literature that’s Read&Write
- August is remix month!
RML has proclaimed August “Remix Month”.
Nine new short stories licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial ShareAlike licences have arrived from authors around the country. It’s now up to you to remix these stories, making sure to acknowledge the author, that your remix is not for commercial use, and your new work is available for others [...]
- sean williams remixes kim wilkins
New York Times best-selling Australian speculative fiction writer Sean Williams shows us how it’s done.
A sometime DJ, Sean has remixed Kim Wilkins’s short story Dreamless. All the lines are lifted intact from the original story, apart from a couple of tiny tense tweaks to create a villanelle: a short poem of written in tercets (usually [...]
- remix cate kennedy
RML is very lucky to have our hands on a brand new story from author Cate Kennedy.
Cate is highly regarded as a short story writer, and has many major prizes to her credit including winning The Age Short Story Competition (twice!), the HQ-Sceptre Short Story Award, and the University of Canberra Short Story Prize. Her stories have [...]
- from essay to poetry @ ABC Pool
RML has been alerted to an innovative example of text remix on the ABC Pool website.
A university essay on East-Asian cinema, Text: Transcendental Style and the Poetics of Tsai Ming-liang
by Tim Dodds, has been transformed into a poetic response, Text: the moment of absurd transcendental mundanity by Don Cameron, which uses only (but not all!) [...]
- remix damian mcdonald
Damian McDonald’s Young Adult short story Dara’s Firebird Lovesong is now available for you to remix.
It’s a longer story than Emily’s but don’t be scared off by the word count. It’s written in two parts with an interesting time lapse inbetween so there’s lots of room for playing with structure. Think flashbacks!
Or try putting the [...]
- remix vs ‘cut up’/'mash up’ vs ‘fold in’
RML has been experimenting with online literature remixing or ‘cut up’ tools that allow you to remix/’cut up’/’mash up’/’fold in’ texts.
The only technology required to do an old school cut up is a sharp pair of scissors. You take a complete and fully linear text, commonly a newspaper or magazine article, and cut it in pieces with a [...]
- get faq’d!
RML has answered our most frequently asked questions.
By far and away the question we most often hear is “what are the rules for remixing literature?”. Well there are “rules” (ie terms) set out by the Creative Commons licence but beyond this, RML isn’t going to give you any rules. What we will do is suggest [...]
- remix emily maguire
Here it is! Your first remixable short story.
To make things easy this is a very very short story, a work of flash fiction by Emily Maguire, titled Cherished.
Emily is an acclaimed novelist, essayist and journalist. Her latest book is Princesses and Pornstars: Sex + Power + Identity. Her novels are Taming the Beast and The [...]
- remix my lit @ melbourne writers’ festival
RML will be at the Melbourne Writers’ Festival running a live literary remixing event in Federation Square on 30 August.
Bring your laptop or mobile phone on Saturday 30 August from 3 - 4:30pm and be part of a live multimedia remix event where you can freely remix brand new stories by our authors.
View the works here [...]
- copy me, pass it on
You’re online, you see some prose you like and you press ‘apple and c’. Copied. Simple as that.
When the functionality of the internet lets content be copied as easily as that, it is hard to maintain the traditional “all rights reserved”/can’t touch this rhetoric of copyright. Sure, at law it’s a breach of copyright. But [...]
