Roundup: Social Media, Technology, and Innovation

In our Roundups segment, we’re looking back at all the great posts since the blog started in 2009. We explore posts from our archives as well as other top literary magazines and websites, centered on a certain theme to help you jump-start your week.

We featured a post recently about literary magazine approaches to social media, and it got us thinking: How are writers being innovative with social media and technology? Enjoy this multi-faceted roundup.

From Ploughshares:

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  Justin Alvarez surveys literary magazine approaches to media promotion in “Social Media in a Literary World.”
• Emerson College’s Electronic Publisher-in-Residence John Rodzvilla looks at the innovation of digital literary magazines in “REDACTED: Experiences with Digital Americana’s Interactive Literary Magazine.”
• In “Why I’m Not On Twitter Yet,” Jamie Quatro explains her “fears of incompatibility with the medium.” In her follow-up entitled “Regarding Recognition: A Response to Michael Nye, With Gratitude” she further speaks of the “call/response, writer/reader connection” of Twitter.
• In our “Innovators in Lit” series we look at lit mags, editors, and writers on the edge. Here are our interviews with The Lit Pub, featherproof books, and an interview with Dzanc Books editor Matt Bell.

From Around the Web:

• Poets & Writers offers a series on how writers are using online media. Here are their posts on “How to Use Pinterest to Connect With Readers” and “How to Use Tumblr to Connect With Readers.”
• Thomas Beller asks about the writer living the public sphere of Twitter in his New Yorker article “The Ongoing Story: Twitter and Writing.”
• Rob W. Hart at LitReactor asks “Is Kickstarter A Viable Tool For Writers?”
• Flavorwire has a roundup of “The Year’s Coolest Literary Magazine Innovations,” including Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading and Boston Book Festival’s One City, One Story.
• The Guardian rounds up 21 “Twitter novels” from well-known writers in “Twitter fiction: 21 authors try their hand at 140-character novels.”