast to trAce. Don�t forget to put this date in your diary! We look forward to seeing you. *** Last chance to ... As part of Writers for the Future, trAce is archiving its last 10 years of work. To prepare for this, two of our best-known projects will close to submissions on 8th December 2004. If you�d like to make a last contribution, visit Home and Lost and the War Room soon: HOME Contribute your own memories and imaginings of Home: the sound of it, the scent of it, the feel of it, the taste of it. Beautifully-written accounts from around the globe. http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/home/ LOST A collection point for those people, places and things we have irretrievably lost. A moving and thought-provoking work.developed by Alan Sondheim and Simon Mills. http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/lost/ THE WAR ROOM/THE WAR RUIN A place to retain the memories and feelings of anyone affected by war. http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/warroom/ *** Online Writers' Workshop offer We're extending our special offer in the trAce Online Writing School - whether you're a new student or a former participant in a trAce course. Four weeks in the workshop for �35 (normal price - �50) This offer is open on all registrations with starting dates up to January 3rd 2005. For more information, or to register, see http://tracewritingschool.com/workshop/index.htm The next series of courses begins on Monday 14th February. Choose from: Flash Poetry with Peter Howard Developing your Narrative Voice with Sharon Rundle Writing Children's Fiction with Karen King Writing for Theatre with Tony Craze Freelance Article Writing with Crawford Kilian For more details, or to register, go to http://tracewritingschool.com/courses/index.cfm *** Current trAce features Why I Write for the Web Web artist Millie Niss writes about the web as a venue for democratising technology-based writing and art http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/Process/index.cfm?article=122 Journalism that Clicks Journalism teacher Thom Lieb discusses online news sites that fulfil the promise of the web http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/Opinion/index.cfm?article=123 Writing 4 Cyberformance Chat log about online performance writing by two members of Avatar Body Collision in Upstage (winner of the New Media Article Writing Competition in the Process category) http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/Process/index.cfm?article=127 Walter Ong and the problem of writing about LambdaMOO Sue Thomas writes: "My understanding of the world was changed by living online and yet as a writer I was trapped inside the very foreignness of my experiences" http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/Opinion/index.cfm?article=126 ***This newsletter can also be read online at http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/forums/ >From the trAce Online Writing Centre http://trace.ntu.ac.uk trAce connects writers around the world in real and virtual space. 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