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Release your inner poet with RMIT
RMIT University is calling on the public for mobile phone-based poems, to be sent
out during the Melbourne Writers Festival.
Here’s your chance to get your poem read by the thousands of people who attend
the Melbourne Writers Festival, with selected poems Bluetoothed to their mobile
phones.
Poems need to be 140 characters in length or less, including spaces, and you can
enter as many times as you like.
Submitted poems can be in any style, can use mobile-friendly symbols or mobile
shorthand, for example LOL, ROFL, FTW, and TMI.
Selected poems will be sent out during the Melbourne Writers Festival at Capitol
Theatre at RMIT, BMW Edge at Federation Square and online through RMIT’s
Mobile phone quick facts:
10 billion text messages sent in 2008
The first text message was sent in 1992
Australians send the most text messages on Valentine’s Day, New Year’s Day,
Christmas Day, Christmas Eve, and St Patrick’s Day.
World’s fastest text message was created in 43.24 seconds.
Melbourne Writers Festival quick facts:
Festival runs 21 to 30 August
What: Enter your poem into Mobile Textualism at the Melbourne Writers Festival
Entries close: Friday, 31 July, 5pm
Cost: Free
For interviews or comment: Dr Francesca Rendle-Short, program director of
RMIT Creative Writing, (03) 9925 9052 or 0417 400 319.
7 July, 2009
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