Festival Invites Creative Storytellers With #TwitterFiction

The hashtag #twitterfiction has been recently created to provide a venue where online users can share fictional stories and entice others to become interested on writing and literature. The Twitter Fiction Festival?will be held on November 28, 2012 and will last five days. The event will be done fully on Twitter and will present various authors of fiction from different parts of the globe. Different stories and creative tales will also be featured in a storytelling fashion. Twitter is known to be one of the most interactive platforms where people can share ideas and engage in conversations on both casual and serious topics. Among other relevant subjects, the social media site is also an excellent venue where online users can share fictional tales. According to an educator from Michigan State University, tweets can be a means of sharing literature and getting more people interested on the genre. This is not the first time that Twitter has hosted projects focusing on fiction, the earlier ones including ?Small Fates? by Teju Cole (@tejucole) and ?Black Box? by Jennifer Egan (@Egangoonsquad).

First Twitter Fiction Fest

The hashtag #TwitterFiction, however, will be the very first Twitter Fiction Festival. The list of authors participating as panelists?was revealed on November 12, 2012. One of the main objectives of the project is to review the limits of information sharing with the help of the social media site. People who will join are free to make literary works and creations. The way storytelling done on Twitter will be redefined with the 5-day festival, according to Andrew Fitzgerald, one of the core members of the media team on Twitter. Submissions can be made using a variety of formats. The Twitter Fiction Festival intends to gather multiple projects simultaneously to hopefully get some of the most creative works. Fitzgerald said: ?With the ultimate creative canvas, a global audience of hundreds of millions and a real-time broadcasting platform, Twitter gives storytellers an unprecedented laboratory in which to tell stories.? A lot of online users have already posted their sentiments and excitement online. Thousands of entries and highly imaginative works are expected to start coming in upon the launch of the event. Here's our analytics on the hashtag. Notice how it spiked suddenly the day before the big day. Here's what people are saying about #TwitterFiction.