Twitter Fiction Festival
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This Week in Short Fiction
This week was the third annual #TwitterFiction Festival, held here, there, and everywhere in typical Twitter style. The Association of American Publishers and Penguin Random House partnered to host the event this year, bringing in such big names as Margaret…
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The Horror, the Horror of Short Form Fiction
Despite the publication this past year of behemoth novels like Donna Tartt’s 750 page The Goldfinch and Eleanor Catton’s 850 page The Luminaries, current trends increasingly embrace truncated fiction. MobyLives took the conclusion of the third annual Twitter Fiction Festival…
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Does fiction belong on Twitter?
The #TwitterFiction Festival kicked off yesterday, and over at The Millions, Elizabeth Minkel takes a look at the genre’s historical relationship with the social media network. Is Twitter “a place where fiction thrives?” Minkel isn’t so sure: There’s no single correct…
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Announcing the Twitter Fiction Festival Lineup
The third annual Twitter Fiction Festival (March 12–16), sponsored by Penguin Random House and the Association of American Publishers, just announced its schedule of featured storytellers. Highlights include a meta horror story by Benjamin Percy, Star Wars in tweets by Ian Doescher, a sinful beach house weekend…
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Second Twitter Fiction Festival Approaches
Last year, we blogged about the first annual Twitter Fiction Festival after it happened. This year, we’re giving you a heads up: if you want to participate in this year’s festival, happening March 12–16, submit your idea to the organizers here.…
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Twitter Fiction Festival A Success
Previously, we blogged about Rumpus contributor Elliott Holt’s Twitter mystery. As it turns out, Rumpus contributor and interviewee Scott Hutchins wrote one as well, a San Francisco noir called “The Nanny.” They were both part of the five-day Twitter Fiction Festival,…