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1. Suspended: a small-town, zero tolerance story in survey form

   Suspended: a small town, zero tolerance story in survey form is a novella length piece of electronic literature.

   A thirteen year old boy is suspended after posting on social media an ill-advised, incendiary cartoon that features the principal of his school. However, as the characters make their moves, the roles of victim and aggressor blur to the point of ambiguity and even reversal. The boy's parents move from punishing their son to protecting him, dogged by social stigma and fear of recrimination from school authorities as the story plays out against the backdrop of zero tolerance policy and the juvenile justice system.

   Jorge Sáez Jiménez-Casquet - 17.11.2019 - 13:16

2. Creative Writing on the Wall: Literary Practices on Facebook

   Leonardo Flores has identified the latest trend in electronic literature, which he calls its ‘third generation’, as one that happens on social media, using and/or abusing, hijacking the affordances of popular platforms such as Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Snapchat, and so on. Much has been written about various aspects and genres of twitterature; I have myself presented ‘video writing’ on YouTube at the 2017 ELO, and examined digital authors’ attitudes towards Facebook as a space for communication elsewhere. I now propose to look at a different use of Facebook as a literary space in which creative writing practices emerge that would not exist without this platform. Focusing again on French and Francophone authors, often (yet) unpublished in print, this paper will explore a range of modes of, and approaches to, writing on the Facebook wall, including the form, poetics, rhythms of publication, and motivations, both by individual authors and in the case of a collective project, drawing on the work of a handful of authors.

   Vian Rasheed - 18.11.2019 - 16:01