Girls Write Now Launches Digital Remix Program
This spring, a group of eight Girls Write Now mentor and mentee pairs are contributing to the Digital Remix Portfolio–a new, different, exciting way to share creatively. Each month, participants will be experimenting with photo & video, design & animation concepts, and audio & sharing, using new tools to complement their writing and the writing of their peers–including Figmenters!
They might interpret a poem through a short film, create online avatars or accounts for characters in a fictional story, represent a film scene through a series of tweets, convert a piece of written journalism into a podcast, or adapt a memoir into an online “choose-your-own adventure.”
What’s a remix? Check this out. Samantha White, a Girls Write Now mentee, and her professional mentor remixed her original poem, “I Was Odd” into a motion graphic.
Read the original poem here, and then check out what it became:
Cool, right? So who are the remixers? You can get to know a few of them on Figment, and check out their digital bios: Monica Chin, ChanTareya Paredes, Idamaris Perez, Lara Warman, X.Callisto, Demetria Irwin, Karen Kawaguchi, Elaine Stuart, Jessica Benjamin, Meghan McNamara, Rocio Cuevas, Alissa Riccardelli, Therese Cox, Samantha Young Chan, Alexandra Berg, Linda Corman, Claudia Parsons, and Sade Swift. And you can read about the whole process of digital remixing in Georgia Soares‘s digi-diary here.
CALLING ALL FIGS!
Submit your writing to be remixed by Girls Write Now:
Between now and February 6, 2012, GWN is inviting the Figment community to contribute your writing to be digitally remixed by GWN!
Submission is easy:
Tag an existing piece of writing–something you think might lend itself to digital remixing–with GWNRemix12. You can tag any form/genre of writing you prefer.
GWN will select at least three Figment submissions to be featured this spring as original pieces in this Digital Remix pilot, exploring innovative, exciting ways to reformat your writing with new tools and technologies. If your piece is chosen for the project it could be reinvented into an audio, video, interactive or geo-locative digital masterpiece! Read the full rules here.
STAY TUNED
Follow GWN Remix on the Figment blog!
Every few weeks, GWN Remix participants will guide you through their creative experience, including original writing, information about new digital tools, video clips, workshop lectures and/or commentary, remix projects, and much more!
GWN WANTS TO HEAR FROM YOU
Let us know what you think! Contact GWN for more info or simply share your thoughts and ideas on the Girls Write Now Digital Remix blog.
Digital Remix Portfolio is supported by the MacArthur Foundation and the Hive Digital Media Learning Fund in The New York Community Trust.
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Tick Tock
Have you ever felt like a slave to time?
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Please Come Home
Cover by Bruce Howard. A story written about a girl whose father is in the military and will most likely be not home for Christmas.
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The House Ghost
Have you ever had the feeling that something's watching you, in your room at night? Wonder what makes those noises in your house? You …
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The Girl of My Dreams
A man tells the story of his first love.
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What Could've Been Forever
Love doesn't always work out. I've decided to make this into a collection of poems in tribute to lost love, so we'll see where it goes…
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Eve
Cover made by Stevie.
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Letters to Oliver
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People
Just something I came up with while trying to sleep. I don't know if this is the exact wording that I originally came up with...
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Perfect Aim
Murder in an alley
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More Than A Vacation
Cali goes on another vacation with her mother, just like any other year; but this trip changes her life and changes how she views life…
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Letters From Heaven
Alyssa Long has trouble at school and lives with her mom, who are not so tight. One day she writes a letter in a bottle and throws it …
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Neither Happy Nor Sad
Wrote this while I was confused on whether to still love him or not. Entry for the Girls Write Now.
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22 thoughts on “Girls Write Now Launches Digital Remix Program”
I am going to assume it is open to both genders, and that you will NOT be sexist when it comes to picking the pieces.
HI Maekir,
Yes, it is open to both genders. And yes, the judges, from Girls Write Now, will be completely impartial when judging.
Thank the Figment Gods…
Can you enter more than one thing?
Hi Ariel,
No, just one entry please.
OK, cool!
Can you enter an old contest piece?
Hi Johana,
Yes! Absolutely, as long as the contest is now over.
I hope its alright that I tagged multiple entries for this contest. I read through the rules and I wasn’t sure if there was limit on it. I just assumed it was a tagging of any of my old writing.
Just making sure
If not let me know.
Thanks.
Hi Ella,
No, you may only tag ONE entry per contest. If you have any further questions, please email me at rebecca@figment.com.
So it is open to BOTH genders? Because I’m a boy.
Hi Aldan,
Yes!
Is there a word limit? And can I enter a piece that is currently in a contest if I re upload it so it has no hearts and it’s not entered for the other contest?
Hi Melissa,
There is no word limit. Please do not submit entries that are currently entered in contests.
Does your work have to be finished, or can it be in-progress?
Hi Ashley,
It can be in progress, but keep in mind that it will be judged as it appears the day the entry period ends.
I was just reading the rules and I noticed that a part said, “Judgement will be completed on or about Feb. 20th 2013.” Is the judgement really going to take that long or is it a typo?
Hi Alex,
The date is set so far in the future to account for unforeseen delays.