Nottingham Trent University's trAce online writing community (trace.ntu.ac.uk) has signed up three virtual writers-in-residence for six-month stints, beginning with Florida-based Christy Sheffield Sanford. Alan Sondheim from New York will take over, followed by Cumbria-based Alan McDonald. Meanwhile Australian writer Bernard Cohen will spend six months in Nottingham as a "flesh" writer-in-residence.