[Commlist] Workshop supporting submissions to Multimodal Writing Special Issue of Writing in Practice

_Workshop to support writers wishing to submit to the Multimodal Writing 
Special Issue of/Writing in Practice/_

14^th Feb 2020

Middlesex University, London

This workshop event on 14^th February 2020 provides support for writers 
wishing to submit to the forthcoming Multimodal Writing Special Issue of 
/Writing in Practice: The Journal of Creative Writing Research/, Volume 
7, to be published in April 2021, co-edited by Josie Barnard and Derek 
Neale.

This workshop event is free, so early booking is recommended as places 
are strictly limited (book via Eventbrite link below).

This workshop will provide you with an opportunity to bring draft 
abstracts and support material for your planned article to the table for 
discussion and feedback. This is a Middlesex University event in 
collaboration with NAWE and the Open University.The day will start at 
11am and end at 5pm, it includes sessions on academic writing and 1-2-1 
feedback as well as space for discussion and networking.

Please find the call for papers that the workshop supports below, and 
for the workshop, REGISTER HERE: 
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-multimodal-writing-special-issue-of-writing-in-practice-tickets-85467197689

**CALL FOR PAPERS:

/Writing in Practice: The Journal of Creative Writing Research, Volume 7/

/Deadline for submission 26^th June 2020/

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*_Multimodal Writing Special Issue_*

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NAWE's /Writing in Practice/ aims to explore the nature of the art of 
writing, highlighting current academic thinking and practice, and 
reflecting on this with an international outlook.

The journal encourages the investigation of a broad range of approaches 
to practice research, focusing on critical discussion of creative 
process, and critical examination of research contexts, and Creative 
Writing’s history and pedagogy.Creative Writing itself is welcomed when 
integral to an article.

A focus of this special issue is /multimodal writing/, with guest 
co-editor Josie Barnard.Whether directly or indirectly, the digital 
‘revolution’ has affected every aspect of the writing and publishing 
process.Writing – often thought of as primarily text-based – now 
routinely involves multiple ‘modes’, with photographs, emoji and audio, 
for example, featuring as integral parts of online narratives.The 
explosion of new media technologies may lead a creative writer to 
experiment with new technologies (perhaps writing Twine poetry or moving 
into self-publishing).Conversely, it might inspire a revived enthusiasm 
for using ‘old’ technologies such as pens, pencils, paper.This cfp 
welcomes submissions in both areas.In /The Multimodal Writer/, Barnard 
(2019) notes, ‘In a digital age, the ability to move between types of 
writing and technologies - often at speed - is increasingly essential 
for writers’; in order to ‘not just survive but, rather, thrive in an 
era characterised by fast-paced change’, creative flexibility and 
resilience are necessary.How to develop such creative flexibility and 
resilience is an important aspect of multimodal writing practice.All 
technologies were new at some point; in order to tackle new challenges, 
writers draw on past experiences of tackling something new, thereby 
‘remediating’ their practice.

Please note that submissions need not have a ‘digital’ element to be 
considered for this issue and may be unrelated to multimodality. As 
usual, we are looking for articles on the art of imaginative writing 
from an authorial perspective. Contributions are invited from creative 
writing scholars, teachers, authors, poets, screenwriters, game 
designers, publishers and others with theoretical or practice interests 
in this field.

Contributions may include (but are not limited to):

·How material objects and activities (e.g. writing tools, food, walking) 
are embedded in creative writing process and practice;

·Traditional and digital technologies and approaches mingling during the 
creative process;

·‘Remediation’ (i.e. new use/application) of previous creative practice 
in a new digital context;

·Alternative uses of social media platforms, e.g. for archiving creative 
practice, for innovative self-publishing and development of new genres;

·‘Non-linear’ writing, such as for websites / games;

·The nature of ‘digital literacy’;

·The role and experiences of readers/audiences/users;

·Ethics of storytelling in the context of social media and/or 
developments such as virtual reality and artificial intelligence;

·Case studies of particular multimodal productions.

Submissions should be 4-10,000 words long and include an abstract of up 
to 200 words. All submissions will be anonymously peer reviewed. See the 
contributor guidelines to submit your work via the submissions link:

www.nawe.co.uk/writing-in-education/writing-at-university/writing-in-practice.html 


For further information on multimodal writing, see 
https://www.macmillanexplorers.com/creative-writing/the-multimodal-writer/17066448.

The deadline for submissions is 5pm (GMT) on 26 June 2020.

For further information on multimodal writing, see: 
https://www.macmillanexplorers.com/creative-writing/the-multimodal-writer/17066448

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