The focus at trAce is to explore experimental opportunities of new interactive forms. An Online Writing School is opening in the summer of 2001. Choices include the basics of starting to write, courses on writing conventional short stories, hypermedia fiction, and courses on the experimental and theoretical side of online writing. Subscriber pages exist to help members get commissions, work on collaborations or network. It is building a database targeted at all industries requiring writers.
Writers can also offer themselves for hire by entering their credentials into a database.
This exists to promote electronic literature, which it defines as 'new forms of literature which utilise the capabilities of technology to do things that cannot be done in print'. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.