From Sarah L’Strange: Media and Comms student and producer Book Show RN
For my Master’s thesis, I propose to do a project that will extend the reach of the Book Show on ABC Radio National and it’s enquiry into books and writing culture. Rather than talking to publishers and published writers, I want the public to send the Book Show audio-postcards called ‘Stories of Stories’. They will post the audio on Pool – the joint new media website by UTS and ABC.
Contributions will mostly live on the Pool website, but I will filter them for possible air play on the Book Show once there is a reasonable amount of material.
I will also create a feature of the stories that are posted on Pool.
As a result of the project, we will be able to paint a picture of the way Australians relate and engage in books and writing as reader, writers and commentators. It will be the voice of the people engaged in a quality national dialogue.
Stories of Stories – Australia’s literary, hack, ranter and scribbler outposts
Do you belong to a poetry reading group, do you read non-fiction with a group of friends in Broome, are you studying creative writing, have a fantasy fiction writing group, do you whittle the night hours away with your fan-fiction, have you every written a novel in a month or gone to a literary salon? Tell the rest of Australia about your involvement in these groups. Create a ‘story of stories’ from what ever literary outpost you live in; be it in inner-city Melbourne, Alice Springs or Coober Pedy.
There are a few ways you can do this. You can record an audio piece about your literary group, do a reading about your relationship to words or interview participants in a reading group, for example, and create a mini feature. The pieces can be as long or short as you like, but a good starting point would be 5-10 minutes.
Load the piece onto Pool (after April 15th) – a creative commons, open-source website developed by the ABC and UTS and watch as other contributors remix and comment on your work.Tag your work as audio writing books bookshow storiesofstories
Please note that Creative Commons Licences apply to the work – you can specify the type of licence you would prefer but keep in mind that the work is going to be used in a non commercial creative way and as research so the fewer conditions you place on its use, the better it is and the more likely it is to be used.
About the Pool Project – Connecting creative people and ideas
http://www.pool.org.au/home
Pool: an experimental collaborative media creation web space being co-developed by the ABC, Tertiary Institutions and a community of contributors, that’s you!
Grow ideas; download, remix and share with your friends and the world; Music, photos, videos, documentaries, interviews, animations, and more. Connect with people; by comments, tags, friend lists, and collaborative co-creation.
The site is still being developed and will have a soft-launch in April. As the site comes into being we’ll be growing it in response to your input. So if you’re having difficulties, or can spot a feature that we need, please tell us so that we can make your Pool experience even better.
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