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It's writing on your phone. Either reading it or penning it yourself. It's all about stories specifically for the cellphone platform. For this round, top South African authors have written stories in 28 episodes, none longer than 900 characters, so it's a tasty literary snack we can all digest on the go! You can read stories from South Africa's top authors, sent straight to your cellphone. How novel! It's also South Africa's first literary competition for "mobilists" where you vote for your favourite author and create South Africa's first award winning "mobilist". Mobilist: writers telling stories through cellphones. No quiet crack of the spine. No dusty smell of paper. Just the sound of a beep and your story arrives, wherever you are. It's fiction on your phone, on the go! It's also an SMS fiction competition within the larger MOBfest initiative, which aims to stimulate the creation of innovative visual, audio and text content for mobile phone users. Sounds awesome, what do I do? SMS novel to 33879 Follow the link to our WAP site Click on the register button and enter your number You're signed up! Wait, in anticipation, for July 7 "Beep beep" - your first chapter arrives Get hooked *Registration SMS costs R1.50 (negligible data charges thereafter)