I was excited to spot last week that Lyle Skains and Jordan Glendinning of Wonderbox have launched a podcast on digital fiction.
The Wonderbox Podcast (available on iTunes, Stitcher, and Podbean) will be a twice-monthly discussion with Skains and Glendinning delving into “the wondrous world of digital fiction”.
If you are new to digital fiction, they suggest (and I do too) taking look at Bell et al’s “Screed for Digital fiction” (2010), published on the Electronic Book Review, which defines e-lit as “fiction written for and read on a computer screen that pursues its verbal, discursive and/or conceptual complexity through the digital medium, and would lose something of its aesthetic and semiotic function if it were removed from that medium”.
According to Skains, the first few episodes of the podcast look at the digital fiction you’re already reading (even if you’re not really aware of it), interactive fiction and text adventure games, hypertexts, digital archiving, writing digital fiction, transmedia fiction, locative fiction, and the overlap of literature and games. Future episodes will include interviews and guests.
Looking to forward to taking my first listen!