Mark C Marino

@markcmarino
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I teach writing at the University of Southern California where I run the Humanities and Critical Code Studies Lab. I write and research digital literature and am the Communication Director for the Electronic Literature Organization.

My post-GDC report. Twine! Visible Zorker! The Botanical Garden! The Letterform Archive! (That last one was totally new to me.)

https://blog.zarfhome.com/2026/03/twine-zork-gdc

#InteractiveFiction #gdc2026

Twine and Zork at GDC

I went to GDC with IFTF, and I had a great time! I'm not sure the conference had a great time. You may have seen that attendance was 30% lower than last year. However, I'll save the gloom-and-haruspicy for another post. All the people I talked ...

Zarf Updates

Here are first results from teaching a college writing course with and without AI, in what I call the Analog Sandwich.

https://markcmarino.medium.com/the-analog-sandwich-how-it-went-bd535e7a4b45

The Analog Sandwich (how it went)

What happens when a course goes from using AI to unplugged and back again?

Medium

Don't miss your chance to be a part of the New Media Writing Prize Unconference! Extended deadline 15 March! Online Conference 12-13 May, 2026. Co-sponsored by ELO!

https://newmediawritingprize.co.uk/unconference/

NMWP Annual Unconference - New Media Writing Prize

Annual New Media Writing Prize Unconference. This two-day creative and critical participant-directed Unconference is hosted by Bournemouth University (UK) in partnership with the Electronic Literature Organization and the British Library. The Unconference will culminate in the awards evening for the New Media Writing Prize.

New Media Writing Prize

CFP: MLA27 Los Angeles, 2 panels: We seek 300-word abstracts for two sessions exploring creative responses to coding and AI, from infrastructure to output, from training the models to giving agents skills. Proposals should examine shaping, not reacting, to AI. Deadline for submissions: Sunday, March 15, 2026

https://eliterature.org/2026/02/call-for-proposals-elo-at-mla-2027/

Call for Proposals: ELO at MLA 2027 – Electronic Literature Organization

Check out the Future of Writing '26 Art Gallery

Feat: Nanette Wylde , Sean Cho Ayers, Alan Bigelow , Scott Rettberg , Roderick Coover , Caitlin Fisher , Nimrod Astarhan , Jason Nelson , Janet Cohen, Keith Frank, and Jon Ippolito

haccslab.com/fow26/

Just a little more time to nominate a work or person to one of the 4 ELO Awards!

https://eliterature.org/elo-awards/

ELO Annual Awards – Electronic Literature Organization

Submit to one of the 4 ELO Awards. Nominate a person or a work by March 9!Submit to one of the 4 ELO Awards. Nominate a person or a work by March 9! These cash prizes come with much digital literary celebration and acclaim!

https://eliterature.org/elo-awards/

ELO Annual Awards – Electronic Literature Organization

Exciting news: The 2nd Critical Code Studies special issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly is now online! ed. with Jeremy Douglass

Feat. essays by Kevin Brock, Evan Buswell, Zachary Mann, Briana Bettin, Jeffrey Moro, Zachary Horton and Levi Burner, Matt Burton and Joris van Zundert, and Mace Ojala

https://dhq.digitalhumanities.org/preview/index.html

DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly: Preview

The first proof of the dust jacket / hardback version of The Game Narrative Kaleidoscope has arrived! It is a thing of beauty!

CFP: MLA27 Los Angeles, 2 panels: We seek 300-word abstracts for two sessions exploring creative responses to coding and AI, from infrastructure to output, from training the models to giving agents skills. Proposals should examine shaping, not reacting, to AI. Deadline for submissions: Sunday, March 15, 2026

https://eliterature.org/2026/02/call-for-proposals-elo-at-mla-2027/

Call for Proposals: ELO at MLA 2027 – Electronic Literature Organization