“City of Vinaròs” Digital Literature prize open to entries
[30/07/2008]
The deadline for entering the fourth International “City of Vinaròs” Prize is October 19. The Hermeneia digital technology and literary studies research group and Vinaròs Council’s Culture and Education Office have opened the period for entries to this the fourth holding of the prize, which aims to promote creativity in literature through new forms of writing.
The deadline for entering the fourth International “City of Vinaròs” Prize is October 19. The Hermeneia digital technology and literary studies research group and Vinaròs Council’s Culture and Education Office have opened the period for entries to this the fourth holding of the prize, which aims to promote creativity in literature through new forms of writing.
The prizes are awarded to the best works of digital literary creation in the categories of narrative and poetry, with prize money of 2,500 euros each. They also include the Vicent Ferrer Romero special mention, worth 1,000 euros, for the best work of digital literature that predominately uses Catalan. Works have to be unpublished, written in Catalan, English, French, Italian, Portuguese or Spanish and cannot have won any other award.
By digital literature, they mean all forms of literary creation from and for the digital space, essentially computers, that cannot be published using traditional printing methods without sacrificing or altering important parts of the work, and those with multimedia content or other interactive characteristics. The winners of last year’s awards were the USA’s Stuart Moulthrop and Catalonia’s Isaías Herrero with the works Deep Surface (digital narrative) and La casa sota el temps (“Vicent Ferrer” best digital work in Catalan), respectively. These two authors also won ex aequo the digital poetry prize, with the works Under Language (by the American writer and theoretician) and Universo Molécula (by the Catalan author).
Hermeneia
The Hermeneia digital technology and literary studies research group is formed by experts from Brown University, USA; Bari University, Italy; Turku University, Finland; the University of Essex, UK; Ramon Llull University; Pompeu Fabra University; the University of Barcelona; Barcelona’s Autonomous University; Rovira i Virgili University and the UOC, Spain. Its aim is to carry out research into the emergence of technologies in literature and literary studies and analyse the repercussions, and to map literary studies online and provide this information to the European university community over the internet.