Taking place in Sticky Mike's Frog Shop in Brighton on September 11th 2011, at the heart of the event was a 300-word flash fiction slam competition and an online Twitter story competition, with competitors battling it out for fame and glory.
Below, are the 5 shortlisted finalists in the two Twitter competitions (run on hashtag #flf11)
21st century
@StephanieWriter - Shakespeare's ghost joins twitter: Romeo dreams, Juliet schemes, and all ends ill. Yours, Will.
@agnieszkasshoes- Coming to the party? asked JJ. Nah, I’m busy skinning up said Sam damping a Rizla. Me too said Greg smoothing the plastic on his iPad
@jamdeb - 20th century kids wrote private thoughts in diaries kept under lock and key. Now they tweet innermost desires to the world.
@exmosis- We discovered the particle for love on the 11th of March, 2088. The first products hit the shelves in time for Christmas.
@MrRollyToYou - This is the story of an amazing boy who had so much of his life story to share with the people on Twitter, but simply ran of characteWINNER ANY @terryism - She could still change her mind. Priest, gawkers, the tux-clad brute await word. Tossing her posies too soon, a faint no-o escapes @katylittlelady - One flush. No resting place. The dismantled jigsaw of cells too fragmented to retrieve. Their loss - the fallen pieces of my soul. @exmosis - I grew up around the trees of this forest. 89 years and one cheap dagger later, now they grow up around me. @Mr_Matt_Reilly - 'U spent ur life makin ur name in gold,' she said, wiping blood from his nameplate. 'Ironic ur life is now spent by ur name in gold.' @Jess_Laa - Limbs flailing to the beat, vision blurring in the dancing light. Intoxication stopped her heart from aching. The ambulance sped on
WINNER Plus the winner of the LIVE #flf11 Tweet: @vickih - I met a man on a train. He had a laptop. He went to the toilet. I thought about nicking it. I didn't. To return to Paragraph Planet's home page click here.