remix my lit

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 whole story through one of the online cut up machines we blogged about. We used the lazarus corporation’s Text Mixing Desk to come up with our own rastafarian prude remix using the “rasta rack” module combined with the “expletive deleted” filter.

Damian is the author of the excellent novel Luck in the Greater West, which won him the ABC Fiction Award. As one of the judges commented, “Luck in the Greater West offers a compelling insight into a world Australian literature doesn’t often visit.”

You can get yourself a copy of Damian’s novel here or do as his latest character Dara would and track him down on MySpace.