Actor and writer Stephen Fry will have one eye on his Twitter account while he’s at the Guardian’s Hay festival, starting tomorrow, and it’ll be his judging eye: As a new part of the 10-day literary festival, Fry will be looking for the most beautiful tweet ever, and he’s going to crown a winner on June 6.
The lineup for the event includes Tom Stoppard, Zadie Smith and Martin Amis, among others, but apparently some of the action will also be online, on the festival Twitter account @hayfestival.
We have no idea what Fry is looking for in terms of “beautiful tweets,” but apparently it’s intentionally amorphous. According Peter Florence, the festival’s founder and director, “The definition of most beautiful tweet could fall into a number of different categories: it could prove the most eloquent; the most impassioned; the best demonstration of a clever pun or metaphor; the most evocative description of a place or emotion, or perhaps prove that brevity is conducive to levity, and be the wittiest tweet ever committed to the Twittersphere.”
Well, good luck Twittersphere. This is your chance to shine.