One week today, Wednesday 15th July, writer and poet Bridget Hart and I will be running a place writing workshop at The Studio in Bath, where we’ll be using what3words and a range of interactive and playful methods to inspire us. Sign up here: thestudioinbath.co.uk/events/place...

Place Writing with Pin the Tale - The Studio

Pin the Tale is a creative writing workshop that brings storytelling and place together through digital mapping. Bath is teeming…

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🚨 Our Annual Symposium is tomorrow! Join us online from 9:45am for a day exploring the digital geographies of fragility, ending with Professor Margath Walker's keynote, The Fragility of AI. Programme & last-minute registration: digitalgeographiesrg.org/9-july-2026-... #DGRGAnnualSymposium2026

Sharing this again for those in London on Wednesday. what3words is a superb tool for getting your creative writing juices flowing. Join us in this free workshop where we'll have a go at place-based writing using 3-word addresses! #creativewriting #place #psychogeography #what3words #storytelling

Kate Devlin@drkatedevlin.bsky.social · 3mo ago

And on afternoon of 3 June join @jackalowe.bsky.social for friendly creative writing workshop using places and their what3words addresses as inspiration for storytelling. You'll be guided through a series of short writing activities using place as inspiration. www.tickettailor.com/events/dfist...

🏆 The DGRG is pleased to offer a prize to the best undergraduate dissertation in any area of digital geography. The winner will receive £100 and have the opportunity to showcase their work through DGRG channels. Submit your nominations by 22 July 2026. Full submission information below 🔗

Digital Geographies Research Group | Undergraduate dissertation prize

Prize for the best undergraduate dissertation in digital geography showing original research, critical analysis, and/or innovative methodology.

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London people interested in place-based creative writing and storytelling: this free Pin the Tale workshop is coming up on 3rd June as part of the Festival of Storytelling run by @kings-dfi.bsky.social!

Kate Devlin@drkatedevlin.bsky.social · 3mo ago

And on afternoon of 3 June join @jackalowe.bsky.social for friendly creative writing workshop using places and their what3words addresses as inspiration for storytelling. You'll be guided through a series of short writing activities using place as inspiration. www.tickettailor.com/events/dfist...

Buckle up, buttercup! I'm going to do a thread with all the cool stuff going on in our King's Digital Futures Institute free Festival of Storytelling, taking place in central London on 2-4 July and open to EVERYONE. @kings-dfi.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @kingsartshums.bsky.social

This happened last week! Street2Boardroom, a board game I designed and wrote, has had its first commercial print run. I received my own copy and found it incredibly satisfying to be able to physically hold something I’ve made, as most of my creative work is digital!

Nominations are now open for this year's Society and Research Groups undergraduate dissertation prizes 🏆 Know students who’ve produced outstanding work across different areas of the discipline? Departments can submit nominations by 22 July. Find out more 👇 https://ow.ly/xM3o50YJYmW

Undergraduate dissertation prizes | RGS

Annual undergraduate dissertation prizes, including the Alfred Steers Prize, awarded by the Society and its Research and Working Groups.

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For many of our colleagues across the industry "Kaleidoscope" is already a classic - an excellent book with 100 essays by 100 Narrative experts each offering a distinct perspective on the craft of storytelling in games. www.inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope/ 1/4

This Thursday 23rd April 6.30 – 8pm, have a go at creative writing with what3words! I’m running an ONLINE workshop with The Writers’ Block, where we’ll be using the idea of 3-word locations to open the door to memories, imagination and new ways of seeing places. www.tickettailor.com/events/thewr...

Buy tickets – Pin the Tale - Online Workshop – Zoom

Pin the Tale - Online Workshop – Zoom, Thu 23 Apr 2026 - Join us for a relaxed and inspiring evening of creative writing, using the idea of three-word locations to spark stories about the places that ...

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Pin the Tale, my what3words storytelling game, has won the 'Best Use of Digital Humanities for Fun' award in the annual Digital Humanities Awards!! I'm thrilled, honoured and a little in awe.

🚨My what3words storytelling game Pin the Tale has been nominated here for an award! 🚨It's purely determined by public vote, so would be hugely grateful if you could vote for Pin the Tale in the last category of this form (do check out + vote in the other categories too if you can!)

DH Awards@dhawards.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Still time to vote in #DH Awards 2025, the #DigitalHumanities Awards awareness event. Anyone can vote (once) up until 2026-04-17. Anyone? Yes, anyone. Your aunt can vote, your highschool friend can vote, anyone! dhawards.org/dhawards2025... (or secure form directly at forms.gle/FvWp3NYs8hv1...)

I had such a brilliant time chatting to @jon.inkle.co and @sagarberoshi.bsky.social about world-building from material details, building plausible deniability into your settings, and how players love to be historians so you may as well embrace it with your narrative design. Give it a listen!

inkle@inkle.co · 4mo ago

This week on the Game Narrative Kaleidoscope Podcast: Historian and game writer @hollynielsen.bsky.social talks about building plausible deniability into your world-building by pinning lore on sources. Check it out here: www.inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope... ... or any-podcast-place!

How can what3words be used as a tool for creative writing and storytelling? In this article for The Writing Platform, I discuss the trends I have noticed in how people write stories with what3words on Pin the Tale: thewritingplatform.com/2026/03/what...

Today we launch States of Precarity in UK HE Geography. Thank you to the 364 colleagues whose experiences shaped this work. Download the report, share widely, and join us in advocating for change. Launch event (1:00-2:30GMT): www.rgs.org/events/upcom... Read report: www.rgs.org/research/hig...

States of precarity in UK Higher Education geography

Findings from a discipline-focused research project exploring the lived realities of precarious academic work within UK Higher Education geography.

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👋 Now say hi to Jack Lowe (he/him), our Prize Co-ordinator, helping to recognise outstanding research in digital geographies. @jackalowe.bsky.social recommends you check out Pin The Tale (pinthetale.co.uk) and this free mystery game (interment.itch.io/play) to wave Monday goodbye! #DGRGCommittee

Statement from the Digital Geographies Research Group (RGS-IBG) The Royal Geographical Society’s (RGS-IBG) Digital Geographies Research Group (DGRG) are deeply concerned about the impacts and implications of ongoing crises facing Geography departments in UK Universities. 1/6

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A Research Group of the RGS-IBG

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New Pin the Tale newsletter out today, with details of an event this weekend about mapping unofficial stories of Bristol, and sharing some of the wonderful poetry written during our recent workshops hosted by Watershed: mailchi.mp/9adcda28d944...

Pin the Tale will be part of this wonderful event in Sparks on 15th Nov about mapping meaningful landmarks and unofficial place names in central Bristol. Will be old maps galore and plenty of fun, interesting and creative things to do. Drop in any time 11am-5pm and bring fellow Bristolians with you!

Last Thursday, Bridget Hart and I ran an online version of our Pin the Tale poetry workshop, hosted by @wshed.bsky.social. Deeply inspiring + moving to hear the site-specific poetry our participants wrote in a short space of time. Many of these poems have now been uploaded to the Pin the Tale map.

The DGRG Dissertation Prize 2025 Winner is Levina Purewal for “‘I can’t think without ChatGPT’: A Cognitive Sociotechnical Assemblage Analysis of Student-AI Entanglement at Durham University”. Reviewers praised the contribution, multi-method approach, analysis & ambition 1/2 @geogdurham.bsky.social

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Alt: A gif of a a man with short hair in a tuxedo standing in front of a red curtain. He is holding an envelop which he opens and at the bottom of the gif white text states 'and the winner is ... ''

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Are you a Bristol-based poet? If so, we’re inviting you to creatively explore the city through Pin the Tale — a digital platform for mapping stories, poems and place. Join us for FREE online Thu 16 Oct 18:30. https://www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/13457/pin-the-tale-poetry-workshops

Pin the Tale: Poetry Workshops

We’re inviting Bristol’s poets to creatively explore the city through Pin the Tale — a digital platform for mapping stories, poems and place, created by Pervasive Media Studio resident Jack Lowe.

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Was an absolute joy hosting a Pin the Tale poetry workshop at @pmstudiouk.bsky.social last Thursday with Bridget Hart. Participants shared poems about places all across Bristol, written using what3words addresses, and we even wrote a collective poem about Bristol’s iconic Turbo Island!

Delighted to share the first research report from @immersiveartsuk.bsky.social It's a deep dive into the immersive arts exhibition and distribution ecosystem, bringing together interviews and recommendations from an incredible group of experts. immersivearts.uk/news/first-r...

First Report: Early days of the immersive exhibition network - Immersive Arts

Over the past 10–15 years, the appetite for immersive work both from artists and audiences has grown faster than the networks supporting it. This report brings together insights and recommendations fr...

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After a couple of weeks away on leave, got a warm fuzzy feeling from writing our latest Pin the Tale newsletter. It shares news of our latest software update, successful and upcoming workshops, and our recent Container Magazine piece. mailchi.mp/78b0b7ed3c28...

Are you at the RGS-IBG conference in Birmingham this week? And do you have a story to share about a place that is meaningful to you? Look out for our Pin the Tale stand in the Teaching and Learning Building foyer, where you can browse our online map, read other people’s stories and add your own.

Small update: Pin the Tale no longer needs GPS to be active to load the map! If you were ever met with an infinite loading screen, it’s because location was being blocked on your device. This won’t happen anymore! (1/2)

I wrote a design diary about the intersections of macro & micro history and how they can be used for worldbuilding and writing. It’s about our work on Amberspire, but I think it’ll be of interest to both game devs, writers, and historians interested in creative histories more generally 🌒

nic tringali@nictringali.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Today's Amberspire design diary is written by @hollynielsen.bsky.social, going into different scales of 'history' and how those are used to construct a fictional world. It's very much worth a read: lunardivision.net/micro-and-ma...

Our latest Pin the Tale newsletter was sent out earlier this week, telling of some exciting developments in the land of what3words storytelling: mailchi.mp/959fcc48aadd... Expecting to send out another issue pretty soon; there's lots happening!

Just published! I wrote an article for Container Magazine on my what3words storytelling game Pin the Tale: what it is, how people have used it and what it means for how people engage with places: containermagazine.co.uk/pin-the-tale...

Pin the Tale: Engaging With Place Through Site-Specific Storytelling

Dr. Jack Lowe presents insights from creating Pin the Tale, an interactive map for people to tell and locate stories about places in the UK.

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