Chris Meade spent three days with us working and debating all sort of questions on literacy within the digital environment in our Salamanca Centre.

Chris Meade is Director of if:book. Chris has an M.A. in Creative Writing & New Media and his digital fiction In Search of lost Tim was described by the Independent on Sunday as “a jeu d’esprit and just possibly the future of fiction. He was Director of Booktrust from 2000 – 2007, running the Bookstart scheme and a range of book prizes and promotions, and Director of the Poetry Society from 1994-2000, where he set up the Poetry Cafe in Covent Garden and the lottery funded Poetry Places project, described by Andrew Motion as “a modern miracle”. In the 1980s and 90s he worked in Sheffield and Birmingham libraries, promoting Creative Reading and ‘Imagination Services’.

During his stage he made a brilliant speech that you can see here:

IF:BOOK:  so much has changed about how we read now promoting reading is not promoting paper 

The book is just a souvenir of our reading, so we should concentrate on words more than in paper, because words are what really matters and I think that also in schools we should concentrate on words.

Yesterday was the Ipad moment and it seems to me very, very significant... much more significant than other ereaders because it puts literature on the main stage.

The project Songs of imagination and digitasion, oh yes! the great poet William Blake would use and abuse new technologies, because this is the perfect moments for doing new kind of books.

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Before Hotbook...Crazy experiment a twelve year old with no memories     

Hotbook: it's not a project to fool people to read

One step beyond Book Groups and a wkinovel:  "one million penguins"...free reading  

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