Tweet me a poem
Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 10:29 pm
Hay Festival's search for tweets
Organisers of this year's Hay Festival have launched a search for a new kind of poetry - the most beautiful tweet ever tweeted.
It will be judged by comedian Stephen Fry, a long-standing member of the Twitterati whose musings on the site attract 1.5m followers.
Entrants can submit their own tweets - messages no longer than 140 characters - or nominate other tweeters.
The literary festival, in Hay-on-Wye, Powys, will run from 27 May to 6 June.
This year's line-up includes former Pakistan leader Pervez Musharraf, playwright Tom Stoppard and novelists Martin Amis, Zadie Smith and Hilary Mantel.
Organisers of the festival say the definition of the most beautiful tweet could fall into a number of different categories, including the most eloquent, most evocative or the best pun.
The tweets can be new or old, personal submissions or nominations for others.
Entries should be sent to the Hay Festival Twitter account and not via Fry's own Twitter account.
To take part, tweets must begin with @hayfestival followed by the suggested tweet. If the tweet belongs to someone else, their username should be included.
has more information on how to submit entries and trawl the archives for tweets.
Nominations are open from Monday 24 May and the closing date is midday on Friday 4 June.
The winning tweet will be announced on Sunday 6 June, when Fry will take to the stage at the festival to talk about his new memoir.
The broadcaster announced he was temporarily quitting Twitter earlier this year to concentrate on the second instalment of his autobiography.
Fry made a surprise return to Twitter in April to promote marathon runner Holly Lambert.
He wrote: "I'm really not tweeting, book so achingly close to completion. But this is time sensitive. Good cause."
The tweet boosted the 24-year-old's page visits from 250 to more than 33,000.
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Published: 2010/05/23 14:24:43 GMT
