Proposal Title
Networthy Networking
Submission Type
Virtual Engagement Session
Start Date
16-7-2020 12:00 AM
End Date
19-7-2020 12:00 AM
Abstract
This replaces the Newcomers workshop. We need a space that welcomes new scholars and writers into the addictive possibilities of electronic literature. This would provide a space to find mentors, collaborators, partnerships, and idea exchanges. This engagement will take place in the Discord: join us in the Newcomers channel! Rooms or threads will be available for introductions and bios, grouped by collaborative interest (e.g., database development, archiving, collaborative writing, collaborative scholarship, tips for teaching, ELO town hall follow up). Specific chat threads would follow Twitter hashtags and keywords for submitted works.
This chat Discord will then allow participants a venue to follow up on presentations, round tables, hashtag chats, etc. We look forward to supporting our newcomers!
Networthy Networking
This replaces the Newcomers workshop. We need a space that welcomes new scholars and writers into the addictive possibilities of electronic literature. This would provide a space to find mentors, collaborators, partnerships, and idea exchanges. This engagement will take place in the Discord: join us in the Newcomers channel! Rooms or threads will be available for introductions and bios, grouped by collaborative interest (e.g., database development, archiving, collaborative writing, collaborative scholarship, tips for teaching, ELO town hall follow up). Specific chat threads would follow Twitter hashtags and keywords for submitted works.
This chat Discord will then allow participants a venue to follow up on presentations, round tables, hashtag chats, etc. We look forward to supporting our newcomers!
Bio
Deena has been trying to get elit folks together sine her first Writers Workshop in Southhampton in 199? and then CyberMountain in 1999 where we spent 4 glorious days just writing in a friend's mansion, and then all the other HT writer workshops, OWL (Online writers laboratory), biweekly chats, DAC, and ELO and all that. Now let's see how many people to people connections we can make online.
Moderators: Waliya, Yohanna Joseph is a Nigerian digital poet, distant writer, playwright, novelist and Graduate Assistant at the University of Calabar, Calabar -Nigeria. Currently, a postgraduate student at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria-Nigeria. He writes in English and French. He is the author of Climatophosis, Homosalus, Momenta, La récolte de vie, Monde 2.0 etc.