Category Archives: elit

EAASI emulation & my interactive works

Very pleased that my interactive narrative works from the 1990s and early 2000s – I Am A Singer (1996) and of day, of night (2003) were selected to be part of a trial project with The Australia Emulation Network using … Continue reading

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Visiting scholar at WSUV’s Electronic Literature Lab

I’ve just returned from an incredible opportunity as Visiting Scholar at Washington State University Vancouver, where I was embedded in Professor Dene Grigar’s extraordinary Electronic Literature Lab in order to access, document, preserve and perform my electronic literature/ interactive narrative … Continue reading

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Future Text keynote, Nov 24 2017

Key slides from my keynote talk – Future Text: glimpsing narrative futures through the history of digital writing – on electronic / digital narrative that I delivered for the annual NSW English Teachers Association Conference, UNSW Nov 24, 2017. 1Slides-FutureTextFIN2

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For info on Secret Language

For information on The Secret Language of Desire electronic literature app for iPads, please visit  https://www.creativecultural.com/meganheyward/?page_id=1497

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Secret Language of Desire in Norway for ELO 2015

It’s been a busy couple of weeks as I’ve just travelled to Bergen, Norway for ELO 2015; a major conference and exhibition on Electronic Literature. Secret Language was exhibited as one of the curated electronic literature works, where projects were exhibited in several … Continue reading

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Secret Language is in the AppStore!!

The Secret Language of Desire has been approved by Apple and is now available in the AppStore!! The Secret Language of Desire is an interactive narrative app for iPads, in which 27 ultra-short stories merge with interactive elements to create an intimate, surprising … Continue reading

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Animations, sound design

Further updates on Secret Language… I am getting closer –  yes, I keep saying this but building every little thing from the ground up is very, very time consuming. The writing is done; the app has been designed and built by me, I am now … Continue reading

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Getting closer

I am getting closer to finalising the new creative work, The Secret Language of Desire, a digital narrative written and designed specifically to take advantage of the intimate and haptic nature of electronic tablets. Secret Language is comprised of close to 30 … Continue reading

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Secret language

More work, more animation, more writing … more soon.

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Scratch ‘n’ sniff

Spent most of today working on a lovely little haptic effect for this new work… scratch ‘n’ sniff ( well, scratch at least)… A nice way of revealing hidden contents…

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