Electronic Literature Organization

John Cayley reminds interested potential candidates that Brown’s prestigious Graduate Program in Literary Arts - two years (usually all-found) leading to an MFA - is currently accepting one applicant per year as an Electronic Writer (one of c. 14 per annum; the others apply for 5 fiction, 5 poetry and 3 play-writing places; past ‘electronic’ incumbents are: Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Talan Memmott, William Gillespie, Brian Kim Stefans, Daniel Howe; Aya Karpinska is in her second year, and Justin Katko started this Fall). This is a great opportunity for a practitioner to develop and to achieve a widely-recognised academic qualification (a ‘terminal degree’ they sometimes call it here: taken to be a Good Thing). The application deadline for next Fall’s intake is December 15. Full details on the Literary Arts Programs web site:

The United States Library of Congress is archiving 300 electronic literature web sites in collaboration with the ELO (Electronic Literature Organization) and archive-it.org. To suggest sites to be included in this project, please see

http://eliterature.org/wiki and note there is a FAQ linked on that page, http://eliterature.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ.
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Categories:

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Electronic Literature: Collections of Works: Sites that aggregate works of electronic literature by multiple authors, such as online journals and anthologies.

Electronic Literature: Individual Works: Individual works of electronic literature and collections of works by a single author, as opposed to collections of works by multiple authors.

Electronic Literature: Context: Sites related to the critical, theoretical, and institutional contexts of electronic literature.

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Criteria for submission
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This style guide is meant to provide general guidelines for drafting archive-it description entries.

Contributions should be submitted directly on: http://eliterature.org/wiki/

All contributions should include the title of the work and the URL where it resides. All contributions should name the entity that is primarily responsible for making the work (name of Editor, Author or other Creators). Please name the language that is used and the publisher (the entity that makes the work available; i.e. name of a person, organization or a service).

Additionally, you should provide a brief and substantial (1-3 sentence) description of the work, following these guidelines:

• You might want to identify the site’s purpose, its content, its creators and its aesthetic.
• You should focus on the work itself and its mode of presentation (not the awards won or the influence exerted by the author or institution).
• Evaluative statements and self-evaluations ought to be avoided.
• Avoid stating quotes (i.e. comments on a work) or reproductions of reviews and blurbs written for promotional purpose.
• Information on technique, software and programming should not precede or obscure descriptions of what a work is about.
• Important dates like the foundation of the site or journal should be added in the description. Provide information on how often a journal is published and what it is focusing on.
• Please include ISSN numbers in your description if the site or journal has one.