Unconference Registration is open!

Register here to attend the Awards Evening.

The Opening Up category voting is still open.

Don't forget to review and vote!!!

Shortlisted Works!

Lists are in no particular order; links are those submitted with the entry, so they're what we have. Congratulations to the shortlisted creators!

The Chris Meade Memorial Main Prize

The Journalism Prize

The Student Prize

The Social Good Prize

The Opening Up Prize

Join us for the Unconference!

We're getting ready for our online Unconference May 13-14, culminating in the Awards evening (register here!) 14 May 2025, 7pm British Summer Time.


Registration for the Unconference is now open; if you'd like to join us for two days of creative collaborations, performances, discussions and insights, we'd love to have you! Remember, 100% of conference fees go to support the New Media Writing Prize.


The full schedule is not yet set, but planned sessions include: 

  • Discussions & panels:
    • Motivations for collaboration, creativity, and social engagement in writing
    • Electronic expressions of elders
  • Live (online) performances:
    • Creating elit in virtual world Second Life
    • "Breaking Boundaries" pushing the edges of possible in digital transformations
  • Workshop sessions, jams, and general melee:
    • Developing and analysing text-based games
    • Crossword poetry jam
    • Collaborative creative coding
    • Locative and time-based storytelling with Geodes
    • Netprov
    • AI & RAG for artists & poets
    • Wikipedia treasure hunt
    • Creating story in own language
  • Lightning talks:
    • Brazilian Portraits
    • Remix-writing in biofiction
    • Exploded Street
    • Esolangs
    • Una platforma contra la desinformación y misinformación
    • Sea of Po

We could barely fit it all in, and we're super-excited about all the events, so we hope you can join us!

The Prize Categories

  • Chris Meade Memorial New Media Writing Prize: £1000 donated by if:book UK.

  • The Writers Online Student Award: one year's membership to Writers Online.

  • The FIPP Digital Journalism Award: £500, plus a year's membership with FIPP.

  • The Wonderbox Opening Up Award: £500. The winner will be chosen through public voting.

  • The NMWP for Social Good Award (funded entirely through the Unconference!): £500.

Go to http://newmediawritingprize.co.uk for FAQs, terms and conditions

     
   

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