We’re delighted to announce that this Friday’s special guest on LITOPIA AFER DARK will be Canadian-born novelist and author of digital fiction, Kate Pullinger. Currently Reader in Creative Writing and New Media at De Montfort University, Leicester, Kate teaches the online MA in Creative Writing and New Media that she helped establish.

She has been writer-in-residence in many places, including Battersea Arts Centre, The University of Reading, the prisons HMP Gartree and HMP Maidstone, and in Maidstone itself. She was Judith E Wilson Visiting Writing Fellow at Jesus College, University of Cambridge, 1995/96 and the Visiting Writing Fellow at The Women's Library, London Metropolitan University, 2001/03.

Kate is one of the first literary writers to work in the digital field. In February 2007, De Montfort University and Penguin Publishing collaborated to host the world’s first wiki novel - "A Million Penguins" - using the same software that runs Wikipedia. Over a five week period nearly 1,500 people signed up to edit the novel, over 11,000 edits were made and it was viewed over 500,000 times leading the CEO over Penguin Publishing to muse that it was maybe the "most written novel in history."

Her most recent novel, A Little Stranger, was published in the UK by Serpent's Tail in January 2006.

Join us live in the UStream chatroom this Friday to be part of a special podcast! The chatroom opens at the following times, the show itself starts recording 30 minutes later.

• 7:30pm London time
• 2:30pm New York / EST
• 11:30am Los Angeles PST

• 7:30pm London
• 2:30pm New York / EST
• 11:30am Los Angeles PST