Fwd: Call for Works: The ELO Electronic Literature Collection

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From: Carol Ann Wald
Date: Nov 3, 2005 1:00 PM
Subject: Call for Works: The ELO Electronic Literature Collection
To: [email protected]

THE ELECTRONIC LITERATURE COLLECTION – A CALL FOR WORKS

The Electronic Literature Organization seeks
submissions for the first Electronic Literature Collection. We invite the
submission of literary works that take advantage of the capabilities and
contexts provided by the computer. Works will be accepted until January
31, 2006. Up to three works per author will be considered.

The Electronic Literature Collection will be an annual publication of
current and older electronic literature in a form suitable for individual,
public library, and classroom use. The publication will
be made available both online, where it will be available for download for
free, and as a packaged, cross-platform CD-ROM, in a case appropriate for
library processing, marking, and distribution.
The contents of the Collection will be offered under a Creative Commons
license so that libraries and educational institutions will be allowed to
duplicate and install works and individuals will be
free to share the disc with others.

The editorial collective for the first volume of the Electronic Literature
Collection, to be published in 2006, is:

N. Katherine Hayles
Nick Montfort
Scott Rettberg
Stephanie Strickland

This collective will review the submitted work and select pieces for the
Collection.

The editorial collectives for each volume will be chosen by the Electronic
Literature Organization's board of directors. The tentative editorial
collective for the second Collection, to be published in 2007, includes
Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, Marjorie C. Luesebrink, and Noah Wardrip-Fruin.

Literary quality will be the chief criterion for selection of works. Other
aspects considered will include innovative use of electronic techniques,
quality and navigability of interface, and adequate representation of the
diverse forms of electronic literature in the collection as a whole.

For the first Collection, the collective will consider works up to 50 MB
in size, uncompressed. Works submitted should function on both Macintosh
OS X (10.4) and Windows XP. Works should function without requiring users
to purchase or install additional software. Submissions may require
software that is typically pre-installed on contemporary computers, such
as a web browser, and are allowed to use the current versions of the most
common plugins.

To have a work considered, all the authors of the work must agree that if
their work is published in the Collection, they will license it under a
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License
, which will permit
others to copy and freely redistribute the work, provided the work is
attributed to its authors, that it is redistributed non- commercially, and
that it is not used in the creation of derivative works. No other
limitation is made regarding the author's use of any work submitted or
accepted.

To submit a work:

1) Prepare a plain text file with the following information:
a) The title of the work.
b) The names and email addresses of all authors and contributors of
the work.
c) The URL where you are going to make your .zip file available for us
to download. The editorial collective will not publish the address of
this file.
d) A short description of the work – less than 200 words in length.
f) Any instructions required to operate the work.
g) The date the work was first distributed or published, or
"unpublished" if it has not yet been made available to the public.

2) Prepare a .zip archive including the work in its entirety. Include the
text file from step (1) at the top level of this archive, and name it
"submisson.txt".

3) Upload the .zip file to a web server so that it is available at the
specified location.

4) Place all of the text in the "submisson.txt" file in the body of an
email and send it to [email protected] with the name of the piece
being submitted included in the subject line.

The Electronic Literature Collection is supported by institutional
partners including the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing (CPCW)
at the University of Pennsylvania, ELINOR: Electronic Literature in the
Nordic Countries, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities
(MITH) at the University of Maryland, The Richard Stockton College of New
Jersey, and The School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the
University of Minnesota.

Please forward this call to appropriate mailing lists and to individuals
who might be interested in submitting their work.