#TwitterFiction Festival Begins This Week

Heralded as an “All-day, all-night celebration of storytelling on Twitter,” the #TwitterFiction Festival will begin on Wednesday May 12th and run until Sunday May 16th.

Writers, readers and entertainment-lovers are invited to join in and embrace the love of storytelling… 140 characters at a time.

The #TwitterFiction Festival is all about encouraging people to creatively tell stories using tweets. And they are looking for creative types who go beyond just tweeting a narrative line-by-line.

They cite parody accounts, collaborative fiction using crowdsourcing, images, Vines, poetry and using multiple accounts to create dialogue as some of the more creative ways to use Twitter to tell a story.

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