After a few months of picking my way through the unfamiliar territory of HTML, CSS, and Javascript, I am happy to share a new digital story with you. “In A World Without Electricity” is the story of a life in celebration, and a life taken. There are no easy answers in the world of this [...]

Electronic literature, despite such promotional successes as we saw at the MLA exhibition, in our two elit anthologies, the New Media Writing Prize, ELMCIP,  and the ongoing efforts by a number of people within the elit community who tirelessly promote what we do, is at a tipping point in its career. Its visibility is fairly [...]

Hi, everyone– After a long hiatus, here are two new digital stories from webyarns.com… “Pangram (The Quick Brown Fox)” plays with the concept of a pangram and provides a hypothetical back-story to the most widely-known example of the form. The second story, the “ABCs of UFOs,” is the purported website of a UFO investigation team. [...]

Recently, I was fortunate enough to win the 2011 BIPVAL international Prix de Poésie Média. I was invited to Paris to receive the prize and, seeing an opportunity to express my thanks and at the same time give a plug for electronic literature, I prepared a few short words. For those who might be interested, [...]

TEN WAYS TO MAKE IT AS A DIGITAL WRITER (AND THEN FADE AWAY) Some of us wonder, why isn’t my work appearing in more museums, galleries, and festivals around the world? I’ve worked long and hard, I’ve produced the works, so where are the publications? Where are the accolades? Where are the reviews? For those [...]

Just in time for VALENTINE’S DAY… Webyarns.com presents: “HE SAID, SHE SAID” is a lover’s conversation in text, image, and sound. The dialogue is random: he says one thing, she says another–the truth (and music) is someplace in between… URL of Story: http://www.webyarns.com/HESAIDSHESAID.html This may take a little time to load, so please be patient! [...]

The New River is seeking works of electronic literature or new media by current students or recent graduates from electronic literature or new media programs. The journal intends to publish its next issue in spring 2011. If you know of a current student or recent graduate whose work you would recommend, could you either send [...]

Webyarns.com presents, for your amusement, true myths from around the world… and your backyard. MythWatch.org, a new digital story, is at MythWatch.org This one takes a little time to load, so please be patient! Also, in case you missed it, “This Is Not A Poem,” released a few months ago, is available at This Is [...]

Hi, everyone– It has not been long since the last one, but there's a new story at webyarns.com… “This Is Not A Poem” is a toy, a game, a language engine, and a poem all at the same time…. The new plaything is at http://www.ThisIsNotAPoem.com Also, in case you missed it, “My Nervous Breakdown,” released [...]

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Here’s a new one from webyarns.com: “Archetypal Africa” takes a look at common objects in everyday life, and their symbolic resonance within myth and culture. The piece plays with fact and fiction as it leads the user toward an opportunity to define their own archetypal moment…. You can read the story at http://www.ArchetypalAfrica.com Also, Brainstrips [...]

Like many writers, I have a love-hate relationship with my work. Some days, it’s smooth sailing with clear skies right up to the horizon. And other days, it’s a gale, with the compass off kilter and the water swamping over the gunwales. It’s on the bad days that I hate what I do, and wish [...]

For this third in a series of ten posts on digital literature, I asked myself, as one would interrogate a terror suspect, Why do you write digital literature? At first, I choked (it was a kind of psychic water boarding), and then I came up with this…. (1) Because I like it. I like the [...]

Ten is a round number, it has a nice ring to it, so I’m using it for a series of blog posts. Ten, of course. The first was Ten Misconceptions About Digital Literature, and this one is Ten Predictions. The last will probably be Ten Reasons Why I Should Not Have Done This, but until [...]