Mentoring
(2008) Australian Literature Board. I will be mentoring a team who are developing an online story networking site.
(2007) De Montfort University Online MA in Creative Writing and New Media program.
The Online MA in Creative Writing and New Media is designed for writers interested in experimenting with new formats and exploring the potential of new technologies in their writing. [...] The course is designed by Professor Sue Thomas, writer and former Artistic Director of the trAce Online Writing Centre, and Kate Pullinger, acclaimed novelist and new media writer. It has extensive links with important initiatives including DMU’s Institute of Creative Technologies, research into digital narratives and new media writing, and the creative, digital and publishing industries.
I mentored UK author Alison Norrington on her multi-platform fiction experiment. The fiction, which is distributed across various websites, and worlds, has had media coverage. I’ve posted about it here. Alison gave a talk on her work at O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference in New York. Her talk was about: Fictional Blogging: Can Web 2.0 Translate to Publishing 2.0?.
(2006-2007) Booranga Writer’s Center: Youth Online Writing Workshop (YOWW), 2006-2007. This online writing program (which means we converse and publish online and create print and electronic literature) ran for six months. I co-mentored with Bernard Cohen and Johannes Klabbers. More details about my ace mentorees coming soon.
2005-2006 Laboratory of Advanced Media Production , Australian Film, Television and Radio School . Role: Co-present to and mentor accomplished film and television practitioners in cross-media entertainment. Presentations are delivered in one-day workshops and residentials across Australia. Mentoring takes place in rapid prototyping residentials across Australia.
2005 Mentor Program for High Achieving Senior Secondary Students , School of Graduate Studies, University of Melbourne. I was selected from a large pool of postgraduates at the UOM to be an Academic & Screenwriting Mentor in this program which teams us with a high school student for five months. Ezra Silman, my mentoree and a buddying filmmaker, worked on a theory/practice research project about suspense in film. He has now finished his film, Dark Beauty, and accompanying website.
