Dunedin (Friday, 19
December 2014) – The Digital Writers Festival is calling
out for emerging writers to pitch their ideas for
showcasing a live 20 minute streamed tour of Dunedin’s
great literary city.
The Digital Writers Festival 2015
aims to equip writers with new ideas and inspiration about
how to share their stories and words with audiences online.
The world’s first online writers’ festival conference
was held in Hobart last year and the second is to be held in
Melbourne in mid February 2015.
Festival organisers are
promoting this year’s event by taking its audience members
on a literary tour of the globe with the help of the
world’s UNESCO Cities of Literature.
The organisers are
asking emerging writers in any of the Cities of Literature -
Edinburgh, Melbourne, Iowa City, Dublin, Reykjavik, Norwich,
Krakow, Dunedin, Heidelberg, Prague and Granada to create a
20 minute livecast stream of their favourite literary
hotspots, bookstores and cafes around their city while
answering questions about their own work via
Twitter.
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