A tumble of Six-Word Memoirs, in words and images (and occasionally dance and song), from SMITH Magazine's Six-Word Memoir project (sixwordmemoirs.com) and elsewhere around the web and around the world. Head to http://sixwordmemoirs.com to submit yours—and you could be published in a future book.
“The Moment” on Salon.com
“For many of us, there’s a single moment in our life when it all changed. For Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of “Eat, Pray, Love,” it was the moment when, as a baby, she overheard her parents talking and realized she wasn’t the center of the world. For Richard Ferguson, it was when his beloved dog was run over by a truck. … These stories are all part a beautifully written, moving new collection of essays edited by Larry Smith, the founder of Smith Magazine, about the instance when a person’s life takes a new path.”
“Found Jewish princess. Goodbye succulent pork.”
“Adam Sandler, update your Chanukah list.”
“Yes, I’m wearing a sweater, Mom.”
During this season of celebration, we’ve launched our newest Six-Word Memoir project, “Six Words on the Jewish Life” with our friends at the Jewish nonprofit, Reboot. The best of the Jewish sixes will be published in a book this coming February and featured at live events in London (Feb. 25 in the London Jewish Book Festival), NYC (March 29 at the 92nd Street Y), DC (April 3, at Sixth & I)—more events TBA!
Submission deadline: Dec. 25.
![SMITH Magazine, home of the Six-Word Memoir project, presents: “I’m Only Popular at Summer Camp: Six-Word Memoirs on Camp, Summer Stock, and the Family Vacation.” Get advance tickets (and save money):http://bit.ly/sixshowJuly25 Lineup includes: • Ann Leary, author of “Outtakes From a Marriage” and “An Innocent, A Broad.” She is co-host of the new NPR show Hash Hags• Susan Blackwell, co-starred in “[Title of Show]” and co-wrote/performed in the recent lab production of “Now. Here. This.” She hosts of Broadway.com’s “Side by Side by Susan Blackwell”• Joe Iconis, writer/performer/co-author of “Things to Ruin,” “Bloodsong of Love: The Rock ‘n’ Roll Spaghetti Western,” and “The Joe Iconis Rock and Roll Jamboree” • Deborah Copaken Kogan, author of “Shutterbabe,” “Between Here and April,” “Hell Is Other Parents” and the forthcoming novel, “The Red Book”• … and maybe YOU! Write your Six-Word summer-related memoir on Facebook Wall and we’ll invite one of you to join the performers on stage to tell your Six-Word Memoir and backstory! http://on.fb.me/sixonJuly25The night starts at 6 p.m. with a Happy Hour at the 92YTribeca’s amazing bar, where you can meet other six-lovers over drink specials. At 7pm, the show begins: six performers, six minutes each to tell their story. The evening ends with an audience participation Six-World Slam: you’re invited to share your own six words on this hot, fun, miraculous and messy thing called summer. Tickets:http://bit.ly/sixshowJuly25 photo: from “Camp Camp” by Roger Bennett & Jules Shell. It’s a great book.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lnyqef5Tum1qca7y9o1_500.jpg)
SMITH Magazine, home of the Six-Word Memoir project, presents: “I’m Only Popular at Summer Camp: Six-Word Memoirs on Camp, Summer Stock, and the Family Vacation.”
Get advance tickets (and save money):
http://bit.ly/sixshowJuly25
Lineup includes:
• Ann Leary, author of “Outtakes From a Marriage” and “An Innocent, A Broad.” She is co-host of the new NPR show Hash Hags
• Susan Blackwell, co-starred in “[Title of Show]” and co-wrote/performed in the recent lab production of “Now. Here. This.” She hosts of Broadway.com’s “Side by Side by Susan Blackwell”
• Joe Iconis, writer/performer/co-author of “Things to Ruin,” “Bloodsong of Love: The Rock ‘n’ Roll Spaghetti Western,” and “The Joe Iconis Rock and Roll Jamboree”
• Deborah Copaken Kogan, author of “Shutterbabe,” “Between Here and April,” “Hell Is Other Parents” and the forthcoming novel, “The Red Book”
• … and maybe YOU! Write your Six-Word summer-related memoir on Facebook Wall and we’ll invite one of you to join the performers on stage to tell your Six-Word Memoir and backstory! http://on.fb.me/sixonJuly25
The night starts at 6 p.m. with a Happy Hour at the 92YTribeca’s amazing bar, where you can meet other six-lovers over drink specials. At 7pm, the show begins: six performers, six minutes each to tell their story. The evening ends with an audience participation Six-World Slam: you’re invited to share your own six words on this hot, fun, miraculous and messy thing called summer.
Tickets:
http://bit.ly/sixshowJuly25
photo: from “Camp Camp” by Roger Bennett & Jules Shell. It’s a great book.
“I Am Turning Into My Mother”
A Six-Word Memoir Story Slam about mothers and daughters, fathers and sons on May 18 in NYC.
Whether you are a mother or father, daughter or son, everyone has a parent story to tell. On May 18, join us for a night of six-word sagas about parenting, your relationship with a parent or that miraculous, messy thing we all go through called growing up.
***ENTER our contest and you could be chosen to tell a story on the stage: http://bit.ly/may18sixcontest***
SMITH Magazine, home of the Six-Word Memoir project, presents an exciting lineup of writers and performers who will offer their own six words and backstories on the loving, hating and never-dull moments with those they call family. At the end of the night, we invite you to share your own six words on mothers and fathers in an audience participation Six-World Slam.
Lineup includes:
• Susan Orlean, staff writer, The New Yorker, and author of The Orchid
Thief, The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup and the forthcoming biography of Rin Tin Tin
• Joe Lockhart, former press secretary for President Clinton; managing director of the Glover Park Group
• Deborah Copaken Kogan, author of Shutterbabe, Between Here and April
and Hell Is Other Parents
• Laura Zigman, author of Animal Husbandry and Dating Big Bird, and
co-host of the new NPR show Hash Hags
• Gesine Bullock-Prado, author of Confections of a Closet Master Baker
and Sugar Baby
• James Bernard, founder of The Source and XXL, and the Hip-Hop Civic Engagement Project, the country’s third largest nonpartisan voter registration drive.
Tickets are discounted in advance, more night of the show. Get them at the 92YTribeca Event page.
