Literature? No, Lit-Twitter! Twitter Fiction Festival Starts 28th November!
The first ever Twitter Fiction Festival will commence on the 28th November and run for five days.
Flash fiction has been published on Twitter before: Jennifer Egan’s “Black Box” was serialised on the site in May, before it was featured in The New Yorker, with the Pulitzer Prize-winning author publishing the story at a rate of one Tweet a minute.
Last year, The Guardian newspaper challenged a number of world-renowned authors to do something similar: Ian Rankin, Jeffrey Archer, Jilly Cooper and David Lodge were among those invited to try their hand at one tweet stories.
Entrants had to submit their ideas by the 15th to be featured in the upcoming festival, which Twitter describes on its blog page as “a virtual storytelling celebration”.
With its unique 140 characters format, Twitter expects that the “creative experimentation” of its festival contributors will “push the bounds of what’s possible” on the platform.
Reader interaction through hashtags and retweets makes literary innovation even more foreseeable.
Are you looking forward to the Twitter Fiction Festival?
Contact us on Twitter or leave your comments below.
Will Sigsworth
Follow us @SocialMediaF & @WillAtSMF
www.socialmediafrontiers.com
Flash fiction has been published on Twitter before: Jennifer Egan’s “Black Box” was serialised on the site in May, before it was featured in The New Yorker, with the Pulitzer Prize-winning author publishing the story at a rate of one Tweet a minute.
Last year, The Guardian newspaper challenged a number of world-renowned authors to do something similar: Ian Rankin, Jeffrey Archer, Jilly Cooper and David Lodge were among those invited to try their hand at one tweet stories.
Entrants had to submit their ideas by the 15th to be featured in the upcoming festival, which Twitter describes on its blog page as “a virtual storytelling celebration”.
With its unique 140 characters format, Twitter expects that the “creative experimentation” of its festival contributors will “push the bounds of what’s possible” on the platform.
Reader interaction through hashtags and retweets makes literary innovation even more foreseeable.
Are you looking forward to the Twitter Fiction Festival?
Contact us on Twitter or leave your comments below.
Will Sigsworth
Follow us @SocialMediaF & @WillAtSMF
www.socialmediafrontiers.com
Literature? No, Lit-Twitter! Twitter Fiction Festival Starts 28th November!
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