English & Writing Guest Speakers - Alison Norrington
Date and time
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Thursday 21 February
5pm
Tremough Campus Exchange Lecture Theatre
Alison Norrington, transmedia storyteller, novelist, journalist, playwright
Alison is the creator of the internationally acclaimed transmedia novel Staying Single - www.sophie-stayingsingle.blogspot.com - a multi-platform, fragmented story, delivered through email, blog entries, YouTube mini-documentaries and Second Life. She is also one of the world’s leading experts in transmedia storytelling, running workshops and masterclasses all over the world, from Hollywood to Madrid. She was conference chair for the 2011 StoryWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco and co-ordinator/online community manager for TEDx Transmedia (Geneva 2010, Rome 2011). And somewhere she finds time to be CEO of transmedia consultancy storycentralDIGITAL.