Twitter Fiction Festival to Host Live Event in NYC

By Dianna Dilworth 

#TwitterFiction Festival Live!, the official live companion event of #TwitterFiction Festival 2015, will take place in New York on May 13th.

Authors Myke Cole, Lyndsay FayeGayle Forman, Anna North and Daniel José Older will create #TwitterFiction stories on stage with help from a live audience. Stand-up comedian Nick Turner will host the event and visual artist Michael Arthur will create live illustrations and music to accompany the stories.

The live event will run on the final day of the online #TwitterFiction Festival. The online event is sponsored by AAP, Penguin Random House and Twitter and will take place virtually on May 11-15, 2015. During the event, authors will share their text, photos, and video on Twitter. Each author will be assigned a daily time slot to live-stream their work on the social network.