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Hermeneia, the UOC's literature and digital technology research group, and the Culture and Education Department at Vinaros Town Council have announced the second City of Vinaròs Digital Literature Awards. The aim of these awards is to encourage literary creativity in new forms of writing. The awards are given to the best works of digital literature in two sections, narrative and poetry, with a prize of 2,500 euros. There is also the Vicent Ferrer Romero special mention for the best literary work written first in Catalan; this award comes with a prize of 1,000 euros. Works have to be unpublished, written in English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish or Catalan and cannot have won any other award. By digital literature, we mean all those forms of literary creation produced in and designed for a digital space, fundamentally computers, which could not be printed traditionally without sacrificing or altering significant parts of the work, or those works which include multimedia or other interactive features.

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Hermeneia, the UOC's literature and digital technology research group, is made up of experts from Brown University (USA), the University of Bari (Italy), the University of Turku (Finland), Ramon Llull University (Spain), Pompeu Fabra University (Spain), Barcelona University (Spain), the University of Essex (UK), the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain), the University of Artois (France), Rovira i Virgili University (Spain) and the UOC. Its aim is to research the irruption of technology in literature and literary studies and to analyse the repercussions, as well as producing a map of literary studies on the internet and making this available to the European university community on a website.

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