Arts and culture zine Steel Bananas is teaming up with Chris Eaton, novelist and frontman of the band Rock Plaza Central, for a tweeted micro-fiction project to be published in their upcoming anthology, GULCH: An Assemblage of Poetry and Prose to be released with Tightrope Books this fall.

Inspired by Deleuze and Guattari's rhizome theory and concept of the assemblage, the anthology aims to create a snapshot of the diversity of contemporary Canadian literary culture, mixing the work of burgeoning young writers with established literary figures on the theme of fragmentation. To that end, Steel Bananas has asked Chris Eaton to write one story per day of no more than 140 characters, so that he may publish them for public participation on his band’s twitter account ( HYPERLINK "http://www.twitter.com/RockPlaza" www.twitter.com/RockPlaza) from the road. Anyone who follows Chris’s Rock Plaza tweet is also asked to reply to any story with one of their own, using the rhizome model to intertwine the two stories so that they both are a part of each other. The story need not follow the original in theme. All that is asked is that replies should contain 1/3 of the words from the original text.

The next Rock Plaza Central tour begins July 4 in Milwaukee with Stephen Malkmus and ends the July 25 weekend of Hillside Festival in Guelph, Ontario and the Wicker Park Festival in Chicago. 21 stories, with as many replies as you like. Editors Karen Correia Da Silva, Sarah Beaudin and Curran Folkers will then select the best fragments for their book.

Start following the Rock Plaza Central twitter today at  HYPERLINK "http://www.twitter.com/RockPlaza" www.twitter.com/RockPlaza.