1001 nights cast looking for online writers in Aotearoa
Barbara Campbell's online performance project, 1001 nights cast
[http://1001.net.au], is coming to Aotearoa from 24-30 January, 2008.
Barbara is looking for local Maori and Pakeha writers to contribute
stories for the performances that she'll be webcasting from Auckland
and Rotorua. It will be the closest she has taken the project to the
International Date Line and it will be the last country she visits
before the final webcast on 17 March 2008 in Sydney. So far, well
over 200 writers from all kinds of writing disciplines have
contributed stories from around the world.
Here's how the project works for contributing writers:
Barbara chooses a writing prompt from the morning's newspaper
articles on the Middle East, paints it and posts it to the site by
9am that day. She usually books a writer for the day but she also
receives unsolicited stories. In any case, contributing writers have
until three hours before sunset to submit their story of up to 1001
words (can be less but not more). It is up to the writer to decide
whether their story has any relation to the original newspaper
article in particular or the Middle East in general or neither. The
prompt can be used either verbatim or as general thematic. Barbara
may make editorial adjustments to the story, in consultation with the
writer if time and time zone differences allow. The story is
performed live and online at local sunset. As a guide, Auckland
sunsets in January are around 8.35pm. Each day's sunset time is
displayed on the Today Now page of the site.
While all writing genres are welcome, Barbara emphasises that the
story is performed as a webcast in the first instance, and makes it
available for reading on the Archives page as a secondary iteration,
so writing for the voice rather than the page is important.
Each story is a gift to Barbara. She accepts them with deep gratitude
and treats each one with care and respect.
Anyone who'd like to contribute a story, can email Barbara
[EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sample of their writing or can
"audition" by submitting a story on any day in which they are
inspired by the prompt to do so.
+61 (0)409 039 691
http://1001.net.au
Skype contact: bcperformance
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