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Lauren Beukes part of the #TwitterFiction Festival

13 May 2015

South African novelist and comic writer, Lauren Beukes is one of the 45 authors, including both featured authors and contest winners, participating at the #TwitterFiction Festival. They have daily time slots to share their stories with readers one Tweet at a time. Writers will use a number of narrative techniques (words, photos, videos and real-time crowd-sourcing) from multiple Twitter accounts using the #TwitterFiction hashtag.

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While Twitter is a place to share news and get closer to the people and places that matter most to people, it is also a place for storytelling. The five-day celebration of storytelling is organised by Penguin Random House (@PenguinRandom), the Association of American Publishers (@AmericanPublish) and @Twitter.

Beukes (@Laurenbeukes) is the author of Broken Monsters, The Shining Girls, Zoo City, Moxyland and New York Times best-seller, Fairest: The Hidden Kingdom.

The festival features fiction from such renowned authors as Margaret Atwood (@MargaretAtwood), Jackie Collins (@jackiejcollins), Lemony Snicket (@LemonySnicket) and others.

The Festival also includes an event in New York City today, Wednesday 13 May, that brings the spirit of the festival to a live audience. #TwitterFiction Festival LIVE will be hosted by comedian Nick Turner (@NicksTurners) and include authors Gayle Forman (@gayleforman), Myke Cole (@MykeCole), Anna North (@annanorthtweets) and others creating Twitter Fiction on stage with help from the audience. Michael Arthur (@inklines) and Mike Brun (@mikebrun12) will bring stories to life with their illustrations and original music.

For more information, go to http://twitterfictionfestival.com.