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SIX WORDS
Pick a six-word story project to contribute to.
Six-Word Memoirs
Everyone has a story. Can you tell yours in six words? Submit yours to be considered for SMITH's next six-word…
Six-Word Memoirs on Love & Heartbreak
What can you say about love and heartbreak in six words?
Six-Word Memoirs for Teens
Six-word memoirs especially for teens and young adults
Six-Word Momoirs
What can you say about motherhood in just six words?
Six Words on The Food Life
A six-word challenge about your food life from SMITH and CHOW.
Six Words for America
Suggest six words to help President-elect Obama inspire America.
Six Words on the Digital Life
A six-word challenge about your digital life from SMITH Magazine & PBS FRONTLINE/Digital Nation.
STORY PROJECTS
Here are all of our longer group story projects.
Reader Projects
My Life So Far
Your place to post pieces of a memoir-in-progress or a personal essay.
My Ex
Everyone has an ex. Spill your guts, search your soul, and submit your story.
Brushes with Fame
Your stories of an encounter with a celebrity who unexpectedly enters your world.
Editors' Projects
Editors' Blog
A chicken's-eye view of the world and personal media, plus news about all things SMITH.
Memoirville
Our blog about new memoirs, with interviews and excerpts.
Book News
News, press, tour info and more about SMITH's books.
Contests
What's Your Next-Door Neighbor Story?
Submit a next-door neighbor story—one story will be transformed into the final installment of our…
COMICS
We do like our comics.
A.D.: News Orleans After the Deluge
The true story about six different people who survive Hurricane Katrina. Coming soon as a Pantheon graphic novel!
The Pekar Project
American Splendor creator Harvey Pekar has teamed with four terrific artists for his first ongoing webcomics series.
Next-Door Neighbor
True neighborhood tales by today's leading comics artists and writers.
Graphic Therapy
The illustrated diary of a single Jewish artist making her own way through life, work, and psychoanalysis.
Shooting War
A fictionalized story set in 2011 on the future of citizen journalism, media, and the war on terror. Available as a Grand Central graphic novel.
My Home Birth
A true story about having a baby Christen Clifford & David Heatley
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