1st Edition
Digital Literary Creative Practice Six Memos for Writers in the Current Millennium
Introduction
A Memo on Memos
A Memo on Millenniums
A Memo on the Literary
A Memo on the Digital
A Memo on Creative Practice
A Memo on Writers
I
First Memo: Lightness
First Digression: Contemporary Weight
Beyond Maximalism
Creative Practice: WHALEFALL, Taroko Gorge, Most Powerful Words, The Data Souls.
II
Second Memo: Quickness
Second Digression: Lingering Interactivity
Beyond the Digital/Print Nexus
Creative Practice: The Gathering Cloud, Paige & Powe.
III
Third Memo: Exactitude
Third Digression: Relentless Precision
Beyond Precision
Creative Practice: A Dictionary of the Revolution, Little Emperor Syndrome.
IV
Fourth Memo: Visibility
Fourth Digression: Ekphrastic Strategies
Beyond Ekphrastic Despair
Creative Practice: Life After Wartime, novelling, The Buoy, The Boat, The Vine and the Fish, Voices, A Recombinant History of Australian Camels.
V
Fifth Memo: Multiplicity
Fifth Digression: Ethical Associations
Beyond Paranoia
Creative Practice: “The V[R]erses”: An XR Story Series, The Library of Nonhuman Books, The Perfect Democracy
Conclusion
Beyond the Memos
Beyond the Millennium
Beyond the Literary
Beyond the Digital
Beyond Creative Practice
Beyond Writers
Appendices
Appendix A: Description of Most Powerful Words
Appendix B: Description of The Data Souls
Appendix C: Quotations opening A Condensed History of Australian Camels
Appendix D: Quotations opening The Perfect Democracy
Biography
David Thomas Henry Wright is an author, poet, digital artist, and academic. He has been recognised by the QLA Digital Literature Prize, the Robert Coover Award, and the Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award. He has been awarded multiple research/arts grants and published in various journals. He has a PhD (Comparative Literature) from Murdoch and a master’s (Creative Writing) from The University of Edinburgh and has been a lecturer at Tsinghua University. He is co-editor of The Digital Review and Associate Professor at Nagoya University. Now he is working at the University of Bergen.
