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Issue Details: First known date: 1997... 1997 Ngapartji's Virtual Writers in Residence
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Graeme Beaton describes the three main reasons for the project :

  • Looking to produce writing that 'works' on the Net - that attracts an audience.
  • Establish principles for payment of high quality written work in the multimedia context (role for guest editors?).
  • To begin to adequately address intellectual property and copyright issues on the Net.

The idea of a virtual writer in residence pilot project was canvassed by the Australia Council in 1996. Major aims were to introduce writers to the new media & develop literary audiences - capitalising on the global nature of online information.

The project was kicked off by the Ngapartji Multimedia Centre last year [1997] with: internet training for regional-based writers. Visits to Port Pirie, Whyalla, Port Augusta, Woomera, Roxby Downs and Coober Pedy introduced 46 writers, 16 school teachers and over a 100 school children to the potential for writing on the internet.
Source: Beaton, Graeme C. 'Ngapartji's Virtual Writer in Residence Pilot Project 98' (Sighted at Pandora Archive 23/04/2013; originally written for Australia's Cultural Network)

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  • Content indexing in process.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Adelaide, South Australia,:South Australian Writers' Centre , 1997 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
A New Life, Victoria Zabukovec , single work short story
'A brief, but dramatic moment in a peasant family's life, in 1907, in Bulgaria.'

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