The Immersive Writing Lab is a 2 day global creative event about rethinking how we tell stories.

It brings together the most creative wrtiers and technologists working today, to help create stories that move beyond linear narrative - expect an amazing two days of talks, labs and demos that are fundamentally rethinking how we tell stories in the digital age.

Day 1 (August 20th) - 'Learning the Tools'. On this day, the best creative writers and technologists working today, the tools that can now be used to tell stories. This day is designed a taster to help widen your already vast creative palette. To view the full list of speakers and the topics they will be discussing, you can follow this:

Day 2 (August 21th) - 'Creative Workshop'. On this day, it is the really fun bit. We will start developing your own storyworlds and look to demo for the first time to the public 'Varytale' a tool that could help you tell these sorts of stories. To stay updated sign up to the updates on facebook.

We hope you enjoy it - we have kept the price low, because we want to help develop and grow the writers of tomorrow - we fundamentally believe, storytelling will go next will be about big minds and not big budgets.

There will be a competition on the back of the event, where we put £6k of our own money into the competition winner's story; with the top 5 entries being given feedback by Sarah Clay, Multiplatform Executive Producer at the BBC (E20, Becoming Human, Waterloo Reunited).

For more information go to www.immersivewritinglab.com

Otherwise we look forward to seeing you on the 20th!

Julian McCrea
Portal Entertainment