Sites such as Exquisite Forest, Zopler and Noviet offer and environment where writers may meet as equals and imaginative possibilities are unlimited. There are vast and highly active networks of fan fiction writers, which can be conceived as a form of communal storytelling where narrative is fashioned and played out in real time. This paper will use examples from online writing and games communities as when as the activities of the Internet 'hactivist' body. Lance will discuss his own The Flickerman experiences running a recent phase of the creative research project, , which, when it was broadcast on ABC Australia invited the audience to contribute. Lance Dann is a Brighton based writer and academic.

######### Gerry Smith. The Northern Venetians Project

The Northern Venetians project is an exercise in collaborative electronic literature. Its participants are artists and writers from, or living in, those places which have shared the title of ' The Venice of the North '. The project will create a composite city constructed around the memories and experiences of the inhabitants of those cities. The city will be depicted through a series of short-form prose pieces. These will depict real events and situations which say something about their writers' own Venice of the North. Gathered together, these pieces will give us a sense of the place - of what the city means for its inhabitants. This presentation will also examine Georges Perec's endotics as an approach to quotidian studies. It will present Northern Venetians as such, a site in endotics, and it will address the mechanics of the project, the gathering together of its participants, its technical requirements - and its implications for similar participatory projects. Gerry Smith is a text-based artist. A PhD student at Edinburgh College of Art, his work examines the potential use of participatory artworks within an endotic research process. During his MFA (Intermedia) at the ECA, his exploration of reductive forms resulted in the development of his own punctuation poetry.

######### Tuesday Tuesday 16 July Afternoon. Dr. Tom Abba. Transposing Writing or What does Digital have to do with Books anyway?

This presentation summarizes a project funded through theAHRC's REACT Digital Economy Hub, based in Bristol. The fund holders, Dr Tom Abba and Duncan Speakman of Circumstance began with the proposition that the majority of effort toward the 'future of the book' has been devoted to forcing books into digital platforms rather than considering the formal properties of the digital medium itself. Little attention has been paid to what tablets, for example offer as storytelling platforms. The project The History of the Now' worked with Neil Gaiman and Nick Harkaway to design and seed content, a semi-fictional portrait of our world embedded into the fabric of the city. Dr Tom Abba is Senior Lecturer in Media at the University of the West of England.

######### David Jackson. Designing Games for Collaborative Storytelling.

Games that motivate players to write collaborative fiction has specific design requirements and create fictional works with particular characteristics. These can be seen as a new form of storytelling. This presentation explores developmental findings of game fiction experiments through a platform called Storyjacker (storyjacke.net) An investigation of Storyjacker will seek to illustrate a link between particular game design features and their effectiveness in producing collaborative fiction. The