Each month we get the volunteers to check any new submissions and contact the orgs they wish to help bring those stories to life. We have a rolling, open call out for any orgs who’d like to submit a project with a social based outcome for consideration by this new group of community mentors. What projects you want to take on as a volunteer community mentor can be entirely up to you. The projects who don’t have the money to pay anyone (for the very reason that they COME from underrepresented groups who have been passed over for generations), but whose stories I think you’ll agree, deserve to be heard.
We know a lot of brilliant editors, creative producers and story doctors in here who have the ability to provide feedback, mentorship, support and production help to these sort of projects. That’s why we made this video, and where you guys come in. But we couldn’t help but think there MUST be a way to get these projects out into the world. So we reluctantly told them that we didn’t have the capacity or way to get them on Story City until we opened our new beta.
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The problem is, we’re a tiny company, we have to face the facts that we don’t have the time needed to build Story City AND provide professional mentorship and feedback to get these and many other amazing projects that want to change our world via the Story City platform. Have suffered at the hands of domestic violence a chance to have their voices Mapping and locative story as a way to bridge the cultural divide between theĪnother wants to give women in Mumbai who I had one academic who is based in Cyprus,Īn Island in the Mediterranean, where Greek and Turkish populations areĬonstantly in upheaval and dispute over differences. Most of these groups don’t have any funds for marketing and communication. We’ve had several activists, groups, not-for-profits and academics approach us about using Story City to create stories that help bridge cultural divides and shine light and understanding on issues with interactive stories that hopefully create change for the communities they’re working with. Over the past 12 months we’ve found ourselves with a problem here at Story City. Such are the lives of authors and superheroes. Dimity lives around the corner from Bat Man on the Gold Coast, although they rarely hang out. She is an experienced presenter at writing festivals and conferences both in Australia and overseas who loves eating cake with ice cream, sailing on the beam and writing in her diary although combining all three makes her nauseous. She’s the Managing Editor for Kids’ Book Review and writes and reviews exclusively for children with over 30 published stories including Oswald (2021), Pippa (2019), critically acclaimed, The Fix-It Man (2018) and At The End of Holyrood Lane, winner of the 2019 SCBWI Crystal Kite Award.
If you’d like to volunteer as a Story City Community Mentor to make sure more of these stories are heard (and get some intensive training and mentorship in interactive storytelling to boot!) make sure you check out the information below the bios on this page!ĭimity’s locative fiction, The Chapel of Unlove was shortlisted for the WA Premier’s Book Awards in 2016 in the Interactive Digital Narrative category.Ī writer for the Story City Gold Coast project in 2015, Dimity Powell writes for children because she wants to be one again and because she loves filling every spare moment with words.
You can find out more about this initiative here. On a rolling basis, with their help, Story City is open to expressions of interest from projects looking to make a social impact using interactive stories that put you in the shoes of our neighbours, our ‘enemies’, our most vulnerable, or people who live on the edge of our awareness just waiting for their chance to be heard. These experienced writers and cultural producers answered our call to help us work with social impact organisations and projects to produce stories that create bridges of understanding in our communities. At Story City we want to empower local people to tell stories that will change another’s world view, to redefine stories so they’re something you’re a part of, rather than something you’re told.
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