What Is StoryFest?
StoryFest is a celebration of StoryADay May and all our hard work.
Nominate your own story (or someone else’s) and it’ll be featured on the front page of StoryADay.org during my birthday weekend: June 14-15, 2014. (Here’s how it looked in 2010)
StoryFest is a chance for us to promote each other’s stories to the wider world by linking to them from Twitter, Facebook, blogs and anywhere else we can post. It takes place over one weekend only, in order to create some urgency, for people to come by and visit now, and not put it off.
How Can I Nominate My Own Story?
Stories aren’t judged by anyone, just featured, so edit up your best story and submit it for some free link-love.
What If I Want To Nominate Someone Else’s StoryADay May 2014 Story?
That’s great! If you read and loved a story by a fellow participant during this year’s challenge, find the link and use the second part of the nominations form to highlight it.
(If it was a story that was published behind a password wall — i.e. not public — you can still give the writer a shout-out, without providing a link to their story.)
How Can I Help Promote StoryFest?
- Starting on Friday evening, June 13, start spreading the word about StoryFest to your story-loving friends.
- You can use these graphics to promote it, or simply use links. (StoryFest will take over the front page of StoryADay May during this weekend and will later move to [permalink: https://storyaday.org/storyfest-2014]. )
- Use the hashtag #storyfest to help us find your social media mentions.
- Keep spreading the word all weekend.
- Take the opportunity to blog about what you learned during StoryADay and encourage other writers to get creative, like you! Use #storyfest and, if I see your link, I’ll retweet/link to it.
Social Media Starters
Whether you’re posting in a blog, on Twitter, on Facebook or any of those other sharing sites out there, feel free to take any of these starter suggestions or make up your own. Customize them to link to your stories, other people’s stories or just the front of the storyaday.org site. Go wild!
#StoryFest: a celebration of the short story. This weekend, [DATES]. No admission fee: https://storyaday.org
[customize this next one for the genre and link to a specific story]
Need a little romance/mystery/time-travel/humor/suspense/sci-fi in your life? Try a short story today: [URL] #StoryFest
Short Stories: bit-sized brain food. Fine one that’s to your taste during #StoryFest: https://storyaday.org
Broaden your horizons with a day trip into someone-else’s world. Read a short story during #StoryFest: https://storyaday.org
Travel the world for free: Read a short story set in [insert location]: [link to specific story] #StoryFest
Ever wanted to time travel? Read a short story [link to a story set not in present day] #StoryFest
Don’t forget to nominate your story by Thursday, June 11, 2014
Lovely to see the submissions rolling in already (including some by people nominating other writers’ stories).
20 stories nominated in the first hour or so since this email went out! You lot are keen 🙂