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Next week, Black Clock will be joining Electric Literature in publishing a major new work of fiction by Rick Moody via Twitter.

The microserialization™ of Moody’s story will take place on every co-publisher’s Twitter feed from Monday, November 30th through Wednesday, December 2nd.  Tweets will appear every ten minutes from 10 AM until 6:30 PM.

The first story written expressly for Twitter by a major literary author, Rick Moody’s “Some Contemporary Characters” will be tweeted over the course of three days on Black Clock’s Twitter channel, @BlackClockmag, beginning Monday, November 30th at 10 AM. Utilizing social media, followers of the story will re-tweet it in real-time, creating a community-based event that promises to break down the conventional barriers separating readers and publishers.

Moody’s story is broken into 153 bursts of 140 characters or less, each clearly labored over with a precision and lyricism that reveals the surprising literary potential of the tweet. “It really was like writing Haiku,” says Moody, who went head-to-head with the character limitation of Twitter and used it as a source of inspiration. “Moody has taken something that could be seen as gimmicky - ‘Twitter-fiction’ - and created something transcendent,” says Electric Literature’s Editor, Scott Lindenbaum.

Electric Literature has extended the invitation to co-publish the piece throughout the literary community, framing the event as “A Grassroots Exercise in Participatory ePublishing.”  We are very excited to partner with Electric Literature—themselves publishers of authors (such as Diana Wagman) who have appeared in the pages of Black Clock—in this venture.

If you, your publication, or your organization would like to be part of this project, please email editors_at_electricliterature.com

For more information, please consult this press release.

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Electric Literature | Rick Moody | Twitter