Yes folks, all is finally revealed: after months of painstaking assessment, we're happy to announce the 2014 New Media Writing Prize Shortlist. The list is chock full of some pretty amazing projects [such as 3D and 2D textual games, geolocative based treasure hunts, engaging browser works and velvety-smooth mobile based narratives]. For those of you who may be unfamiliar with the The NMWP [as us judges have fondly come to call it], this friendly sound-byte description should bring you right up to speed: "

We're blisteringly pleased to inform you all that Pluto, our latest game based transmedia project with Dreaming Methods, has been shortlisted for The Space's Open Call Competition. Out of a field of approximately 600 submissions, our project has made the grade. The next step is working with our designated Associate Producer, Maria Bota, to further develop our proposal.

Q: Am I insanely happy to have been commissioned to be part of this amazing Event set and resulting book? A: #HeckYesIAm: "Torque#1. Mind, Language and Technology is the result of a wide range of cross-disciplinary conversations, taking place across symposia, online forums, live events and workshops, produced by the book's editors: Nathan Jones and Sam Skinner.

Now that the official announcement has been made regarding the 2014 Judging Panel, we're broadcasting the call far and wide to all new media, transmedia, digital/electronic literature and interactive writers [and non-genre-shoehorned practitioners] to get your entries in to the 2014 New Media Writing Prize. What's not to like about a competition that could bag you some spiffy prize money and oodles of kudos?

…as outlined in this intriguing talk by Chris Funkhouser as part of Bergen Public Library's Digital Arena Electronic Reading Series.