Some people have probably heard of the 12,000 signs festival. We are waiting to know if it will benefit from a 2021 edition after the cancellation of the 2020 one, due to Covid. A festival devoted to the art of the short story, this short writing method (12,000 characters, despite appearances, it is really not very long!), Whose notoriety is still too modest.
From now on, we will also have to reckon with the 3,000 signs festival. A little brother. Who hoped for a real life existence, but ultimately resolved to live their life on the net for at least this year. This does not prevent it from throbbing hard. And to have in common a founding element: Benoît Fourchard, author… of short stories. Co-founder of 12,000 characters.
“And one of our speakers in Master 1 of cultural studies”, specifies Sarah Azevedo, communications officer. “Who supported us in the development of our event. ”An event therefore set up by students, that is to say a class of 70 students who made it a point of honor to think big to highlight“ small ”texts.
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Grain of sand in the gear
“The group being too large, we split it into 4 poles. »Including the authors of texts, authors of research, readers of texts and finally logistics managers.
With the result of daily publications already since mid-April, in registers as diverse as thriller, poetry, SF, thriller, etc. Some are signed by young people who have left the keyboard wandering around on the theme “a grain of sand in the gear”, for example. Others were imagined by confirmed authors who were kind enough to play the game, and to whom 3,000 Signs, and their readers, gave votes.
“The short story is a genre that is not well known in France,” resumes Sarah. “Moreover, we do not study it very much in our master’s degree, whereas it is highly developed in the Anglo-Saxon world. However, France also has authors of really fascinating short stories: Claire Castillon, Joël Egloff, to name a few. “
Joël Egloff, whose festival website also offers the interview, as well as that of Benoît Fourchard, the publisher Olivier Brun, or Hélène Thomas, head of the Nancy bookshop À l’Abri du Temps. So many complementary elements to these little literary pills that will be lavished day after day in remedy… to boredom as much as to envy. To remedy the shortcomings, and to echo the passions. Until constituting a corpus almost worthy of a novel!
https://3000signes.wordpress.com/
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