PARIS (AFP) ? Twenty-nine storytelling projects from around the world are being showcased from Wednesday in the first-ever Twitter fiction festival, held over five days on the microblogging site.
The virtual event, taking place in five languages ? Arabic, English, French, Italian and Spanish ? will run from November 28 to December 2, according to the social network?s official blog (blog.twitter.com).
While everyone is free to take part under the #twitterfiction hashtag, the festival?s selection panel, made up of US publishing industry experts, picked 29 entries from around the world to highlight on a dedicated page, at mobile.twitter.com/hashtag/twitterfiction.
The Twitter media team?s head of research and development Andrew Fitzgerald stressed the festival was ?not a competition.?
?There will be no winner, we just want to showcase creative storytelling,? he told AFP ahead of the event.
A young American women, Elliott Holt (@elliottholt), will open the ball on Wednesday at 2400 GMT, with a crime story that plays on the idea of a Twitter feed used as evidence.
Among the tales on offer ? which come from a mix of published and novice writers ? Lucy Coats (@lucycoats) from Northampton in Britain will re-tell 100 Greek myths in 100 Tweets.
London-based Faiq Muneef will be tweeting an Arabic language story called ?The Crying Canary? from Sunday at 1300 GMT.
From Thursday to Sunday at 0900 GMT, @00serialTW will be unfurling a stream of tales inspired by the work of Italian writer Italo Calvino.
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Source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/11/twitter-fiction-festival-kicks-off-wednesday/
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