1.
Stories to Touch
Nearlywriting &
New Media Writing Prize
www.ifbook.co.uk

2.
Creative Reading &
Writing
are still vital skills for
full participation in society

3.
My typewriter used to be the only way
to get my words shared and into print
Now there are other ways

4.
We don’t need publishers like we used to
Let’s not worry about the industry’s problems
but look at what changes mean for
readers and writers

5.
Digital possibilities
For the NEARLYWRITER
SELF PUBLISHING
MULTI MEDIA
ILLUMINATION
GAMEPLAY
INTERACTION
COLLABORATION…

6.
The Experience of
The Book
happens
in our heads
and our hearts
Why promote
Paper
When it’s words
We love?

7.
We do need collaborators, coaches, curators…
..and the ability to be self critical, charting our own course

8.
“the most important
thing is to publish in
people’s hearts”

9.
STORIES TO TOUCH
Developing multi-lingual books
for iPads; researching their
use in London schools with
www.wingedchariot.com

10.
DANS MON REVE
WHO LET THE FART OUT?
THE NUMBERLEYS

11.
As a judge of the Bologna Ragazzi
Digital Prize and a researcher into
the use of iPad apps in schools, it’s
great to see literary quality and
imagination are still what really
matter

12.
New platforms allow new kinds of playful engagement with story

13.
Collaborative
Writing..
like the 24 HOUR NOVEL
www.spreadtheword.org.uk

14.
COLLABORATIVE READING
Community of readers, online and off,
exploring a theme, making new work…

15.
ifsobook of nearlypoems
‘CLASSIC’ POEMS
EXPLORED
ILLUMINATED
REMIXED
TRANSLATED
RESPONDED TO
…SEEN AFRESH

16.
What shape of story for our
nearly
kinds
of
lives
?
Nearlyology

17.
IF:BOOK CAFE
The Future of the Book Place

18.
The Unlibrary
What do we need when we bring
our library with us in our laptop?
WI FI
Space to make PROFILES
MEET UPS to connect with other
users

19.
The All-Nighter
Keeping the library open throughout world book night
helped us imagine it afresh

20.
This award is an incentive to writers to make
new kinds of literature to be experienced on screen

21.
The Dreamspace of the Book
This is what we really need to preserve

22.
@ifbook
Chris@futureofthebook.org.uk
www.ifbook.co.uk