Literary Hypertext: ned after snowslides

In 2001, writer and artist Don Austin created what is arguably the first successful literary hypertext produced in Newfoundland, ned after snowslides. Austin's work of prose poetry follows the disaffected nedImage for Ned after snowslides through a particularly harsh St. John's winter. Mixing text and photography, the work draws a compelling picture of its protagonist while managing to capture both the random and infinite feel of mid-winter days in the city.

Read ned after snowslides.

Read Working in the Dark: an interview with Don Austin.

A binder housing the author's notes, draft versions of the text, and several CD-ROMs containing photographs, slide shows, splash pages and other computer files is housed in Special Collection.