Never in print: the born-digital literary essay - a practical workshop on the online literary essay

Is print the ideal and only form for the literary essay? The Sydney Review of Books has only ever existed as an online publication and the essays we publish exist only in digital format. How can the multimodality exhibited by many genres of online writing inform the practice of literary essayists, such as those published in the Sydney Review of Books? Or should the essay, a mode of careful literary deliberation, shield itself from the distractions and vernacular of digital media? What do "digital-only" and "born digital" mean for the research and composition practices of literary essayists?