Hi, I'm [Tegan E. Webb]<c1|. I write [short fiction]<c2|, [non fiction]<c8|, [zines]<c3| and [games]<c4|. I like to write about robots, speculative futures, and strange creatures who have a lot of feelings.
I also [perform my writing]<c5| and [run workshops]<c6| at festivals and one off events across the country. And I got [shortlisted]<c9| for something recently, which is pretty damn cool. Oh and I also got to go to Google Creative Labs in Sydney last year to help [develop some writing tools]<c81| using machine learning technology.
If you would like to [get in touch]<c7| for work or for collaboration, please do, I would love to chat.
(click:?c7)[email: tewebb23@gmail.com
instagram: @tegleg0023
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(click: ?c81)[<b>ML Tools for Writers Program</b>
In July 2019 I got visit Google HQ in Sydney to be a part of this cool project, which involved myself and two other very talented writers working with the team at Google creative labs to test and workshop some digital tools for etswriters that were built using machine learning technology. The tools aren't available to use at this stage, but you can read more about the project and the works that we created with them <a href="https://2019.digitalwritersfestival.com/event/ml-tools-for-writers/" target="_blank"> here</a>. There's also video posted below (and see me be a big dork on camera).
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(click: ?c2)[<span id="fiction1" class="hidden"><b>Short Fiction</b>
- <a href="https://2019.digitalwritersfestival.com/when-i-hold-your-hand-i-feel-by-teagan-webb/" target="_blank"> When I Hold Your Hand I Feel</a>: 2019 Digital Writers Festival
- <a href="http://teganewebb.neocities.org/sheloveslike.html" target="_blank">She Loves Like</a>: SEVENTH Gallery Emerging Writers Program
- <a href="http://www.scum-mag.com/i-heart-eowyn/" target="_blank">I Heart Eowyn</a>: Scum Mag
- <a href="https://alexbennetts.itch.io/bonfire-park" target="_blank">A List of My Crushes as Pretty Rocks I Can Put in My Pocket</a>: Bonfire Park Zine
- Flora: Concrete Queers #7 - Speculative Fiction
- Hey Rhys: Launched at the Digital Writers Festival 2016, and continued with Noted Festival 2017
- Encarta 95: Woolfpack Zine #7
- <a href="http://www.scum-mag.com/sex-machine/" target="_blank">Sex Machine</a>: Scum Mag
- Atomic Sunflower: Issue #4 of Moss Piglet Journal
- Glamour: Issue #3 of Moss Piglet Journal</span>
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(click: ?c8)[<b>Non fiction</b>
- Interview with Nina Freeman for Frankie Magazine (Issue 87)
- <a href="https://subbed.in/ibishouse/666/teganwebb" target="_blank"> The Next Train to Depart</a>: Ibis House
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(click: ?c3)[<b>Zines</b>
Hey Jupiter: Online during Quarantine
Usually I write and release an anonymous personal zine called 'Hey Jupiter' through Sticky Institute and Small Zine Volcano - I like to print it on physical paper and just send it out into the world, not knowing who will read it. I'm still writing the zine, but during the pandemic I can't distribute it in this way, so I'm gonna scan the pages and post them here for a while.
I have zines for sale at <a href="http://www.stickyinstitute.com/" target="_blank">Sticky Institute</a>, at zine fairs or via my <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/incaseofdystopia" target="_blank">etsy store.</a>]
(click: ?c4)[<b>Games/Interactive Fiction</b>
- How to Summon a Ghost: A small bitsy game about a ghost, a witch, a friendship and some magic.
<iframe src="https://itch.io/embed/546453" height="167" width="552" frameborder="0"><a href="https://teganewebb.itch.io/how-to-summon-a-ghost">how to summon a ghost by teganewebb</a></iframe>
- Am I Making Sense?: Twine piece for the DWF18 event Trust Fall
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- <a href="https://my.visme.co/projects/q6reko9r-cq12-2#s8" target="_blank"> Sign In / Sign Out</a>: Twine piece published in Concrete Queers #16
- Saturday Night Rituals: Bitsy Game about the small rituals I sometimes perform before going out.
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- Young Spells: Twine about teens who are also queer witches. Navigate your way through a young girl's memories, searching for the ingredients that will allow you to cast your spell.
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I've also started tinyletter called '<a href="https://tinyletter.com/twinetarotdeck" target="_blank">twine tarot deck</a>', a small project to help me learn different twine mechanics and make small interactive games/poems/stories inspired by the major arcana of the tarot
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(click:?c5)[<b>Performances/Readings</b>
- Twine Hang: 2019 Freeplay Festival Conference
- <a href="http://www.freeplay.net.au/" target="_blank">Freeplay: Parallels 2018 Showcase</a>
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- Emerging Writers Festival 2018: Speculative Fiction Workshop; Beyond Human Panel and 8-bit performance night
- <a href="https://alexbennetts.itch.io/bonfire-park" target="_blank">Bonfire Park: An exhibition of games, art and writing at Bar SK</a>
- Digital Writers Festival 2017: <a href="http://teganewebb.neocities.org/dwf17.html" target="_blank">Missives from the Future</a>
- National Young Writers Festival 2017: E-lit Reading Room, Multi-media Multiverse, Fan Fiction Cosplay Reading, Festival Game
- Moss Piglet Podcast: <a href="https://soundcloud.com/mosspigletpodcast" target="_blank">Episode 1</a>
- Digital Writers Festival 2016: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWZbM-CCqJM" target="_blank">The Limits and Possibilities of Digital Writing</a>
- National Young Writers Festival 2016: Late Night Readings; Sex, Death and Money
- Science Friction Spoken Word: Moreland Summer Show
- I Steadied Myself For Her Lines: Found Festival 2015
- National Young Writers Festival 2015: Late Night Readings; Sex and Cyborgs
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(click:?c6)[<b>Workshops</b>
- Bitsy Workshop: Yarra Libraries
- Digital Writers Festival 2018: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbLyjl27kNM" target="_blank">Twine Learning</a>
- Twine workshop for the St Kilda Film Festival 2018
- Zine Workshop for Year 10 Education Program for the Agency Ink Exhibition: Counihan Gallery, Moreland City Council
- Zine Workshop for the Young Writers Program for NYWF17
- Zine Workshop for Year 10 girls from Canterbury Girls and Sacred Heart High school for Monash University Faculty of Arts Outreach program
- Zine Workshop for grades 5 and 6: Merri Creek Primary School
- Zines and Friendship Workshop: East Coburg Community House 'Girl Gang' series
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(click:?c9) [<b> Awards/Shortlistings </b>
- <a href="http://www.seizureonline.com/content/2019/8/19/viva-shortlister-tegan-webb" target="_blank">Klea and Xta</a>: Shortlisted for the 2019 Seizure Viva La Novella Prize]