New Media Writing Prize is an opportunity for writers around the world to showcase exciting and inventive stories and poetry that integrate a variety of digital formats, platforms, and media
The NMWP encourages and promotes the best in new-media writing and is leading the way toward the future of the ‘written’ word and interactive storytelling.
Deadline: February 1, 2024
Eligibility:
Open to anyone, globally.
Awards
The winning work in each category will receive the following prize:
- The Chris Meade Memorial UK New Media Writing Prize: £1000
- The Student Award: One year’s membership to Writers Online.
- The Opening Up Award: £500
- The Digital Journalism Award: £500 and a year’s FIPP membership
Selection criteria
What NMWP is looking for?
- They are looking for good storytelling (fiction or non-fiction) written specifically for delivery and reading/viewing on a PC, iPad, or phone. It could be a short story, novel, poem, narrative game, documentary, or transmedia work using words, images, film or animation with audience interaction.
- Innovative use of new (digital) media/transmedia to create an engaging, satisfying fictional or non-fictional narrative, poem, or other story forms.
What to avoid?
- Don’t use a text-only story/poem which you simply upload to a web page or place on a disc.
- Non-interactive Word documents of PDFs are not eligible.
- They don’t want screens of words uploaded to your blog, and slideshow of photos uploaded to Flickr, or a video uploaded to YouTube.
Application Requirements
Use the online entry form and upload the following information:
a. Title of the work;
b. Entrant’s contact details: name, email address, telephone number and postal address. For joint entries, all entrants’ contact details must be provided with identification of the main entrant for contact purposes;
c. Access details, eg URL. If an app, we will need 6 free access codes for the judges. If we cannot access the work, we will not judge it.
d. Entrant’s short autobiography (50-100 words). For joint entries, all entrants must provide their autobiographies.
e. Student entrants must provide a proof of identity which should be copied into the entry form, in the short biography section, e.g. a scan copy of entrant’s Student Union ID card or university enrolment number, which will be authenticated at the organiser’s discretion.
N\B: Entries must be written in English.
Entries must be submitted by: Thursday 1 February 2024 2359 GMT. Prizes will be awarded in May 2024.
Click here to enter the competition.
For more information, visit the NMWP website
