What is digital storytelling? What kind of meaningful experiences can you create online? What makes digital storytelling different to other forms of writing?
Express Media is proud to present the 2025 return of Toolkits: Digital Storytelling – an online course in the forms, skills, and ethics of creating stories for the web and beyond. This program will combine theoretical approaches, practical exercises, group workshopping, and one-on-one mentorship to guide young writers to experiment and develop their work in a range of digital forms.
During this 12-week program, you’ll get to explore the many and varied forms of digital writing. Participants will develop their skills, workshop their writing and connect with other writers as they analyse and produce work that buzzes, wobbles, and whirrs – writing that is interactive, generative, multimedia and massively online.
Participants also have the chance to learn from some of Australia’s best writers, with guest artists (to be announced) presenting live and online in sessions for young writers across the country.
Toolkits: Digital Storytelling will run on Wednesdays at 6—8pm AEST from October 1 to December 17. If you are a young writer or artist interested in digital storytelling, we want to hear from you!
Aries M. Gacutan | Toolkits: Digital Storytelling Facilitator
Aries M. Gacutan is a poet and digital creator working on the traditional lands of the Woiwurrung and Boonwurrung people of the Kulin nation. They also do a bunch of other artsy things for money. They often write about space/place, migrant identity and digital ephemerality. In 2024, they were a recipient of the Emerging Poets Residency in 2024 with Red Room Poetry, and currently facilitate Toolkits: Digital Storytelling with Express Media. Read about their dastardly poetic escapades at "thearieszone.neocities.org".
Have a question? Need help with your application? Send an email to Express Media’s Creative Producer Mia Nie at creativeproducer@expressmedia.org.au.
Explore work from Toolkits: Digital Storytelling 2024 in collaboration with Voiceworks Online, as part of program outcomes.
Browse the final projects from Toolkits: Digital Storytelling 2022 & 2023, published as part of the season outcomes.
Become an Express Media Member!
Toolkits is free for Express Media members along with a number of other perks, events, and opportunities. You must be a member to participate in Toolkits. If you’re not already a member, you can easily sign up here.
Note: Express Media is committed to access, so if you would like to sign up and are experiencing financial hardship, please submit your application and contact us via info@expressmedia.org.au to be awarded one of our sponsored memberships if your Toolkits application is successful.