Announcing the Future Voices competition

inklewriter has been up for about a month now. George Osborne‘s been using it. indiegames.com used the words “joy” and “magic”. And in a couple of days, we’ll be at Games Brittannia with Ian Livingstone helping a team of schoolkids get their own interactive stories up and running (and I’ll be having teacher-flashbacks).

So now it’s your turn to get involved. Yes, you. You like writing, don’t you? That’s why you’re reading this. Well, here’s your chance to write something and get it read by industry professionals. And if it’s in the top 10 best short stories we receive before the 15th of September, it’ll be published, worldwide, in our Future Voices inklebook.

That’s right: inkle is hosting a competition for writers, new and established, old and young, ferocious and funny. There’s even a gentle cash prize to tickle under your nose, in case fame isn’t enough.

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Introducing the inklewriter

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One of the best things about working with interactive stories is they’re new: the ground is mostly untested, the formulas are still in their infancy, and people are having new ideas about what works all the time.

One of the hardest things about working with interactive stories is also that they’re new: it’s not always clear to see what to try next. It’s not even clear to see how to get started.

The ability to experiment is key, and we need to get more people trying things out and exploring the possibilities of interactive stories. And while we’re not a self-publishing platform - we want every inklebook we produce to be something really special! – we also know that great talent isn’t easy to find, especially when our best authors might not even know about interactive stories… yet!

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