What is digital storytelling? What kind of meaningful experiences can you create online? What makes digital storytelling different to other forms of writing?
Express Media is proud to present the 2024 return of Toolkits: Digital Storytelling – an online course in the forms, skills, and ethics of creating stories for the web and beyond. This program will combine theoretical approaches, practical exercises, group workshopping, and one-on-one mentorship to guide young writers to experiment and develop their work in a range of digital forms.
During this 12-week program, you’ll get to explore the many and varied forms of digital writing. Participants will develop their skills, workshop their writing and connect with other writers as they analyse and produce work that buzzes, wobbles, and whirrs – writing that is interactive, generative, multimedia and massively online.
Participants also have the chance to learn from some of Australia’s best writers, with guest artists (to be announced) presenting live and online in sessions for young writers across the country.
Toolkits: Digital Storytelling will run on Wednesdays at 6—8pm AEST throughout September, October and November. If you are a young writer or artist interested in digital storytelling, we want to hear from you!
Applications for this stream have been extended to Wednesday 4th Sept 11:59pm
Aries M Gacutan | Toolkits: Digital Storytelling facilitator
Aries M. Gacutan is a poet, editor and digital writer who works on the traditional lands of the Woiwurrung and Boonwurrung people of the Kulin nation. They are interested in the role that space and place play in forming identity, and in particular how these roles manifest within developing and deteriorating digital spaces. In 2024, they were awarded the Emerging Poets Residency with Red Room Poetry. They currently edit for Voiceworks Online and NEOKOSMOS by Russell Cragg. They can be found @the.aries.zone on Instagram or @thearieszone on X/Twitter.
You can browse the final projects from Toolkits: Digital Storytelling 2022 & 2023, published as part of the season outcomes.
Become an Express Media Member!
Toolkits is free for Express Media members along with a number of other perks, events, and opportunities. You must be a member to participate in Toolkits. If you’re not already a member, you can easily sign up here.
Note: Express Media is committed to access, so if you would like to sign up and are experiencing financial hardship, please submit your application and contact us via info@expressmedia.org.au to be awarded one of our sponsored memberships if your Toolkits application is successful.
