BRAND NEW:  'INANIMATE ALICE, EPISODE 4:  HOMETOWN' is available online at www.inanimatealice.com . Check out our learning resources and find out about the new tool, iStories, all on Alice's homepage. 

In November 2008, Kate will be teaching a week-long residential course on creative writing and new media with the lovely Mr Chris Meade at the lovely Lumb Bank, which is one of the writing centres run by the Arvon Foundation.  Writing and New Media will take place from 17-22 Nov.  Chris Meade is Co-Director The Institute of the Future of the Book in the UK. Sign up now!

Kate has recently finished her novel, 'The Mistress of Nothing'.  Set in Luxor, Egypt, in 1864, and based on a true story, this novel has taken Kate many years to get right - she first started working on it in 1995!  It will be published in the UK by Serpent's Tail in summer 2009. 

Read the report Digital Livings  commissioned by Sue Thomas at DMU, written by Chris Meade, Director of the UK's if:book.  This report looks into 'how new media writers do, could and will make their way in the world.' 

You can hear a podcast interview with Kate from May 2009 on Litopia After Dark

Earlier this year Kate wrote two articles for the Guardian newspaper - to read her essay on walking in the city at night go to:  Cities at Night  and to read her piece on the debate over royalties for digital downloads go to:  Writers Deserve a Better Deal .

Chris Joseph (babel) and Kate Pullinger have embarked on a new digital project called Flight Paths.  This Arts Council England, London, funded project will allow Pullinger and Joseph to create a networked novel; it is open to contributions from anyone who wants to participate.  We are looking for ideas, memories, multimedia elements, stories, comments, fragments, photos, videos, audio tracks - anything you would like to contribute that is based around the themes of the project.  Check out the first iteration of 'Flight Paths' at www.flightpaths.net.

Is This What You Want? the new anthology of Asham Award short stories, edited by Kate Pullinger, including a new short story by Kate Pullinger, is published by Bloomsbury.  Good reviews have been appearing throughout the national papers, including The Independent and The Observer.

Here's a short video, created by one of the recent graduates of the Online MA in Creative Writing and New Media - scroll down to view.

5 July, 2007, was 'Redemption Day', the day nDreams took our game 'Venus Redemption' to market.  Check out the very cool audio trailer on the website.   There's an interview with the developer from nDreams, Patrick O'Luanaigh, on Next Generation.

Kate does some private 1-1 mentoring of emerging writers.  If you are interested in working with her, write to her via the 'contact' button at the bottom of the page or go to Gold Dust for further information.

Reviews of the paperback edition of 'A Little Stranger' have appeared in various newspapers, including the Guardian , and The Sunday Times.  The paperback is currently offered in the UK as part of various two-for-one etc promotions at Waterstone's, Borders, and WH Smith Travel.

Kate read her essay 'Night Walks' on BBC Radio 3 on 31 May, 2007; go to: Night Walks

Kate and Chris (babel) have won another award for episode 1 of 'Inanimate Alice', the IBM Prize for New Media (second prize, 1000 Euros) at Stuttgart Filmwinter Festival for Expanded Media

Kate Pullinger will be a Keynote Speaker at Interactive Futures 07 at the University of Victoria, BC, Canada in November 07.

Kate recently won two Gold Awards from the British Female Inventors and Innovators Network 2007 - www.bfiin.co.uk.

Kate Pullinger and her students at DMU were recently involved with Penguin Books UK in running an extraordinary online venture, a collaborative novel based in a wiki, A Million Penguins..  Anyone, at any time, anywhere in the world could contribute to the novel, or edit contributions.  The project caused a firestorm in cyberspace; Kate and her students blogged about the experience at A Million Penguins and DMU .  It ran from 1 Feb to 7 March, 2007.

Kate Pullinger's most recent novel, A Little Stranger, was published in the UK by Serpent's Tail in January 2006. Kate launched the book at Canada House on 26 January, and has continued to appear at festivals since then.  Serpent's Tail are about to publish the paperback which currently features in a Borders buy-one-get-another-half-price promotion.   Check out the following reviews at The Independent Newspaper  and The Guardian Newspaper.  You can listen to a podcast interview with Kate recorded this summer by Wayne Milstead at his website www.literaryconversations.com - they discuss 'A Little Stranger' along with Kate's new media work.

Kate Pullinger's multimedia online fictioninanimatealice.com is doing well, winning awards, and being screened in festivals all over the world.  There are three episodes online; 'Episode 3: Russia' is hosted by Guardian Unlimited.  For articles and reviews on Inanimate Alice go to the Inanimate Alice About page.

'Episode 1:  China' was awarded the Prize for Digital Art 2005 by the Italian Ministry of Culture, Department for Culture and Heritage, DARC - General Directorate for Contemporary Architecture and Art, MAXXI - National Museum for Twenty-First Century Arts - in collaboration with the Fondazione Rosselli.

'Episode 1: China' has also been chosen for inclusion in the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 1, to be published in autumn 2006 by The Electronic Literature Organization.

'Episode 2: Italy' was launched in Feb 2006 and a presentation version of 'Episode 3: Russia' waslaunched at EIEF on 22 August, 2006.

The MA in Creative Writing and New Media that Kate has developed at De Montfort University with Professor Sue Thomas has launched itself in cyberspace.  You can find details about the MA at CWNM . Kate Pullinger has now taken up her post as Reader in Creative Writing and New Media at DMU; she is very pleased with the job, and the job title.

'The Breathing Wall' was selected to show in the Art Gallery at Siggraph in Los Angeles, 31 July - 4 August, 2005.

The piece will be shown at two conferences in Australia, Third Iteration , Melbourne, 30 Nov - 2 Dec, 2005 and Generative Arts Practive Symposium in Sydney, 5-7 December.

Kate showed 'The Breathing Wall' at the E-Poetry Conference at Birkbeck College on Saturday, 1 October, 2005.

Kate was a plenary speaker at the bi-annual academic conference of the International Gothic Association in Montreal, 12 August, 2005.

Kate's first radio play: 'The Egyptian Collection', an Afternoon Play, BBC Radio 4,  was broadcast on 14 September, 2005 at 2:15 pm.  It was featured as 'Pick of the Day' in the Guardian Newspaper.

Kate has edited the latest collection of prize-winning stories from the bi-annual Asham Award; the new volume was published by Bloomsbury in April 2006.