First International City of Vinaròs Award for Digital Literature

[anna balint]

First International City of Vinarňs Award for Digital Literature

Vinarňs city council and the Open University of 
Catalonia, through its Hermeneia research group, 
have created the International City of Vinarňs 
Award for Digital Literature. This award looks to 
catalyse the creation of digital literature, its 
recognition and broadcast. It is open to writers 
working in Catalan, Spanish, English, French, 
Portuguese or Italian. Work can be submitted from 
the first week of May until September 8.

Barcelona, 05/05/2005
The International City of Vinarňs Award for 
Digital Literature, one of the first of its kind 
on a European scale, is designed to reward 
authors for works that involve digital technology 
in their production. The award is split into two 
categories: digital narrative (which includes 
hypertext narrative, interactive stories and any 
literary works that use the computer as a means 
for narration) and poetry (with pieces of dynamic 
poetry, computer-generated poetry, etc.). The 
winner from each of these categories will receive 
2,500 euros. Likewise, the jury is to award the 
Vincenç Ferrer Romero special mention to the best 
work submitted in Catalan, the winner of which 
will receive 1,500 euros. Writers can present 
unpublished work on any subject. In the case of 
the poetry category, they can send a single poem 
or a collection.

The jury for this award, formed annually, is made 
up of experts in digital literature. The criteria 
that they take into account when assessing the 
works are literary quality, quality and 
accessibility of the interface design, 
experimentation with the web as a means for 
literary creation, and exploration and 
exploitation of the computer as a means for 
creation.

The works should be sent to Hermeneia (Humanities 
and Philology Studies, Av. Tibidabo, 39, 08035, 
Barcelona, Spain) in a sealed envelope, clearly 
stating 1st CITY OF VINARŇS AWARD FOR DIGITAL 
LITERATURE and whether the entry is for the 
digital narrative or poetry category on the 
outside. The envelopes have to contain three 
copies of the work on CD and another sealed 
envelope, with the title of the work on the 
outside, a pseudonym or headword, where 
necessary, and any technical information needed 
to access the work; information on the writer(s) 
(name, address, telephone number, email, country 
of origin and a photocopy of their ID or 
passport) should be enclosed inside this envelope 
to ensure anonymity. There should also be a short 
summary of their literary works to date.

Hermeneia

Hermeneia is a research group investigating 
literary studies and digital technologies and 
made up of experts from Brown University (USA), 
Bari University (Italy), the University of Turku 
(Finland), Ramon Llull University (Spain), Pompeu 
Fabra University (Spain), the University of 
Barcelona (Spain), the University of Essex (UK), 
the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain), 
Artois University (France), Rovira i Virgili 
University (Spain) and the UOC.

Its aim is to carry out research into the 
emergence of technology in terms of literary 
studies and literature itself, analysing the 
repercussions and producing a map of literary 
studies on the web, available to the whole of the 
European university community on the website. 
There are four basic lines of research: hypertext 
and literary studies, literary theory and 
comparative literature on the internet, the 
Lletra project and electronic literature.







Related Links
International City of Vinarňs Award:
http://www.uoc.edu/activitats/vinaros/eng/index.html

Hermeneia:
http://www.uoc.edu/in3/hermeneia/eng/index.html

>From http://www.uoc.edu/web/eng/noticies/VinarosLitDigital_ang.html

Dr Anna Notaro

personal home page: www.notarofam.com/annawork

Read the electronic book 'City Sites: Chicago and 
New York, 1870s-1930s', for free at 
http://www.notarofam.com/annawork/citysites/