Readings, Rated
Brevity Is the New Black
First there was the runaway success of the six-word memoir book. Now this: the Twitties Contest, “an inaugural award honoring the best one-liners from Twitter.com, a Web site where “Twitterers” text or blog the minutiae of their daily lives in super-short “Tweets.”
Twitties judges received more than 1,200 nominations, which they pared down to 60 finalists — five in 12 categories.
And the winner? Votes are still being tallied, apparently. Hold onto your seats.
Though I’m pretty intrigued by what seems to be a surge of interest in micro-prose in many forms, and all its possibilities vis-a-vis technology and social networking apps, I gotta admit I’m underwhelmed by the three finalists represented in the WaPo story (there are 60 total — five per 12 categories). But of those three, my certain fave:
“I am totally serious. My Ob/Gyn was IN my vagina, and an earthquake started rattling the room!”
Know somebody doing something um, literary, via tweets? Let us know.
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