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 poetry-specific twitter account
Mobile phone quick facts:
- 10 billion text messages sent in 2008
- The first text message was sent in 1992 (source)
- Australians send the most text messages on Valentine’s Day, New Year’s Day, Christmas Day, Christmas Eve, and St Patrick’s Day (source)
- World’s fastest text message was created in 43.24 seconds (source)
What: Enter your poem into Mobile Textualism at the Melbourne Writers Festival
Entries close: Friday, 31 July, 5pm
Where: www.rmit.edu/news/poetry
Cost: Free
For interviews or comment:
Dr Francesca Rendle-Short, program director of RMIT Creative Writing,
(03) 9925 9052
26 July 2009 at 4:33 pm
Please, melt my frozen heart.
Then keep it warm,
so that the icicles can form no more.
26 July 2009 at 4:45 pm
I want the best things in life.
My friends close by, dinner with family, a cup of tea,
then a book to warm me at the day’s end
26 July 2009 at 4:48 pm
I am sorry for what I have done.
I can taste the salt of your eyes when we kiss.
27 July 2009 at 9:18 am
These are great Peter! Make sure you submit them to RMIT either directly at http://www.rmit.edu.au/news/poetry or via their Twitter account at http://twitter.com/RMIT_Poetry