* = this writer's journal is online

Artistic Director
Sue Thomas
Site Editor
Helen Whitehead
Admin. Assistant
Jill Pollicott

Writers-in-Residence
Bernard Cohen*
Alan Sondheim*
Alan McDonald
Christy Sheffield Sanford*

Volunteer Mentors
Peter Griffin
Kirsten Krauth
Steen Kristiansen
Kaz Madigan
Margaret Penfold*

Writers' Attachments
Margaret Penfold*
Dan Gudgel*
Sue Rea*
David Leicester*

Online Writers' Attachments
Dael Allison*
Jenni Meredith
Dorothea Smartt
Carrie McMillan

Poetry Places
Catherine Byron*
Martin Glynn*
Elizabeth James*
Bill Herbert

Freelance Writers and Programmers
Ali Graham
Teri Hoskin
Simon Mills
Andy Oldfield
Leonie Winson

* = this writer's journal is online

The Wired Poets

Poetry Places

The Poetry Society has selected trAce as one of a number of Poetry Places. It is the only virtual site: other Poetry Places include Ladbroke Square in London; the oceanic mid-Atlantic Ridge; and the countries of Columbia and Catalonia.

As a Poetry Place, trAce has established the Wired Poets project in which poets are teamed up with a mentor who works with them online for three months and helps them to extend and develop their internet skills.

Poet Catherine Byron, whose Poetry Place is the Vale of the River Tas, South Norfolk, is also working with trAce to develop a web-based presentation of her piece. Her poem The Renderers is also a collaboration with the painter Eileen Coxon.

All of the poets in this scheme keep online journals and their learning progress can be followed here alongside that of other writers working with trAce.

The Wired Poets and their mentors are:
Martin Glynn: Mentor - Leonie Winson
Bill Herbert: Mentor - Andy Oldfield
Elizabeth James: Mentor - Simon Mills

trAce offers the Wired Poets:

• Free one-to-one support and mentoring, via email, for 12 weeks
• £200 cash to help with internet access costs

• Keep an online journal of the progress of learning during the period of the attachment (we will train you how to do this)
• Attend an Evaluation Day, when it is hoped that all of the poets and their mentors will meet up to evaluate the experience

Aims
The scheme aims to increase the level of internet awareness amongst British poets by working on a one-to-one basis with selected writers interested in developing their net skills.

How it works
Each poet is teamed with a mentor who is familiar with the needs and interests of writers working on the internet. Partnerships are tailored to fit the poet's requirements, so that specific areas of interest can be catered for. Training and support is by individual arrangement, but can focus on topics like:

• Building a website
• Creating hypertext
• Collaborative writing
• Writing in MOOs and other text-based virtual worlds
• Using specific software packages
• Exploring cyberculture
• General techniques

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