The internet has brought many changes to the literary profession including both innovative and creative experiences. But how has all this it affected the lives and working practices of writers? What are the measurable changes? What does the future hold?

The trAce Online Writing Centre has launched a major survey of internet use open to all writers from beginners to the most experienced. It seeks to identify common key moments of change for writers starting to work using the internet, and to look at the common skills we need to acquire to ease that transition. Open until 9th December 2002, it is designed to provide a snapshot of writers using the internet in the last ten years. The survey forms part of Mapping the Transition from Page to Screen, a research project
funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Board and mapping recent
developments in online writing.

Artistic Director Sue Thomas explains: "The survey is open to all writers whether they discovered computers twenty years ago or yesterday. It looks at where each writer was in 1991 and again in 2001, and how their writing process and practice has changed over the intervening years as well as mapping some of the collaborative partnerships which continue to thread ever more complex pathways across our virtual landscape."

By participating, writers will be helping to improve public understanding of the internet and stand a chance of winning a