Un festival de creatividad en Twitter, donde la pregunta es ¿qué puedes inventar/crear/decir/hacer con 140 caracteres? Si uno no participa en esto es que no tiene ganas de participar en nada…
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 andThe 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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