Bright ideas are now being sought for the first Twitter
Fiction Festival.
Image: Twitter
Image: Twitter
Twitter has already changed the way we communicate. Now the
microblogging service is inviting creative writers to transform the way stories
get told on Twitter.
The first Twitter
Fiction Festival, announced Thursday, will start Nov. 28 and run five
days.
“We’re looking for new, creative, exciting ideas that will push
the bounds of how we tell stories on Twitter,” says the online submission form.
The Twitter Fiction Festival will take place entirely online, based on the
#twitterfiction hashtag.
“Tell us how you are going to explore content formats that
already exist on Twitter — short story in tweets, a Twitter chat, live-tweeting
— or, even better, how you’ll create a new one,” says the call for ideas. “How
will you work with our real-time global platform, where anyone can contribute to
your story at any moment? The proposal must fit into the time window of our
five-day festival — but that means that a project could run for the length of
the festival, or just for an hour.”
Twitter has already
been used for a wide variety of creative pursuits, from real-time
satire to Jennifer Egan’s one-tweet-a-minute short story “Black
Box,” tied to The New Yorker’s sci-fi issue. (Disclosure: Both
Wired and The New Yorker are owned by Condé Nast.)
The short blasts of
information and whimsy made possible by Twitter’s ever-growing network have
already made the service a favorite
of great writers like William Gibson and an indispensable tool for news
junkies and data fiends. But how will Twitter users change the literary
form?
That question remains open, but it seems like some sci-fi
scribe with big ideas might be able to come up with a mind-bending mutation that
alters storytelling reality. (Tell us your concepts in the comments
below.)
If you’re
interested in participating in the Twitter Fiction Festival, submit
your ideas here by Nov. 15.
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