THE ELECTRONIC LITERATURE COLLECTION -- A CALL FOR WORKS

The Electronic Literature Organization
seeks submissions for the first Electronic Literature Collection. We
invite the submission of literary works that take advantage of the
capabilities and contexts provided by the computer. Works will be
accepted until January 31, 2006. Up to three works per author will be
considered.

The Electronic Literature Collection will be an annual publication of
current and older electronic literature in a form suitable for
individual, public library, and classroom use. The publication will
be made available both online, where it will be available for
download for free, and as a packaged, cross-platform CD-ROM, in a
case appropriate for library processing, marking, and distribution.
The contents of the Collection will be offered under a Creative
Commons license so that libraries and educational institutions will
be allowed to duplicate and install works and individuals will be
free to share the disc with others.

The editorial collective for the first volume of the Electronic
Literature Collection, to be published in 2006, is:

N. Katherine Hayles
Nick Montfort
Scott Rettberg
Stephanie Strickland

This collective will review the submitted work and select pieces for
the Collection.

The editorial collectives for each volume will be chosen by the
Electronic Literature Organization's board of directors. The
tentative editorial collective for the second Collection, to be
published in 2007, includes Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, Marjorie C.
Luesebrink, and Noah Wardrip-Fruin.

Literary quality will be the chief criterion for selection of works.
Other aspects considered will include innovative use of electronic
techniques, quality and navigability of interface, and adequate
representation of the diverse forms of electronic literature in the
collection as a whole.

For the first Collection, the collective will consider works up to 50
MB in size, uncompressed. Works submitted should function on both
Macintosh OS X (10.4) and Windows XP. Works should function without
requiring users to purchase or install additional software.
Submissions may require software that is typically pre-installed on
contemporary computers, such as a web browser, and are allowed to use
the current versions of the most common plugins.

To have a work considered, all the authors of the work must agree
that if their work is published in the Collection, they will license
it under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5
License , which
will permit others to copy and freely redistribute the work, provided
the work is attributed to its authors, that it is redistributed non-
commercially, and that it is not used in the creation of derivative
works. No other limitation is made regarding the author's use of any
work submitted or accepted.

To submit a work:

1) Prepare a plain text file with the following information:
a) The title of the work.
b) The names and email addresses of all authors and contributors
of the work.
c) The URL where you are going to make your .zip file available
for us to download. The editorial collective will not publish the
address of this file.
d) A short description of the work -- less than 200 words in length.
f) Any instructions required to operate the work.
g) The date the work was first distributed or published, or
"unpublished" if it has not yet been made available to the public.

2) Prepare a .zip archive including the work in its entirety. Include
the text file from step (1) at the top level of this archive, and
name it "submisson.txt".

3) Upload the .zip file to a web server so that it is available at
the specified location.

4) Place all of the text in the "submisson.txt" file in the body of
an email and send it to collection@eliterature.org with the name of
the piece being submitted included in the subject line.

The Electronic Literature Collection is supported by institutional
partners including the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing
(CPCW) at the University of Pennsylvania, ELINOR: Electronic
Literature in the Nordic Countries, Maryland Institute for Technology
in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland, The Richard
Stockton College of New Jersey, and The School of Journalism and Mass
Communication at the University of Minnesota.

Please forward this call to appropriate mailing lists and to
individuals who might be interested in submitting their work.