Future of Writing

Richard Nash, Small Demons, USAKate Eltham, Brisbane Writers Festival, AustraliaSherman Young, Macquarie University, AustraliaJohn Potts, Macquarie University, AustraliaNigel Krauth, Griffith University, Gold Coast, AustraliaChris Rodley, freelance writer, AustraliaAndrew Burrell, freelance artist, AustraliaKathryn Millard, Macquarie University, AustraliaAlex Munt, University of Technology Sydney, AustraliaGarry Linnell, Fairfax Metro Media, AustraliaJennifer Beckett, University of New South Wales, AustraliaCatharine Lumby, Macquarie University, AustraliaLachlan Harris, Co-Founder of Big Switch, AustraliaMark Evans, Macquarie University, Australia

• Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; John Potts PART I: WRITING AND PUBLISHING 1. Culture is the Algorithm; Richard Nash 2. When the Web is the World; Kate Eltham 3. Me Myself I: Revaluing Self-Publishing in the Electronic Age; Sherman Young 4. Book Doomsday: The March of Progress and the Fate of the Book; John Potts PART II: CREATIVE WRITING 5. Multigraph, not Monograph: Creative Writing and New Technologies; Nigel Krauth 6. On the Art of Writing with Data; Chris Rodley and Andrew Burrell 7. The Design of Writing: 29 Observations; Kathryn Millard and Alex Munt PART III: JOURNALISM: ESTATE 4.0 8. Storytelling in the Digital Age; Garry Linnell 9. Reading and Writing the News in the Fifth Estate; Jennifer Beckett and Catharine Lumby 10. News Breakers and News Makers in the 24 Hour Opinion Cycle; Lachlan Harris 11. Education and the New Convergent Journalist; Mark Evans

“Potts has drawn together a fairly diverserepresentation of views on the future of writing amid the technologically-drivenchallenges and prospects on our foreseeable horizon. … The collection forms animportant waypoint for authors and researchers interested in not onlypredictive manoeuvres, but also gaining further understanding of presenttransformations in the way we orient ourselves to the market and its making.” (RossWatkins, Text Journal, Vol. 19, October, 2015)