The Digital Review, a sibling publication of the electronic book review, is an annual journal dedicated to publishing and preserving innovative born-digital essays. Each themed issue offers a curated mix of commissioned, submitted, and "rediscovered" work.
Founded in 2020 by Will Luers and Joe Tabbi, the journal revives a mode of writing that thrived in the early days of the web. It takes its cue from ebr's 1996 issue and from pioneering journals of digital nonfiction, including Vectors, Kairos, Drunken Boat, Beehive, Riding the Meridian, and frAme. Many of these are now archived, and our "Rediscoveries" feature returns to them with preservation support from the Electronic Literature Lab.
As generative AI changes how writing is produced and read, we remain committed to the essay as a form of individual thought and as an open field of hybrid human-computer expression. We seek work that challenges conventional views or processes, that is innovative in form, reflective about its own making, or critical of the media it uses.
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This special issue was generously funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
The Digital Review is made possible with support from Washington State University Vancouver.
Many thanks to the Creative Media & Digital Culture program and the Electronic Literature Lab for research, development and design assistance.
