Interactive Digital Narratives: Creativity, Theory, and Emerging Practices

Call for Papers

Interactive Digital Narratives: Creativity, Theory, and Emerging Practices

Journal: Digital Creativity
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Abstract Submission Deadline: 31 July 2026
Manuscript Submission Deadline: 31 October 2026

Digital Creativity invites submissions for its Special Issue titled "Interactive Digital Narratives: Creativity, Theory, and Emerging Practices."

About the Special Issue

Interactive Digital Narratives (IDNs) have emerged as a dynamic interdisciplinary field at the intersection of digital arts, electronic literature, game studies, Human–Computer Interaction, artificial intelligence, computational design, and performance studies. As AI-powered storytelling, immersive technologies, and computational creativity continue to evolve, IDNs are transforming how narratives are authored, experienced, and interpreted.

This Special Issue seeks theoretical, methodological, empirical, and practice-based contributions that examine creativity, agency, computational storytelling, immersive media, and AI-enabled narrative systems. It aims to strengthen the theoretical foundations of IDNs while exploring emerging forms of interactive storytelling, co-creative authorship, ethical challenges, and new approaches to narrative design.

Scope and Topics of Interest

Submissions may address, but are not limited to:

• Interactive Digital Narrative (IDN) theory and conceptual frameworks

• Agency, authorship, and computational storytelling

• AI-mediated narrative generation and co-creative authorship

• Human–AI collaboration in creative storytelling

• Interactive storytelling in VR, AR, and mixed reality environments

• Digital theatre, immersive performance, and embodied narratives

• Interactive arts, installations, and participatory storytelling

• Video games and playable narrative systems

• Electronic literature, hypertext, and nonlinear storytelling

• Platform-native literature, codework, and algorithmic writing

• Multimodal, transmedia, and hybrid narrative forms

• Large language models and AI-driven storytelling

• Narrative evaluation, ethics, bias, safety, and accountability in AI-enabled systems

Submission Guidelines

• Abstract Submission Deadline: 31 July 2026

• Manuscript Submission Deadline: 31 October 2026

• Submit an abstract of up to 500 words, along with a 200-word author biography, via email to the Special Issue Co-Editor.

• Authors may include up to two pages of images, where relevant.

• Please CC DCsubmit@gmail.com when submitting the abstract.

• Invited authors will be requested to submit full manuscripts for peer review.

• The Special Issue welcomes theoretical, empirical, methodological, research-through-design, and practice-based contributions.

Special Issue Editors

• Mehulkumar Desai — Indian Institute of Technology (ISM), Dhanbad

• Shanmugapriya T — Indian Institute of Technology (ISM), Dhanbad

• Terhi Marttila — Interactive Technologies Institute (ITI/LARSyS)

• Serge Bouchardon — Université de technologie de Compiègne (Alliance Sorbonne Université, France)

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