WriteHere.Net

I’ve been working with a very bright student here named Matt Bowen who is exploring the use of wikis as experimental, collaborative writing environments. Below is the text of his announcement. Matt has a background in both computer science and creative writing, and I suspect he may be a real up and coming e-lit talent. Watch (t)his space, and please contribute yourself or encourage others to contribute. Students welcome.

DATELINE JULY 20, 2004
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

July 20, 2004 (The INTERNET). The Society of Lies and Stolen Ideas (www.solasi.org) is proud to announce the creation of a new internet community: WriteHere.net. WriteHere is a wiki community for creative writers and fiction readers. Membership and use are unrestricted and open to the public, and content is available under a Creative Commons license.

WriteHere.net is both a writing space and a community. It is a place where anyone can post a story, some poems, a title, a character, or anything else creative, and other people can edit and develop the posting. The community hopes to give others a chance to help one another write and to provide a friendly community to those who only want to read, to those who want to work on their proofing skills, to those who translate, and to literary experimenters. You don’t have to contribute an original work to contribute.

The community is focused on the development and exploration of both existing fictional media (e.g. Short Stories, Narrative Poetry, etc) and experimental avant-garde works (e.g. rhizomic texts, Hypertexts, etc). All submissions are welcome. To submit a work or an idea to the website, simply directly add it yourself, as explained at http://www.writehere.net/moin.cgi/StartHere. The site can be accessed at www.writehere.net. For questions, please contact Matt Bowen <mrbowen AT SPAMFREE umd DOT edu>.