Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Narrative and Hypertext

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Narrative and Hypertext 2019 (NHT'19) is a workshop hosted in conjunction with ACM Hypertext 2019: 30th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT'19). This workshop aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum to bring together individuals from the humanities and technological communities to share work and discuss state-of-the-art research on narrative from both a technical and aesthetic perspective. It is part of the longest running workshop series at ACM Hypertext - running since 2011 - and has fostered numerous collaborations which have led to work published in the main conference as well as serving as an important discussion point for important issues facing the community. NHT has worked hard to serve as a focus point for the wider narrative and hypertext community and through NHT's new sister workshop AIS the intention is for this workshop to act as a bridge to increase collaboration between the interactive narrative and hypertext research communities. This year's workshop will build upon these previous successes, and aims to continue to consolidate this community by providing an open interdisciplinary forum of discussion on key issues facing the field. This year in particular NHT seeks to mirror HT'19's theme of "reunification" and to assist in the conference's aim to bring back diverse aspects of the historical ACM Hypertext research community. NHT is, thematically, best served to deliver this through the Narrative and Hypertext community and it has already been working towards this twinning with a sister conference in AIS at the interactive narrative conference ICIDS. Furthermore NHT this year plans to strengthen the pull on this community and support this relationship by working closely with the return of the ACM Hypertext Creative track. To this end we plan to dedicate a portion of the workshop to discussion of the hypertext narrative works in the creative track.