Purple Blurb started in Fall 2007, when four events were held monthly in the cozy Trope Tank, in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Building 14. All events are free and open to the public. The Purple Blurb series is supported by the Angus N. MacDonald fund and Writing and Humanistic Studies. Digital writing includes any work where computation and digital media intersect with writing practices, including creative and nonfiction ones.